What are the hardware requirements for Empty Phi 3 Mini?

Empty Phi 3 Mini requires approximately 7.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Empty Phi 3 Mini and how large is it?

Empty Phi 3 Mini is developed by rwitz2, a model with 3.8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Empty Phi 3 Mini?

Empty Phi 3 Mini is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Empty Phi 3 Mini by rwitz2 — VRAM 7.6GB, 4K context

Name: Empty Phi 3 Mini
Author: rwitz2

Empty Phi 3 Mini is an open-source language model by rwitz2. Features: 3.8b LLM, VRAM: 7.6GB, Context: 4K, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Arxiv:1910.09700 Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Mistral Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/rwitz2/empty-phi-3-mini

Empty Phi 3 Mini Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Empty Phi 3 Mini
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/rwitz2/empty-phi-3-mini
Model Size	3.8b
Required VRAM	7.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	rwitz2
Model Type	mistral
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 2.6 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|placeholder6\|>
Vocabulary Size	32064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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