What are the hardware requirements for YarnGPT2?

YarnGPT2 requires approximately 0.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed YarnGPT2 and how large is it?

YarnGPT2 is developed by saheedniyi, a model with 360m 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 YarnGPT2?

YarnGPT2 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

YarnGPT2 by saheedniyi — VRAM 0.7GB, 8K context

Name: YarnGPT2
Author: saheedniyi

YarnGPT2 is an open-source language model by saheedniyi. Features: 360m LLM, VRAM: 0.7GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Base model:finetune:huggingfac... Base model:huggingfacetb/smoll... En Endpoints compatible Llama Region:us Safetensors Text-to-speech

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/saheedniyi/YarnGPT2

YarnGPT2 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	YarnGPT2
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/saheedniyi/YarnGPT2
Base Model(s)	SmolLM2 360M HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M
Model Size	360m
Required VRAM	0.7 GB
Updated	2026-06-04
Maintainer	saheedniyi
Model Type	llama
Model Files	0.7 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.48.2
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	53248
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Morphy 360M	8K / 0.7 GB	207	2
Smollm2 360M Job Qa	8K / GB	237	1
SmolLM2 360M Instruct	8K / 0.7 GB	476032	208
Smol Lm2 360 Instruct	8K / 0.7 GB	183	3
Smollm2 360M Text2sql Sft	8K / 1.4 GB	194	0
Nuevamol 360M Init	8K / 0.7 GB	21	0
Nuevamol 360M 6Btok Wd5	8K / 0.6 GB	6	0
SmolLM2 360M	8K / 0.7 GB	92148	115
Smollm3 720prms	8K / 0.7 GB	5	0
Auto Completer 0.1	8K / 1.4 GB	7	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than saheedniyi/YarnGPT2.