What are the hardware requirements for WestBeagle 7B?

WestBeagle 7B requires approximately 14.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed WestBeagle 7B and how large is it?

WestBeagle 7B is developed by shadowml, a model with 7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does WestBeagle 7B perform on standard benchmarks?

WestBeagle 7B has the following published scores: MMLU 65.17. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

WestBeagle 7B by shadowml — VRAM 14.4GB, 32K context

Name: WestBeagle 7B
Author: shadowml

WestBeagle 7B is an open-source language model by shadowml. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 14.4GB, Context: 32K, License: cc-by-nc-4.0, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11, Arc: 72.3, HellaSwag: 88.3, MMLU: 65.2, GSM8K: 71.9.

Merged Model Base model:mlabonne/neuralbeag... Base model:petrogpt/westseveru... Conversational Endpoints compatible Mistral Model-index Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/shadowml/WestBeagle-7B

WestBeagle 7B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

WestBeagle-7B is a merged model using LazyMergeKit combining NeuralBeagle14-7B and WestSeverus-7B-DPO-v2. Configuration involves layer ranges and specific value settings for merge.

LLM Name	WestBeagle 7B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/shadowml/WestBeagle-7B
Base Model(s)	NeuralBeagle14 7B FelixChao/WestSeverus-7B-DPO-v2 mlabonne/NeuralBeagle14-7B FelixChao/WestSeverus-7B-DPO-v2
Merged Model	Yes
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	14.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-02
Maintainer	shadowml
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	9.9 GB: 1-of-2 4.5 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	cc-by-nc-4.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.35.2
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	</s>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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