What are the hardware requirements for WestLake 7B V2 AWQ?

WestLake 7B V2 AWQ requires approximately 4.2 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 WestLake 7B V2 AWQ and how large is it?

WestLake 7B V2 AWQ is developed by solidrust, a model with 7b 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 WestLake 7B V2 AWQ?

WestLake 7B V2 AWQ is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

WestLake 7B V2 AWQ by solidrust — VRAM 4.2GB, 32K context

Name: WestLake 7B V2 AWQ
Author: solidrust

WestLake 7B V2 AWQ is an open-source language model by solidrust. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 4.2GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

4-bit Autotrain compatible Awq Base model:quantized:senseable... Base model:senseable/westlake-... Chatml Conversational En Endpoints compatible Finetuned Instruct Mistral Pytorch Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/solidrust/WestLake-7B-v2-AWQ

WestLake 7B V2 AWQ Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	WestLake 7B V2 AWQ
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/solidrust/WestLake-7B-v2-AWQ
Model Name	WestLake 7B v2
Model Creator	Common Sense
Base Model(s)	WestLake 7B V2 senseable/WestLake-7B-v2
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	4.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-12
Maintainer	solidrust
Model Type	mistral
Model Files	4.2 GB
Supported Languages	en
AWQ Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	awq
Model Architecture	MistralForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.37.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	32000
Torch Data Type	float16

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