What are the hardware requirements for Ari Assistant 1.5B?

Ari Assistant 1.5B requires approximately 1 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 Ari Assistant 1.5B and how large is it?

Ari Assistant 1.5B is developed by sriyuth, a model with 1.5b 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 Ari Assistant 1.5B?

Ari Assistant 1.5B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Ari Assistant 1.5B by sriyuth — VRAM 1GB, 32K context

Name: Ari Assistant 1.5B
Author: sriyuth

Ari Assistant 1.5B is an open-source language model by sriyuth. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 1GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized.

Ari-llm Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-1.5b Conversational Dpo En Endpoints compatible Gguf Paraphrase Quantized Quillbot-alternative Qwen2 Region:us Rewriting Rlhf Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/sriyuth/ari-assistant-1.5b

Ari Assistant 1.5B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Ari Assistant 1.5B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/sriyuth/ari-assistant-1.5b
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	1 GB
Updated	2026-10-17
Maintainer	sriyuth
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	1.0 GB 6.2 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	5.16.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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