What are the hardware requirements for Salad?

Salad requires approximately 10.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Salad and how large is it?

Salad is developed by surendirakrishna, a model with 5.3b 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 Salad?

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

Salad by surendirakrishna — VRAM 10.6GB

Name: Salad
Author: surendirakrishna

Salad is an open-source language model by surendirakrishna. Features: 5.3b LLM, VRAM: 10.6GB, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

Conversational Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Qwen3.5 Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Task-arithmetic Tensorflow Vision Vision-language

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/surendirakrishna/salad

Salad Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Salad
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/surendirakrishna/salad
Model Size	5.3b
Required VRAM	10.6 GB
Updated	2026-09-11
Maintainer	surendirakrishna
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	4.5 GB: 1-of-3 4.5 GB: 2-of-3 1.6 GB: 3-of-3
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.2.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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Factuality and Completeness of Knowledge
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Data Analysis and Insight Generation
Text Generation
Text Summarization and Feature Extraction
Code Generation
Multi-Language Support and Translation

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