What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3 8B Instruct Norefusal?

Llama 3 8B Instruct Norefusal requires approximately 16.1 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 Llama 3 8B Instruct Norefusal and how large is it?

Llama 3 8B Instruct Norefusal is developed by theo77186, a model with 8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Llama 3 8B Instruct Norefusal perform on standard benchmarks?

Llama 3 8B Instruct Norefusal has the following published scores: MMLU 66.48. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Llama 3 8B Instruct Norefusal by theo77186 — VRAM 16.1GB, 8K context

Name: Llama 3 8B Instruct Norefusal
Author: theo77186

Llama 3 8B Instruct Norefusal is an open-source language model by theo77186. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: llama3, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14, Arc: 60.6, HellaSwag: 78.2, MMLU: 66.5, GSM8K: 59.8.

Conversational Endpoints compatible Instruct Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/theo77186/Llama-3-8B-Instruct-norefusal

Llama 3 8B Instruct Norefusal Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes

The model uses orthogonal feature ablation. It is still refusing some instructions related to violence, and a full fine-tune might be needed to remove the rest of the refusals.

Training Details

Data Sources:

jondurbin/airoboros-2.2, AdvBench

Methodology:

Orthogonal feature ablation

LLM Name	Llama 3 8B Instruct Norefusal
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/theo77186/Llama-3-8B-Instruct-norefusal
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.1 GB
Updated	2026-07-15
Maintainer	theo77186
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.2 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.40.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	float16

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