What are the hardware requirements for Pulsar Coder 1.5B?

Pulsar Coder 1.5B requires approximately 3.1 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 Pulsar Coder 1.5B and how large is it?

Pulsar Coder 1.5B is developed by tuxkt, 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 Pulsar Coder 1.5B?

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

Pulsar Coder 1.5B by tuxkt — VRAM 3.1GB, 32K context

Name: Pulsar Coder 1.5B
Author: tuxkt

Pulsar Coder 1.5B is an open-source language model by tuxkt. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 3.1GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, Code Generating.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-coder-... Code Codegen Conversational En Instruct Kotlin Python Qlora Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Tr Typescript

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/tuxkt/pulsar-coder-1.5b

Pulsar Coder 1.5B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Pulsar Coder 1.5B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/tuxkt/pulsar-coder-1.5b
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	3.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-17
Maintainer	tuxkt
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	3.1 GB
Supported Languages	tr en
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than tuxkt/pulsar-coder-1.5b.