What are the hardware requirements for Llama 3.2 1B?

Llama 3.2 1B requires approximately 2.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Llama 3.2 1B and how large is it?

Llama 3.2 1B is developed by unsloth, a model with 1b 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 Llama 3.2 1B?

Llama 3.2 1B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Llama 3.2 1B by unsloth — VRAM 2.5GB, 128K context

Name: Llama 3.2 1B
Author: unsloth

Llama 3.2 1B is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 2.5GB, Context: 128K, License: llama3.2, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Base model:finetune:meta-llama... Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Facebook Llama Llama-3 Meta Region:us Safetensors Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B

Llama 3.2 1B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation, multilingual

Additional Notes

Developers may fine-tune for additional languages following licensing guidelines. Feedback and comments can be provided as per instructions in the README.

Supported Languages

English (officially supported), German (officially supported), French (officially supported), Italian (officially supported), Portuguese (officially supported), Hindi (officially supported), Spanish (officially supported), Thai (officially supported), Others (broader collection of languages)

Training Details

Methodology:

Uses an optimized transformer architecture with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF).

Model Architecture:

auto-regressive language model with transformer architecture

Input Output

Input Format:

text in

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

text out

Release Notes

Date:

Sept 25, 2024

Notes:

This is a static model trained on an offline dataset. Future versions may be released that improve model capabilities and safety.

LLM Name	Llama 3.2 1B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Llama-3.2-1B
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	2.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-05
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	llama
Model Files	2.5 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	llama3.2
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.52.4
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|finetune_right_pad_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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