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SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct by unsloth

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SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 3.4GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.29, ELO: 1114.

Base model:finetune:huggingfac... Base model:huggingfacetb/smoll...   Conversational   Deploy:azure   En   Endpoints compatible   Instruct   Llama   Region:us   Safetensors   Unsloth

SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct Benchmarks

nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM NameSmolLM2 1.7B Instruct
Repository πŸ€—https://huggingface.co/unsloth/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct 
Base Model(s)  HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct   HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct
Model Size1.7b
Required VRAM3.4 GB
Updated2026-08-04
Maintainerunsloth
Model Typellama
Instruction-BasedYes
Model Files  3.4 GB
Supported Languagesen
Model ArchitectureLlamaForCausalLM
Licenseapache-2.0
Context Length8192
Model Max Length8192
Transformers Version4.46.1
Tokenizer ClassGPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token<|PAD_TOKEN|>
Vocabulary Size49153
Torch Data Typebfloat16

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