What are the hardware requirements for Yi 6B Bnb 4bit?

Yi 6B Bnb 4bit requires approximately 3.9 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Yi 6B Bnb 4bit and how large is it?

Yi 6B Bnb 4bit is developed by unsloth, a model with 6b 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 Yi 6B Bnb 4bit?

Yi 6B Bnb 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Yi 6B Bnb 4bit by unsloth — VRAM 3.9GB, 4K context

Name: Yi 6B Bnb 4bit
Author: unsloth

Yi 6B Bnb 4bit is an open-source language model by unsloth. Features: 6b LLM, VRAM: 3.9GB, Context: 4K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

4-bit 4bit Bitsandbytes Bnb En Endpoints compatible Llama Quantized Region:us Safetensors Unsloth Yi

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/yi-6b-bnb-4bit

Yi 6B Bnb 4bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation, transformers

Use Cases

Areas:

finetuning, machine learning

Applications:

faster finetuning of models

Primary Use Cases:

Beginner friendly finetuning notebooks

Additional Notes

Unsloth offers beginner-friendly notebooks for various models, enabling faster finetuning with optimized memory usage.

LLM Name	Yi 6B Bnb 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/unsloth/yi-6b-bnb-4bit
Model Size	6b
Required VRAM	3.9 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	unsloth
Model Type	llama
Model Files	3.9 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.38.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<unk>
Vocabulary Size	64000
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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