What are the hardware requirements for GuardReasoner 3B?

GuardReasoner 3B requires approximately 6.5 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 GuardReasoner 3B and how large is it?

GuardReasoner 3B is developed by yueliu1999, a model with 3b 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 GuardReasoner 3B?

GuardReasoner 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

GuardReasoner 3B by yueliu1999 — VRAM 6.5GB, 128K context

Name: GuardReasoner 3B
Author: yueliu1999

GuardReasoner 3B is an open-source language model by yueliu1999. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.5GB, Context: 128K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Arxiv:2501.18492 Base model:finetune:meta-llama... Base model:meta-llama/llama-3.... Endpoints compatible Full Generated from trainer Llama-factory Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/yueliu1999/GuardReasoner-3B

GuardReasoner 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	GuardReasoner 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/yueliu1999/GuardReasoner-3B
Base Model(s)	meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-28
Maintainer	yueliu1999
Model Type	llama
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.5 GB: 2-of-2 0.0 GB
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.46.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|eot_id\|>
Vocabulary Size	128256
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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