What are the hardware requirements for Violet 160M Chat?

Violet 160M Chat requires approximately 0.3 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 Violet 160M Chat and how large is it?

Violet 160M Chat is developed by zakarth, a model with 160m 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 Violet 160M Chat?

Violet 160M Chat is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Violet 160M Chat by zakarth — VRAM 0.3GB, 4K context

Name: Violet 160M Chat
Author: zakarth

Violet 160M Chat is an open-source language model by zakarth. Features: 160m LLM, VRAM: 0.3GB, Context: 4K, License: cc0-1.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

En Endpoints compatible Gpt neox Region:us Roleplay Safetensors Victorian

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/zakarth/violet-160m-chat

Violet 160M Chat Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Violet 160M Chat
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/zakarth/violet-160m-chat
Model Size	160m
Required VRAM	0.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	zakarth
Model Type	gpt_neox
Model Files	0.3 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	GPTNeoXForCausalLM
License	cc0-1.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Tokenizer Class	GPTNeoXTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|system\|>
Vocabulary Size	50281

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