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by vineyardmike 781 days ago
The model sizes are:

> 270M, 450M, 1.1B and 3B parameters

Which roughly translates to 3GB for the highest end one, depending on context length used.

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* ~3GB with 8bit quantization. Without quantization it is ~6GB [0].

8 bits = 1 byte

3 billion * 1 byte = 3 gigabyte

+ Some memory for the context of the LLM

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3b-instruct has a total file size of 4.94GB + 1.13GB which is 6.07GB which can be seen here:

https://huggingface.co/apple/OpenELM-3B-Instruct/tree/main

A bit of overhead will always be there, as you probably want to store some metadata next to the raw weights.