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EXAONE-3.5

EXAONE-3.5 is an open-weight language model from LGAI-EXAONE, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

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About

What EXAONE-3.5 is

EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct-AWQ Introduction We introduce EXAONE 3.5, a collection of instruction-tuned bilingual (English and Korean) generative models ranging from 2.4B to 32B parameters, developed and released by LG AI Research. EXAONE 3.5 language models include: 1) 2.4B model optimized for deployment on small or resource-constrained devices, 2) 7.8B model matching the size of its predecessor but offering improved performance, and 3) 32B model delivering powerful performance. All models support long-context processing of up to 32K tokens. Each model demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in real-world use cases and long-context understanding, while remaining competitive in general domains compared to recently released models of similar sizes. For more details, please refer to our technical report, blog and GitHub. This repository contains the AWQ-quantized weights of the instruction-tuned 7.8B language model with the following features: - Number of Parameters (without embeddings): 6.98B - Number of Layers: 32 - Number of Attention Heads: GQA with 32 Q-heads and 8 KV-heads - Vocab Size: 102,400 - Context Length: 32,768 tokens - Quantization: AWQ with 4-bit group-wise weight-only quantization (W4A16g128) Quickstart We recommend to use transformers=4.43 and autoawq=0.2.7.post3. Here is the code snippet to run conversational inference with the model: ### Note The EXAONE 3.5 instruction-tuned language models were trained to utilize the system prompt, so we highly recommend using the system prompts provided in the code snippet above. Deployment EXAONE 3.5 models can be inferred in the various frameworks, such as: - TensorRT-LLM - vLLM - SGLang - llama.cpp - Ollama Please refer to our EXAONE 3.5 GitHub for more details about the inference frameworks. Quantization We provide the pre-quantized EXAONE 3.5 models with AWQ and several quantization types in GGUF format. Please refer to our EXAONE 3.5 collection to find corresponding quantized models. Limitation The EXAONE language model has certain limitations and may occasionally generate inappropriate responses. The language model generates responses based on the output probability of tokens, and it is determined durin

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

MakerLGAI-EXAONE
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)7.8B
Context32k tokens
Variants5
Runs withtransformers
Based onEXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct
Released2024-12-01
Popularity399k downloads / month
Likes190
LicenceCommercial licence needed

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct-AWQ7.8BAWQWeights ↗
EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct7.8BBF16~18 GBWeights ↗
EXAONE-3.5-32B-Instruct-AWQ32.0BAWQWeights ↗
EXAONE-3.5-2.4B-Instruct2.4BBF16~5.5 GBWeights ↗
EXAONE-3.5-32B-Instruct32.0BBF16~73.6 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys exaone-3-5 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (exaone-3-5 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"exaone-3-5","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

en ko

Tags

transformers safetensors exaone text-generation lg-ai exaone-3.5 conversational custom_code en ko 4-bit awq eval-results

Papers

Licence

Commercial licence needed

The weights are open but its licence needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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