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HARC-Qwen2.5

LLMs microsoft Text gen 1 build Open weights 517 dl/mo

HARC-Qwen2.5 is an open-weight language model from microsoft. HARC-Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (BF16) weighs 15.2 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • HARC-Qwen2.5 is a 7.6B parameter text-generation model developed by Microsoft.
  • It is a full standalone model created by merging a HARC safety-alignment LoRA into Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct.
  • The model is released under the apache-2.0 licence.

Summary of the microsoft/HARC-Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released bymicrosoft
Released2026-07-02
Parameters7.6B
VRAM15.2 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for HARC-Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (BF16)

15.2 GBweights, file size
57 MBcache per 1K tokens
799 MBruntime overhead, at least
32,768 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
2 smaller cards
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RTX 3090 24 GB153all 32K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB153all 32K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB317all 32K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB5914all 32K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB13233all 32K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB12230all 32K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB15639all 32K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified18446all 32K107 GB
H200 141 GB25062all 32K138 GB
B200 180 GB32982all 32K176 GB
2× RTX 3060 12 GB
tensor parallel
133all 32K11.6 GB a card
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
297all 32K15.4 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
116.5 GB17.9 GB
518.4 GB25.4 GB
819.8 GB31.1 GB
1623.5 GB46.1 GB
3231.1 GB76.2 GB
6446.1 GB136 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

From the model card

What microsoft says about HARC-Qwen2.5

Read the model card

HARC safety-alignment LoRA merged into Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (full standalone model). Part of the HARC release; see paper arXiv:2607.00572.

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("microsoft/HARC-Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct", torch_dtype="bfloat16", device_map="auto")
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("microsoft/HARC-Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct")

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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