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LaMini-GPT is an open-weight language model from MBZUAI. LaMini-GPT-124M (BF16) weighs 510 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
Summary of the MBZUAI/LaMini-GPT-124M model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | MBZUAI |
|---|---|
| Released | 2023-04-14 |
| VRAM | 510 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB | 280 | all 1K | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | 380 | all 1K | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | 592 | all 1K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | 591 | all 1K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | 794 | all 1K | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | 1000+ | all 1K | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | 1000+ | all 1K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 1000+ | all 1K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 1000+ | all 1K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 1000+ | all 1K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 1000+ | all 1K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 1000+ | all 1K | 176 GB |
| Requests at once | 1K tokens each |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1.1 GB |
| 5 | 1.2 GB |
| 8 | 1.3 GB |
| 16 | 1.6 GB |
| 32 | 2.2 GB |
| 64 | 3.4 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
From the model card
This model is one of our LaMini-LM model series in paper "LaMini-LM: A Diverse Herd of Distilled Models from Large-Scale Instructions". This model is a fine-tuned version of gpt2 on LaMini-instruction dataset that contains 2.58M samples for instruction fine-tuning. For more information about our dataset, please refer to our project repository. You can view other models of LaMini-LM series as follows. Models with ✩ are those with the best overall performance given their size/architecture, hence we recommend using them. More details can be seen in our paper.
We recommend using the model to respond to human instructions written in natural language. Since this decoder-only model is fine-tuned with wrapper text, we suggest using the same wrapper text to achieve the best performance. See the example on the right or the code below.
We now show you how to load and use our model using HuggingFace pipeline().
# pip install -q transformers
from transformers import pipeline
checkpoint = "{model_name}"
model = pipeline('text-generation', model = checkpoint)
instruction = 'Please let me know your thoughts on the given place and why you think it deserves to be visited: \n"Barcelona, Spain"'
input_prompt = f"Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.\n\n### Instruction:\n{instruction}\n\n### Response:"
generated_text = model(input_prompt, max_length=512, do_sample=True)[0]['generated_text']
print("Response", generated_text)
We initialize with gpt2 and fine-tune it on our LaMini-instruction dataset. Its total number of parameters is 124M.
We conducted two sets of evaluations: automatic evaluation on downstream NLP tasks and human evaluation on user-oriented instructions. For more detail, please refer to our paper.
More information needed
@article{lamini-lm,
author = {Minghao Wu and
Abdul Waheed and
Chiyu Zhang and
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed and
Alham Fikri Aji
},
title = {LaMini-LM: A Diverse Herd of Distilled Models from Large-Scale Instructions},
journal = {CoRR},
volume = {abs/2304.14402},
year = {2023},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14402},
eprinttype = {arXiv},
eprint = {2304.14402}
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.