by unsloth
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The Llama 3.2 3B Instruct model optimized by Unsloth in 4-bit is a lightweight yet high-performing version of Meta’s Llama 3.2, designed for dialogue and conversational assistance tasks. Through dynamic 4-bit quantization, it achieves improved accuracy while significantly reducing memory usage and computational requirements, making it accessible even on modest hardware setups. The model excels in multilingual text generation, particularly in English, French, German, Spanish, and other languages, and stands out for its versatility in handling use cases such as document summarization, information extraction, and agentic interactions. What makes it especially appealing is its ease of use and optimization for fine-tuning, enabling developers to quickly adapt the model to specific needs with limited resources. Ideal for projects requiring efficient and cost-effective conversational AI, it serves as a versatile solution for developers and businesses looking to integrate advanced language capabilities without investing in expensive hardware.
See our collection for versions of Llama 3.2 including GGUF & 4-bit formats.
Unsloth's Dynamic 4-bit Quants is selectively quantized, greatly improving accuracy over standard 4-bit.
We have a free Google Colab Tesla T4 notebook for Llama 3.2 (3B) here: https://colab.research.google.com/github/unslothai/notebooks/blob/main/nb/Llama3.1_(8B)-Alpaca.ipynb
For more details on the model, please go to Meta's original model card
All notebooks are beginner friendly! Add your dataset, click "Run All", and you'll get a 2x faster finetuned model which can be exported to GGUF, vLLM or uploaded to Hugging Face.
| Unsloth supports | Free Notebooks | Performance | Memory use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama-3.2 (3B) | ▶️ Start on Colab | 2.4x faster | 58% less |
| Llama-3.2 (11B vision) | ▶️ Start on Colab | 2x faster | 60% less |
| Qwen2 VL (7B) | ▶️ Start on Colab | 1.8x faster | 60% less |
| Qwen2.5 (7B) | ▶️ Start on Colab | 2x faster | 60% less |
| Llama-3.1 (8B) | ▶️ Start on Colab | 2.4x faster | 58% less |
| Phi-3.5 (mini) | ▶️ Start on Colab | 2x faster | 50% less |
| Gemma 2 (9B) | ▶️ Start on Colab | 2.4x faster | 58% less |
| Mistral (7B) | ▶️ Start on Colab | 2.2x faster | 62% less |
A huge thank you to the Meta and Llama team for creating and releasing these models.
The Meta Llama 3.2 collection of multilingual large language models (LLMs) is a collection of pretrained and instruction-tuned generative models in 1B and 3B sizes (text in/text out). The Llama 3.2 instruction-tuned text only models are optimized for multilingual dialogue use cases, including agentic retrieval and summarization tasks. They outperform many of the available open source and closed chat models on common industry benchmarks.
Model developer: Meta
Model Architecture: Llama 3.2 is an auto-regressive language model that uses an optimized transformer architecture. The tuned versions use supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) to align with human preferences for helpfulness and safety.
Supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, and Thai are officially supported. Llama 3.2 has been trained on a broader collection of languages than these 8 supported languages. Developers may fine-tune Llama 3.2 models for languages beyond these supported languages, provided they comply with the Llama 3.2 Community License and the Acceptable Use Policy. Developers are always expected to ensure that their deployments, including those that involve additional languages, are completed safely and responsibly.
Llama 3.2 family of models Token counts refer to pretraining data only. All model versions use Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) for improved inference scalability.
Model Release Date: Sept 25, 2024
Status: This is a static model trained on an offline dataset. Future versions may be released that improve model capabilities and safety.
License: Use of Llama 3.2 is governed by the Llama 3.2 Community License (a custom, commercial license agreement).
Where to send questions or comments about the model Instructions on how to provide feedback or comments on the model can be found in the model README. For more technical information about generation parameters and recipes for how to use Llama 3.1 in applications, please go here.
