# unsloth/llama-3-8b-Instruct-bnb-4bit

This model is a text only auto regressive language model with an optimized transformer architecture. It generates text and code, and the instruction tuned version is intended for assistant like chat in English.

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## Facts

- Type: LLM
- Task: text-generation
- Framework: transformers
- License: llama3: Commercial use is permitted with obligations: Llama community license: commercial use allowed; if your products/services exceeded 700 million monthly active users (Section 2, Additional Commercial Terms) you must request a license from Meta first; the acceptable-use policy and attribution notice apply. (https://huggingface.co/unsloth/llama-3-8b-Instruct-bnb-4bit/blob/main/LICENSE)
- Source: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/llama-3-8b-Instruct-bnb-4bit
- Hosting: hosted (7 files)
- Files: 7 hosted of 9 listed
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- Hosted here: 7 hosted of 9 listed
- Full repo upstream: 5.71 GB
- Recommended file: 5.7 GB · model.safetensors
- Parameters: 8B
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- Availability: Ready
- Downloadable: yes
- Run-ready: no (Hugging Bay has not certified a run path for this model; hosted bytes are downloadable and hash-checkable only)
- Peer-assisted fallbacks: 0 verified, 0 pending review
- Downloads: 60201
- Stars: 135
- Card completeness: 96%

## Description

This model is a text only auto regressive language model with an optimized transformer architecture. It generates text and code, and the instruction tuned version is intended for assistant like chat in English.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: llama3
- Pipeline: text-generation
- Library: transformers
- Base model: meta-llama/Llama-3-8B-Instruct
- Task categories: text-generation
- Languages: en
- File hints: 9 upstream file samples

## File Hints

- .gitattributes (1.5 KB)
- LICENSE (7.6 KB)
- README.md (27 KB)
- config.json (1.2 KB)
- generation_config.json (220 B)
- model.safetensors (5.3 GB) LFS
- special_tokens_map.json (345 B)
- tokenizer.json (8.7 MB)
- tokenizer_config.json (50 KB)

## Quality Checklist

- Summary: passed
- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: passed
- License: review
- Provenance: passed
- File inventory: passed
- Hosted bytes: passed
- Scan result: passed
- Manifest signature: passed

## Safety Notes

- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-09-20T16:56:32.093Z.
- Upstream license: llama3. Mirror admission policy: permissive (owner policy; no license rights inferred).
- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

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