Turkish Llama 8B Instruct v0.1
Llama 3 8B continued pre-trained on Turkish corpora, then instruction-tuned for Turkish chat. YTU CE COSMOS group's most-downloaded Llama variant. GGUF builds available — drops into Ollama directly.
Overview
Llama 3 8B continued pre-trained on Turkish corpora, then instruction-tuned for Turkish chat. YTU CE COSMOS group's most-downloaded Llama variant. GGUF builds available — drops into Ollama directly.
Strengths
- Llama 3 base — proven architecture with broad tooling support
- GGUF builds shipped alongside transformers checkpoint
- Solid Turkish output quality at the 8B size class
Weaknesses
- Continued pre-training can hurt English capability — use a different model if you need bilingual
- 8K context inherited from Llama 3 base
- v0.1 — newer YTU releases may have superseded this
Quantization variants
Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.
| Quantization | File size | VRAM required |
|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 4.4 GB | 6 GB |
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Original weights
Source repository — direct quantization required.
Hardware that runs this
Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of Turkish Llama 8B Instruct v0.1.
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Source: huggingface.co/ytu-ce-cosmos/Turkish-Llama-8b-Instruct-v0.1
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