Model reference · open weights
DialoGPT-small is an open-weight language model from microsoft. DialoGPT-small (FP16) weighs 351 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.
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Summary of the microsoft/DialoGPT-small model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | microsoft |
|---|---|
| Released | 2022-03-02 |
| Parameters | 176M |
| VRAM | 351 MB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB | 284 | all 1K | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | 385 | all 1K | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | 596 | all 1K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | 595 | all 1K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | 798 | 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 | 908 MB |
| 5 | 1.1 GB |
| 8 | 1.2 GB |
| 16 | 1.5 GB |
| 32 | 2.1 GB |
| 64 | 3.3 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
From the model card
DialoGPT is a SOTA large-scale pretrained dialogue response generation model for multiturn conversations. The human evaluation results indicate that the response generated from DialoGPT is comparable to human response quality under a single-turn conversation Turing test. The model is trained on 147M multi-turn dialogue from Reddit discussion thread.
| Role | Response |
|---|---|
| User | Does money buy happiness? |
| Bot | Depends how much money you spend on it . |
| User | What is the best way to buy happiness ? |
| Bot | You just have to be a millionaire by your early 20s, then you can be happy . |
| User | This is so difficult ! |
| Bot | You have no idea how hard it is to be a millionaire and happy . There is a reason the rich have a lot of money |
Please find the information about preprocessing, training and full details of the DialoGPT in the original DialoGPT repository
ArXiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00536
Now we are ready to try out how the model works as a chatting partner!
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("microsoft/DialoGPT-small")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("microsoft/DialoGPT-small")
# Let's chat for 5 lines
for step in range(5):
# encode the new user input, add the eos_token and return a tensor in Pytorch
new_user_input_ids = tokenizer.encode(input(">> User:") + tokenizer.eos_token, return_tensors='pt')
# append the new user input tokens to the chat history
bot_input_ids = torch.cat([chat_history_ids, new_user_input_ids], dim=-1) if step > 0 else new_user_input_ids
# generated a response while limiting the total chat history to 1000 tokens,
chat_history_ids = model.generate(bot_input_ids, max_length=1000, pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id)
# pretty print last ouput tokens from bot
print("DialoGPT: {}".format(tokenizer.decode(chat_history_ids[:, bot_input_ids.shape[-1]:][0], skip_special_tokens=True)))
Detailed results can be found here
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Avg. | 25.02 |
| ARC (25-shot) | 25.77 |
| HellaSwag (10-shot) | 25.79 |
| MMLU (5-shot) | 25.81 |
| TruthfulQA (0-shot) | 47.49 |
| Winogrande (5-shot) | 50.28 |
| GSM8K (5-shot) | 0.0 |
| DROP (3-shot) | 0.0 |
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.