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llm-jp-3

LLMs llm-jp Text gen 1 build Open weights 124k dl/mo

llm-jp-3 is an open-weight language model from llm-jp. llm-jp-3-150m (BF16) weighs 305 MB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 3060 12 GB.

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  • llm-jp-3 is a 152M parameter transformer-based language model developed by the National Institute of Informatics for text generation tasks.
  • It supports English and Japanese with a context length of 4096 tokens and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.
  • The model was pre-trained on 2.1 trillion tokens using datasets that include Wikipedia, Common Crawl, and The Stack.

Summary of the llm-jp/llm-jp-3-150m model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byllm-jp
Released2025-01-27
Parameters152M
VRAM305 MB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for llm-jp-3-150m (BF16)

305 MBweights, file size
25 MBcache per 1K tokens
557 MBruntime overhead, at least
4,096 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
4K each
RTX 3060 12 GB106all 4K11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB144all 4K15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GB223all 4K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB223all 4K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB299all 4K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB428all 4K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB768all 4K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB734all 4K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB890all 4K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified1000+all 4K107 GB
H200 141 GB1000+all 4K138 GB
B200 180 GB1000+all 4K176 GB
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once4K tokens each
1962 MB
51.4 GB
81.7 GB
162.5 GB
324.1 GB
647.3 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

From the model card

What llm-jp says about llm-jp-3

Read the model card

LLM-jp-3 is the series of large language models developed by the Research and Development Center for Large Language Models at the National Institute of Informatics.

This repository provides llm-jp-3-150m model. For an overview of the LLM-jp-3 models across different parameter sizes, please refer to:

Checkpoints format: Hugging Face Transformers

Required Libraries and Their Versions

  • torch>=2.3.0
  • transformers>=4.40.1
  • tokenizers>=0.19.1
  • accelerate>=0.29.3
  • flash-attn>=2.5.8

Usage

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("llm-jp/llm-jp-3-150m")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("llm-jp/llm-jp-3-150m", device_map="auto", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
text = "自然言語処理とは何か"
tokenized_input = tokenizer.encode(text, add_special_tokens=False, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
with torch.no_grad():
    output = model.generate(
        tokenized_input,
        max_new_tokens=100,
        do_sample=True,
        top_p=0.95,
        temperature=0.7,
        repetition_penalty=1.05,
    )[0]
print(tokenizer.decode(output))

Model Details

  • Model type: Transformer-based Language Model
  • Total seen tokens: 2.1T
ParamsLayersHidden sizeHeadsContext lengthEmbedding parametersNon-embedding parameters
150M1251284096101,874,68850,344,448
440M16102484096203,749,376243,303,424
980M20153684096305,624,064684,258,816
1.8b242048164096407,498,7521,459,718,144
3.7b283072244096611,248,1283,171,068,928
7.2b324096324096814,997,5046,476,271,616
13b4051204040961,018,746,88012,688,184,320
172b96122889640962,444,992,512169,947,181,056

Tokenizer

The tokenizer of this model is based on huggingface/tokenizers Unigram byte-fallback model. The vocabulary entries were converted from llm-jp-tokenizer v3.0. Please refer to README.md of llm-jp-tokenizer for details on the vocabulary construction procedure (the pure SentencePiece training does not reproduce our vocabulary).

Datasets

Pre-training

The models have been pre-trained using a blend of the following datasets.

LanguageDatasetTokens
JapaneseWikipedia2.6B
Common Crawl762.8B
WARP/PDF237.3B
WARP/HTML2.7B
Kaken1.8B
EnglishWikipedia4.7B
Dolma/CC-head608.5B
Dolma/C4181.6B
Dolma/Reddit83.1B
Dolma/PeS2o62.9B
Dolma/Gutenberg5.5B
Dolma/Wiki3.9B
CodeThe Stack114.1B
ChineseWikipedia0.8B
KoreanWikipedia0.3B

Evaluation

Detailed evaluation results are reported in this blog.

Risks and Limitations

The models released here are in the early stages of our research and development and have not been tuned to ensure outputs align with human intent and safety considerations.

Send Questions to

llm-jp(at)nii.ac.jp

License

Apache License, Version 2.0

Model Card Authors

The names are listed in alphabetical order.

Hirokazu Kiyomaru and Takashi Kodama.

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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