Model reference · open weights
sabia is an open-weight language model from maritaca-ai. sabia-7b (BF16) weighs 13.5 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB.
For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.
Summary of the maritaca-ai/sabia-7b model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | maritaca-ai |
|---|---|
| Released | 2023-11-08 |
| Parameters | 6.7B |
| VRAM | 13.5 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB | 11.6 GB | ||
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | 1 | all 2K | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | 8 | all 2K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | 8 | all 2K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | 15 | all 2K | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | 27 | all 2K | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | 59 | all 2K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 56 | all 2K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 71 | all 2K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 84 | all 2K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 112 | all 2K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 147 | all 2K | 176 GB |
| 2× RTX 3060 12 GB tensor parallel | 7 | all 2K | 11.6 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB tensor parallel | 14 | all 2K | 15.4 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 2K tokens each |
|---|---|
| 1 | 15.2 GB |
| 5 | 19.5 GB |
| 8 | 22.7 GB |
| 16 | 31.3 GB |
| 32 | 48.5 GB |
| 64 | 82.8 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
From the model card
Sabiá-7B is Portuguese language model developed by Maritaca AI.
Input: The model accepts only text input.
Output: The Model generates text only.
Model Architecture: Sabiá-7B is an auto-regressive language model that uses the same architecture of LLaMA-1-7B.
Tokenizer: It uses the same tokenizer as LLaMA-1-7B.
Maximum sequence length: 2048 tokens.
Pretraining data: The model was pretrained on 7 billion tokens from the Portuguese subset of ClueWeb22, starting with the weights of LLaMA-1-7B and further trained for an additional 10 billion tokens, approximately 1.4 epochs of the training dataset.
Data Freshness: The pretraining data has a cutoff of mid-2022.
License: The licensing is the same as LLaMA-1's, restricting the model's use to research purposes only.
Paper: For more details, please refer to our paper: Sabiá: Portuguese Large Language Models
Given that Sabiá-7B was trained solely on a language modeling objective without fine-tuning for instruction following, it is recommended for few-shot tasks rather than zero-shot tasks, like in the example below.
import torch
from transformers import LlamaTokenizer, LlamaForCausalLM
tokenizer = LlamaTokenizer.from_pretrained("maritaca-ai/sabia-7b")
model = LlamaForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"maritaca-ai/sabia-7b",
device_map="auto", # Automatically loads the model in the GPU, if there is one. Requires pip install acelerate
low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16 # If your GPU does not support bfloat16, change to torch.float16
)
prompt = """Classifique a resenha de filme como "positiva" ou "negativa".
Resenha: Gostei muito do filme, é o melhor do ano!
Classe: positiva
Resenha: O filme deixa muito a desejar.
Classe: negativa
Resenha: Apesar de longo, valeu o ingresso.
Classe:"""
input_ids = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")
output = model.generate(
input_ids["input_ids"].to("cuda"),
max_length=1024,
eos_token_id=tokenizer.encode("\n")) # Stop generation when a "\n" token is dectected
# The output contains the input tokens, so we have to skip them.
output = output[0][len(input_ids["input_ids"][0]):]
print(tokenizer.decode(output, skip_special_tokens=True))
If your GPU does not have enough RAM, try using int8 precision. However, expect some degradation in the model output quality when compared to fp16 or bf16.
model = LlamaForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"maritaca-ai/sabia-7b",
device_map="auto",
low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
load_in_8bit=True, # Requires pip install bitsandbytes
)
Below we show the results on the Poeta benchmark, which consists of 14 Portuguese datasets.
For more information on the Normalized Preferred Metric (NPM), please refer to our paper.
| Model | NPM |
|---|---|
| LLaMA-1-7B | 33.0 |
| LLaMA-2-7B | 43.7 |
| Sabiá-7B | 48.5 |
Below we show the average results on 6 English datasets: PIQA, HellaSwag, WinoGrande, ARC-e, ARC-c, and OpenBookQA.
| Model | NPM |
|---|---|
| LLaMA-1-7B | 50.1 |
| Sabiá-7B | 49.0 |
Please use the following bibtex to cite our paper:
@InProceedings{10.1007/978-3-031-45392-2_15,
author="Pires, Ramon
and Abonizio, Hugo
and Almeida, Thales Sales
and Nogueira, Rodrigo",
editor="Naldi, Murilo C.
and Bianchi, Reinaldo A. C.",
title="Sabi{\'a}: Portuguese Large Language Models",
booktitle="Intelligent Systems",
year="2023",
publisher="Springer Nature Switzerland",
address="Cham",
pages="226--240",
isbn="978-3-031-45392-2"
}
Detailed results can be found here
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Average | 47.09 |
| ENEM Challenge (No Images) | 55.07 |
| BLUEX (No Images) | 47.71 |
| OAB Exams | 41.41 |
| Assin2 RTE | 46.68 |
| Assin2 STS | 1.89 |
| FaQuAD NLI | 58.34 |
| HateBR Binary | 61.93 |
| PT Hate Speech Binary | 64.13 |
| tweetSentBR | 46.64 |
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.
Benchmarks
As published on the model card: the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.
| Task | Dataset | Metric | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text Generation | ENEM Challenge (No Images) | accuracy | 55.070 |
| Text Generation | BLUEX (No Images) | accuracy | 47.710 |
| Text Generation | OAB Exams | accuracy | 41.410 |
| Text Generation | Assin2 RTE | f1-macro | 46.680 |
| Text Generation | Assin2 STS | pearson | 1.890 |
| Text Generation | FaQuAD NLI | f1-macro | 58.340 |
| Text Generation | HateBR Binary | f1-macro | 61.930 |
| Text Generation | PT Hate Speech Binary | f1-macro | 64.130 |
| Text Generation | tweetSentBR | f1-macro | 46.640 |