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Falcon-1B

Parameters

1B

Context Length

8K

Modality

Text

Architecture

Dense

License

TII Falcon-LLM License 2.0

Release Date

17 Dec 2024

Knowledge Cutoff

-

API Pricing (per 1M)

Self-hosted only

System Requirements

VRAM requirements for different quantization methods and context sizes

1,024 tokens

3.61 GB VRAM

Consumer

1x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

1x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

1x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

8,192 tokens

3.71 GB VRAM

Consumer

1x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

1x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

1x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

Architecture Diagram

Input TokensToken EmbeddingPosition: RoPEHidden: 768 · Context: 8Kx 24 layersRMSNormPre-AttentionMulti-Query Attention32Q / 1KV headsHead dim: 24+RMSNormPre-FFNFeed-Forward NetworkSwiGLU+Final RMSNormOutput Logits

Evaluation Benchmarks

No evaluation benchmarks for Falcon-1B available.

Rankings

Overall Rank

-

Coding Rank

-

About Falcon-1B

Falcon3-1B is an open 1B parameter causal transformer developed by TII for scientific reasoning, mathematics, and edge AI applications. It incorporates Grouped-Query Attention and SwiGLU activations for efficient multilingual inference.

Technical Specifications

Attention

Attention Structure

Multi-Query Attention

Attention Heads

32

Key-Value Heads

1

Attention Head Dimension

-

Position Embedding

ROPE

RoPE Theta

-

Sliding Window Attention

-

Sliding Window Size

-

Sliding Window Ratio

-

Linear Attention

-

Linear Attention Ratio

-

Normalization

RMS Normalization

Activation Function

SwigLU

Dimensions

Hidden Dimension Size

768

Number of Layers

24

FFN Intermediate Size (Dense)

-

Multi-Token Prediction Heads

-

Tokenizer

Vocabulary Size

-

About Falcon

The TII Falcon model family comprises causal decoder-only language models (7B, 40B). Their architecture, adapted from GPT-3, integrates rotary positional embeddings, Multi-Query Attention for inference efficiency, and FlashAttention for accelerated operations. Models are trained on the RefinedWeb dataset.


Other Falcon Models
Falcon-1B: Specifications and GPU VRAM Requirements