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Falcon3-1B

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

3.68 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

4.23 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: 8K · Vocab: 131.1kx 18 layersRMSNormPre-AttentionGrouped-Query Attention16Q / 4KV headsHead dim: 256+RMSNormPre-FFNFeed-Forward NetworkSwiGLUIntermediate: 8.2k+Final RMSNormOutput Logits

Evaluation Benchmarks

No evaluation benchmarks for Falcon3-1B available.

Rankings

Overall Rank

-

Coding Rank

-

About Falcon3-1B

Falcon3-1B is a lightweight open foundation model from TII engineered for scientific problem-solving and coding on laptop-grade hardware. It features Grouped-Query Attention and a 131K vocabulary supporting multiple European languages.

Technical Specifications

Attention

Attention Structure

Grouped-Query Attention

Attention Heads

16

Key-Value Heads

4

Attention Head Dimension

256

Position Embedding

ROPE

RoPE Theta

1,000,042

Sliding Window Attention

No

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

18

FFN Intermediate Size (Dense)

8,192

Multi-Token Prediction Heads

-

Tokenizer

Vocabulary Size

131,072

About Falcon 3

The TII Falcon 3 model family comprises open-source, decoder-only language models (1B-10B parameters) designed for efficiency. Key innovations include an extended 32K token context window, Grouped-Query Attention (GQA), and specialized versions for scientific and code-oriented applications. Some variants integrate Mamba-based architectures.


Other Falcon 3 Models
Falcon3-1B: Specifications and GPU VRAM Requirements