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Falcon3-7B

Parameters

7B

Context Length

32K

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

16.52 GB VRAM

Consumer

1x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

1x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

1x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

32,000 tokens

26.11 GB VRAM

Consumer

2x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

1x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

1x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

Architecture Diagram

Input TokensToken EmbeddingPosition: RoPEHidden: 4.1k · Context: 32K · Vocab: 131.1kx 36 layersRMSNormPre-AttentionGrouped-Query Attention32Q / 8KV headsHead dim: 256+RMSNormPre-FFNFeed-Forward NetworkSwiGLUIntermediate: 23k+Final RMSNormOutput Logits

Evaluation Benchmarks

No evaluation benchmarks for Falcon3-7B available.

Rankings

Overall Rank

-

Coding Rank

-

About Falcon3-7B

Falcon3-7B is a state-of-the-art instruction-tuned language model from TII optimized for STEM problem-solving, code generation, and research assistance. Pretrained on 14T tokens, it supports multilingual inference across a 32K context window.

Technical Specifications

Attention

Attention Structure

Grouped-Query Attention

Attention Heads

32

Key-Value Heads

8

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

4,096

Number of Layers

36

FFN Intermediate Size (Dense)

23,040

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
Falcon3-7B: Specifications and GPU VRAM Requirements