The most rapid route to a local installation of this model is through WSL2.
Carefully read and apply the steps described below.
The installer automatically pulls the model (could be multiple GBs).
You don’t need to tweak anything; the installer picks the highest performing setup.
SmolLM3-3B is a compact language model designed for efficient inference on consumer hardware. It leverages a refined architecture that balances parameter count and context length, delivering strong performance in both reasoning and generation tasks. The model supports up to 8K tokens of context, enabling it to handle longer dialogues and documents without truncation. Benchmarks show it outperforms similarly sized models in multilingual understanding and code generation. Its training pipeline incorporates extensive data filtering and instruction tuning, resulting in coherent and factual outputs. The compact footprint makes it ideal for deployment in edge devices and research prototypes.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Parameters | 3 B |
| Context Length | 8K tokens |
| Training Data | ≈1.5 TB filtered corpus |
| Inference Speed | ~120 tokens/s on GPU |
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