Model comparison
polyglot-lion-1.7b vs Qwen3-1.7B
At Q4_K_M, polyglot-lion-1.7b is the smaller download — 1,107,408,160 bytes against 1,107,409,472.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| polyglot-lion-1.7b | Qwen3-1.7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 2.0B | 2.0B |
| Architecture | qwen3vl | qwen3 |
| Layers | — | 28 |
| Native context | — | 40,960 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 36 | 48 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.48 GiB | 0.50 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 1.03 GiB | 1.03 GiB |
| Licence | mit | — |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | polyglot-lion-1.7b | Qwen3-1.7B | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | — | 0.44 GiB | — |
| 8,192 | — | 0.88 GiB | — |
| 16,384 | — | 1.75 GiB | — |
| 32,768 | — | 3.50 GiB | — |
| 65,536 | — | 7.00 GiB | — |
| 131,072 | — | 14.00 GiB | — |