Model comparison
SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct vs Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
At Q4_K_M, Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct is the smaller download — 807,690,688 bytes against 1,112,602,656.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct | Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 2.2B | 1.2B |
| Architecture | llama | llama |
| Layers | 24 | 16 |
| Native context | 8,192 | 131,072 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 40 | 39 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.42 GiB | 0.39 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 1.04 GiB | 0.75 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct | Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | — | 0.13 GiB | — |
| 8,192 | — | 0.25 GiB | — |
| 16,384 | — | 0.50 GiB | — |
| 32,768 | — | 1.00 GiB | — |
| 65,536 | — | 2.00 GiB | — |
| 131,072 | — | 4.00 GiB | — |