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models / jhu-clsp/mmBERT-small
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~0.1B paramsfloat328K ctxmit
Sparks
Users
~9 GB
~8 GB
~8 GB
~8 GB
110 usable
Spec decode
Context8K / 8KKV
On the Sparks — 1× · 1-bit GGUF (dynamic) · 8K ctx · FP16 KV~3.0M ctx fits usable · ~368 users fit
spark
102 GB free
110 usable
8* / 110 GB
8% of usable
Dense weightsKV cacheActivations + graphsOS reserve

* segment sizes marked with an asterisk are estimates pending a measured run

Estimated per-node footprint, weights + KV sharded across the Spark (tensor parallel). Overhead ~8 GB/node; KV at FP16.

layer map
22 layerstransformer layer
in
out
all 22 layers fire per token — 140M active
Optimize
Verdict

0B params, ~1 GB at float32 — fits on one Spark as-is.

Make it fast

Once it fits: fewer bytes per token and fewer decode steps against 273 GB/s.

Add a speculative decoder

Decode is bandwidth-bound at ~485.8 tok/s ceiling; a trained EAGLE-style draft multiplies tokens per weight-read.

Make it yours

Change what the model does — adapt, edit, or steer it — independent of size.

Fine-tune it

LoRA/QLoRA adapts behavior on one Spark without touching the base weights.