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DeepSeek R1 1.5B

huggingfaceHuggingFaceollamaOllama
753.9KDownloads1.5KLikesJan 2025Released33K tokensContextMITLicense3 EntryQuality

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Ollama
ollama run deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-1.5b

Quick specs

Parameters1.5B
Architecturedense
Context33K tokens
Modalitytext
Min RAM0.6 GB
Rec. RAM0.9 GB (Q4_K_M)
LicenseMIT
FamilyDeepSeek
✓ Reasoning

About this model

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is a compact reasoning model distilled from DeepSeek-R1, based on Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B. Fine-tuned on 800K curated samples, it achieves 83.9% on MATH-500 and supports chain-of-thought reasoning on resource-constrained devices.

  • •Smallest DeepSeek R1 distillation at just 1.5B parameters
  • •83.9% on MATH-500, 33.8 on GPQA Diamond
  • •Chain-of-thought reasoning in an edge-deployable size
  • •MIT license for unrestricted commercial use

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QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.6 GB
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Q3_K_S
3
0.7 GB
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NVFP4
4
0.8 GB
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Q4_K_M
4
0.9 GB
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Q5_K_M
5
1.1 GB
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Q6_K
6
1.2 GB
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Q8_0
8
1.6 GB
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F16
16
3.1 GB
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Memory breakdown

Reference: NVIDIA A10 24GB

Weights0.9 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime0.9 GB
Headroom2.4 GB