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t5-3b

Name: t5-3b
Author: google-t5

1. Model Details 2. Uses 3. Bias, Risks, and Limitations 4. Training Details 5. Evaluation 6. Environmental Impact 7. Citation 8. Model Card Authors 9. How To Get Started With the Model

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2.9 B

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Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS 5 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	f32	11.4 GB	13.5 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Specifications

Architecture: T5WithLMHeadModel
Parameters: 2.9 B
Tensor type: F32
Vocabulary: 32,128
Licence: apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub: 2022-03-02
Training datasets: c4
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

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