distilbert / text-generation Open weights updated 2 years ago

distilgpt2

Name: distilgpt2
Author: distilbert

DistilGPT2 (short for Distilled-GPT2) is an English-language model pre-trained with the supervision of the smallest version of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 (GPT-2). Like GPT-2, DistilGPT2 can be used to generate text. Users of this model card should also consider information about the design, training, and limitations of GPT-2.

Params

90 M

Context

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1.5 M

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Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS 1 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

Download history

daily snapshots · 106 days

▲ 464 K in the last 30 days (23.9%)

2.7 M1.5 M

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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	0.4 GB	0.9 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

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

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub

~ · curl · api/v1

$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/distilgpt2
{
  "hf_id": "distilbert/distilgpt2",
  "params_b": 0.09,
  "context_length": null,
  "license": { "id": "apache-2.0", "commercial": "yes" },
  "downloads_30d": 1481788,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "f32", "gb": 0.9 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-07-28T17:07:36Z"
}

est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Specifications

Architecture: GPT2LMHeadModel
Parameters: 90 M
Tensor type: F32
Vocabulary: 50,257
Licence: apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub: 2022-03-02
Training datasets: openwebtext
WikiText-103 (reported): 21.1
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

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