---

base_model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct

license: apache-2.0

library_name: gguf

tags:

- gguf

- llama.cpp

- backpack

---

SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct — Backpack GGUF

GGUF quantizations of HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct, tested for llama.cpp-compatible inference and packaged for Backpack.

Model

| Property | Value |

| --- | --- |

| Original model | HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct |

| Original publisher | HuggingFaceTB |

| Upstream revision | 31b70e2e869a7173562077fd711b654946d38674 |

| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM |

| Parameters | 1,711,376,384 |

| Context length | 8,192 |

| License | apache-2.0 |

Available packages

| Quantization | Size | Approx. RAM | Recommended for |

| --- | ---: | ---: | --- |

| Q4_K_M | 1006.7 MiB | 2.43 GB | Most users |

| Q5_K_M | 1.1 GiB | 2.65 GB | Higher quality |

| Q8_0 | 1.7 GiB | 3.46 GB | Plenty of memory |

Memory values are estimates, not guarantees. Runtime configuration and context length change actual use.

Backpack recommendation

Recommended: Q4_K_M. It usually offers a practical quality, size, and speed balance for local inference.

Run with llama.cpp

Using the llama.cpp revision recorded below:

llama-cli --model SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf --conversation

Run with Backpack

These artifacts and backpack-model.yaml are prepared for the Backpack AI workspace.

Validation

| Package | Integrity | Load | Inference | Tokenizer |

| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

| Q4_K_M | passed | passed | passed | passed |

| Q5_K_M | passed | passed | passed | passed |

| Q8_0 | passed | passed | passed | passed |

• Packaged: 2026-08-22T16:19:59.672602+00:00
• llama.cpp revision: de699957b92f490efebad149665b0dccf127eaff
• SHA-256 checksums: see checksums.sha256

• SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf: 5ac93b9ab47d7b3069282f1cef65e1534e68b2c97d1ec129288bc792fa33ec5c
• SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q5_K_M.gguf: a2fdd913de171cea397f3c876e9b23af9a899491e0dd32958affa2ec44c5d99c
• SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-Q8_0.gguf: af66f269a1a77bd0b0df4f5a123b96582f1dac700b7846e0880b3eb54fa4f563

Provenance

The source model was resolved to immutable revision 31b70e2e869a7173562077fd711b654946d38674. It was converted with llama.cpp's convert_hf_to_gguf.py and quantized with llama-quantize; the exact tested revision is recorded above and in backpack-model.yaml.

License and attribution

Upstream declares apache-2.0. Review the upstream model card and comply with all applicable terms.

Backpack does not claim ownership of the original model. These artifacts are packaged and quantized distributions of the upstream model.

Disclaimer

Quantization can alter output quality. Memory estimates vary with runtime configuration, context length, and hardware.