alt.freeweights.granite / granite-3.0-2b-instruct
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granite-3.0-2b-instruct

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 5ad66c1Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model with 2.6B parameters. Safetensors weights, 5.27 GB in all. Published by ibm-granite under Apache-2.0.

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$ fw get ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-instruct
# manifest sha256 073470a8970d… · 5.27 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./granite-3.0-2b-instruct ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-instruct
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Overview

Size
5.27 GB
Weights
5.27 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
2.6B
Formats
safetensors
Task
text generation
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Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
12, each with a sha256
Publisher
ibm-granite
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2026-11-15
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Granite-3.0-2B-Instruct#

Model Summary: Granite-3.0-2B-Instruct is a 2B parameter model finetuned from Granite-3.0-2B-Base using a combination of open source instruction datasets with permissive license and internally collected synthetic datasets. This model is developed using a diverse set of techniques with a structured chat format, including supervised finetuning, model alignment using reinforcement learning, and model merging.

Supported Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and Chinese. Users may finetune Granite 3.0 models for languages beyond these 12 languages.

Intended use: The model is designed to respond to general instructions and can be used to build AI assistants for multiple domains, including business applications.

Capabilities

  • Summarization
  • Text classification
  • Text extraction
  • Question-answering
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Code related tasks
  • Function-calling tasks
  • Multilingual dialog use cases

Generation: This is a simple example of how to use Granite-3.0-2B-Instruct model.

Install the following libraries:

pip install torch torchvision torchaudio
pip install accelerate
pip install transformers

Then, copy the snippet from the section that is relevant for your use case.

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

device = "auto"
model_path = "ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-instruct"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_path)
# drop device_map if running on CPU
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_path, device_map=device)
model.eval()
# change input text as desired
chat = [
    { "role": "user", "content": "Please list one IBM Research laboratory located in the United States. You should only output its name and location." },
]
chat = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(chat, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
# tokenize the text
input_tokens = tokenizer(chat, return_tensors="pt").to(device)
# generate output tokens
output = model.generate(**input_tokens, 
                        max_new_tokens=100)
# decode output tokens into text
output = tokenizer.batch_decode(output)
# print output
print(output)

Model Architecture: Granite-3.0-2B-Instruct is based on a decoder-only dense transformer architecture. Core components of this architecture are: GQA and RoPE, MLP with SwiGLU, RMSNorm, and shared input/output embeddings.

Model2B Dense8B Dense1B MoE3B MoE
Embedding size2048409610241536
Number of layers40402432
Attention head size641286464
Number of attention heads32321624
Number of KV heads8888
MLP hidden size819212800512512
MLP activationSwiGLUSwiGLUSwiGLUSwiGLU
Number of Experts——3240
MoE TopK——88
Initialization std0.10.10.10.1
Sequence Length4096409640964096
Position EmbeddingRoPERoPERoPERoPE
# Parameters2.5B8.1B1.3B3.3B
# Active Parameters2.5B8.1B400M800M
# Training tokens12T12T10T10T

Training Data: Overall, our SFT data is largely comprised of three key sources: (1) publicly available datasets with permissive license, (2) internal synthetic data targeting specific capabilities, and (3) very small amounts of human-curated data. A detailed attribution of datasets can be found in the Granite Technical Report and Accompanying Author List.

Infrastructure: We train Granite 3.0 Language Models using IBM's super computing cluster, Blue Vela, which is outfitted with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. This cluster provides a scalable and efficient infrastructure for training our models over thousands of GPUs while minimizing environmental impact by utilizing 100% renewable energy sources.

Ethical Considerations and Limitations: Granite 3.0 Instruct Models are primarily finetuned using instruction-response pairs mostly in English, but also multilingual data covering eleven languages. Although this model can handle multilingual dialog use cases, its performance might not be similar to English tasks. In such case, introducing a small number of examples (few-shot) can help the model in generating more accurate outputs. While this model has been aligned by keeping safety in consideration, the model may in some cases produce inaccurate, biased, or unsafe responses to user prompts. So we urge the community to use this model with proper safety testing and tuning tailored for their specific tasks.

Resources

Files

12 files · 5.27 GBWeights 5.27 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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added_tokens.json87 B081bdeaf76fc5463cc2e20fbadf17ad9eb569bb5343b120cc64b98840754f96c
config.json785 Bbc4d8a50f915788b43c9340030e6e3e72b70524b810a7c6ccd32dc6c3daa8e68
merges.txt442 KB303127a244b0078878156c17229f36d11b7a3a3f8e47b7cfdbb304ff46be5030
model-00001-of-00002.safetensors5.00 GB75259a41b3f1ebe0f18630bb57e1a1f73befbcefbd7babe187fcb89429ef1fb8
model-00002-of-00002.safetensors268 MB54b1c9031e10dbba8760eca3dae2c4852bc9d5f8361c980cadc39fe42f87e3cc
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special_tokens_map.json701 B596d752bf46f5cace1f6826b52ed7d913347a4eea0ecce8ab2f869471ca40369
tokenizer.json3.48 MBed944c0b3d71e2d651a5ba0f8e7b350faff30031c8e3353de70b12b9c1bf5654
tokenizer_config.json5.64 KB9aab47148a9468bacde5b86b69af3cc2e0d7e1fe55c23c0d07d3179f37e2b69b
vocab.json777 KB80ab859339a2525fdfbda14bc39df02dffb824aefdaf86426217bbb146d17e01
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Use it

$ fw get ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-instruct
# manifest sha256 073470a8970d… · 5.27 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./granite-3.0-2b-instruct ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-instruct
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-instruct.json --dir ./granite-3.0-2b-instruct $ python3 fw.py verify ./granite-3.0-2b-instruct ./ibm-granite__granite-3.0-2b-instruct.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-instruct --revision 5ad66c190631382717bd92d7b052adb1a7b669e7 --local-dir ./granite-3.0-2b-instruct
transformersLoad the weights in Python.
import os os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT"] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com" from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-instruct", revision="5ad66c190631382717bd92d7b052adb1a7b669e7") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-instruct", revision="5ad66c190631382717bd92d7b052adb1a7b669e7", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-3.0-2b-instruct --revision 5ad66c190631382717bd92d7b052adb1a7b669e7

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From: ibm-granite <huggingface.co/ibm-granite>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.graniteSubject: granite-3.0-2b-instructDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 5ad66c1Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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granite-3.0-2b-instruct.json · .minisig
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Parent

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3 models in the catalog name this one as their parent.

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minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. granite-3.0-2b-instruct.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.

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