alt.freeweights.granite / granite-8b-code-instruct-4k
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granite-8b-code-instruct-4k

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: b996987Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model with 8.1B parameters. Safetensors weights, 16.1 GB in all. Published by ibm-granite under Apache-2.0.

8.1B params16.1GBgranite-8b-code-instruct-4ksafetensorspermissive
FactsParams8.1BSize16.1 GBFormatssafetensorsTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get ibm-granite/granite-8b-code-instruct-4k
# manifest sha256 f1d637c3a2d3… · 16.1 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./granite-8b-code-instruct-4k ibm-granite/granite-8b-code-instruct-4k
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Overview

Size
16.1 GB
Weights
16.1 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
8.1B
Formats
safetensors
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
12, each with a sha256
Publisher
ibm-granite
Added
2026-11-15
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alt.freeweights.granite
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⚠️ DEPRECATION WARNING ⚠️#

New applications/projects should use the latest mainline Granite language model family, whose code capabilities supercede this model. This model is being made available strictly for historical/scientific purposes. Please see our Granite Collections for the latest Granite releases.


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Granite-8B-Code-Instruct-4K#

Model Summary#

Granite-8B-Code-Instruct-4K is a 8B parameter model fine tuned from Granite-8B-Code-Base-4K on a combination of permissively licensed instruction data to enhance instruction following capabilities including logical reasoning and problem-solving skills.

Usage#

Intended use#

The model is designed to respond to coding related instructions and can be used to build coding assistants.

Generation#

This is a simple example of how to use Granite-8B-Code-Instruct-4K model.

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
device = "cuda" # or "cpu"
model_path = "ibm-granite/granite-8b-code-instruct-4k"
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": "Write a code to find the maximum value in a list of numbers." },
]
chat = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(chat, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
# tokenize the text
input_tokens = tokenizer(chat, return_tensors="pt")
# transfer tokenized inputs to the device
for i in input_tokens:
    input_tokens[i] = input_tokens[i].to(device)
# generate output tokens
output = model.generate(**input_tokens, max_new_tokens=100)
# decode output tokens into text
output = tokenizer.batch_decode(output)
# loop over the batch to print, in this example the batch size is 1
for i in output:
    print(i)

Training Data#

Granite Code Instruct models are trained on the following types of data.

  • Code Commits Datasets: we sourced code commits data from the CommitPackFT dataset, a filtered version of the full CommitPack dataset. From CommitPackFT dataset, we only consider data for 92 programming languages. Our inclusion criteria boils down to selecting programming languages common across CommitPackFT and the 116 languages that we considered to pretrain the code-base model (Granite-8B-Code-Base).
  • Math Datasets: We consider two high-quality math datasets, MathInstruct and MetaMathQA. Due to license issues, we filtered out GSM8K-RFT and Camel-Math from MathInstruct dataset.
  • Code Instruction Datasets: We use Glaive-Code-Assistant-v3, Glaive-Function-Calling-v2, NL2SQL11 and a small collection of synthetic API calling datasets.
  • Language Instruction Datasets: We include high-quality datasets such as HelpSteer and an open license-filtered version of Platypus. We also include a collection of hardcoded prompts to ensure our model generates correct outputs given inquiries about its name or developers.

Infrastructure#

We train the Granite Code models using two of IBM's super computing clusters, namely Vela and Blue Vela, both outfitted with NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPUs respectively. These clusters provide a scalable and efficient infrastructure for training our models over thousands of GPUs.

Ethical Considerations and Limitations#

Granite code instruct models are primarily finetuned using instruction-response pairs across a specific set of programming languages. Thus, their performance may be limited with out-of-domain programming languages. In this situation, it is beneficial providing few-shot examples to steer the model's output. Moreover, developers should perform safety testing and target-specific tuning before deploying these models on critical applications. The model also inherits ethical considerations and limitations from its base model. For more information, please refer to Granite-8B-Code-Base-4K model card.

Files

12 files · 16.1 GBWeights 16.1 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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README.md9.72 KBf5dc43de737b27f7591bfd97397b3e23981e4c5d03fe8d2cc89e29e43463e060
config.json679 B9538fa2b8ad9e94331eb60cc860dff483838a2c33ed8fe3029c37d8e42c11b34
generation_config.json137 Be53a4633c99233a65025b869b1e0fc5747a737d39d57f6a40a78a64a570d3628
model-00001-of-00004.safetensors4.97 GB491ae95f59a2b687477fe410634c5d74593ae2570d20f91263869d7af5f1eeca
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model-00004-of-00004.safetensors1.26 GB1e227a2c78d83e76b6539aaafca8bbf69021b5008a2360f651b04c6c50bceb0b
model.safetensors.index.json46.8 KB94ff9338861bb99c97330ea981241c8b9f081d4d9b19d3b1452200ddc92003f4
special_tokens_map.json1.02 KB2f2bba45146f073a7b8a097cb6133a6b4b66d5751e73f2a2aca81083288813e9
tokenizer.json2.06 MBd3b4df07a0ce3940b15c77e2ea17ab5627ca0c4bf982d2eb37966aea0a81c918
tokenizer_config.json4.54 KBf533a8dbb8526be9e8f5b218e6d7be21cb4ce6fd2068286ab7e78d98ecc9a053
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$ fw get ibm-granite/granite-8b-code-instruct-4k
# manifest sha256 f1d637c3a2d3… · 16.1 GB · 12 files
$ fw verify ./granite-8b-code-instruct-4k ibm-granite/granite-8b-code-instruct-4k
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-8b-code-instruct-4k.json --dir ./granite-8b-code-instruct-4k $ python3 fw.py verify ./granite-8b-code-instruct-4k ./ibm-granite__granite-8b-code-instruct-4k.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download ibm-granite/granite-8b-code-instruct-4k --revision b996987fb31d62d4cb4a19adad1f06ee8a3d6109 --local-dir ./granite-8b-code-instruct-4k
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-8b-code-instruct-4k", revision="b996987fb31d62d4cb4a19adad1f06ee8a3d6109") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ibm-granite/granite-8b-code-instruct-4k", revision="b996987fb31d62d4cb4a19adad1f06ee8a3d6109", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-8b-code-instruct-4k --revision b996987fb31d62d4cb4a19adad1f06ee8a3d6109

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From: ibm-granite <huggingface.co/ibm-granite>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.graniteSubject: granite-8b-code-instruct-4kDate: 2026-11-15Commit: b996987Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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Created
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