Model comparison

canary-1b vs nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b

At Q4_K_M, nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b is the smaller download — 495,831,520 bytes against 729,686,848.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

canary-1bnemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b
Parameters1.0B638M
Architecturecanaryparakeet
Layers
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published68
Smallest quantization0.68 GiB0.38 GiB
Q4_K_M0.68 GiB0.46 GiB
Licencecc-by-nc-4.0other

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextcanary-1bnemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6bRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072