Model comparison

nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b vs whisper-medium

At Q4_K_M, nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b is the smaller download — 495,831,520 bytes against 504,102,848.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6bwhisper-medium
Parameters638M764M
Architectureparakeetwhisper
Layers24
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published819
Smallest quantization0.38 GiB0.25 GiB
Q4_K_M0.46 GiB0.47 GiB
Licenceotherapache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
Contextnemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6bwhisper-mediumRatio
4,096
8,192
16,384
32,768
65,536
131,072