Model comparison

nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b vs whisper-medium

At Q4_K_M, nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b is the smaller download — 475,436,032 bytes against 504,102,848.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6bwhisper-medium
Parameters618M764M
Architectureparakeetwhisper
Layers24
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published619
Smallest quantization0.44 GiB0.25 GiB
Q4_K_M0.44 GiB0.47 GiB
Licenceotherapache-2.0

KV cache by context

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