Model comparison
NEXUS-Legal vs Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
At Q4_K_M, NEXUS-Legal is the smaller download — 986,045,472 bytes against 2,019,377,440. At long context the gap widens: NEXUS-Legal's KV cache at 32K is 4.0× smaller, which usually matters more than the difference in weights.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| NEXUS-Legal | Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 1.5B | 3.2B |
| Architecture | qwen2 | llama |
| Layers | 28 | 28 |
| Native context | 32,768 | 131,072 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 23 | 39 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.37 GiB | 0.85 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 0.92 GiB | 1.88 GiB |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | NEXUS-Legal | Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.11 GiB | 0.44 GiB | 4.00× |
| 8,192 | 0.22 GiB | 0.88 GiB | 4.00× |
| 16,384 | 0.44 GiB | 1.75 GiB | 4.00× |
| 32,768 | 0.88 GiB | 3.50 GiB | 4.00× |
| 65,536 | 1.75 GiB | 7.00 GiB | 4.00× |
| 131,072 | 3.50 GiB | 14.00 GiB | 4.00× |