Model comparison

parakeet-ctc-0.6b vs nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b

At Q4_K_M, parakeet-ctc-0.6b is the smaller download — 469,302,464 bytes against 495,831,520.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

parakeet-ctc-0.6bnemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b
Parameters609M638M
Architectureparakeetparakeet
Layers
Native context
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published118
Smallest quantization0.44 GiB0.38 GiB
Q4_K_M0.44 GiB0.46 GiB
Licencecc-by-4.0other

KV cache by context

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