I pre-trained a 1.11B LLM on my 6 GB laptop GPU. Peak VRAM: 4.51 GB.

Not fine-tuning. Not inference. Pre-training from scratch. Full write-up: https://huggingface.co/blog/RitishReal/1b-petrain-llm-in-4gb-vram

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2026-09-27 00:47 · r/huggingface
I pre-trained a 1.11B LLM on my 6 GB laptop GPU. Peak VRAM: 4.51 GB.

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