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bart-large-mnli

by AI at Meta facebook/bart-large-mnli

This is the checkpoint for bart-large after being trained on the MultiNLI (MNLI) dataset. - The bart-large model page - BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension Yin et al.

Parameters407M
Context1,024
Weights6.9 GB
Licensemit
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads3.1M

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What it takes to serve bart-large-mnli (407M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 0.8 GB 1.0 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
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$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.4 GB 0.5 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
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$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.2 GB 0.2 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
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$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

SAVRN's Notes on bart-large-mnli

Zero-shot here means the labels arrive at inference time, not training time. The passage becomes the premise, each candidate label becomes a hypothesis, and the entailment score picks the winner, so a ten-label job is ten passes over the same text and throughput, not memory, is what to plan around. The cheapest listed setup is a single MI300X, 192 GB, at $1.85 per hour on-demand; at 16-bit the 407 million parameters need 1.0 GB of it, so share the card.

The license is MIT: keep the copyright and permission notice and use, modify and redistribute it commercially as you like. Two checks. The context is 1,024 tokens, so long documents get chunked. And the lineage: this is bart-large after training on MultiNLI; arXiv 1910.13461 covers BART and arXiv 1909.00161 the zero-shot method. No host on our Index prices it by the token, so you run it yourself.

Model Card

By AI at Meta, published under mit, revision d7645e127eaf.

This is the checkpoint for bart-large after being trained on the MultiNLI (MNLI) dataset.

Additional information about this model: - The bart-large model page - BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension - BART fairseq implementation

NLI-based Zero Shot Text Classification

Yin et al. proposed a method for using pre-trained NLI models as a ready-made zero-shot sequence classifiers. The method works by posing the sequence to be classified as the NLI premise and to construct a hypothesis from each candidate label. For example, if we want to evaluate whether a sequence belongs to the class "politics", we could construct a hypothesis of This text is about politics.. The probabilities for entailment and contradiction are then converted to label probabilities.

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Configuration

Architecture
BartForSequenceClassification
Context length (tokens)
1,024
Layers
12
Vocabulary size
50,265
Model type
bart

Identity and Version

Repository
facebook/bart-large-mnli
Publisher
AI at Meta
Task
Zero-shot classification
Modality
Text
Library
transformers
Parameters
407M parameters
Languages
jax
Revision
d7645e127eaf1aefc7862fd59a17a5aa8558b8ce
First published
2022-03-02
Last updated
2023-09-05

Files and Weights

11 files, 6.9 GB in total. The weights are 4 files totalling 6.9 GB in bin, msgpack, ot, safetensors.

Weights4 files · 6.9 GB
Configuration1 file · 1.2 KB
Tokenizer4 files · 2.7 MB
Documentation1 file · 3.8 KB
Repository1 file · 445 B
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
flax_model.msgpackWeights1.6 GB 5e07d1ae73ae
model.safetensorsWeights1.6 GB cfbb687dbbd9
pytorch_model.binWeights1.6 GB ce253627f98f
rust_model.otWeights2.0 GB b48c2b60d9a6
config.jsonConfiguration1.2 KB
README.mdDocumentation3.8 KB
.gitattributesRepository445 B
merges.txtTokenizer456.3 KB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer1.4 MB
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer26 B
vocab.jsonTokenizer898.8 KB

License and Download

License
mit
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
6.9 GB
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Released by AI at Meta through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

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Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published6.9 GB
16-bit0.8 GB
8-bit0.4 GB
4-bit0.2 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

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Questions About bart-large-mnli

How much GPU memory does bart-large-mnli need?

About 1 GB at 16-bit and 0.2 GB at 4-bit: the weights (407M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run bart-large-mnli on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use bart-large-mnli commercially?

Yes. bart-large-mnli is released under MIT License. The MIT License is a short permissive license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution, provided the copyright notice and permission notice are included.

What is bart-large-mnli's context length?

1,024 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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