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apar-7b

apar · Version apar-7b

AvailableChecked Oct 23, 2026
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What to know about apar-7b

AI-compiled from linked model documentation. This is a catalog reference, not an independent performance review. Catalog checked October 23, 2026.

Which apar-7b does this page describe?

apar-7b is a model record from Z.ai in the apar family. Source

The recorded model identifier or checkpoint is apar-7b. Use that exact identifier when checking documentation or a provider listing. Source

How can you access apar-7b?

The catalog documents Open weights access for apar-7b. Source

As of the catalog check, this version was listed as available. Source

Open weights means the model weights are distributed for use under their stated terms. It does not establish a hosted API, an open-source license, or a hardware requirement.

What can apar-7b receive and generate?

Documented inputs: text. Source

Documented outputs: text. Source

Input support and output generation are separate capabilities. Reading an image does not establish image generation; a text output listing does not establish speech output. File sizes, formats and media limits depend on the documented implementation.

What distinguishes apar-7b?

These details come from the linked publisher material for this model. Reported capabilities and training descriptions are publisher statements, not independent test results.

Generation method
Auto-parallel autoregressive generation plans independent generation branches. Source
Training method
Instruction tuning on general-domain data containing hierarchical structures. Source

What is documented about the apar-7b checkpoint?

This evidence refers to zai-org/apar-7b at recorded revision 0ff9e00ad4fde41d07dbc847e8a48eb078eee9c0, checked October 23, 2026. Repository metadata

Recorded architecture class: LlamaForCausalLM. Repository metadata

Repository task tag: text-generation. A task tag identifies a distribution category; it does not measure performance on that task. Repository metadata

Listed library: transformers. Check that library's version and model support before loading the weights. Repository metadata

Repository access gate: false. This records the repository's gate setting when checked; licensing and use terms still apply. Repository metadata

What the configuration file says

The pinned config.json contains these values. Pinned configuration

max_position_embeddings
2,048
torch_dtype
float32
num_attention_heads
32
num_key_value_heads
32
num_hidden_layers
32
hidden_size
4,096

Configuration values describe the checkpoint and its implementation. In particular, max_position_embeddings, sliding_window and rope_scaling do not independently establish an API context limit, tested usable length or hardware requirement. Runtime, quantization, cache, batch size and input length affect deployment behavior.

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Publisher
Z.aiSource ↗
Family
aparSource ↗
Version
apar-7bSource ↗
Availability
AvailableSource ↗
Access
Open weightsSource ↗
Inputs
TextSource ↗
Outputs
TextSource ↗
Context window
Not documented
Maximum input
Not documented
Maximum output
Not documented
Knowledge cutoff
Not documented
Training-data cutoff
Not documented
Training completed
Not documented
Release date
Not documented
License
Not documented
Input price / 1M tokens
Not documented
Output price / 1M tokens
Not documented

Read this with the numbers.

Official publisher weight listing; availability refers to this distribution, not a guaranteed hosted API. Base, SFT and research variants are identified by their exact published names. Publisher repository evidence (2026-10-23): Publisher task label: text-generation. Published architecture metadata: LlamaForCausalLM. Repository library label: transformers. Published configuration: max_position_embeddings=2048; dtype=float32; 32 hidden layers. Checkpoint configuration is not a verified hosted serving limit; context and output limits remain separate documented fields.

Model identifiers and aliases 1
  • zai-org/apar-7b

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  1. apar-7b official model card ↗huggingface.co
  2. apar-7b: official publisher repository metadata ↗huggingface.co
  3. apar-7b — official model card ↗huggingface.co
  4. apar-7b: published checkpoint configuration at revision 0ff9e00ad4fd ↗huggingface.co

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Context window
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