Kestrel Collective
Organization@kestrel
A volunteer group training compact instruction models that fit on one consumer GPU.
instruction tuningdistillation
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Models
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Datasets
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Spaces
kestrel/kestrel-7b-instruct
Seven billion parameters, tuned on a mix of written instructions and multi-turn conversations in three languages.
Chat7BUpdated Sep 27, 2026
kestrel/kestrel-1.5b-base
The pretrained base behind the Kestrel instruct line, released for anyone who wants to tune their own.
Text generation1.5BUpdated Sep 20, 2026
kestrel/kestrel-7b-gguf
Quantised builds of kestrel-7b-instruct for local runtimes, from 3-bit to 8-bit.
Chat7BUpdated Sep 6, 2026
kestrel/kestrel-0.5b-draft
A draft model for speculative decoding with the Kestrel 7B line.
Text generation500MUpdated Aug 26, 2026