id: deepseek-ai__DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B__candidate
status: candidate
name: DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
org: deepseek-ai
source:
  kind: huggingface
  url: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
  revision: main
  model_card_url: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
license:
  spdx: MIT
  url: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
  allows_offline_retention: true
  allows_local_ops: true
  allows_fine_tune: true
  notes: "R1 distill series MIT — confirm card at pin time."
size:
  total_bytes: 0
  total_human: "~28 GB fp16 / ~9 GB Q4 (estimate)"
hardware_class:
  min_vram_gb_q4: 10
  min_vram_gb_fp16: 28
  notes: "T2 Q4 preferred; fall back to 8B distill if VRAM tight"
axes: [B, C]
priority: high
collection:
  approved_by: ""
  approved_at: null
  downloaded_at: null
  downloaded_by: ""
  storage_path: ""
  brief_refs:
    - research/2026-07-24-baseline-field-survey.md
reason: "P0 local reasoning without full R1 MoE — agent/tool loops and harder offline tasks."
tags: [reasoning, distill, deepseek]
companions: []
notes: "If disk/VRAM constrained, substitute DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-8B as P0 alternate."
history:
  - at: "2026-07-24"
    event: nominated
    by: baseline-survey
    detail: "P0 recommendation from initial deep research."