What are the hardware requirements for LFM3 1.7B DERISKED?

LFM3 1.7B DERISKED requires approximately 3.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LFM3 1.7B DERISKED and how large is it?

LFM3 1.7B DERISKED is developed by Blackfrost-AI, a model with 1.7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate LFM3 1.7B DERISKED?

LFM3 1.7B DERISKED is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM3 1.7B DERISKED by Blackfrost-AI — VRAM 3.5GB, 256K context

Name: LFM3 1.7B DERISKED
Author: Blackfrost-AI

LFM3 1.7B DERISKED is an open-source language model by Blackfrost-AI. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 3.5GB, Context: 256K, License: other.

Baked-weights Base model:finetune:liquidai/l... Base model:liquidai/lfm3-1.7b Bf16 Blackfrost Conversational Custom code Derisked Dwm Endpoints compatible Lfm3 Liquid-ai Open-weights Region:us Research Safetensors Ungated

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Blackfrost-AI/LFM3-1.7B-DERISKED

LFM3 1.7B DERISKED Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM3 1.7B DERISKED
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Blackfrost-AI/LFM3-1.7B-DERISKED
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B
Model Size	1.7b
Required VRAM	3.5 GB
Updated	2026-11-06
Maintainer	Blackfrost-AI
Model Type	lfm3
Model Files	3.5 GB
Model Architecture	Lfm3ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	128000

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