What are the hardware requirements for LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct Thinking Claude High Reasoning?

LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct Thinking Claude High Reasoning requires approximately 2.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 125K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Where can I download or evaluate LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct Thinking Claude High Reasoning?

LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct Thinking Claude High Reasoning is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct Thinking Claude High Reasoning by DavidAU — VRAM 2.3GB, 125K context

Name: LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct Thinking Claude High Reasoning
Author: DavidAU

LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct Thinking Claude High Reasoning is an open-source language model by DavidAU. Features: 1.2b LLM, VRAM: 2.3GB, Context: 125K, Instruction-Based.

All genres Base model:finetune:liquidai/l... Base model:liquidai/lfm2.5-1.2... Bfloat16 Context 128k Conversational Creative Creative writing Dataset:teichai/claude-4.5-opu... Endpoints compatible Fiction Fiction story Fiction writing Finetuned Horror Instruct Lfm2 Plot generation Reasoning Region:us Roleplaying Romance Safetensors Scene continue Science fiction Story Story generation Storytelling Sub-plot generation Swearing Thinking Unsloth Vivid prose Vivid writing Writing

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-Thinking-Claude-High-Reasoning

LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct Thinking Claude High Reasoning Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct Thinking Claude High Reasoning
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/DavidAU/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-Thinking-Claude-High-Reasoning
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
Model Size	1.2b
Required VRAM	2.3 GB
Updated	2026-10-06
Maintainer	DavidAU
Model Type	lfm2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.3 GB
Model Architecture	Lfm2ForCausalLM
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	5.0.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	65536

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