What are the hardware requirements for LFM2.5 230M?

LFM2.5 230M requires approximately 0.5 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.

Who developed LFM2.5 230M and how large is it?

LFM2.5 230M is developed by LiquidAI, a model with 230m 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 LFM2.5 230M?

LFM2.5 230M is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM2.5 230M by LiquidAI — VRAM 0.5GB, 125K context

Name: LFM2.5 230M
Author: LiquidAI

LFM2.5 230M is an open-source language model by LiquidAI. Features: 230m LLM, VRAM: 0.5GB, Context: 125K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.42.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M

LFM2.5 230M Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2.5 230M
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M-Base LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M-Base
Model Size	230m
Required VRAM	0.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	LiquidAI
Model Type	lfm2
Model Files	0.5 GB
Supported Languages	en ar zh fr de ja ko es pt it
Model Architecture	Lfm2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	5.2.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	65536

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Quantized Models of the LFM2.5 230M

Model	Likes	Downloads
LFM2.5 230M MLX 8bit	8	459
LFM2.5 230M MLX 4bit	5	443
LFM2.5 230M MLX 6bit	5	233
LFM2.5 230M MLX 5bit	5	171

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LFM2.5 230M	125K / 0.5 GB	12030	9
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Lfm2.5 230M Code Math Exp	125K / 0.5 GB	78	2
LFM2.5 230M MLX Bf16	125K / 0.5 GB	573	1
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LFM2.5 230M Base	125K / 0.5 GB	11	2