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

LFM2.5 230M Base 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 Base and how large is it?

LFM2.5 230M Base 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 Base?

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

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

Name: LFM2.5 230M Base
Author: LiquidAI

LFM2.5 230M Base is an open-source language model by LiquidAI. Features: 230m LLM, VRAM: 0.5GB, Context: 125K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

Arxiv:2511.23404 Ar Conversational De Edge En Endpoints compatible Es Fr Ja Ko Lfm2 Lfm2.5 Liquid Pt Region:us Safetensors Zh

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

LFM2.5 230M Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2.5 230M Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M-Base
Model Size	230m
Required VRAM	0.5 GB
Updated	2026-06-26
Maintainer	LiquidAI
Model Type	lfm2
Model Files	0.5 GB
Supported Languages	en ar zh fr de ja ko es pt
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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