What are the hardware requirements for LFM3 1.7B MLX Bf16?

LFM3 1.7B MLX Bf16 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 MLX Bf16 and how large is it?

LFM3 1.7B MLX Bf16 is developed by LiquidAI, 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 MLX Bf16?

LFM3 1.7B MLX Bf16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM3 1.7B MLX Bf16 by LiquidAI — VRAM 3.5GB, 256K context

Name: LFM3 1.7B MLX Bf16
Author: LiquidAI

LFM3 1.7B MLX Bf16 is an open-source language model by LiquidAI. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 3.5GB, Context: 256K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.39.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B-MLX-bf16

LFM3 1.7B MLX Bf16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM3 1.7B MLX Bf16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B-MLX-bf16
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B
Model Size	1.7b
Required VRAM	3.5 GB
Updated	2026-10-30
Maintainer	LiquidAI
Model Type	lfm3
Model Files	3.5 GB
Supported Languages	en ar zh fr de it ja ko pt es vi th id hi ru pl
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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LFM3 1.7B NVFP4	256K / 1.8 GB	1360	16
LFM3 1.7B ONNX	256K / GB	932	13
LFM3 1.7B FP8	256K / 2.2 GB	893	12
LFM3 1.7B MLX 4bit	256K / 1 GB	4944	16
LFM3 1.7B MLX 8bit	256K / 1.8 GB	2348	11
LFM3 1.7B MLX 6bit	256K / 1.4 GB	407	9
LFM3 1.7B MLX 5bit	256K / 1.2 GB	429	7
LFM3 1.7B Heretic Abliterated	256K / 3.5 GB	297	2
EchoPulse 1.7B	256K / 1.1 GB	75	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B-MLX-bf16.