What are the hardware requirements for LFM3 VL 2B MLX 5bit?

LFM3 VL 2B MLX 5bit requires approximately 1.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LFM3 VL 2B MLX 5bit and how large is it?

LFM3 VL 2B MLX 5bit is developed by LiquidAI, a model with 2b 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 VL 2B MLX 5bit?

LFM3 VL 2B MLX 5bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM3 VL 2B MLX 5bit by LiquidAI — VRAM 1.6GB

Name: LFM3 VL 2B MLX 5bit
Author: LiquidAI

LFM3 VL 2B MLX 5bit is an open-source language model by LiquidAI. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 1.6GB, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.36.

5-bit 5bit Ar Base model:liquidai/lfm3-vl-2b Base model:quantized:liquidai/... Conversational Custom code De En Es Fr Hi Id Image-text-to-text It Ja Ko Lfm3 Lfm3 vl Liquid Mlx Pl Pt Quantized Region:us Ru Safetensors Th Vi Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B-MLX-5bit

LFM3 VL 2B MLX 5bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM3 VL 2B MLX 5bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B-MLX-5bit
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B LiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B
Model Size	2b
Required VRAM	1.6 GB
Updated	2026-10-30
Maintainer	LiquidAI
Model Type	lfm3_vl
Model Files	1.6 GB
Supported Languages	en ar zh fr de it ja ko pt es vi th id hi ru pl
Quantization Type	5bit
Model Architecture	Lfm3VlForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Transformers Version	5.19.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>

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Best Alternatives to LFM3 VL 2B MLX 5bit

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LFM3 VL 2B MLX 6bit	0K / 1.8 GB	424	9
Lfm3 Vld 2B	0K / 4.4 GB	75	15
LFM3 VL 2B ONNX	0K / GB	283	11
LFM3 VL 2B MLX Bf16	0K / 3.8 GB	968	9
LFM3 VL 2B FP8	0K / 2.6 GB	360	10
LFM3 VL 2B NVFP4	0K / 2.2 GB	213	12

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than LiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B-MLX-5bit.