What are the hardware requirements for LFM2.5 VL 3B Heretic?

LFM2.5 VL 3B Heretic requires approximately 6.2 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LFM2.5 VL 3B Heretic and how large is it?

LFM2.5 VL 3B Heretic is developed by heretic-org, a model with 3b 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 VL 3B Heretic?

LFM2.5 VL 3B Heretic is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM2.5 VL 3B Heretic by heretic-org — VRAM 6.2GB

Name: LFM2.5 VL 3B Heretic
Author: heretic-org

LFM2.5 VL 3B Heretic is an open-source language model by heretic-org. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.2GB, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

Arxiv:2305.03393 Abliterated Ar Base model:finetune:liquidai/l... Base model:liquidai/lfm2.5-vl-... Conversational Custom code De Decensored Edge En Endpoints compatible Es Fr Heretic Hi Id Image-text-to-text It Ja Ko Lfm2.5 Lfm2 vl Liquid Pl Pt Region:us Reproducible Ru Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Th Uncensored Vi Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/heretic-org/LFM2.5-VL-3B-heretic

LFM2.5 VL 3B Heretic Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2.5 VL 3B Heretic
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/heretic-org/LFM2.5-VL-3B-heretic
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM2.5-VL-3B LiquidAI/LFM2.5-VL-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-13
Maintainer	heretic-org
Model Type	lfm2_vl
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.2 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	ar zh en fr de hi id it ja ko pl pt ru es th vi
Model Architecture	Lfm2VlForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Transformers Version	5.15.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>

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