What are the hardware requirements for Catmind 1.2B?

Catmind 1.2B requires approximately 2.3 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 Catmind 1.2B and how large is it?

Catmind 1.2B is developed by marcodsn, a model with 1.2b 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 Catmind 1.2B?

Catmind 1.2B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Catmind 1.2B by marcodsn — VRAM 2.3GB, 125K context

Name: Catmind 1.2B
Author: marcodsn

Catmind 1.2B is an open-source language model by marcodsn. Features: 1.2b LLM, VRAM: 2.3GB, Context: 125K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

Base model:finetune:liquidai/l... Base model:liquidai/lfm2.5-1.2... Cats Conversational En Endpoints compatible Lfm2 Lfm2.5 Liquid Reasoning Region:us Research Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/marcodsn/catmind-1.2b

Catmind 1.2B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Catmind 1.2B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/marcodsn/catmind-1.2b
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking
Model Size	1.2b
Required VRAM	2.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-18
Maintainer	marcodsn
Model Type	lfm2
Model Files	2.3 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Lfm2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	5.5.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	65536

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LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct	125K / 2.3 GB	575331	647
LFM2.5 1.2B JP 202606	125K / 2.3 GB	24006	69
LFM2.5 1.2B Thinking	125K / 2.3 GB	32455	354
LFM2.5 1.2B JP 202606 ONNX	125K / GB	9659	6
LFM2.5 1.2B Base	125K / 2.3 GB	22738	137
LFM2 1.2B	125K / 2.3 GB	147917	357
...fm2.5 1.2B Instruct Manumit V1	125K / 2.3 GB	139	0
...fm2.5 1.2B Thinking Manumit V1	125K / 2.3 GB	138	0
LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct	125K / 2.3 GB	22673	8
...er Gemini Simplified Reasoning	125K / 2.3 GB	116	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than marcodsn/catmind-1.2b.