What are the hardware requirements for LFM2 1.2B Bf16?

LFM2 1.2B Bf16 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 LFM2 1.2B Bf16 and how large is it?

LFM2 1.2B Bf16 is developed by mlx-community, 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 LFM2 1.2B Bf16?

LFM2 1.2B Bf16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM2 1.2B Bf16 by mlx-community — VRAM 2.3GB, 125K context

Name: LFM2 1.2B Bf16
Author: mlx-community

LFM2 1.2B Bf16 is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 1.2b LLM, VRAM: 2.3GB, Context: 125K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2-1.2B-bf16

LFM2 1.2B Bf16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2 1.2B Bf16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2-1.2B-bf16
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM2-1.2B LiquidAI/LFM2-1.2B
Model Size	1.2b
Required VRAM	2.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-03
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	lfm2
Model Files	2.3 GB
Supported Languages	en ar zh fr de ja ko es
Model Architecture	Lfm2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	4.54.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	65536
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/LFM2-1.2B-bf16.