What are the hardware requirements for LFM2 2.6B Exp 8bit?

LFM2 2.6B Exp 8bit requires approximately 2.7 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 2.6B Exp 8bit and how large is it?

LFM2 2.6B Exp 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 2.6b 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 2.6B Exp 8bit?

LFM2 2.6B Exp 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM2 2.6B Exp 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 2.7GB, 125K context

Name: LFM2 2.6B Exp 8bit
Author: mlx-community

LFM2 2.6B Exp 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 2.6b LLM, VRAM: 2.7GB, Context: 125K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2-2.6B-Exp-8bit

LFM2 2.6B Exp 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2 2.6B Exp 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2-2.6B-Exp-8bit
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM2-2.6B-Exp LiquidAI/LFM2-2.6B-Exp
Model Size	2.6b
Required VRAM	2.7 GB
Updated	2026-07-23
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	lfm2
Model Files	2.7 GB
Supported Languages	en ar zh fr de ja ko es
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Lfm2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	4.57.2
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	65536

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Best Alternatives to LFM2 2.6B Exp 8bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
LFM2 2.6B 8bit	125K / 2.7 GB	77	2
LFM2.5 2.6B	128K / 5.4 GB	81522	398
LFM2.5 2.6B Base	125K / 5.4 GB	809	37
LFM2 2.6B Exp	125K / 5.1 GB	3203	339
LFM2 2.6B	125K / 5.1 GB	6778	188
LFM2 2.6B Transcript	125K / 5.1 GB	459	171
LFM2 2.6B Transcript ONNX	125K / GB	71	13
LFM2 2.6B Exp	125K / 5.1 GB	55	3

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/LFM2-2.6B-Exp-8bit.