What are the hardware requirements for LFM2 VL 1.6B 8bit?

LFM2 VL 1.6B 8bit requires approximately 2.1 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LFM2 VL 1.6B 8bit and how large is it?

LFM2 VL 1.6B 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 1.6b 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 VL 1.6B 8bit?

LFM2 VL 1.6B 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM2 VL 1.6B 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 2.1GB

Name: LFM2 VL 1.6B 8bit
Author: mlx-community

LFM2 VL 1.6B 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 1.6b LLM, VRAM: 2.1GB, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

8-bit 8bit Conversational Edge En Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Lfm2 Lfm2-vl Lfm2 vl Liquid Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2-VL-1.6B-8bit

LFM2 VL 1.6B 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2 VL 1.6B 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2-VL-1.6B-8bit
Model Size	1.6b
Required VRAM	2.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	lfm2_vl
Model Files	2.1 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Lfm2VlForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>

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