What are the hardware requirements for LFM2 VL 450M Bf16?

LFM2 VL 450M Bf16 requires approximately 0.9 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LFM2 VL 450M Bf16 and how large is it?

LFM2 VL 450M Bf16 is developed by mlx-community, a model with 450m 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 450M Bf16?

LFM2 VL 450M Bf16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM2 VL 450M Bf16 by mlx-community — VRAM 0.9GB

Name: LFM2 VL 450M Bf16
Author: mlx-community

LFM2 VL 450M Bf16 is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 450m LLM, VRAM: 0.9GB, License: other.

Conversational Custom code Edge En Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Lfm2 Lfm2-vl Liquid Mlx Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-bf16

LFM2 VL 450M Bf16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2 VL 450M Bf16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2-VL-450M-bf16
Model Size	450m
Required VRAM	0.9 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	lfm2-vl
Model Files	0.9 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Lfm2VlForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Transformers Version	4.55.0
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>

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LFM2.5 VL 450M ONNX	0K / GB	1174	32
LFM2.5 VL 450M MLX 4bit	0K / 0.4 GB	315	9
LFM2.5 VL 450M MLX 5bit	0K / 0.4 GB	74	7
LFM2 VL 450M 5bit	0K / 0.4 GB	19	1
LFM2 VL 450M 4bit	0K / 0.4 GB	237	1
LFM2 VL 450M 8bit	0K / 0.6 GB	238	11

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