What are the hardware requirements for LFM2.5 VL 3B OptiQ 4bit?

LFM2.5 VL 3B OptiQ 4bit requires approximately 2 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LFM2.5 VL 3B OptiQ 4bit and how large is it?

LFM2.5 VL 3B OptiQ 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 3b 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 LFM2.5 VL 3B OptiQ 4bit?

LFM2.5 VL 3B OptiQ 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM2.5 VL 3B OptiQ 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 2GB

Name: LFM2.5 VL 3B OptiQ 4bit
Author: mlx-community

LFM2.5 VL 3B OptiQ 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 2GB, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.29.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2.5-VL-3B-OptiQ-4bit

LFM2.5 VL 3B OptiQ 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM2.5 VL 3B OptiQ 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM2.5-VL-3B-OptiQ-4bit
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM2.5-VL-3B-MLX-bf16 LiquidAI/LFM2.5-VL-3B-MLX-bf16
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	2 GB
Updated	2026-08-25
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	lfm2_vl
Model Files	2.0 GB
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Lfm2VlForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Transformers Version	5.8.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>

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