What are the hardware requirements for LFM3 1.7B OptiQ 4bit?

LFM3 1.7B OptiQ 4bit requires approximately 1.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LFM3 1.7B OptiQ 4bit and how large is it?

LFM3 1.7B OptiQ 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 1.7b 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 LFM3 1.7B OptiQ 4bit?

LFM3 1.7B OptiQ 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LFM3 1.7B OptiQ 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 1.3GB, 256K context

Name: LFM3 1.7B OptiQ 4bit
Author: mlx-community

LFM3 1.7B OptiQ 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 1.3GB, Context: 256K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

4-bit 4bit Apple-silicon Base model:liquidai/lfm3-1.7b Base model:quantized:liquidai/... Conversational Custom code Lfm3 Liquid-ai Mixed-precision Mlx On-device Optiq Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM3-1.7B-OptiQ-4bit

LFM3 1.7B OptiQ 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LFM3 1.7B OptiQ 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LFM3-1.7B-OptiQ-4bit
Base Model(s)	LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B
Model Size	1.7b
Required VRAM	1.3 GB
Updated	2026-10-31
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	lfm3
Model Files	1.3 GB
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Lfm3ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	128000

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