LFM2.5-230M-Base

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LFM2.5-230M-Base#

LFM2.5 is a new family of hybrid models designed for on-device deployment. It builds on the LFM2 architecture with extended pre-training and reinforcement learning.

Find more information about LFM2.5-230M in our blog post.

🗒️ Model Details#

LFM2.5-230M is a general-purpose text-only model with the following features:

• Number of parameters: 230M
• Number of layers: 14 (8 double-gated LIV convolution blocks + 6 GQA blocks)
• Training budget: 28T tokens
• Context length: 32,768 tokens
• Vocabulary size: 65,536
• Knowledge cutoff: Mid-2024
• Languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

This pre-trained checkpoint is only recommended for tasks that require heavy fine-tuning, like language-specific (e.g., Japanese) or domain-specific (e.g., medical) assistants, training on proprietary data, or experimenting with novel post-training approaches.

🏃 Inference#

LFM2.5 is supported by many inference frameworks. See the Inference documentation for the full list.

Here's a quick start example with Transformers (compatible with transformers>=5.0.0):

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, TextStreamer

model_id = "LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M-Base"
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    device_map="auto",
    dtype="bfloat16",
#   attn_implementation="flash_attention_2" <- uncomment on compatible GPU
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
streamer = TextStreamer(tokenizer, skip_prompt=True, skip_special_tokens=True)

prompt = "What is C. elegans?"

input_ids = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    return_tensors="pt",
    tokenize=True,
)["input_ids"].to(model.device)

output = model.generate(
    input_ids,
    do_sample=True,
    temperature=0.1,
    top_k=50,
    repetition_penalty=1.05,
    max_new_tokens=512,
    streamer=streamer,
)

🔧 Fine-Tuning#

We recommend fine-tuning LFM2.5 for your specific use case to achieve the best results.

📬 Contact#

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• If you are interested in custom solutions with edge deployment, please contact our sales team.

Citation#

@article{liquidAI2026230M,
  author = {Liquid AI},
  title = {LFM2.5-230M},
  journal = {Liquid AI Blog},
  year = {2026},
  note = {www.liquid.ai/blog},
}

@article{liquidai2025lfm2,
  title={LFM2 Technical Report},
  author={Liquid AI},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.23404},
  year={2025}
}