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LFM2-VL-1.6B-8bit

mlx-community/LFM2-VL-1.6B-8bit
Vision + text · transformers
8-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
1.6B
Weights (est.)
≈ 2.1 GB
Mac memory (est.)
8 GB+

Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.

Run it

With mlx-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/LFM2-VL-1.6B-8bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

Details

Base model
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Vendor
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Task
Vision + text
Quantisation
8-bit
Licence
lfm1.0
Downloads
53 in the last 30 days · 1.4K all time · 10 likes
Published
2025-08-16 · updated 2025-12-20 (10mo ago)
Languages
en
Tags
lfm2_vl, liquid, lfm2, lfm2-vl, edge