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LFM2.5-8B-A1B

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.

• On-device personal assistant: Designed to power real-life applications, chaining tool calls, and following complex instructions on all devices.
• Compressed performance: Competitive with much larger dense and MoE models on instruction following and agentic tasks.
• Unmatched throughput: Fastest in its size class on both CPU and GPU inference, with day-one support for llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, and SGLang.

Find more information about LFM2.5-8B-A1B in our blog post.

*AA-Omniscience Index (higher is better) rewards correct answers and penalizes hallucinations. Scores range from -100 to 100. See more results on Artificial Analysis.

🗒️ Model Details

LFM2.5-8B-A1B is a general-purpose text-only model with the following features:

• Total parameters: 8.3B
• Active parameters: 1.5B
• Number of layers: 24 (18 double-gated LIV conv + 6 GQA)
• Training budget: 38 trillion tokens
• Context length: 131,072
• Vocabulary size: 128,000
• Languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
• Generation parameters: We recommend the following parameters:
  • temperature: 0.2
  • top_p: 80
  • repetition_penalty: 1.05

We recommend using LFM2.5-8B-A1B for agentic workflows, tool use, structured outputs, multilingual assistants, and on-device personal-assistant applications. It is not the best fit for heavy programming or knowledge-intensive question answering without retrieval.

Chat Template

LFM2.5 uses a ChatML-like format. See the Chat Template documentation for details. Example:

<|startoftext|><|im_start|>system
You are a helpful assistant trained by Liquid AI.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
What is C. elegans?<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant

Ollama Template for LFM2.5 is:

FROM ./lfm2.5-Q4_K_M.gguf
TEMPLATE {{ .Prompt }}
RENDERER lfm2
PARSER lfm2
PARAMETER temperature 0.2
PARAMETER top_p 80
PARAMETER repeat_penalty 1.05

Because LFM2.5-8B-A1B is a reasoning model, assistant turns contain an explicit chain of thought before the final answer. You can use tokenizer.apply_chat_template() to format your messages automatically.

Tool Use

LFM2.5 supports function calling in four steps:

1. Function definition: Provide the list of tools as a JSON object in the system prompt, or use tokenizer.apply_chat_template() with tools=....
2. Function call: By default, LFM2.5 writes Pythonic function calls (a Python list between <|tool_call_start|> and <|tool_call_end|> special tokens), as the assistant answer. You can override this behavior by asking the model to output JSON function calls in the system prompt.
3. Function execution: Execute the call and return the result with the tool role.
4. Final answer: LFM2.5 interprets the tool output and returns a plain-text answer addressing the original prompt.

See the Tool Use documentation for the full guide. Example:

<|startoftext|><|im_start|>system
List of tools: [{"name": "get_candidate_status", "description": "Retrieves the current status of a candidate in the recruitment process", "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"candidate_id": {"type": "string", "description": "Unique identifier for the candidate"}}, "required": ["candidate_id"]}}]<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
What is the current status of candidate ID 12345?<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
<|tool_call_start|>[get_candidate_status(candidate_id="12345")]<|tool_call_end|>Checking the current status of candidate ID 12345.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>tool
[{"candidate_id": "12345", "status": "Interview Scheduled", "position": "Clinical Research Associate", "date": "2023-11-20"}]<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
The candidate with ID 12345 is currently in the "Interview Scheduled" stage for the position of Clinical Research Associate, with an interview date set for 2023-11-20.<|im_end|>

🏃 Inference

LFM2.5-8B-A1B is supported by many inference frameworks. See the Inference documentation for the full list.

Name	Description	Docs	Notebook
Transformers	Simple inference with direct access to model internals.	Link
vLLM	High-throughput production deployments with GPU.	Link
llama.cpp	Cross-platform inference with CPU offloading.	Link
MLX	Apple’s machine learning framework optimized for Apple Silicon.	Link	—
LM Studio	Desktop application for running LLMs locally.	Link	—

Quick start with Transformers (compatible with transformers>=5.0.0):

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, TextStreamer

model_id = "LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B"
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,
).to(model.device)

output = model.generate(
    input_ids,
    do_sample=True,
    temperature=0.2,
    top_k=80,
    repetition_penalty=1.05,
    max_new_tokens=8192,
    streamer=streamer,
)

🔧 Fine-Tuning

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

Name	Description	Docs	Notebook
CPT (Unsloth)	Continued Pre-Training using Unsloth for text completion.	Link
CPT (Unsloth)	Continued Pre-Training using Unsloth for translation.	Link
SFT (Unsloth)	Supervised Fine-Tuning with LoRA using Unsloth.	Link
SFT (TRL)	Supervised Fine-Tuning with LoRA using TRL.	Link
DPO (TRL)	Direct Preference Optimization with LoRA using TRL.	Link
GRPO (Unsloth)	GRPO with LoRA using Unsloth.	Link
GRPO (TRL)	GRPO with LoRA using TRL.	Link

📊 Performance

Improvements over LFM2-8B-A1B

Thanks to reasoning, scaled-up pre-training, and large-scale RL, LFM2.5-8B-A1B improves over its predecessor across the board:

Knowledge and instruction following

Math and agentic workflows

CPU Inference

GPU Inference

LFM2.5-8B-A1B is the fastest model in its size class, reaching 18.5K output tokens per second at high concurrency, over 1.6B tokens per day on a single H100.

📬 Contact

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Citation

@article{liquidAI20268BA1B,
  author  = {Liquid AI},
  title   = {LFM2.5-8B-A1B: Personal Assistant On Your Laptop},
  journal = {Liquid AI Blog},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-8b-a1b},
}

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