Instructions to use LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base

SGLang

How to use LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-Base
```
Browse Quantizations to use this model in llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio, or any compatible app.

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LFM2.5-2.6B

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 in our blog post.

🗒️ Model Details

Model	Parameters	Description
LFM2.5-2.6B-Base	2.6B	Pre-trained base model for fine-tuning
LFM2.5-2.6B	2.6B	Post-trained for agentic workloads

LFM2.5-2.6B-Base is the pre-trained text-only checkpoint, used to create all the LFM2.5-2.6B variants. It has the following features:

Total parameters: 2.69B
Number of layers: 30 (22 double-gated short convolution blocks + 8 GQA)
Training budget: 34 trillion tokens
Vocabulary size: 128,000
Context length: 131,072 tokens
Languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Hindi, Russian, Polish

Model	Description
LFM2.5-2.6B	Original model checkpoint in native format. Best for fine-tuning or inference with Transformers, vLLM, and SGLang.
LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF	Quantized format for llama.cpp and compatible tools. Optimized for CPU inference and local deployment with reduced memory usage.
LFM2.5-2.6B-ONNX	ONNX Runtime format for cross-platform deployment. Enables hardware-accelerated inference across diverse environments (cloud, edge, mobile).
LFM2.5-2.6B-MLX	MLX format for Apple Silicon. Optimized for fast inference on Mac devices using the MLX framework.

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.

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	—
SGLang	High-throughput production deployments with GPU.	Link	-

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

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, TextStreamer

model_id = "LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-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=0.2,
    top_k=80,
    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.

Name	Description	Docs
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

📬 Contact

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Citation

@article{liquidAI202626B,
  author  = {Liquid AI},
  title   = {LFM2.5-2.6B: Agents Everywhere},
  journal = {Liquid AI Blog},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-2-6b},
}

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