Model comparison

LFM2.5-VL-450M vs LFM2-VL-1.6B

At Q4_K_M, LFM2.5-VL-450M is the smaller download — 229,313,568 bytes against 730,894,016.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

LFM2.5-VL-450MLFM2-VL-1.6B
Parameters449M1.6B
Architecturelfm2lfm2
Layers1616
Native context128,000128,000
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published926
Smallest quantization0.20 GiB0.40 GiB
Q4_K_M0.21 GiB0.68 GiB
Licenceotherother

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextLFM2.5-VL-450MLFM2-VL-1.6BRatio
4,0960.05 GiB0.05 GiB1.00×
8,1920.09 GiB0.09 GiB1.00×
16,3840.19 GiB0.19 GiB1.00×
32,7680.38 GiB0.38 GiB1.00×
65,5360.75 GiB0.75 GiB1.00×
131,0721.50 GiB1.50 GiB1.00×