Model comparison

LFM2-700M vs ced-base

These two publish different quantization sets; the table below has the exact sizes.

From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer

Side by side

LFM2-700Mced-base
Parameters742M86M
Architecturelfm2ced
Layers16
Native context128,000
Mixture of expertsnono
Quantizations published193
Smallest quantization0.29 GiB0.12 GiB
Q4_K_M0.44 GiB
Licenceotherapache-2.0

KV cache by context

the term that decides long-context viability
ContextLFM2-700Mced-baseRatio
4,0960.13 GiB
8,1920.25 GiB
16,3840.50 GiB
32,7681.00 GiB
65,5362.00 GiB
131,0724.00 GiB