Model comparison
LFM2-VL-450M vs Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic
At Q4_K_M, LFM2-VL-450M is the smaller download — 229,309,856 bytes against 529,297,312.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| LFM2-VL-450M | Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 451M | 853M |
| Architecture | lfm2 | clip |
| Layers | 16 | 24 |
| Native context | 128,000 | 262,144 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 30 | 6 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.13 GiB | 0.26 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 0.21 GiB | 0.49 GiB |
| Licence | other | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | LFM2-VL-450M | Qwen3.5-0.8B-heretic | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.05 GiB | 0.05 GiB | 1.00× |
| 8,192 | 0.09 GiB | 0.09 GiB | 1.00× |
| 16,384 | 0.19 GiB | 0.19 GiB | 1.00× |
| 32,768 | 0.38 GiB | 0.38 GiB | 1.00× |
| 65,536 | 0.75 GiB | 0.75 GiB | 1.00× |
| 131,072 | 1.50 GiB | 1.50 GiB | 1.00× |