
LFM3-1.7B-Base: Specs, Memory Needs and Fine-Tuning Guide
Liquid AI's LFM3-1.7B-Base is a 1.73B model with 256K context that takes about 1 GB at 4-bit. Specs, inference code, thinking toggle and fine-tuning with TRL.

Liquid AI's LFM3-1.7B-Base is a 1.73B model with 256K context that takes about 1 GB at 4-bit. Specs, inference code, thinking toggle and fine-tuning with TRL.

Run Liquid AI's LFM3-1.7B locally with llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio or MLX. Covers formats, sampling settings, and which tests passed or failed in hands-on use.

Run Liquid AI's LFM3-1.7B on a phone or laptop: GGUF, MLX, ONNX, FP8 and NVFP4 checkpoints, sampling settings, tool calling, and where it falls short.