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LiquidAI releases LFM2.5-230M, a 230M parameter language model designed to run on limited hardware, with support for transformers, vLLM, and SGLang.

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LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M · Please release LFM2.5-125M

Source: https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M/discussions/2 LibrariesTransformersHow to use LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M")
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]:]))

NotebooksGoogle ColabKaggleLocal AppsSettingsvLLMHow to use LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M"
# 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/LFM2.5-230M",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'
Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M

SGLangHow to use LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M 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/LFM2.5-230M" \
    --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/LFM2.5-230M",
		"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/LFM2.5-230M" \
        --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/LFM2.5-230M",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model RunnerHow to use LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M with Docker Model Runner:

docker model run hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-230M

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