// Liquid LFM · Embedding
LFM2-ColBERT-350M: VRAM & local deployment
353M parameters. About 0.7 GB at 4-bit and 1.3 GB at BF16.
released 2025-10-28licence: Custom licence – read itmemory figures are estimates
01Specs
| Publisher | Liquid AI · LiquidAI |
|---|---|
| Family / series | Liquid LFM · LFM2-ColBERT |
| Type | Embedding (sentence-similarity) |
| Parameters | 353M Source: counted from official safetensors weights |
| Released weights | FP32 · 1.4 GBdownload |
| Licence | lfm1.0 · Custom licence – read itThe publisher uses its own licence; we have not classified it. Read the licence text. |
| Released | 2025-10-28 (Hugging Face repo created) |
02How much VRAM it needs (estimate)
Embedding models are small; memory grows with batch size and sequence length.
| Precision | Weights | Weights + overhead | Smallest GPU | Mac |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 / FP16 (original) | 0.7 GB | 1.3 GB | 8GB GPU | Mac 16GB |
| FP8 / INT8 / Q8_0 | 0.4 GB | 0.9 GB | 8GB GPU | Mac 16GB |
| 4-bit (Q4_K_M / AWQ / GPTQ-Int4) | 0.2 GB | 0.7 GB | 8GB GPU | Mac 16GB |
Bits per weight: BF16 16, FP8 8.5, 4-bit 4.85. “Fits” = total ≤ 90% of memory; Mac GPU can use ~2/3 of unified memory (≤36GB) or ~3/4 (larger). For MoE, all experts must be in memory, so size by total parameters. Method →
03How to run it
Only runtimes the publisher or the runtime’s official library names for this model.
- Transformers — mentioned in the official model card
- Sentence Transformers — mentioned in the official model card
- llama.cpp — official GGUF weights
04Official repositories & quantised builds
2 official repo(s) from LiquidAI.
- LFM2-ColBERT-350M main
- LFM2-ColBERT-350M-GGUF GGUF
05Other Liquid LFM models
All 26 →| Model | Params | 4-bit total | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| LFM2.5-24B-A2B | 24B / 2B | 16.7 GB | 2026-10-12 |
| LFM2.5-VL-3B | 3.12B | 2.7 GB | 2026-08-11 |
| LFM2.5-2.6B | 2.7B | 2.4 GB | 2026-07-28 |
| LFM2.5-Encoder-350M-Diffusion | 354M | 0.8 GB | 2026-07-10 |
| LFM2.5-230M | 230M | 0.8 GB | 2026-06-24 |
| LFM2.5-8B-A1B | 8.47B / 1B | 6.2 GB | 2026-05-28 |
| LFM2.5-1.2B-JP-202606 | 1.17B | 1.4 GB | 2026-05-26 |
| LFM2.5-ColBERT-350M | 353M | 0.7 GB | 2026-05-20 |
06Sources
Data checked 2026-08-18. Parameters, context and licence are copied from the official repository; memory figures are our estimates.