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LFM3-VL-2B-OptiQ-4bit

LiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B, quantized by OptiQ for Apple Silicon; takes images.

vision
On disk1.7 GB
Memoryabout 3 GB
Capability Score57.67
Imagesyes

Capability Score breakdown

The six metrics behind this model's Capability Score of 57.67, as reported in the model card. Values are compared with uniform 4-bit.

  • This model
  • Uniform 4-bit
Capability Score breakdown: LFM3-VL-2B-OptiQ-4bitMMLU: This model 68.9, Uniform 4-bit 70.6; GSM8K: This model 83.2, Uniform 4-bit 76.4; IFEval: This model 44.4, Uniform 4-bit 35.7; BFCL-V3: This model 91.0, Uniform 4-bit 90.5; HumanEval: This model 55.5, Uniform 4-bit 43.9; HashHop: This model 3.0, Uniform 4-bit 0.0MMLU68.970.6GSM8K83.276.4IFEval44.435.7BFCL-V391.090.5HumanEval55.543.9HashHop3.00.0

Use it

Install

pip install mlx-optiq

Serve it

An OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible server on this Mac. Every app below can use it.

optiq serve --model mlx-community/LFM3-VL-2B-OptiQ-4bit

OptiQ Code

The terminal coding agent uses whatever model optiq serve is running.

optiq serve --model mlx-community/LFM3-VL-2B-OptiQ-4bit
optiq code

OptiQ Lab

optiq lab --model mlx-community/LFM3-VL-2B-OptiQ-4bit

Claude Code

optiq run claude -m mlx-community/LFM3-VL-2B-OptiQ-4bit

Codex

optiq run codex -m mlx-community/LFM3-VL-2B-OptiQ-4bit

OpenCode

optiq run opencode -m mlx-community/LFM3-VL-2B-OptiQ-4bit

Mistral Vibe

optiq run vibe -m mlx-community/LFM3-VL-2B-OptiQ-4bit

Hermes Agent

optiq run hermes -m mlx-community/LFM3-VL-2B-OptiQ-4bit

OpenClaw

optiq run openclaw -m mlx-community/LFM3-VL-2B-OptiQ-4bit

optiq run starts optiq serve if it is not running, sets the agent up for this session only, and stops the server when the agent exits.

mlx-lm, text only

from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/LFM3-VL-2B-OptiQ-4bit")
print(generate(model, tokenizer, prompt="Hello", max_tokens=256))

Details

FamilyLFM · LFM docs
ArchitectureLFM3-VL
Base modelLiquidAI/LFM3-VL-2B
Size on disk1.7 GB
Memory neededabout 3 GB
Imagesyes, through optiq serve and the Lab
Capability Score57.67 (from the model card)
Downloads0 in the last month
Updated2026-10-30
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