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LFM2-24B-A2B-MLX-5bit

A 5-bit MLX quantization of LFM2-24B-A2B, sitting between the 4-bit and 8-bit variants in the accuracy/memory tradeoff space. Useful for Apple Silicon users who want more quality than 4-bit but less memory usage than 8-bit.

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Publisher (HF namespace)
lmstudio-community
Pipeline tag
text-generation
Library
Transformers, MLX
Weight formats
safetensors
License tag
other — read the license file in the repo before relying on it
Lineage
Language tags
English (en), Arabic (ar), Chinese (zh), French (fr), German (de), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Spanish (es), Portuguese (pt)
Downloads (HF counter at last fetch)
317,034
Likes (HF counter at last fetch)
1
Model card
https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/LFM2-24B-A2B-MLX-5bit

Use cases

  • Balanced local inference of LFM2-24B where memory is limited but quality matters
  • Comparing quantization levels for optimal quality-memory tradeoff
  • On-device AI workloads targeting M2 Max or M3 Max class hardware

Pros

  • 5-bit quantization noticeably recovers accuracy over 4-bit on nuanced tasks
  • Lower memory than 8-bit while retaining most quality gains
  • MLX native acceleration on Apple Silicon
  • MoE architecture means active compute remains low per token

Cons

  • 5-bit is a less standard quantization level — fewer community resources
  • ~22 GB unified memory needed — still a high-end Mac requirement
  • MLX-only; no cross-platform use
  • Community conversion with no formal accuracy delta benchmark

Tags

transformerssafetensorslfm2_moetext-generationliquidlfm2edgemlxconversationalenarzhfrdejakoesptbase_model:LiquidAI/LFM2-24B-A2Bbase_model:quantized:LiquidAI/LFM2-24B-A2B