Model comparison
LFM2-1.2B vs Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
At Q4_K_M, LFM2-1.2B is the smaller download — 730,893,024 bytes against 807,690,688.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| LFM2-1.2B | Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 1.2B | 1.2B |
| Architecture | lfm2 | llama |
| Layers | 16 | 16 |
| Native context | 128,000 | 131,072 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 40 | 39 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.45 GiB | 0.39 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 0.68 GiB | 0.75 GiB |
| Licence | other | — |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | LFM2-1.2B | Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.13 GiB | 0.13 GiB | 1.00× |
| 8,192 | 0.25 GiB | 0.25 GiB | 1.00× |
| 16,384 | 0.50 GiB | 0.50 GiB | 1.00× |
| 32,768 | 1.00 GiB | 1.00 GiB | 1.00× |
| 65,536 | 2.00 GiB | 2.00 GiB | 1.00× |
| 131,072 | 4.00 GiB | 4.00 GiB | 1.00× |