FadedRedStar/LFM2.5-8B-A1B-heretic-GGUF

🤖 LFM2.5-8B-A1B-heretic — GGUF

This repository hosts GGUF weights for LFM2.5-8B-A1B-heretic, quantized from the source floating-point tensors provided by coder3101/LFM2.5-8B-A1B-heretic.

🔄 Sister Repository: Check out the Imatrix Sister Repository for enhanced precision at lower bit fractions.

[!NOTE] If you plan on using 4-bit or 5-bit variants, consider the imatrix sister repository instead — importance matrix calibration improves logic retention at those bit depths. This repository is best suited if you want the near-lossless Q8_0 build.

ℹ️ Model Profile & Core Features

LFM2.5-8B-A1B is a text-only model from Liquid AI's Liquid Foundation Model 2.5 series, designed for on-device deployment. It uses a hybrid architecture with 24 layers — 18 double-gated LIV (Liquid, Input-adaptive, Value-selective) convolution layers plus 6 GQA (Grouped Query Attention) layers — activating only approximately 1.5B parameters per forward pass out of 8.3B total. This delivers fastest-in-class throughput at its size on both CPU and GPU, with day-one support for llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, and SGLang. The model is a reasoning model: it produces a chain-of-thought before its final answer, and is tuned for complex instruction following, tool calling, and chained agentic task execution.

The heretic suffix denotes post-processing via the [Heretic v1.2.0 Arbitrary-Rank Ablation (ARA)](https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic) method with row-norm preservation performed by coder3101, which removes refusal conditioning at multiple tensor ranks while maintaining the model's instruction-following and planning capabilities.

📋 Technical Specifications

🛠️ Heretic Overrides (ARA)

📊 Refusal Bypass Metrics

[!NOTE] The metrics below are self-reported by the original model author (coder3101) and have not been independently reproduced.

🧮 Numerical & Tensor Formats

📦 Available Model Files

Main model weights | Filename | Quantization | llama.cpp Build | Size | Download | |---|---|---|---|---| | LFM2.5-8B-A1B-heretic-Q4_K_M.gguf | Q4_K_M | b9803 | 4.80 GB | 📥 Download | | LFM2.5-8B-A1B-heretic-Q5_K_M.gguf | Q5_K_M | b9870 | 5.62 GB | 📥 Download | | LFM2.5-8B-A1B-heretic-Q8_0.gguf | Q8_0 | b9870 | 8.39 GB | 📥 Download |

🎛️ Component Pairing Guide

Download exactly one main weights file:

• —`Q4_K_M`: Balanced 4-bit format suitable for most everyday use.
• —`Q5_K_M`: Higher-fidelity mid-range format recommended as a general default.
• —`Q8_0`: Near-lossless 8-bit format for when memory is not a constraint.

⚡ Deployment & Execution Commands

[!NOTE] Liquid AI recommends the following generation parameters for best results: temperature: 0.2, top_k: 80, repetition_penalty: 1.05.

[!NOTE] This model emits reasoning content before its final answer. If you require a clean final answer only, parse the output accordingly rather than expecting a single direct response.

[!TIP] Swap the -m filename below for either quantized file depending on your size/quality trade-off preference.

llama.cpp CLI

./llama-cli \
  -m LFM2.5-8B-A1B-heretic-Q4_K_M.gguf \
  -c 8192 \
  -ngl 99 \
  --temp 0.2 \
  --top-k 80 \
  --repeat-penalty 1.05 \
  -p "<|im_start|>system\nYou are a helpful and precise assistant capable of using tools and following complex instructions.<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\nBreak down the following task and execute it step by step: summarise this document and list action items.<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\n"

OpenAI-Compatible API Server

./llama-server \
  --host 0.0.0.0 \
  --port 8080 \
  -m LFM2.5-8B-A1B-heretic-Q4_K_M.gguf \
  -c 16384 \
  -ngl 99 \
  --flash-attn

💬 Chat Templates & Prompt Design (ChatML)

<|im_start|>system
You are a capable assistant. Follow instructions precisely.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Your task or query here.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant

⚠️ Safety & Operational Notes

• —This model is abliterated and will generate content that standard aligned models refuse. Use responsibly and in compliance with applicable laws.
• —This is a text-only model — it has no vision encoder and cannot process images.
• —The LIV architecture activates only ~1.5B parameters per token, making it significantly faster to run than the total parameter count implies.
• —For long-context workloads, set -c up to 131072 as needed.
• —Liquid AI shipped a tokenizer fix for tool-calling after this model's initial release; if you encounter malformed tool-call output, verify your llama.cpp build includes this fix.
• —For better output quality at this quantization level, consider the imatrix variant in the companion repository.