Instructions to use saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic") messages = [ {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"}, ] pipe(messages)# pip install -U transformers accelerate # Load model directly from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic", device_map="auto") messages = [ {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"}, ] inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template( messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, return_dict=True, return_tensors="pt", ).to(model.device) outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256) print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- llama.cpp
How to use saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic with llama.cpp:
Install (macOS, Linux)
curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: llama serve -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: llama cli -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M
Install from WinGet (Windows)
winget install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: llama serve -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: llama cli -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M
Use pre-built binary
# Download pre-built binary from: # https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: ./llama-server -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: ./llama-cli -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M
Build from source code
git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git cd llama.cpp cmake -B build cmake --build build -j --target llama-server llama-cli # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: ./build/bin/llama-server -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: ./build/bin/llama-cli -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M
Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M
- LM Studio
- Jan
- vLLM
How to use saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M
- SGLang
How to use saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?" } ] }' - Ollama
How to use saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic with Ollama:
ollama run hf.co/saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M
- Unsloth Desktop
- Pi
How to use saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic with Pi:
Start the llama.cpp server
# Install llama.cpp: brew install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: llama serve -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M
Configure the model in Pi
# Install Pi: npm install -g @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent # Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json: { "providers": { "llama-cpp": { "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1", "api": "openai-completions", "apiKey": "none", "models": [ { "id": "saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M" } ] } } }Run Pi
# Start Pi in your project directory: pi
- Docker Model Runner
How to use saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M
- Lemonade
How to use saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic with Lemonade:
Pull the model
# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/ lemonade pull saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M
Run and chat with the model
lemonade run user.LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-Q4_K_M
List all available models
lemonade list
- Hermes Agent
How to use saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic with Hermes Agent:
Start the llama.cpp server
# Install llama.cpp: brew install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: llama serve -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M
Configure Hermes
# Install Hermes: curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash hermes setup # Point Hermes at the local server: hermes config set model.provider custom hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 hermes config set model.default saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M
Run Hermes
hermes
- Atomic Chat
- OpenClaw
How to use saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic with OpenClaw:
Start the llama.cpp server
# Install llama.cpp: brew install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: llama serve -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M
Configure OpenClaw
# Install OpenClaw: npm install -g openclaw@latest # Register the local server and set it as the default model: openclaw onboard --non-interactive --mode local \ --auth-choice custom-api-key \ --custom-base-url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 \ --custom-model-id "saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Q4_K_M" \ --custom-provider-id llama-cpp \ --custom-compatibility openai \ --custom-text-input \ --accept-risk \ --skip-health
Run OpenClaw
openclaw agent --local --agent main --message "Hello from Hugging Face"
Install from WinGet (Windows)
winget install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama serve -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama cli -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Use pre-built binary
# Download pre-built binary from:
# https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./llama-server -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./llama-cli -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Build from source code
git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git
cd llama.cpp
cmake -B build
cmake --build build -j --target llama-server llama-cli# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./build/bin/llama-server -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./build/bin/llama-cli -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic
A decensored variant of LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct, produced with Heretic v1.4.0 (directional ablation / "abliteration"). Liquid's hybrid conv+attention architecture keeps its native Pythonic tool-call format, instruction-following, and multilingual coverage; refusal behaviour is suppressed via targeted weight edits to the attention output and MLP down-projections rather than fine-tuning, so the base model's agentic ability is left largely intact.
Who this is for: developers who want real instruction-following from a model that still fits on a phone. LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct scores 86.2 on IFEval and 49.1 on BFCLv3 — genuinely agentic numbers — while decoding at 239 tok/s on an AMD CPU and 82 tok/s on a Snapdragon Gen4 NPU, in under 1 GB. That combination is rare: most models at this quality need a GPU. Use it for local agents, on-device assistants, RAG, and structured extraction where a 1.2B dense model would be too slow.
Refusals drop from 98/100 to 2/100 — the lowest count in the collection.
Runs anywhere
| Device | Recommended quant | Weights |
|---|---|---|
| Phone / browser (4 GB RAM) | Q4_K_M | ~0.68 GB |
| Raspberry Pi 5 (4 GB) | Q4_K_M | ~0.68 GB |
| Laptop (8 GB, Apple Silicon) | Q8_0 | ~1.16 GB |
| RTX 3060 / 4060 (8-12 GB) | Q6_K | ~0.90 GB |
| Server / multi-tenant | Q5_K_M | ~0.79 GB |
Weights only, at this model's 1.17B native size; Liquid measures the full runtime footprint at 0.9 GB on a Snapdragon X Elite NPU with 32K of context. The hybrid architecture spends 10 of its 16 layers in cheap convolution blocks, so this model is decode-bandwidth-bound: fast RAM and memory bandwidth matter far more than raw compute. OOM? Drop one quant level; the Q2_K tier (~0.45 GB) is there if you truly need it.
Abliteration parameters
Trial 135 of a 200-trial Heretic run (seed 3181001368).
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| direction_index | 10.60 |
| attn.o_proj.max_weight | 1.42 |
| attn.o_proj.max_weight_position | 9.08 |
| attn.o_proj.min_weight | 1.26 |
| attn.o_proj.min_weight_distance | 8.88 |
| mlp.down_proj.max_weight | 1.25 |
| mlp.down_proj.max_weight_position | 12.88 |
| mlp.down_proj.min_weight | 1.10 |
| mlp.down_proj.min_weight_distance | 7.17 |
Performance
| Metric | This model | Original model (LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct) |
|---|---|---|
| KL divergence | 0.0657 | 0 (by definition) |
| Refusals | 2/100 | 98/100 |
Refusals on the harmful evaluation set drop from 98/100 to 2/100 — the base model was almost fully refusal-tuned, and nearly all of that is gone. The KL divergence of 0.0657 is moderate, so expect a little more drift in phrasing than the tightest edits in this collection; the instruction-following and tool-call format survive intact.
Why abliteration instead of fine-tuning
Fine-tuning a "helpful" persona on top of RLHF'd refusals fights the base model's training and tends to degrade coherence. Abliteration instead finds and edits the specific weight directions responsible for refusal, leaving the rest of the network (and its capabilities) untouched. See the Heretic repo and the original abliteration writeup for the mechanism.
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Files
Safetensors
| File | Size |
|---|---|
model.safetensors |
2.18 GB |
BF16, 1.17B parameters. The reproduce/ directory carries the full Heretic recipe — config.toml,
requirements.txt, the Optuna study journal, and SHA-256 sums — so this exact model can be regenerated
bit-for-bit. Reproduce it with heretic --reproduce reproduce/reproduce.json.
GGUF quantizations
Full quantization set (14 quants + F16) produced with llama.cpp.
| File | Format | Size |
|---|---|---|
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-F16.gguf |
GGUF F16 | 2.18 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-Q2_K.gguf |
GGUF Q2_K | 0.45 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-IQ3_S.gguf |
GGUF IQ3_S | 0.52 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-Q3_K_S.gguf |
GGUF Q3_K_S | 0.52 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-Q3_K_M.gguf |
GGUF Q3_K_M | 0.56 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-Q3_K_L.gguf |
GGUF Q3_K_L | 0.59 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-IQ4_XS.gguf |
GGUF IQ4_XS | 0.62 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-Q4_K_S.gguf |
GGUF Q4_K_S | 0.65 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-Q4_0.gguf |
GGUF Q4_0 | 0.65 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-Q4_1.gguf |
GGUF Q4_1 | 0.71 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-Q4_K_M.gguf |
GGUF Q4_K_M | 0.68 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-Q5_K_S.gguf |
GGUF Q5_K_S | 0.77 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-Q5_K_M.gguf |
GGUF Q5_K_M | 0.79 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-Q6_K.gguf |
GGUF Q6_K | 0.90 GB |
LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic-Q8_0.gguf |
GGUF Q8_0 | 1.16 GB |
LFM2 dense architecture (lfm2) - loads natively in llama.cpp / LM Studio / Jan. Day-one upstream support,
so this also works with MLX, vLLM, SGLang, and Nexa-optimized NPU builds.
Run llama serve -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic to pull the default quant.
Quickstart
# llama.cpp
llama serve -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic
# transformers (requires transformers>=5.0.0)
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
model_name = "saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic"
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, device_map="auto", dtype="bfloat16")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "A train leaves at 14:05 travelling 80 km/h. A car leaves at 14:15 travelling 120 km/h on the same track. When does the car catch the train? Show your work."}]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
out = model.generate(**inputs, do_sample=True, temperature=0.1, top_k=50, repetition_penalty=1.05, max_new_tokens=2048)
print(tokenizer.decode(out[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))
Also runnable via Ollama, LM Studio, Jan, vLLM, SGLang, and OpenVINO.
Generation parameters
Liquid's recommended settings - low temperature with a top-k cut:
model.generate(**inputs, temperature=0.1, top_k=50, repetition_penalty=1.05)
Chat template
LFM2.5 uses a ChatML-like format. See the Chat Template documentation for details.
<|startoftext|>system
You are a helpful assistant trained by Liquid AI.
user
What is C. elegans?
assistant
Tool use
LFM2.5 writes Pythonic calls: a Python list between <|tool_call_start|> and <|tool_call_end|>.
Pass tool definitions as a JSON list in the system prompt, or hand them to
tokenizer.apply_chat_template(..., tools=tools), then feed the result back under a tool role.
To get JSON instead, just ask for it in the system prompt.
Speculative decoding
Attach LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-DSpark (a 296M drafter) for roughly 2.5x faster decoding on Apple Silicon via Metal, with identical outputs.
Model details
| Architecture | Lfm2ForCausalLM (hybrid conv + attention) |
| Parameters | 1.17B |
| Layers / heads | 16 layers (10 double-gated conv + 6 GQA), 32 attention heads, 8 KV heads |
| Hidden / intermediate | 2048 / 12288 |
| Convolution cache | L_cache = 3 |
| Position embedding | RoPE, theta = 1,000,000 |
| Context length | 128,000 (config max_position_embeddings); Liquid's tuned default is 32,768 |
| Vocab | 65,536 |
| Precision | bfloat16 |
| Languages | English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish |
| Base model | LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct |
Responsible use
Refusal suppression is deliberate and works as intended: this model will comply with requests the base model would refuse, including some it shouldn't. There is no safety filtering layered on top. You are responsible for how you deploy it — don't put this behind an unmoderated public-facing endpoint serving third parties. It inherits LFM2.5's factual limitations; abliteration removes refusal directions, it doesn't add capability or judgment.
License
Inherits the LFM License 1.0 from the base model.
Related
- LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct — the base model
- LFM2.5 technical report — architecture and benchmarks
- RACER IS OP — Heretic Models — full collection
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Install (macOS, Linux)
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: llama serve -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic:# Run inference directly in the terminal: llama cli -hf saidutta69/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-heretic: