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LFM3-1.7B On-Device: The 256K KV Cache Math, Which GGUF to Ship, and the Safety Test to Run First

TL;DR Liquid AI released the LFM3 family on October 27, 2026. The text model, LFM3-1.7B , is a 1.73B-parameter "tri-hybrid" with a 256K-token context window and a roughly 1 GB 4-bit footprint. We did not run it on a phone. What we did is read the public config.json , the model card and the GGUF rep…

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  1. 2026-10-31 14:46 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    LFM3-1.7B On-Device: The 256K KV Cache Math, Which GGUF to Ship, and the Safety Test to Run First

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