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LFM 2.5 8B-A1B

8B mixture of experts, 1B active, Q4_K_M, 5.0 GB.

Parameters
8B / 1B active
Quant
Q4_K_M
Size
5.0 GB
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lfm
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lfm2.5-8b-a1b

Measured, not seatedMoEresidentllama.cpp

Model card ↗

Outcome as of 20 September 2026, from the seat registry. The write-up below was made when the model was tested.

Why it was tested

Tested as an extremely sparse small MoE, 1B active, to find the floor of useful.

What came of it

Measured on grounding. Its main contribution was exposing a harness bug: a 16-token gate probe starved it and two other reasoning models, producing false empty-content alarms.

Recorded runs3 scored · 95% intervals
SuiteScore95% interval PassedRuntime · profileRecorded
grounding47.2%38.7–55.9Passed 59/125llama.cppextraction2026-08-31
nullschema27.8%18.8–39.0Passed 20/72llama.cppextraction2026-08-31
screening73.3%61.0–82.9Passed 44/60llama.cppextraction2026-08-31

Runs marked unenforced were measured through mlx_lm on a suite that requires constrained decoding. mlx_lm accepts the schema and ignores it, so those numbers do not measure what the suite is designed to measure. They are kept and labelled rather than deleted.

Every run log entry for this model (3)
FinishedSuiteRuntime · profileScoreCoverageGrader · dataset · config
nullschemanullschema/1llama.cppextraction27.8%Coverage 72/72g d7448e0f5fc3f9afd 3b91280bb40372efc 00612fdd4a39faf4
groundinggrounding/1llama.cppextraction47.2%Coverage 125/125g 30b933dcc6a7e2d4d dcb396faf8b83b0ac 90be8dffe935ab41
screeningscreening/1llama.cppextraction73.3%Coverage 60/60g 0661b49a10be2d2ad 64c97ca2269c29afc 2cbf094131c24516