Liquid AI Pushed a Quantization-Aware-Distilled Q4_0 of LFM2.5-2.6B, Landing a Usable Model Under 2GB
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Liquid AI copied a QAD build into LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF at 13:53 UTC on 2026-08-19, adding LFM2.5-2.6B-QAD-Q4_0.gguf alongside the normal Q4_0 through Q8_0 ladder. The repo has 421,614 downloads and 264 likes. Commenter Chromix_ flagged a real defect in the release: the QAD Q4_0 was built without an imatrix and its token embeddings were quantized at Q6_K rather than Q4_0, which may work against the QAT-style training the file is supposed to embody, and coder543 opened discussion #8 on the repo about it.