LFM2-24B-A2B-MNN
MNN HQQ 4-bit inference package converted from LiquidAI/LFM2-24B-A2B.
Original model
LFM2-24B-A2B scales Liquid AI's hybrid MoE architecture to 24B total parameters while activating a small subset for each token. It is a general-purpose instruction model without reasoning traces. The original model card focuses on efficient deployment on consumer laptops and desktops, instruction following and tool use.
Summary adapted from the upstream model card. Original model capabilities and benchmark claims are separate from the MNN smoke checks below.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Original checkpoint | LiquidAI/LFM2-24B-A2B |
| Inputs / outputs in this package | Text → text |
| Layers | 40 |
| Routed experts | 64 |
| Experts selected per token | 4 |
| Text linear quantization | HQQ, 4-bit, group size 64, FP16 scales |
| Token embedding storage | 4-bit, shared with lm_head |
This checkpoint ties the token embedding to lm_head; llm_config.json records the shared weight offsets and tie_embeddings.quant_bit. The recorded --embed_bit 16 argument only controls a separately exported embedding and does not create BF16 token embedding weights here.
Download
python -m pip install -U huggingface_hub
python -c "from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download; snapshot_download('taobao-mnn/LFM2-24B-A2B-MNN', local_dir='./LFM2-24B-A2B-MNN')"
export MODEL_DIR="$(pwd)/LFM2-24B-A2B-MNN"
MNN version and build
MNN: 7337404b2815b5fb9ddac13f4ac6a1fb37fcbbb4
This revision includes the MoE export fixes used for this release. Linux CPU build:
git clone https://github.com/alibaba/MNN.git
git -C MNN checkout 7337404b2815b5fb9ddac13f4ac6a1fb37fcbbb4
(cd MNN && ./schema/generate.sh)
cmake -S MNN -B MNN/build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DMNN_BUILD_LLM=ON -DMNN_LOW_MEMORY=ON -DMNN_BUILD_CONVERTER=ON \
-DMNN_SUPPORT_TRANSFORMER_FUSE=ON
cmake --build MNN/build --parallel 4
Conversion
The quantization arguments match export_args.json. Download the original checkpoint and export it with the revision above:
python -m pip install -r MNN/transformers/llm/export/requirements.txt
python -c "from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download; snapshot_download('LiquidAI/LFM2-24B-A2B', local_dir='./original/LFM2-24B-A2B', allow_patterns=['*.json', '*.safetensors', '*.model', '*.tiktoken', '*.jinja', '*.txt', '*.py'], ignore_patterns=['original/*', '*.gguf', '*.pt', '*.pth'])"
python MNN/transformers/llm/export/llmexport.py \
--path ./original/LFM2-24B-A2B --export mnn --hqq \
--quant_bit 4 --quant_block 64 --scale_bit 16 --embed_bit 16 \
--lm_quant_bit 4 --lm_quant_block 64 \
--mnnconvert ./MNN/build/MNNConvert --dst_path ./reexported/LFM2-24B-A2B-MNN
After re-export, reuse this package's verified tokenizer and template. Preserve the newly generated weight offsets and other model configuration:
python - <<'PY'
import json, os, shutil
from pathlib import Path
published = Path(os.environ["MODEL_DIR"])
converted = Path("./reexported/LFM2-24B-A2B-MNN")
for filename in ("llm_config.json", "config.json"):
path = converted / filename
config = json.loads(path.read_text())
reference = json.loads((published / filename).read_text())
for key in ("jinja", "use_template"):
config.pop(key, None)
if key in reference:
config[key] = reference[key]
if filename == "config.json":
config["tokenizer_file"] = "tokenizer.mtok"
path.write_text(json.dumps(config, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2))
shutil.copyfile(published / "tokenizer.mtok", converted / "tokenizer.mtok")
PY
Run and test
printf 'What is 2 + 3? Reply with only the number.\n' > prompt.txt
./MNN/build/llm_demo "$MODEL_DIR/config.json" prompt.txt
./MNN/build/llm_bench -m "$MODEL_DIR/config.json"
The original migration passed 6 CPU High/Low smoke cases for this model. These are functional checks, not a broad quality or GPU benchmark.
License and attribution
Weights retain the upstream license and attribution. See the original model card, the license files in this repository and the MNN LLM documentation.