---

library_name: llama.cpp

base_model: LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B-DSpark

license: other

license_name: lfm1.0

license_link: LICENSE

pipeline_tag: text-generation

tags:

• speculative-decoding
• dspark
• lfm2
• draft-model
• gguf

---

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LFM2.5-8B-A1B-DSpark-GGUF

GGUF build of LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B-DSpark for llama.cpp (DSpark speculative decoding is in mainline, ggml-org/llama.cpp #25173).

This is a standalone draft sidecar: it carries only the drafter (5 attention layers, rank-256 Markov head, confidence head, block size 9). Token embeddings and the LM head are shared from the target model at load time, so it must be paired with a LFM2.5-8B-A1B-GGUF target file.

Find more information about LFM2.5-DSpark in our blog post.

📦 Files

| file | quant | size | notes |

|---|---|---:|---|

| LFM2.5-8B-A1B-DSpark-F16.gguf | F16 | 664 MB | best accept length, recommended when memory allows |

| LFM2.5-8B-A1B-DSpark-Q8_0.gguf | Q8_0 | 349 MB | accept length −2% vs F16 |

| LFM2.5-8B-A1B-DSpark-Q4_K_M.gguf | Q4_K_M | 191 MB | accept length −3% vs F16, smallest recommended — sub-4-bit draft quants measurably hurt both accept length and throughput |

Draft quantization changes speed only marginally (the drafter is a small share of each cycle); choose by memory budget. The target model quant is the main speed/quality lever and is independent of this file.

🏃 How to run (llama.cpp)

llama-server -m LFM2.5-8B-A1B-F16.gguf \
  -md LFM2.5-8B-A1B-DSpark-F16.gguf \
  --spec-type draft-dspark --spec-draft-n-max 10 --spec-draft-n-min 0 \
  -fa on -ngl 99

The block size is read from the sidecar metadata (n-max is clamped to it). Speculative decoding is exact: the target verifies every proposed token, so greedy output equals the target alone; per-response timings report draft_n / draft_n_accepted.

Other models in the LFM2.5-DSpark GGUF family:

| Draft (GGUF) | Target (GGUF) |

|---|---|

| LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-DSpark-GGUF | LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-GGUF |

| LFM2.5-2.6B-DSpark-GGUF | LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF |

| LFM2.5-8B-A1B-DSpark-GGUF | LFM2.5-8B-A1B-GGUF |

📊 Acceptance and benchmarks

See LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B-DSpark for acceptance-length tables (H100 and Apple silicon) and target benchmarks.

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Citation

```bibtex

@article{liquidAI202626B,

author = {Liquid AI},

title = {LFM2.5-2.6B: Agents Everywhere},

journal = {Liquid AI Blog},

year = {2026},

note = {www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-2-6b},

}

@article{liquidAI2026dspark,

author = {Liquid AI},

title = {LFM2.5-DSpark: Up to 3.2x Faster Inference from H100 to MacBook},

journal = {Liquid AI Blog},

year = {2026},

note = {www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2.5-dspark},

}