Hugging Face has released LFM2.5-VL-3B, a 3.1-billion-parameter vision-language model designed to run on edge and consumer hardware, offering fast, direct-answer responses for real-time, on-device applications. The model pairs a SigLIP2 vision encoder with an LFM2.5 text backbone, trained on about 34 trillion tokens with quadrupled vision data, expanded multilingual vocabulary, supervised fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and multi-reward reinforcement learning. Benchmarks show strong performance in document reading, screen and UI understanding, grounding, tool use, and multi-image tasks, while inference tests indicate high throughput and low latency on laptops, mobiles, and GPUs, enabling scalable local deployment.
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