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Re:LFM2.5-350M: No Size Left Behind by jbarrow on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @10:31PM (#47596074)
Very cool to see a company pushing what's possible with (relatively) tiny models! A 350M parameter trained on 28T tokens that, from the benchmarks, is competitive with Qwen3.5-0.8B.

Comparing the architecture to Qwen3.5, it seems:

- fewer, wider layers

- mixing full attention and conv's, instead of the full+linear attention of Qwen3.5

- the vocab is about 1/4 the size