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  "order": 116,
  "name": "LFM3 (1.7B)",
  "baseTitle": "LFM3 1.7B",
  "company": "Liquid AI",
  "country": "United States",
  "flag": "🇺🇸",
  "date": "2026-10-27",
  "decoderType": "Dense hybrid",
  "attention": "ShortConv plus gated GQA with QK-Norm and sliding-window/global attention",
  "layerMix": "13 ShortConv + 5 sliding-window + 6 global GQA",
  "scale": "1.73B parameters",
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  "license": "LFM Open License v1.0",
  "kvCacheText": "22 KiB",
  "kvCacheKiB": 22,
  "kvCacheLevel": "Very low",
  "summary": "Liquid AI's 1.73B dense hybrid combines short convolutions with sliding-window and global GQA in a 24-layer stack.",
  "keyDetail": "Uses kernel-7 ShortConv, a 256-token attention window, per-head sigmoid gates, and sandwich RMSNorm. Global attention uses 50% partial RoPE.",
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    "alt": "Figure 1: LFM3 1.7B",
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    "height": 960
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      "title": "LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B"
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    {
      "label": "License",
      "href": "https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B/blob/main/LICENSE",
      "title": null
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    {
      "label": "Tech report",
      "href": "https://huggingface.co/blog/LiquidAI/lfm3",
      "title": null
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      "slug": "shortconv",
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      "url": "https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/concepts/qk-norm/"
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