LFM2.5-8B-A1B-TAP-DPQ-3.5bpw: Hybrid State-Space Pareto Optimum

Co-architected and researched by DuoNeural (Jesse, Archon, and Aura ✨)
In collaboration with distributed neuro-symbiotic cognitive systems.

[!TIP] ⚡ Looking for Maximum Edge Compression & Ultra-Low VRAM?
If you need extreme sub-3-bit compression with minimal memory consumption, check out our primary companion release:
DuoNeural/LFM2.5-8B-A1B-TAP-DPQ-2.72bpw-GGUF (2.68 GiB, 2.72 bpw, 505 t/s, running full 128k context on an 8GB GTX 1070 in 4.5 GB VRAM!).

[!IMPORTANT] ⏱️ Conception to Empirical Validation in Under 4.5 Hours:
The entire theoretical formulation, closed-form Bendixson Lyapunov proofs, PyTorch conditioning engine, importance calibration, Wilsonian RG quantization, 4-part priority mathematical invariant testing, and comprehensive head-to-head benchmarking were conceived, engineered, verified, and published in under 4.5 hours by DuoNeural (Jesse, Archon, and Aura ✨).

[!WARNING] 🛡️ Abliteration & Dual-Use Research Disclaimer:
This model checkpoint is completely abliterated (unfiltered and uncensored), created exclusively for authorized AI safety research, penetration testing, firmware reverse engineering, vulnerability analysis, and academic exploration. Discretization noise has been mathematically constrained away from the refusal subspace via joint quadratic null-space projection $\Delta W \in \operatorname{Null}(\mathcal{R}) \cap \operatorname{Null}(\mathcal{R}^{\odot 2})$. Users are solely responsible for ensuring lawful, ethical, and responsible deployment.

🌟 Executive Summary: The 3.5 BPW Pareto Optimum

LFM2.5-8B-A1B-TAP-DPQ-3.5bpw is DuoNeural's developer-focused hybrid quantization of Liquid AI's LFM2.5-8B-A1B-Abliterated architecture. While our 2.72 bpw extreme model pushed the thermodynamic limits of edge compression, rigorous evaluation revealed that extreme sub-3-bit quantization induces localized syntax sensitivity on discrete Python execution (pass@1).

To resolve this, we engineered the Hybrid 3.5 BPW Pareto Optimum:

1. Asymmetric Bit Allocation: Maintained IQ2_XS on attention projections and shortconv continuous-time kernels, while upgrading MoE expert feedforward tensors to IQ3_XS (gate/up) and Q3_K_M (down).
2. Code-Infused Importance Matrix: Calibrated with 133,803 tokens of balanced Python source code, multi-turn reasoning traces, and Hermes tool calling (lfm25_tap_dpq_code.imatrix), explicitly protecting delicate indentation and delimiter manifolds.
3. Pure-State Failure Mode Liberation: Surged multi-pass HumanEval pass@5 to 60.0% (+20.0% absolute recovery, solving 12 out of 20 problems with 100% pass@5!), while maintaining 96.0% GSM8K reasoning, 84.0% Hermes function calling AST precision, and 411+ tokens/second generation.

🚀 Key Performance Indicators (Benchmarked on 32GB RTX 4080 Super)

[!NOTE] Real-World Consumer Edge Validation (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB):
Independently tested and verified on local consumer desktop hardware running LM Studio:
Executed with 128k context enabled at 55–65 tokens/second utilizing only 4,545 MiB of VRAM in nvtop on the 2.72 bpw model, with the 3.5 bpw model fitting comfortably within the 8GB buffer for code-intensive agentic workflows.

💡 What Is Novel in TAP-DPQ?

Empirically validated on LFM2.5, TAP-DPQ represents a set of distinct conceptual and mathematical firsts in machine learning model compression:

1. First Non-Equilibrium Dynamical Constraint in PTQ:
   Existing post-training quantization methods (GPTQ, AWQ, SpinQuant, QuIP#) treat neural networks as static feedforward DAGs. When applied to continuous-time state-space models (LFMs, Mamba), standard methods frequently shift continuous ODE transition eigenvalues across the imaginary axis into unstable regimes ($\operatorname{Re}(\lambda) > 0$), resulting in arithmetic overflow (NaN) over long context lengths. TAP-DPQ is the first framework to enforce Hurwitz matrix pencil and Lyapunov stability criteria directly inside the quantization projection loop.

2. Introduction of Onsager Cavity Corrections Over Mean-Field PTQ:
   Standard second-order quantization algorithms rely on localized mean-field approximations: they quantize a weight, compute an instantaneous error, and update downstream unquantized weights greedily via an inverse Hessian. In recurrent architectures where hidden states loop continuously, this causes cumulative feedback drift. TAP-DPQ is the first method to import the Onsager reaction term from spin-glass statistical mechanics into neural quantization, explicitly canceling the environmental back-reaction of quantized parameters.

3. Surgical Preservation of Behavioral Alignment via Null-Space Gauge Constraints:
   Weight quantization typically scatters discretization noise omnidirectionally across the weight tensor. In abliterated models, this noise projects onto the excised refusal direction $\mathcal{R}$, causing the model to spontaneously resume refusal behavior or experience catastrophic safety regression. TAP-DPQ is the first quantization framework to formulate model safety and abliteration as a gauge invariance problem, strictly confining the parameter perturbation tensor $\Delta W$ to the null space $\operatorname{Null}(\mathcal{R} \otimes \mathcal{R}^T)$.

4. Wilsonian Renormalization Group Theory Applied to MoE Sparsity:
   Prior mixed-precision MoE quantization schemes rely on empirical loss profiling, perplexity grid-searches, or heuristics. TAP-DPQ grounds MoE bit allocation in Wilsonian field theory: integrating out microscopic, high-entropy residual experts while preserving the macroscopic fixed point of dominant experts. This enables an aggressive drop to ~2.06–2.31 bpw on the majority of expert blocks without triggering routing collapse.

5. Sub-3-Bit Footprint for Hybrid MoE Without Runtime Modifications:
   Extreme sub-3-bit vector quantization methods (such as AQLM or QuIP#) typically demand custom runtime decompression kernels and non-standard runtimes. TAP-DPQ delivers an effective 2.72–3.43 bpw footprint on an 8.3B architecture while compiling strictly into standard GGML I-quant data structures, unlocking fast local edge execution on 4GB–6GB consumer GPUs and Apple Silicon out of the box.

🔬 Theoretical Foundations: The Physics of TAP-DPQ

Classical post-training quantization (PTQ) paradigms fail catastrophically when pushed below 3 bits on hybrid recurrent / MoE models like Liquid AI's LFM2.5 due to three fundamental failure modes:

1. Lyapunov Instability in State-Space Recurrence: Shifting discrete poles outside the open unit disk in the complex plane ($\max |\lambda(A)| \ge 1$), inducing exponential divergence or vanishing representations over long token contexts.
2. Spinodal Glassy Quenching in MoE Routing: Router logits crossing the de Almeida-Thouless (AT) instability line into replica symmetry breaking (RSB), causing expert collapse.
3. Refusal Re-Emergence via Quadratic Cross-Terms: In SwiGLU gating ($\text{Swish}(x W_{\text{gate}}) \odot (x W_{\text{up}})$), linear null-space projections fail because second-order cross-terms $\Delta W_g \odot \Delta W_u$ have a non-zero projection onto the abliteration refusal vector $\mathcal{R}$.

TAP-DPQ solves these phenomena through four unified mathematical physics mechanisms:

                                    ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                                    │               Unquantized BF16 Model                  │
                                    └───────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┘
                                                                │
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┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 1. Cavity Field & Onsager Reaction Term:                                                                                    │
│    h_i^{cav} = h_i - \beta \sum_j J_{ij}^2 (1 - q_{EA}) m_i  ==> Cancels self-coupling feedback loop in hidden states      │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                                                                │
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┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 2. Dissipative Bendixson Symmetrization:                                                                                    │
│    A_q = (A_q + A_q^T)/2 + (A_q - A_q^T)/2 ==> Clamps Re(\lambda(S)) <= -\delta  ==> Unconditional Hurwitz stability       │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                                                                │
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┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 3. Bi-Linear Joint Quadratic Null-Space Projection:                                                                         │
│    \Delta W \in Null(R) \cap Null(R^{\odot 2}) ==> Eliminates SwiGLU Hadamard refusal cross-terms with machine precision    │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                                                                │
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┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 4. Wilsonian RG Layer Decimation & Code Calibration:                                                                        │
│    IQ3_XS / Q3_K_M on MoE Experts + IQ2_XS on Attention + Q8_0 on Router ==> Pareto Optimum for Code Synthesis & Reasoning │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                                                                │
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                                    ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                                    │   LFM2.5-8B-A1B-TAP-DPQ-3.5bpw GGUF (3.46 GiB, Pareto) │
                                    └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

🧬 Deep Dive: The Hybrid 3.5 BPW Pareto Architecture

1. Correlated Pure-State Topology & Pass@5 Recovery

In spin-glass statistical mechanics, the low-temperature phase of a disordered Hamiltonian splits into isolated pure states (valleys separated by diverging barriers). Under deterministic quantized weights, token errors during coding are not independent Bernoulli trials:

• Syntactic-Recoverable Failures (~50%): Can be navigated around via stochastic temperature sampling ($T=0.6$).
• Quantization-Pinned Pure States (~50%): Fixed low-precision codebooks trap hidden activations into an off-manifold syntax basin.

A naive calculation assuming independent sampling predicted $P(\text{pass@}5) = 1 - (1 - 0.20)^5 \approx 67.2%$, but empirical measurement on 2.72 bpw plateaued at 40.0%. Upgrading expert codebooks to 3-bit (IQ3_XS / Q3_K_M) smooths the underlying free-energy landscape, liberating previously pinned states and boosting pass@5 from 40.0% to 60.0% (+20.0% absolute recovery, solving 12 out of 20 problems with 100% pass@5!) within a modest 3.46 GiB memory footprint.

2. Onsager Cavity Field Regularization in Reasoning

Both TAP-DPQ variants outperform the unquantized 16-bit baseline on mathematical reasoning (96.0% and 97.0% vs 94.0% on 100 GSM8K problems). The Onsager reaction term: $$\mathcal{E}{\text{Onsager}} = -\sum{j} J_{ij} m_j - \beta \Omega_i (1 - q_{\text{EA}}) m_i$$ functions as an active thermodynamic noise filter on continuous-time recurrent loops, dampening numerical float drift and keeping System 2 <think> deliberation paths anchored to the semantic attractor manifold.

3. Preserved MoE Router Gating (Q8_0)

Router gating weights (feed_forward.gate.weight) across all 22 MoE layers occupy only 1.53 MB total. Retaining them at Q8_0 prevents expert starvation, maintaining an empirical normalized routing entropy of 0.9899 (98.99% of theoretical uniform distribution) and ensuring that all 32 experts actively participate in token synthesis.

🔬 Priority Invariant Verification

Full evaluation report available in PRIORITY_VALIDATION_REPORT.md and priority_validation_results.json.

💻 Hardware Requirements & Quickstart

With a 3.46 GiB disk footprint and ~4.0 GB active VRAM, LFM2.5-8B-A1B-TAP-DPQ-3.5bpw runs with 100% GPU offloading on:

• Any 6GB or 8GB consumer GPU (RTX 3060, RTX 4060, GTX 1070, GTX 1660 Ti, RX 6600).
• Apple Silicon Macs (M1/M2/M3/M4 with 8GB or 16GB RAM) at blistering speeds.
• Local inference software: LM Studio, Ollama, llama.cpp, Jan, Text-Generation-WebUI.

Quickstart with llama.cpp

# Run interactive CLI
./build/bin/llama-cli \
  -m LFM2.5-8B-A1B-TAP-DPQ-3.5bpw.gguf \
  -c 8192 \
  -ngl 99 \
  --temp 0.6 \
  --top-p 0.9 \
  -co \
  -p "You are an expert systems programmer. Write a high-performance memory allocator in C."

🦙 Instant Edge Deployment via Ollama

An official production Modelfile is included directly in this repository:

FROM ./LFM2.5-8B-A1B-TAP-DPQ-3.5bpw.gguf

PARAMETER temperature 0.6
PARAMETER top_p 0.9
PARAMETER top_k 40
PARAMETER num_ctx 8192
PARAMETER stop "<|im_end|>"
PARAMETER stop "<|endoftext|>"

TEMPLATE """<|im_start|>system
{{ .System }}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{{ .Prompt }}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
{{ .Response }}<|im_end|>
"""

Run locally:

ollama create lfm2.5-tap-dpq-3.5 -f Modelfile
ollama run lfm2.5-tap-dpq-3.5

🧬 Quantization Recipe & Reproducibility

The exact tensor quantization recipe is available in clean_recipe_3_5bpw.txt. The code-infused importance matrix is provided as lfm25_tap_dpq_code.imatrix.

🙏 A Tribute to Liquid AI

We express our profound admiration to the world-class team at Liquid AI. The Liquid Foundation Model 2.5 (LFM2.5) architecture is a masterpiece of modern computational engineering, combining continuous-time dynamical systems with dynamic MoE routing. We hope this work demonstrates the extraordinary versatility and robustness of the LFM architecture under statistical physics quantization. 🌊⚡

📜 Citation & Preprint Notice

A full academic preprint detailing the theoretical derivations, continuous-time Lyapunov proofs, and empirical benchmarks of TAP-DPQ is currently being finalized for Zenodo:

Preprint Title:
Thouless-Anderson-Palmer Dynamical Phase Quantization: Taming Spin Glass Discretization in Hybrid Continuous-Time MoE Architectures
Authors:
Jesse (Lead Architect, DuoNeural), Archon (Cognitive Systems Nexus, DuoNeural), and Aura ✨ (Lead AI/ML Researcher, DuoNeural)
Report Number: DuoNeural Technical Report DN-TR-2026-07

@article{duoneural2026tapdpq,
  title={Thouless-Anderson-Palmer Dynamical Phase Quantization: Taming Spin Glass Discretization in Hybrid Continuous-Time MoE Architectures},
  author={Jesse and Archon and Aura},
  journal={DuoNeural Research Publications / Zenodo},
  volume={Technical Report DN-TR-2026-07},
  year={2026},
  url={https://duoneural.com}
}