LIMI: Less is More for Agency

To learn more about LIMI, feel free to explore our documentation and resources. Our release consists of the following sections:

• Model Zoo && Quick Start: Basic usage and demonstrations with Transformers, vLLM, and SGLang for LIMI and LIMI-Air;
• Evaluation: Comprehensive evaluation suite with metrics for agentic capabilities assessment;
• Prompting: Usage of LIMI with frameworks for agentic applications, tool use, and reasoning tasks.

Overview

LIMI is an agentic model fine‑tuned from GLM‑4.5 using compact, high‑quality data to emphasize:

• Targeted capabilities: tool use, multi‑turn correction, spec compliance
• Long‑context trajectory with tokenizer‑filtered samples
• OpenAI‑style messages with optional function/tool calls

Model Details

• Base model: zai-org/GLM-4.5
• Training framework: slime
• Training data: curated conversations from GAIR/LIMI

Performance

SFT with LIMI Dataset on Dense Models

Our LIMI dataset significantly enhances dense models (Qwen3 series) on both in-domain and out-of-domain benchmarks:

The figure above demonstrates the effectiveness of our training approach:

• Left (AgencyBench): Substantial improvements on in-domain agentic tasks, with Qwen3-4B (4.6% → 8.6%), Qwen3-8B (7.3% → 10.6%), and Qwen3-32B (8.4% → 20.5%).
• Right (Out-of-Domain): Strong generalization to unseen benchmarks while maintaining performance, with Qwen3-4B (28.3% → 28.9%), Qwen3-8B (31.2% → 32.0%), and Qwen3-32B (35.2% → 37.1%).

LIMI Models on AgencyBench

Our models achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple agentic evaluation tasks:

For detailed benchmark results, experimental setup, and comprehensive comparisons, please refer to our paper.

Model Zoo

Our LIMO model is available on Hugging Face 🤗:

Datasets

We release our datasets through Hugging Face 🤗:

• Name: GAIR/LIMI
• Summary: curated agentic SFT data (OpenAI messages, optional tools, normalized tool‑call arguments); current release contains ~78 high‑quality samples.
• Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/GAIR/LIMI

Quick Start

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "GAIR/LIMI", torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto", trust_remote_code=True
)
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("GAIR/LIMI", trust_remote_code=True)

messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant tasked with discovering mathematical function structures for scientific systems."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Modify the equation.py function, considering the physical meaning and relationships of the inputs."}
]

text = tok.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
inputs = tok(text, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
out = model.generate(
    **inputs,
    max_new_tokens=4096,
    temperature=0.6,
    top_p=0.95,
    do_sample=True,
)
print(tok.decode(out[0][inputs['input_ids'].shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

llm = LLM(model="GAIR/LIMI", trust_remote_code=True)
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("GAIR/LIMI", trust_remote_code=True)
text = tok.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
out = llm.generate(text, SamplingParams(temperature=0.6, max_tokens=4096, top_p=0.95))
print(out[0].outputs[0].text)

Prompting

• Messages follow OpenAI chat format; include a grounding system message when helpful.
• Example:

[
  {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant tasked with discovering mathematical function structures for scientific systems."},
  {"role": "user", "content": "Modify the equation.py function, considering the physical meaning and relationships of the inputs."}
]

Evaluation

• We report FTFC (First‑Turn Functional Completeness), SR@R (Success Rate at R), and RC@R (Remaining Chances at R) with R=3.
• See the paper for experimental protocol and scores.

Limitations

• May produce incorrect tool arguments or overfit to frequent schemas
• Not safety‑filtered for sensitive domains; use with guardrails and oversight

License

• Inherits base model (GLM‑4.5) terms; verify upstream license before deployment

Citation

@misc{xiao2025limiagency,
      title={LIMI: Less is More for Agency}, 
      author={Yang Xiao and Mohan Jiang and Jie Sun and Keyu Li and Jifan Lin and Yumin Zhuang and Ji Zeng and Shijie Xia and Qishuo Hua and Xuefeng Li and Xiaojie Cai and Tongyu Wang and Yue Zhang and Liming Liu and Xia Wu and Jinlong Hou and Yuan Cheng and Wenjie Li and Xiang Wang and Dequan Wang and Pengfei Liu},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2509.17567},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.AI},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17567}, 
}