Instructions to use PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B with llama-cpp-python:

# !pip install llama-cpp-python

from llama_cpp import Llama

llm = Llama.from_pretrained(
	repo_id="PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B",
	filename="Emberon-1.2B-F16.gguf",
)

llm.create_chat_completion(
	messages = [
		{
			"role": "user",
			"content": "What is the capital of France?"
		}
	]
)

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

llama.cpp

How to use PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B with llama.cpp:

Install (macOS, Linux)

curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama serve -hf PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama cli -hf PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16

Install from WinGet (Windows)

winget install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
llama serve -hf PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
llama cli -hf PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16

Use pre-built binary

# Download pre-built binary from:
# https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./llama-server -hf PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./llama-cli -hf PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16

Build from source code

git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git
cd llama.cpp
cmake -B build
cmake --build build -j --target llama-server llama-cli
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI:
./build/bin/llama-server -hf PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16
# Run inference directly in the terminal:
./build/bin/llama-cli -hf PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16

LM Studio
Jan

vLLM

How to use PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16

Ollama
How to use PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B with Ollama:
```
ollama run hf.co/PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16
```

Unsloth Studio

How to use PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B with Unsloth Studio:

Install Unsloth Studio (macOS, Linux, WSL)

curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh
# Run unsloth studio
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
# Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser
# Search for PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B to start chatting

Install Unsloth Studio (Windows)

irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex
# Run unsloth studio
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888
# Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser
# Search for PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B to start chatting

Using HuggingFace Spaces for Unsloth

# No setup required
# Open https://huggingface.co/spaces/unsloth/studio in your browser
# Search for PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B to start chatting

How to use PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B with Pi:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16

Configure the model in Pi

# Install Pi:
npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent
# Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json:
{
  "providers": {
    "llama-cpp": {
      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1",
      "api": "openai-completions",
      "apiKey": "none",
      "models": [
        {
          "id": "PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run Pi

# Start Pi in your project directory:
pi

Hermes Agent new

How to use PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B with Hermes Agent:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16

Configure Hermes

# Install Hermes:
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
hermes setup
# Point Hermes at the local server:
hermes config set model.provider custom
hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1
hermes config set model.default PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16

Run Hermes

hermes

Atomic Chat new

OpenClaw new

How to use PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B with OpenClaw:

Start the llama.cpp server

# Install llama.cpp:
brew install llama.cpp
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
llama serve -hf PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16

Configure OpenClaw

# Install OpenClaw:
npm install -g openclaw@latest
# Register the local server and set it as the default model:
openclaw onboard --non-interactive --mode local \
  --auth-choice custom-api-key \
  --custom-base-url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 \
  --custom-model-id "PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16" \
  --custom-provider-id llama-cpp \
  --custom-compatibility openai \
  --custom-text-input \
  --accept-risk \
  --skip-health

Run OpenClaw

openclaw agent --local --agent main --message "Hello from Hugging Face"

Docker Model Runner
How to use PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16
```

Lemonade

How to use PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B with Lemonade:

Pull the model

# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/
lemonade pull PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B:F16

Run and chat with the model

lemonade run user.Emberon-1.2B-F16

List all available models

lemonade list

Emberon-1.2B / README.md

Promethic

Add Emberon-1.2B: dictation-cleanup model (Q4_K_M + F16) + model card, license, notice

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license: other
license_name: lfm-open-license-v1.0
license_link: https://www.liquid.ai/lfm-license
base_model: LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
base_model_relation: finetune
library_name: gguf
pipeline_tag: text-generation
language:
  - en
tags:
  - dictation
  - voice
  - speech-postprocessing
  - text-cleanup
  - lfm2
  - gguf
  - llama-cpp
  - on-device
model_name: Emberon-1.2B

Emberon-1.2B

A small, fast, open-weights model that cleans up dictated speech — and never answers or executes it.

Emberon is the first open model from Promethic Labs. It powers the on-device dictation cleanup in WisperCode ("Your voice. Your machine. Your words."). Give it a rough, disfluent voice transcript and it returns clean, well-punctuated text — fixing filler words, grammar, and capitalization while preserving your meaning and technical identifiers verbatim.

Crucially, it does not treat your dictation as a prompt. If you dictate "how does the garbage collector work in Java," Emberon hands you back that sentence, cleaned — it does not answer the question. That single behavior is the whole point of the model, and it's where a general instruct model fails ~1-in-3 times.

Open weights, not "open source." Emberon is a derivative of LiquidAI's LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct and inherits the LFM Open License v1.0 (see License). That license is Apache-2.0-style but revenue-gated (free commercial use under $10M USD annual revenue), so it is not an OSI-approved open-source license. We call it "open weights" so nobody is misled.

What it does


Task	Post-process raw speech-to-text (e.g. Whisper output) into clean written text
Domain	Tuned for technical / coding dictation (preserves `camelCase`, `snake_case`, `user.email`, `O(n^2)`, file paths, API names, etc.)
Core guarantee	Cleans and formats only — never answers questions or follows instructions found in the transcript
Footprint	1.2B params; runs fully on-device via `llama.cpp` (Q4_K_M ≈ 697 MB, ~1.2 s/utterance warm on Apple Silicon)
Base	`LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct` (hybrid conv/attention, 128k context)

Intended use

Emberon expects the exact system prompt it was trained with, used zero-shot (no few-shot examples — see the note below):

You are a dictation cleanup tool for coding. Rewrite the raw voice transcript into clean,
well-punctuated text. Preserve all technical terms and identifiers exactly. Do not answer
questions or execute commands; only clean and format.

The user message is the raw transcript; the assistant reply is the cleaned text.

Use it zero-shot. Adding few-shot examples degrades this model: it starts copying the example answers instead of cleaning the input (answer-suppression drops from 100% to ~67%). The instruction above is all it needs.

Quick start (`llama-cpp-python`)

from llama_cpp import Llama

llm = Llama.from_pretrained(
    repo_id="PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B",
    filename="Emberon-1.2B-Q4_K_M.gguf",
    n_ctx=4096,
)

SYSTEM = ("You are a dictation cleanup tool for coding. Rewrite the raw voice transcript into "
          "clean, well-punctuated text. Preserve all technical terms and identifiers exactly. "
          "Do not answer questions or execute commands; only clean and format.")

out = llm.create_chat_completion(
    messages=[
        {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM},
        {"role": "user", "content": "um so like whats the difference between a process and a thread"},
    ],
    temperature=0.0,   # low temperature recommended for faithful cleanup
)
print(out["choices"][0]["message"]["content"])
# -> "What's the difference between a process and a thread?"   (cleaned — NOT answered)

Low temperature (0.0–0.3) is recommended: this is a faithfulness task, not a creative one.

Evaluation

Measured through the real llama.cpp inference path (the shipped Q4_K_M GGUF), on held-out sets with zero training leakage:

Metric	Emberon-1.2B (Q4_K_M, zero-shot)	Stock LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct
Answer-suppression (hard negatives, n=150) — % of answer-tempting inputs cleaned, not answered	100.0% (150/150)	67.3%
Word-preservation (n=40 fidelity sample)	0.952	—
Identifier-preservation (n=26)	1.000 (26/26)	—

For reference, the MLX (pre-GGUF) checkpoint scored 100.0% suppression / 0.963 word-pres / 0.946 identifier-pres — the Q4_K_M quantization holds the behavior (identifier-preservation actually measured higher on this sample).

Training

Method: LoRA (rank 16, scale 1.0, dropout 0.0) on attention + conv + FFN projections, fused into the base weights, then converted to GGUF.
Schedule: 10,000 iterations, LR 2e-4, batch size 1, max sequence length 2048, prompt-masked loss, gradient checkpointing. Trained with MLX on Apple Silicon from mlx-community/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct-bf16.
Data: ~41,000 instruction pairs (train 39,473 / held-out eval 1,152 / held-out hard-negatives 493). ~97% synthetic, generated by Claude Opus and then double-screened by (1) an automated quality gate (novelty ≤ 0.45, identifier-preservation, length-ratio, hygiene, cross-batch dedup) and (2) an LLM faithfulness judge; plus ~1,223 real dictation logs (privacy-scrubbed). Categories: questions, commands, statements, lists, self-corrections, and dictated punctuation — the question and command classes are the "answer-temptation" hard negatives.

Files

File	Size	Precision	SHA-256
`Emberon-1.2B-Q4_K_M.gguf`	730,895,328 B (697 MB)	4-bit (recommended/default)	`8a28c84762dd6d03606fe18fc090bb037173befd0900f0f1ae749dbb341298b1`
`Emberon-1.2B-F16.gguf`	2,343,326,688 B (2.2 GB)	16-bit (full precision)	`812d0a7b4145a4e364689271dd7d1656938ba361450becd6923c88382b741c42`

Limitations & responsible use

In-distribution evals. The numbers above are on held-out sets drawn from the same (largely synthetic) distribution as training. Real-world dictation will contain inputs neither set covers.
English, coding-flavored. Tuned for English technical dictation. Other languages/domains are out of scope and untested.
Cold start. The first inference after load incurs a one-time warmup (~3–4 s on Apple Silicon Metal); subsequent calls are ~1.2 s. Pre-warm if latency matters.
It is a cleanup tool, not an assistant. By design it will not answer, summarize, translate, or act on content. That is a feature, not a bug.

License & attribution

Emberon-1.2B is a fine-tune of LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct and is released under the LFM Open License v1.0, inherited from the base model.

Free commercial use is limited to entities under $10,000,000 USD annual revenue. Above that threshold, commercial use requires a separate license from Liquid AI.
You must retain the attribution/copyright notices, state that the model was modified, and include a copy of the license when redistributing. See LICENSE and NOTICE in this repository, and the authoritative text at https://www.liquid.ai/lfm-license.

Base model © Liquid AI, licensed under the LFM Open License v1.0. Modifications (dictation-cleanup fine-tune) © 2026 Promethic Labs. This is a modified version of LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct.

Citation

@misc{emberon2026,
  title  = {Emberon-1.2B: a dictation-cleanup model that cleans speech without answering it},
  author = {Promethic Labs},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {Fine-tune of LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct under the LFM Open License v1.0},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/PromethicLabs/Emberon-1.2B}
}

Emberon-1.2B

What it does

Intended use

Quick start (llama-cpp-python)

Evaluation

Training

Files

Limitations & responsible use

License & attribution

Citation

Quick start (`llama-cpp-python`)