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This model was released on 2025-09-01 and added to Hugging Face Transformers on 2025-09-17.

LongCatFlash

Overview

The LongCatFlash model was proposed in LongCat-Flash Technical Report by the Meituan LongCat Team. LongCat-Flash is a 560B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that activates 18.6B-31.3B parameters dynamically (average ~27B). The model features a shortcut-connected architecture enabling high inference speed (>100 tokens/second) and advanced reasoning capabilities.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

We present LongCat-Flash, a 560 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model featuring a dynamic computation mechanism that activates 18.6B-31.3B parameters based on context (average ~27B). The model incorporates a shortcut-connected architecture enabling high inference speed (>100 tokens/second) and demonstrates strong performance across multiple benchmarks including 89.71% accuracy on MMLU and exceptional agentic tool use capabilities.

Tips:

LongCat-Flash uses a unique shortcut-connected MoE architecture that enables faster inference compared to traditional MoE models
The model supports up to 128k context length for long-form tasks
Dynamic parameter activation makes it computationally efficient while maintaining high performance
Best suited for applications requiring strong reasoning, coding, and tool-calling capabilities
The MoE architecture includes zero experts (nn.Identity modules) which act as skip connections, allowing tokens to bypass expert computation when appropriate

This model was contributed by Molbap. The original code can be found here.

Usage examples

The model is large: you will need 2x8 H100 to run inference.

# launch_longcat.py
from transformers import LongcatFlashForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch

model_id = "meituan-longcat/LongCat-Flash-Chat"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)

chat = [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Hello! What is the capital of France? What can you tell me about it?"},
]

model = LongcatFlashForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
      model_id,
      tp_plan="auto",
      dtype=torch.bfloat16,
      )

inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
      chat, tokenize=True, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(inputs, max_new_tokens=30)
print(tokenizer.batch_decode(outputs))

To run with TP, you will need torchrun:

torchrun  --nproc_per_node=8 --nnodes=2 --node_rank=0 | 1  --rdzv-id <an_id> --rdzv-backend c10d --rdzv-endpoint $NODE_ID:$NODE_PORT  --log-dir ./logs_longcat launch_longcat.py

And you’ll get a nice generation:

[Round 0] USER:Hello! What is the capital of France? What can you tell me about it? ASSISTANT:Hello! 😊 The capital of France is Paris, one of the most famous and beloved cities in the world. Here’s a quick overview of what makes Paris special:
1. Iconic Landmarks

    Eiffel Tower – The global symbol of France, built in 1889 for the World's Fair.
    Notre-Dame Cathedral – A masterpiece of Gothic architecture (currently under restoration after the 2019 fire).
    Louvre Museum – The world’s largest art museum, home to the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo.
    Sacré-Cœur Basilica – A stunning white church atop Montmartre with panoramic views.
    Arc de Triomphe – Honors French military victories, with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath it.
    Champs-Élysées – A glamorous avenue leading to the Arc de Triomphe, lined with shops and cafés.

2. Culture & Arts

    Paris is the "City of Light" (La Ville Lumière), a nickname from its early adoption of street lighting and its role as a center of enlightenment.
    It’s a global hub for fashion (haute couture, Paris Fashion Week) and art (Impressionism, Picasso, Dali).
    Famous literary figures like Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Sartre lived and wrote here.

3. Food & Cuisine

    Croissants, baguettes, macarons, and crème brûlée are just a few of its culinary delights.
    Paris has over 100 Michelin-starred restaurants and countless cozy bistros.
    The Marché d’Aligre and Rue Mouffetard are great for fresh produce and local flavors.

4. History & Politics

    Founded in the 3rd century BC by the Parisii tribe, it became a major European city under the Romans.
    The French Revolution (1789–1799) began here, leading to the fall of the monarchy.
    Today, it’s the political and economic heart of France, housing the French President’s residence (Élysée Palace) and the National Assembly.

**

LongcatFlashConfig

class transformers.LongcatFlashConfig

< source >

Parameters

vocab_size (int, optional, defaults to 131072) — Vocabulary size of the model. Defines the number of different tokens that can be represented by the input_ids.
hidden_size (int, optional, defaults to 6144) — Dimension of the hidden representations.
num_hidden_layers (int, optional, defaults to 56) — Number of hidden layers in the Transformer decoder.
num_layers (int, optional, defaults to 28) — Number of hidden layers in the Transformer decoder.
num_attention_heads (int, optional, defaults to 64) — Number of attention heads for each attention layer in the Transformer decoder.
num_key_value_heads (int, optional) — This is the number of key_value heads that should be used to implement Grouped Query Attention. If num_key_value_heads=num_attention_heads, the model will use Multi Head Attention (MHA), if num_key_value_heads=1 the model will use Multi Query Attention (MQA) otherwise GQA is used. When converting a multi-head checkpoint to a GQA checkpoint, each group key and value head should be constructed by meanpooling all the original heads within that group. For more details, check out this paper. If it is not specified, will default to num_attention_heads.
hidden_act (str, optional, defaults to silu) — The non-linear activation function (function or string) in the decoder. For example, "gelu", "relu", "silu", etc.
max_position_embeddings (int, optional, defaults to 131072) — The maximum sequence length that this model might ever be used with.
initializer_range (float, optional, defaults to 0.02) — The standard deviation of the truncated_normal_initializer for initializing all weight matrices.
rms_norm_eps (float, optional, defaults to 1e-05) — The epsilon used by the rms normalization layers.
use_cache (bool, optional, defaults to True) — Whether or not the model should return the last key/values attentions (not used by all models). Only relevant if config.is_decoder=True or when the model is a decoder-only generative model.
pad_token_id (int, optional) — Token id used for padding in the vocabulary.
bos_token_id (int, optional, defaults to 1) — Token id used for beginning-of-stream in the vocabulary.
eos_token_id (int, optional, defaults to 2) — Token id used for end-of-stream in the vocabulary.
tie_word_embeddings (bool, optional, defaults to False) — Whether to tie weight embeddings according to model’s tied_weights_keys mapping.
rope_parameters (Union[~modeling_rope_utils.RopeParameters, dict[str, ~modeling_rope_utils.RopeParameters]], optional) — Dictionary containing the configuration parameters for the RoPE embeddings. The dictionary should contain a value for rope_theta and optionally parameters used for scaling in case you want to use RoPE with longer max_position_embeddings.
attention_bias (bool, optional, defaults to False) — Whether to use a bias in the query, key, value and output projection layers during self-attention.
attention_dropout (float, optional, defaults to 0.0) — The dropout ratio for the attention probabilities.
ffn_hidden_size (int, optional, defaults to 12288) — Dimension of the MLP representations.
q_lora_rank (int, optional, defaults to 1536) — Rank of the LoRA matrices for query projections.
kv_lora_rank (int, optional, defaults to 512) — Rank of the LoRA matrices for key and value projections.
qk_nope_head_dim (int, optional, defaults to 128) — Dimension of the query/key heads that don’t use rotary position embeddings.
qk_rope_head_dim (int, optional, defaults to 64) — Dimension of the query/key heads that use rotary position embeddings.
head_dim (int, optional, defaults to 64) — The attention head dimension. If None, it will default to hidden_size // num_attention_heads
v_head_dim (int, optional, defaults to 128) — Dimension of the value heads.
qk_head_dim (int, optional) — The total dimension of query/key heads. If not specified, set to qk_nope_head_dim + qk_rope_head_dim.
moe_topk (int, optional, defaults to 12) — Number of experts to route to for each token in the MoE layer.
```python —

from transformers import LongcatFlashModel, LongcatFlashConfig

This is the configuration class to store the configuration of a LongcatFlashModel. It is used to instantiate a Longcat Flash model according to the specified arguments, defining the model architecture. Instantiating a configuration with the defaults will yield a similar configuration to that of the meituan-longcat/LongCat-Flash-Chat

Configuration objects inherit from PreTrainedConfig and can be used to control the model outputs. Read the documentation from PreTrainedConfig for more information.

LongcatFlashPreTrainedModel

class transformers.LongcatFlashPreTrainedModel

< source >

( config: PreTrainedConfig *inputs **kwargs )

Parameters

config (PreTrainedConfig) — Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.

This model inherits from PreTrainedModel. Check the superclass documentation for the generic methods the library implements for all its model (such as downloading or saving, resizing the input embeddings, pruning heads etc.)

This model is also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass. Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.

_forward_unimplemented

< source >

( *input: typing.Any )

Define the computation performed at every call.

Should be overridden by all subclasses.

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the registered hooks while the latter silently ignores them.

LongcatFlashModel

class transformers.LongcatFlashModel

< source >

( config )

Parameters

config (LongcatFlashModel) — Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.

The bare Longcat Flash Model outputting raw hidden-states without any specific head on top.

This model is also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass. Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.

forward

< source >

( input_ids: torch.LongTensor | None = None attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None position_ids: torch.LongTensor | None = None past_key_values: transformers.cache_utils.Cache | None = None inputs_embeds: torch.FloatTensor | None = None use_cache: bool | None = None **kwargs: typing_extensions.Unpack[transformers.utils.generic.TransformersKwargs] ) → BaseModelOutputWithPast or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)

Parameters

input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary. Padding will be ignored by default.

Indices can be obtained using AutoTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) — Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
- 1 for tokens that are not masked,
- 0 for tokens that are masked.
What are attention masks?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) — Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.n_positions - 1].

What are position IDs?
past_key_values (~cache_utils.Cache, optional) — Pre-computed hidden-states (key and values in the self-attention blocks and in the cross-attention blocks) that can be used to speed up sequential decoding. This typically consists in the past_key_values returned by the model at a previous stage of decoding, when use_cache=True or config.use_cache=True.

Only Cache instance is allowed as input, see our kv cache guide. If no past_key_values are passed, DynamicCache will be initialized by default.

The model will output the same cache format that is fed as input.

If past_key_values are used, the user is expected to input only unprocessed input_ids (those that don’t have their past key value states given to this model) of shape (batch_size, unprocessed_length) instead of all input_ids of shape (batch_size, sequence_length).
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional) — Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
use_cache (bool, optional) — If set to True, past_key_values key value states are returned and can be used to speed up decoding (see past_key_values).

Returns

BaseModelOutputWithPast or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)

A BaseModelOutputWithPast or a tuple of torch.FloatTensor (if return_dict=False is passed or when config.return_dict=False) comprising various elements depending on the configuration (LongcatFlashConfig) and inputs.

The LongcatFlashModel forward method, overrides the __call__ special method.

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while the latter silently ignores them.

last_hidden_state (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)) — Sequence of hidden-states at the output of the last layer of the model.

If past_key_values is used only the last hidden-state of the sequences of shape (batch_size, 1, hidden_size) is output.
past_key_values (Cache, optional, returned when use_cache=True is passed or when config.use_cache=True) — It is a Cache instance. For more details, see our kv cache guide.

Contains pre-computed hidden-states (key and values in the self-attention blocks and optionally if config.is_encoder_decoder=True in the cross-attention blocks) that can be used (see past_key_values input) to speed up sequential decoding.
hidden_states (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, + one for the output of each layer) of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size).

Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).

Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention heads.

LongcatFlashForCausalLM

class transformers.LongcatFlashForCausalLM

< source >

( config )

Parameters

config (LongcatFlashForCausalLM) — Model configuration class with all the parameters of the model. Initializing with a config file does not load the weights associated with the model, only the configuration. Check out the from_pretrained() method to load the model weights.

The Longcat Flash Model for causal language modeling.

This model is also a PyTorch torch.nn.Module subclass. Use it as a regular PyTorch Module and refer to the PyTorch documentation for all matter related to general usage and behavior.

forward

< source >

( input_ids: torch.LongTensor | None = None attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None position_ids: torch.LongTensor | None = None past_key_values: transformers.cache_utils.Cache | None = None inputs_embeds: torch.FloatTensor | None = None labels: torch.LongTensor | None = None use_cache: bool | None = None logits_to_keep: int | torch.Tensor = 0 **kwargs: typing_extensions.Unpack[transformers.utils.generic.TransformersKwargs] ) → CausalLMOutputWithPast or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)

Parameters

input_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) — Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary. Padding will be ignored by default.

Indices can be obtained using AutoTokenizer. See PreTrainedTokenizer.encode() and PreTrainedTokenizer.call() for details.

What are input IDs?
attention_mask (torch.Tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) — Mask to avoid performing attention on padding token indices. Mask values selected in [0, 1]:
- 1 for tokens that are not masked,
- 0 for tokens that are masked.
What are attention masks?
position_ids (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) — Indices of positions of each input sequence tokens in the position embeddings. Selected in the range [0, config.n_positions - 1].

What are position IDs?
past_key_values (~cache_utils.Cache, optional) — Pre-computed hidden-states (key and values in the self-attention blocks and in the cross-attention blocks) that can be used to speed up sequential decoding. This typically consists in the past_key_values returned by the model at a previous stage of decoding, when use_cache=True or config.use_cache=True.

Only Cache instance is allowed as input, see our kv cache guide. If no past_key_values are passed, DynamicCache will be initialized by default.

The model will output the same cache format that is fed as input.

If past_key_values are used, the user is expected to input only unprocessed input_ids (those that don’t have their past key value states given to this model) of shape (batch_size, unprocessed_length) instead of all input_ids of shape (batch_size, sequence_length).
inputs_embeds (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size), optional) — Optionally, instead of passing input_ids you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convert input_ids indices into associated vectors than the model’s internal embedding lookup matrix.
labels (torch.LongTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), optional) — Labels for computing the masked language modeling loss. Indices should either be in [0, ..., config.vocab_size] or -100 (see input_ids docstring). Tokens with indices set to -100 are ignored (masked), the loss is only computed for the tokens with labels in [0, ..., config.vocab_size].
use_cache (bool, optional) — If set to True, past_key_values key value states are returned and can be used to speed up decoding (see past_key_values).
logits_to_keep (Union[int, torch.Tensor], optional, defaults to 0) — If an int, compute logits for the last logits_to_keep tokens. If 0, calculate logits for all input_ids (special case). Only last token logits are needed for generation, and calculating them only for that token can save memory, which becomes pretty significant for long sequences or large vocabulary size. If a torch.Tensor, must be 1D corresponding to the indices to keep in the sequence length dimension. This is useful when using packed tensor format (single dimension for batch and sequence length).

Returns

CausalLMOutputWithPast or tuple(torch.FloatTensor)

A CausalLMOutputWithPast or a tuple of torch.FloatTensor (if return_dict=False is passed or when config.return_dict=False) comprising various elements depending on the configuration (LongcatFlashConfig) and inputs.

The LongcatFlashForCausalLM forward method, overrides the __call__ special method.

Although the recipe for forward pass needs to be defined within this function, one should call the Module instance afterwards instead of this since the former takes care of running the pre and post processing steps while the latter silently ignores them.

loss (torch.FloatTensor of shape (1,), optional, returned when labels is provided) — Language modeling loss (for next-token prediction).
logits (torch.FloatTensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, config.vocab_size)) — Prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax).
past_key_values (Cache, optional, returned when use_cache=True is passed or when config.use_cache=True) — It is a Cache instance. For more details, see our kv cache guide.

Contains pre-computed hidden-states (key and values in the self-attention blocks) that can be used (see past_key_values input) to speed up sequential decoding.
hidden_states (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_hidden_states=True is passed or when config.output_hidden_states=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for the output of the embeddings, if the model has an embedding layer, + one for the output of each layer) of shape (batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size).

Hidden-states of the model at the output of each layer plus the optional initial embedding outputs.
attentions (tuple(torch.FloatTensor), optional, returned when output_attentions=True is passed or when config.output_attentions=True) — Tuple of torch.FloatTensor (one for each layer) of shape (batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, sequence_length).

Attentions weights after the attention softmax, used to compute the weighted average in the self-attention heads.

Example:

>>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer, LongcatFlashForCausalLM

>>> model = LongcatFlashForCausalLM.from_pretrained("meta-longcat_flash/LongcatFlash-2-7b-hf")
>>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("meta-longcat_flash/LongcatFlash-2-7b-hf")

>>> prompt = "Hey, are you conscious? Can you talk to me?"
>>> inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")

>>> # Generate
>>> generate_ids = model.generate(inputs.input_ids, max_length=30)
>>> tokenizer.batch_decode(generate_ids, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False)[0]
"Hey, are you conscious? Can you talk to me?\nI'm not conscious, but I can talk to you."

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