*This model was contributed to Hugging Face Transformers on 2026-02-26.*
# OLMo Hybrid
OLMo Hybrid is a hybrid architecture model from Ai2 that combines standard transformer attention layers with linear attention layers using the Gated Deltanet. This hybrid approach aims to improve efficiency while maintaining model quality by interleaving full attention layers with linear attention layers.
> [!TIP]
> For optimal performance, install the [flash-linear-attention](https://github.com/fla-org/flash-linear-attention) library. The model will work without it using a PyTorch fallback, but FLA provides significant speedups for the linear attention layers.
The example below demonstrates how to generate text with [`Pipeline`], [`AutoModel`] and from the command line.
```python
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline(
task="text-generation",
model="allenai/OLMo-Hybrid-7B",
device=0,
)
result = pipe("Plants create energy through a process known as")
print(result)
```
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
"allenai/Olmo-Hybrid-7B"
)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"allenai/Olmo-Hybrid-7B",
device_map="auto",
)
input_ids = tokenizer("Plants create energy through a process known as", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
output = model.generate(**input_ids, max_new_tokens=50)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
```
```bash
echo -e "Plants create energy through a process known as" | transformers-cli run --task text-generation --model allenai/Olmo-Hybrid-7B --device 0
```
## Notes
- For best performance with linear attention layers, install [flash-linear-attention](https://github.com/fla-org/flash-linear-attention):
```bash
pip install flash-linear-attention
```
- The model uses a custom cache (`OlmoHybridDynamicCache`) that handles both KV cache for attention layers and recurrent state for linear attention layers.
## OlmoHybridConfig
[[autodoc]] OlmoHybridConfig
## OlmoHybridModel
[[autodoc]] OlmoHybridModel
- forward
## OlmoHybridForCausalLM
[[autodoc]] OlmoHybridForCausalLM
- forward
