Instructions to use google/gemma-3-4b-it with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use google/gemma-3-4b-it with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="google/gemma-3-4b-it")# Load model directly from transformers import AutoModel model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("google/gemma-3-4b-it", dtype="auto") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps
- vLLM
How to use google/gemma-3-4b-it with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "google/gemma-3-4b-it" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "google/gemma-3-4b-it", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/google/gemma-3-4b-it
- SGLang
How to use google/gemma-3-4b-it with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "google/gemma-3-4b-it" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "google/gemma-3-4b-it", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "google/gemma-3-4b-it" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "google/gemma-3-4b-it", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use google/gemma-3-4b-it with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/google/gemma-3-4b-it
Parameters are contradictory use_cache=False
No matter how you set the use_cache parameter, an error occurs.
(TypeError: Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration.init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'use_cache')use_cache=True is incompatible with gradient checkpointing. Setting use_cache=False.
why?
Hi @lemon0703 ,
Thanks for reaching out to us, the following are the only valid parameters for the from_pretrained method with their default values from Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration class:
def from_pretrained(
cls: type[SpecificPreTrainedModelType],
pretrained_model_name_or_path: Optional[Union[str, os.PathLike]],
*model_args,
config: Optional[Union[PretrainedConfig, str, os.PathLike]] = None,
cache_dir: Optional[Union[str, os.PathLike]] = None,
ignore_mismatched_sizes: bool = False,
force_download: bool = False,
local_files_only: bool = False,
token: Optional[Union[str, bool]] = None,
revision: str = "main",
use_safetensors: Optional[bool] = None,
weights_only: bool = True,
**kwargs,
)
Thanks.