Instructions to use innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- llama.cpp
How to use innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text 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 innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: llama cli -hf innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text:Q4_K_M
Install from WinGet (Windows)
winget install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: llama serve -hf innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: llama cli -hf innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text:Q4_K_M
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 innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: ./llama-cli -hf innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text:Q4_K_M
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 innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: ./build/bin/llama-cli -hf innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text:Q4_K_M
Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text:Q4_K_M
- LM Studio
- Jan
- vLLM
How to use innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text:Q4_K_M
- Ollama
How to use innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text with Ollama:
ollama run hf.co/innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text:Q4_K_M
- Unsloth Desktop
- Docker Model Runner
How to use innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text:Q4_K_M
- Lemonade
How to use innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text with Lemonade:
Pull the model
# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/ lemonade pull innerloop-dev/gemma3-4b-text:Q4_K_M
Run and chat with the model
lemonade run user.gemma3-4b-text-Q4_K_M
List all available models
lemonade list
- Atomic Chat
Upload README.md with huggingface_hub
Browse files
README.md
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---
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license: gemma
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license_name: gemma-terms-of-use
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license_link: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/terms
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base_model: google/gemma-3-4b-it
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pipeline_tag: text-generation
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library_name: gguf
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language:
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- en
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tags:
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- gemma3
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- gguf
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- text-only
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- ollama
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- breadcrumb
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---
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Google's Gemma 3 4B, as Ollama builds it, with the picture-reading part taken out.
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The text weights are the same bytes. It writes text. It cannot look at an image.
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## What it is
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This is Ollama's own `gemma3:4b` — the Q4_K_M build of `google/gemma-3-4b-it` — with the
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vision tower and the multimodal projection removed and nothing else changed.
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- Source file: the model layer of `gemma3:4b`,
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sha256 `aeda25e63ebd698fab8638ffb778e68bed908b960d39d0becc650fa981609d25`,
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3,338,792,448 bytes.
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- What came out: 439 tensors whose names begin `v.` (the SigLIP vision tower) or `mm.`
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(the multimodal input projection), and 9 metadata keys — `gemma3.mm.tokens_per_image`
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and the eight `gemma3.vision.*` keys.
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- What stayed: all 444 text tensors, byte for byte. Same names, same ggml quantization
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types, same shapes, same bytes. Nothing was requantized, converted, retrained or
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fine-tuned. The tokenizer is untouched, all 262,145 entries, so token numbers do not
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move and the model writes the same words.
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- What was added: one metadata key, `general.description`, carrying the notice that this
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file is a modified Gemma file.
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- Result: 2,498,332,864 bytes,
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sha256 `199388f8f8cbec06b80bd63b0b1a774103e00c993c107bf1d480e58047420532`.
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The template and the sampling parameters are the ones Ollama ships with `gemma3:4b`,
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unchanged: stop `<end_of_turn>`, temperature 1, top_k 64, top_p 0.95.
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## Why
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[Breadcrumb](https://innerloop.works), by Innerloop, uses this model to give screens, chapters and meetings short names. It only
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ever sends it text. The vision tower was 840 MB of weights that were read off disk,
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paged in and held in memory for work that never happened.
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Measured on the same machine, one model resident at a time, with `footprint` against the
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running `llama-server`:
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| | on disk | held while answering |
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| `gemma3:4b` | 3.3 GB | 4.28 GB |
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| this model | 2.5 GB | 2.73 GB |
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That is about 1.6 GB less memory while it is working, and 0.8 GB less disk. On an 8 GB
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Mac that is the difference between naming a screen and swapping.
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The names it writes are the same names. On 300 pinned items from a real store — 150
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screen moments, 75 chapters, 75 meetings — this file and `gemma3:4b` wrote 300 identical
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titles out of 300, at the same settings, and both were stable across a second pass.
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## It cannot see
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This is a text-only model. There is no vision tower in the file and no projector layer in
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the manifest. `ollama show` reports one capability, `completion`, where `gemma3:4b`
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reports `completion` and `vision`. If you send it an image it has nothing to look at.
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If you need Gemma 3 to read pictures, use `gemma3:4b` instead.
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## Gemma notice
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Gemma is provided under and subject to the Gemma Terms of Use found at
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ai.google.dev/gemma/terms
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This distribution contains a modified Gemma file. The full Gemma Terms of Use, as last
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modified April 1, 2026, travel with the model: the LICENSE file in this repository is that complete copy, and NOTICE carries the modification notice.
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Use of this model is subject to Google's Gemma Prohibited Use Policy at
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ai.google.dev/gemma/prohibited_use_policy. That policy is part of the Gemma Terms and
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applies to you whether you got this model from us or from anywhere else. If you pass this
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model on, or anything you build from it, you pass these terms on with it and you tell the
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people you pass it to that the Gemma use restrictions apply.
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Google claims no rights in what you generate with it.
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Everything in this distribution that is not Gemma is © Innerloop, [innerloop.works](https://innerloop.works).
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## How to verify it yourself
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You do not have to take our word that only the vision parts came out. The check needs
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nothing but a GGUF reader.
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1. Get Ollama's `gemma3:4b` and find its model layer in your blob store. It should hash
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to `aeda25e63ebd698fab8638ffb778e68bed908b960d39d0becc650fa981609d25`.
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2. Get this model and find its model layer. It should hash to
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`199388f8f8cbec06b80bd63b0b1a774103e00c993c107bf1d480e58047420532` and be
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2,498,332,864 bytes.
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3. Open both with a GGUF reader and list the tensors. The original has 883 tensors and
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this one has 444 tensors. Every one of the 439 missing tensors has a name beginning
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`v.` or `mm.`. Nothing else is missing.
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4. The 444 that remain are `token_embd.weight`, `output_norm.weight`, and thirteen
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tensors for each of the 34 blocks: `attn_q.weight`, `attn_k.weight`, `attn_v.weight`,
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`attn_output.weight`, `attn_q_norm.weight`, `attn_k_norm.weight`, `attn_norm.weight`,
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`post_attention_norm.weight`, `ffn_gate.weight`, `ffn_up.weight`, `ffn_down.weight`,
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`ffn_norm.weight`, `post_ffw_norm.weight`. By quantization: 205 Q4_K, 34 Q6_K,
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205 F32, the same counts as in the original's text half.
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5. For each of those 444, compare the ggml type, the shape, the byte count and the
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sha256 of the tensor's own bytes against the same tensor in the original. All 444
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match. Any single mismatch means the weights were touched, and they were not.
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6. The metadata: 27 keys here against 35 in the original. The 9 that are gone are the
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vision keys listed above. One key is new, `general.description`, which says the file
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was modified. `general.architecture` is still `gemma3`, and the tokenizer keys are
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identical.
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The script that does the surgery lives in a private repository, so the recipe is written
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out above rather than linked. It is short enough to re-implement: copy every tensor whose
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name does not start with `v.` or `mm.`, copy every metadata key that does not start with
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`gemma3.vision.` or `gemma3.mm.`, add `general.description`, write the file. Then hash
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what you wrote. If you get `199388f8…` you have reproduced it exactly.
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## What we did not do
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No fine-tuning. No requantization. No distillation. No change to the tokenizer, the chat
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template or the sampling defaults. No system prompt. This is the same model, minus a part
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it was not being asked to use.
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## Get it
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- Ollama: `ollama run innerloop/gemma3-4b-text` (the same file, published at https://ollama.com/innerloop/gemma3-4b-text)
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- This repository: the GGUF is `gemma-3-4b-it-text-Q4_K_M.gguf`, 2,498,332,864 bytes, sha256 `199388f8f8cbec06b80bd63b0b1a774103e00c993c107bf1d480e58047420532`.
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