Instructions to use Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only

SGLang

How to use Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only 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 "Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

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 "Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only
```

Gemma 4 8B (text-only)

Language-model-only extraction of google/gemma-4-E4B-it. The vision and audio towers were removed; the language weights are unchanged (bf16).

Usage

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

repo = "Lalaa-a/gemma4-8b-text-only"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(repo, dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto")

License

Use is subject to the original Gemma license and terms of use. See the base model's repository.

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Safetensors

Model size

7B params

Tensor type

BF16