Repository: huggingface/transformers
Pull request: Add sequence classification support for small Gemma 3 text models

# What does this PR do?

Add Gemma3TextForSequenceClassification for Gemma3 small text models following generic practice

Testing:
- Tested with single-node option, loss curve and AUC are all expected with no issue.
- All testes passed
- make fixup passed


Fixes #40554 

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## Who can review?
@ArthurZucker

Changed files:
filename: docs/source/en/model_doc/gemma3.md
patch: @@ -273,3 +273,8 @@ visualizer("<img>What is shown in this image?")
 
 [[autodoc]] Gemma3ForSequenceClassification
     - forward
+
+## Gemma3TextForSequenceClassification
+
+[[autodoc]] Gemma3TextForSequenceClassification
+    - forward

filename: src/transformers/models/auto/modeling_auto.py
patch: @@ -1207,6 +1207,7 @@ class _BaseModelWithGenerate(PreTrainedModel, GenerationMixin):
         ("gemma", "GemmaForSequenceClassification"),
         ("gemma2", "Gemma2ForSequenceClassification"),
         ("gemma3", "Gemma3ForSequenceClassification"),
+        ("gemma3_text", "Gemma3TextForSequenceClassification"),
         ("glm", "GlmForSequenceClassification"),
         ("glm4", "Glm4ForSequenceClassification"),
         ("gpt-sw3", "GPT2ForSequenceClassification"),

filename: src/transformers/models/gemma3/modeling_gemma3.py
patch: @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 from ...generation import GenerationMixin
 from ...masking_utils import create_causal_mask, create_masks_for_generate, create_sliding_window_causal_mask
 from ...modeling_flash_attention_utils import FlashAttentionKwargs
-from ...modeling_layers import GradientCheckpointingLayer
+from ...modeling_layers import GenericForSequenceClassification, GradientCheckpointingLayer
 from ...modeling_outputs import BaseModelOutputWithPast, CausalLMOutputWithPast, SequenceClassifierOutputWithPast
 from ...modeling_rope_utils import ROPE_INIT_FUNCTIONS, dynamic_rope_update
 from ...modeling_utils import ALL_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS, PreTrainedModel
@@ -1301,11 +1301,21 @@ def forward(
         )
 
 
+class Gemma3TextForSequenceClassification(GenericForSequenceClassification, Gemma3PreTrainedModel):
+    """
+    Gemma3TextForSequenceClassification is a text-only sequence classification model that works with Gemma3TextConfig.
+    It uses the generic sequence classification implementation for efficiency and consistency.
+    """
+
+    config: Gemma3TextConfig
+
+
 __all__ = [
     "Gemma3PreTrainedModel",
     "Gemma3TextModel",
     "Gemma3ForCausalLM",
     "Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration",
     "Gemma3Model",
     "Gemma3ForSequenceClassification",
+    "Gemma3TextForSequenceClassification",
 ]

filename: src/transformers/models/gemma3/modular_gemma3.py
patch: @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 from ...configuration_utils import PretrainedConfig, layer_type_validation
 from ...masking_utils import create_causal_mask, create_masks_for_generate, create_sliding_window_causal_mask
 from ...modeling_flash_attention_utils import FlashAttentionKwargs
-from ...modeling_layers import GradientCheckpointingLayer
+from ...modeling_layers import GenericForSequenceClassification, GradientCheckpointingLayer
 from ...modeling_outputs import BaseModelOutputWithPast, SequenceClassifierOutputWithPast
 from ...modeling_rope_utils import rope_config_validation
 from ...modeling_utils import ALL_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS, PreTrainedModel
@@ -1170,6 +1170,15 @@ def forward(
         )
 
 
+class Gemma3TextForSequenceClassification(GenericForSequenceClassification, Gemma3PreTrainedModel):
+    """
+    Gemma3TextForSequenceClassification is a text-only sequence classification model that works with Gemma3TextConfig.
+    It uses the generic sequence classification implementation for efficiency and consistency.
+    """
+
+    config: Gemma3TextConfig
+
+
 __all__ = [
     "Gemma3Config",
     "Gemma3TextConfig",
@@ -1179,4 +1188,5 @@ def forward(
     "Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration",
     "Gemma3Model",
     "Gemma3ForSequenceClassification",
+    "Gemma3TextForSequenceClassification",
 ]

filename: tests/models/gemma3/test_modeling_gemma3.py
patch: @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
         Gemma3ForSequenceClassification,
         Gemma3Model,
         Gemma3Processor,
+        Gemma3TextForSequenceClassification,
         Gemma3TextModel,
     )
     from transformers.pytorch_utils import is_torch_greater_or_equal
@@ -70,7 +71,9 @@ class Gemma3ModelTester(GemmaModelTester):
 
 @require_torch
 class Gemma3ModelTest(ModelTesterMixin, GenerationTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
-    all_model_classes = (Gemma3TextModel, Gemma3ForCausalLM) if is_torch_available() else ()
+    all_model_classes = (
+        (Gemma3TextModel, Gemma3ForCausalLM, Gemma3TextForSequenceClassification) if is_torch_available() else ()
+    )
     all_generative_model_classes = (Gemma3ForCausalLM,) if is_torch_available() else ()
     test_headmasking = False
     test_pruning = False
@@ -97,6 +100,12 @@ def test_eager_padding_matches_padding_free_with_position_ids(self):
     def test_sdpa_padding_matches_padding_free_with_position_ids(self):
         pass
 
+    @unittest.skip(
+        "Gemma3 has no base model prefix which causes issues when loading base model from saved task model checkpoint"
+    )
+    def test_load_with_mismatched_shapes(self):
+        pass
+
     def test_generation_beyond_sliding_window_tiny_model(self):
         """Test generation with a tiny randomly initialised model whose input length is larger than the `sliding_window`.
         The model is configured with both `full_attention` and `sliding_attention` layers to make sure the hybrid cache
@@ -143,6 +152,21 @@ def test_generation_beyond_sliding_window_tiny_model(self):
         EXPECTED_OUTPUT = torch.tensor([[90109, 90109, 90109, 83191, 83191], [246901, 69832, 69832, 69832, 62288]])
         torch.testing.assert_close(generated_sequences, EXPECTED_OUTPUT)
 
+    def test_gemma3_text_sequence_classification_model(self):
+        """Test the text-only sequence classification model."""
+        config, input_dict = self.model_tester.prepare_config_and_inputs_for_common()
+        config.num_labels = 3
+        input_ids = input_dict["input_ids"]
+        attention_mask = input_ids.ne(1).to(torch_device)
+        sequence_labels = ids_tensor([self.model_tester.batch_size], self.model_tester.num_labels)
+
+        model = Gemma3TextForSequenceClassification(config)
+        model.to(torch_device)
+        model.eval()
+
+        result = model(input_ids, attention_mask=attention_mask, labels=sequence_labels)
+        self.assertEqual(result.logits.shape, (self.model_tester.batch_size, config.num_labels))
+
 
 class Gemma3Vision2TextModelTester:
     def __init__(