Instructions to use littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit with MLX:

# Make sure mlx-vlm is installed
# pip install --upgrade mlx-vlm

from mlx_vlm import load, generate
from mlx_vlm.prompt_utils import apply_chat_template
from mlx_vlm.utils import load_config

# Load the model
model, processor = load("littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit")
config = load_config("littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit")

# Prepare input
image = ["http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"]
prompt = "Describe this image."

# Apply chat template
formatted_prompt = apply_chat_template(
    processor, config, prompt, num_images=1
)

# Generate output
output = generate(model, processor, formatted_prompt, image)
print(output)

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings
LM Studio

How to use littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit with Pi:

Start the MLX server

# Install MLX LM:
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
mlx_lm.server --model "littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit"

Configure the model in Pi

# Install Pi:
npm install -g @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent
# Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json:
{
  "providers": {
    "mlx-lm": {
      "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1",
      "api": "openai-completions",
      "apiKey": "none",
      "models": [
        {
          "id": "littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run Pi

# Start Pi in your project directory:
pi

Hermes Agent

How to use littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit with Hermes Agent:

Start the MLX server

# Install MLX LM:
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
mlx_lm.server --model "littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit"

Configure Hermes

# Install Hermes:
curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash
hermes setup
# Point Hermes at the local server:
hermes config set model.provider custom
hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1
hermes config set model.default littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit

Run Hermes

hermes

Atomic Chat

OpenClaw

How to use littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit with OpenClaw:

Start the MLX server

# Install MLX LM:
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start a local OpenAI-compatible server:
mlx_lm.server --model "littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit"

Configure OpenClaw

# Install OpenClaw:
npm install -g openclaw@latest
# Register the local server and set it as the default model:
openclaw onboard --non-interactive --mode local \
  --auth-choice custom-api-key \
  --custom-base-url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 \
  --custom-model-id "littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit" \
  --custom-provider-id mlx-lm \
  --custom-compatibility openai \
  --custom-text-input \
  --accept-risk \
  --skip-health

Run OpenClaw

openclaw agent --local --agent main --message "Hello from Hugging Face"

littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit

8-bit MLX conversion of google/gemma-4-E4B-it, converted with mlx_vlm (8-bit). No architecture, vocabulary, or training changes. See the base model card for capabilities, training details, and evaluations.

License

Apache-2.0, from the base model (Google's Gemma 4 E4B-it), redistributed unchanged apart from the 8-bit MLX conversion. Community conversion; not endorsed by or affiliated with Google.

Integrity

safetensors shard sha256:

model-00001-of-00002.safetensors b25a7c6c2733bf33e5613aef920086065c7b7d251949a060cda8a11248c40a91
model-00002-of-00002.safetensors 1dce2b4caed28833389f57d04940ec19a357f2c693dd23458a577804de024b31

Use with mlx-vlm

pip install mlx-vlm
python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model littoralai/gemma-4-e4b-it-8bit \
  --prompt "Describe this image." --image path/to/image.jpg

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Model size

8B params

Tensor type

BF16

U32

MLX

Hardware compatibility

8-bit

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