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Gemma4-E4B-it-W8A16-NeuralMax

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License: apache-2.0

At a Glance

Table
Property	Value
Base model	`google/gemma-4-e4b-it`
Architecture	Sparse MoE, 128 experts, hybrid sliding+global attention + SigLIP vision
Quant format	compressed-tensors (native vLLM)
Quant method	AutoRound W8A16 (RTN, datafree)
Quantized	`language_model.*` transformer layers
Kept BF16	vision_tower, multi_modal_projector, embed_tokens_per_layer (PLE)
Min GPU	1× RTX 3090 24GB

PLE layers kept at BF16

embed_tokens_per_layer and per_layer_model_projection implement Per-Layer Embeddings — catastrophic quality loss if quantized. Always excluded.

Quick Start

vLLM

bash
docker run --gpus device=0 -p 8080:8080 \
  vllm/vllm-openai:v0.21.0-cu129-ubuntu2404 vllm serve \
  88plug/Gemma4-E4B-W8A16 \
  --kv-cache-dtype fp8 \
  --max-model-len 32768 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.90

Weights are in compressed-tensors format — no --quantization flag needed.

SGLang

bash
docker run --gpus device=0 -p 30000:30000 \
  lmsysorg/sglang:v0.5.8-cu129 python -m sglang.launch_server \
  --model-path google/gemma-4-e4b-it \
  --tp 1 \
  --mem-fraction-static 0.85 \
  --port 30000

llama.cpp

VLM — requires a separate mmproj GGUF for image input. Text-only is a single GGUF.

bash
python convert_hf_to_gguf.py google/gemma-4-e4b-it \
  --outfile Gemma4-E4B-BF16.gguf
python convert_hf_to_gguf.py google/gemma-4-e4b-it \
  --mmproj --outfile Gemma4-E4B-mmproj.gguf

llama-quantize Gemma4-E4B-BF16.gguf Gemma4-E4B-Q8_0.gguf Q8_0
llama-quantize --imatrix calibration_datav3.txt \
  Gemma4-E4B-BF16.gguf Gemma4-E4B-IQ4_XS.gguf IQ4_XS

llama-server \
  --model Gemma4-E4B-Q8_0.gguf \
  --mmproj Gemma4-E4B-mmproj.gguf \
  --n-gpu-layers 999 \
  --ctx-size 32768 \
  --port 8081

Benchmarks

Results pending.

Table
Engine	Format	Batch	ctx	tok/s	TTFT p50	TTFT p99	VRAM
vLLM v0.21.0	W8A16	1	32k	—	—	—	—
vLLM v0.21.0	W8A16	8	32k	—	—	—	—
SGLang v0.5.8	BF16 (baseline)	1	32k	—	—	—	—
llama.cpp b9297	Q8_0 GGUF	1	32k	—	—	—	—
llama.cpp b9297	IQ4_XS GGUF	1	32k	—	—	—	—

Hardware: A6000 48 GB, CUDA 12.9, driver 570.

Quality Targets

Table
Metric	Target
KL divergence vs BF16	< 0.005
MMLU recovery	≥ 99.7%

Citation

bibtex
@misc{gemma4report,
  title  = {Gemma 4 Technical Report},
  author = {Google DeepMind},
  year   = {2025},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-e4b-it}
}