README.md

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# FP8 Dynamic Quantized Gemma-3-12b-it

### Features
- Image text to text
- Tool chain

 
## 1. What FP8‑Dynamic Quantization Is
* **FP8 format**  
  * 8‑bit floating‑point (1 sign bit + 5 exponent bits + 2 mantissa bits).  
  * Drastically shrinks weight/activation size while keeping floating‑point behavior.
* **Dynamic scheme (`FP8_DYNAMIC`)**  
  * **Weights:** *static*, **per‑channel** quantization (each out‑feature channel has its own scale).  
  * **Activations:** *dynamic*, **per‑token** quantization (scales are recomputed on‑the‑fly for every input token).
* **RTN (Round‑To‑Nearest) PTQ**  
  * Post‑training; no back‑prop required.  
  * No calibration dataset needed because:  
    * Weights use symmetric RTN.  
    * Activations are quantized dynamically at inference time.

## 2. Serving the FP8 Model with vLLM

```
vllm serve BCCard/gemma-3-12b-it-FP8-Dynamic \
  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9  \
  --max-model-len 8192 \  
  --enforce-eager \  
  --api-key bccard \
  --served-model-name gemma-3-12b-it
```

## 3. Gemma 3 model card

**Model Page**: [Gemma](https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core)

**Terms of Use**: [Terms][terms]

**Authors**: Google DeepMind, BC Card (Quatization)

### Description

Gemma is a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models from Google,
built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.
Gemma 3 models are multimodal, handling text and image input and generating text
output, with open weights for both pre-trained variants and instruction-tuned
variants. Gemma 3 has a large, 128K context window, multilingual support in over
140 languages, and is available in more sizes than previous versions. Gemma 3
models are well-suited for a variety of text generation and image understanding
tasks, including question answering, summarization, and reasoning. Their
relatively small size makes it possible to deploy them in environments with
limited resources such as laptops, desktops or your own cloud infrastructure,
democratizing access to state of the art AI models and helping foster innovation
for everyone.

### Inputs and outputs

-   **Input:**
    -  Text string, such as a question, a prompt, or a document to be summarized
    -  Images, normalized to 896 x 896 resolution and encoded to 256 tokens
       each
    -  Total input context of 128K tokens for the 4B, 12B, and 27B sizes, and
       32K tokens for the 1B size

-   **Output:**
    -   Generated text in response to the input, such as an answer to a
        question, analysis of image content, or a summary of a document
    -   Total output context of 8192 tokens

### Citation

```none
@article{gemma_2025,
    title={Gemma 3 FP8 Dynamic},
    url={https://bccard.ai},    
    author={BC Card},
    year={2025}
}
```