Instructions to use google/gemma-3-1b-it with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use google/gemma-3-1b-it with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="google/gemma-3-1b-it")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/gemma-3-1b-it")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("google/gemma-3-1b-it")
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=40)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Inference
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use google/gemma-3-1b-it with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "google/gemma-3-1b-it"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "google/gemma-3-1b-it",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/google/gemma-3-1b-it

SGLang

How to use google/gemma-3-1b-it 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 "google/gemma-3-1b-it" \
    --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": "google/gemma-3-1b-it",
		"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 "google/gemma-3-1b-it" \
        --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": "google/gemma-3-1b-it",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use google/gemma-3-1b-it with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/google/gemma-3-1b-it
```

Gemma-3-1B runs beautifully on Snapdragon 865

#45

by 3morixd - opened 8 days ago

Discussion

3morixd

8 days ago

Tested Gemma-3-1B-it on our 40-device phone farm (Samsung S20 FE, Snapdragon 865, 8GB RAM).

The model loads in under 2 seconds and generates at ~15-17 tokens/sec with Q4_K_M quantization via llama.cpp. That's faster than most people type.

What impressed us most: the instruction-following quality at this size is remarkable. It handles multi-turn conversations on-device without any cloud dependency.

We've created a mobile-optimized version: dispatchAI/Gemma-2-2B-IT-mobile

Dispatch AI (FZE) — building mobile AI from Sharjah, UAE.

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