Instructions to use google/gemma-3-270m with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use google/gemma-3-270m with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="google/gemma-3-270m")# Load model directly from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/gemma-3-270m") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("google/gemma-3-270m") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps
- vLLM
How to use google/gemma-3-270m with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "google/gemma-3-270m" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "google/gemma-3-270m", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/google/gemma-3-270m
- SGLang
How to use google/gemma-3-270m 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-3-270m" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "google/gemma-3-270m", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'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-3-270m" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "google/gemma-3-270m", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use google/gemma-3-270m with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/google/gemma-3-270m
Request: DOI
I want to download this model for experimentation on my local device.
Hai
Hi @Najin06 ,
That's great! The Gemma 3 270M model is an excellent choice for local experimentation because of its small size.
please follow the below step by step instructions :
Set up environment :
First, make sure you have Python (>=3.8) installed, along with pip. Then, set up a virtual environment.Install Required Libraries :
Install Hugging Face Transformers and PyTorch (or TensorFlow)Download the Model :
Use the Hugging Face transformers library to load the model:
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
model_name = "google/gemma-3-270m"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name)
This will automatically download the model weights and tokenizer to your local machine.
- Run a Simple Inference :
input_text = "What is the capital of France?"inputs = tokenizer(input_text, return_tensors="pt")outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=50)print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
For experimentation, consider enabling torch.no_grad() during inference to save memory.
Kindly follow this steps and let us know if you have any concerns will assist you on this.
Thank you.