Instructions to use google/gemma-4-31B-it with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use google/gemma-4-31B-it with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="google/gemma-4-31B-it") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] pipe(text=messages)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("google/gemma-4-31B-it") model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("google/gemma-4-31B-it") messages = [ { "role": "user", "content": [ {"type": "image", "url": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images/resolve/main/p-blog/candy.JPG"}, {"type": "text", "text": "What animal is on the candy?"} ] }, ] inputs = processor.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(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - Inference
- HuggingChat
- Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- AMD Developer Cloud
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use google/gemma-4-31B-it with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "google/gemma-4-31B-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-4-31B-it", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/google/gemma-4-31B-it
- SGLang
How to use google/gemma-4-31B-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-4-31B-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-4-31B-it", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }'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-4-31B-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-4-31B-it", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "Describe this image in one sentence." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://cdn.britannica.com/61/93061-050-99147DCE/Statue-of-Liberty-Island-New-York-Bay.jpg" } } ] } ] }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use google/gemma-4-31B-it with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/google/gemma-4-31B-it
OpenCode Edits Fail
First off, I am positively surprised how smart this rather small dense model behaves. I tested it for some weeks on code analysis tasks now, and to me it's currently the best model for this specific task in the <= 128GB (V)RAM domain.
I wonder though, has anybody got this model working somewhat reliably with opencode?
I am using vLLM, and so far I was only able to use this model for read-only tasks with opencode. When it comes to actually edit files though, it basically always ends up in corrupting the sources as soon as it has to edit more than a few lines per diff chunk.
Some of the non-resolved issues I observe:
- chunk inserts at wrong file locations
- wrong indents, confusing tabs with spaces
- wrong quotes on tool calls
- exact same chunks inserted multiple times
- tool calls like <|tool_call>call:read{filePath:<|"|>/some/file.c<|"|>,limit:200,offset:4300}<tool_call|> ending up as raw strings in the content blob.
- tool call loops stop unexpectedly (e.g. it typically says a short sentence like "Next I am going to ... ." and then right at the end of the sentence it stops the tool loop.
- Unexpected filler tokens in the middle of sentences, especially "la-la-la-" and "S_S_S_S".
- Repeating exact same logical mistakes and confusing issues that were already fixed during the session (maybe a KV cache precision drift over longer context?)
- reading entire huge source files instead of just partially reading them, leading to filling up the context in very short time
Issues that I encountered before that are either fixed or mitigated:
- high rate of hallucinating non-existing variables/arguments (mitigated by reducing temperature to max. 0.6, using 0.2 right now).
Some of the issues get worse with the assistant draft model, so in the last weeks I tested without speculative decoding.
The interesting part for me is that when I ask the model to dump a diff of its suggested changes, that appears to be flawless all the time.