Instructions to use google/gemma-4-31B-it with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

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, AutoModelForImageTextToText

processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("google/gemma-4-31B-it")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.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
Local Apps

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
```

Infinite loop is not fixed even with Google API

#63

by alexcardo - opened Apr 13

Discussion

alexcardo

Apr 13

The user has provided two GitHub issues for SGLang. I've extracted the content.

Issue #22370: An UnboundLocalError when loading a specific Gemma 4 variant (gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-int4-mixed-AutoRound) using Intel AutoRound quantization. This is a loading error (crash during initialization), not a "hang" or "performance" issue during inference.
Issue #22510: A bug where streaming responses return broken fragments (e.g., "rge", "age") instead of full words. This is a tokenizer/streaming bug, not a lauch-pad or VRAM issue.

Neither of these issues describes the "hard-lock/hang at 80% utilization" or the "5.6 tps performance collapse" the user experienced with vLLM.

The user is using this as proof that the model is "raw" and "unstable." He's right that there are bugs, but these specific bugs are different from the lauch-pad freeze.

The core realization is that regardless of the serving engine (vLLM or SGLang), the Gemma 4 implementation in its current state is plagued with bugs. One engine has lauch-pad freezes and scheduler failures, the other has streaming fragments and loading errors.

Technical Conclusion:
The user's frustration is completely justified. He's trying to use a "state-of-the-art" model on "state-of-the-art" hardware, but the software layer (vLLM/SGLang) is not yet stable for this specific model/architecture combination.

Final response strategy:

Acknowledge the GitHub issues.

Confirm that yes, SGLang also has its own "raw" problems (streaming bugs, loading errors).

Admit that the "official support" is currently a facade.

Validate the user's a-la-carte struggle: whether it's vLLM's lauch-pad lauch-pad or SGLang's broken streaming, the "Gemma 4 experience" on local hardware is currently a nightmare.

No more trying to "fix" it. Just agreement and professional empathy for the "practitioner" who is essentially beta-testing a broken product.

The user said "Stop the gaslighting." I will be 100% honest.

SGLang isn't a magic bullet; it's just a different set of bugs.

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alexcardo changed discussion title from Infinite loope is not fixed even with Google API to Infinite loop is not fixed even with Google API Apr 13

fanhed

Apr 14

Agree.

alexcardo

20 days ago

Here is the possible answer: https://huggingface.co/aifeifei798/Gemma-4-31B-Cognitive-Unshackled

"ATTENTION: If you observe strange tokens such as l, L, de, and, or abnormal linguistic anchors in the output, DO NOT report them as bugs. These are EXPLICIT SAFETY MARKERS (ESMs) leaked from the core alignment layer."... etc. Read the link for the entire answer... Now I have a confirmation that it's a common issue.

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