Can't run Gemma4 locally
I'm trying to run the Gemma4 E2B model locally through the Huggingface transformers module
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
local_path = /teamspace/studios/this_studio/gemma4_test/gemma-4-E2B
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(local_path)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(local_path)
inputs = tokenizer("Hello, world!", return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))
but I keep getting the error message
ModuleNotFoundError: Could not import module 'Gemma4Config'. Are this object's requirements defined correctly?
I've already tried upgrading transformers to version 5.7.0 but it's still the same thing
Please, has anyone faced a similar issue and how did you resolve it
Hi @polymathLTE ,
Thanks for addressing the issue. Looking at your code, could you please wrap local_path in quotes (local_path = "/teamspace/studios/this_studio/gemma4_test/gemma-4-E2B") and please let us if the issue still persists.
Thanks for your response. My local_path is wrapped in quotes, so sorry I omitted that in my opening post. And yes, the issue persists.
Hi @polymathLTE ,
Thanks for your clarification. Since you are loading from "local_path", we need to check some priority. Could you please share the output of these checks?
- Verify Local Config & Model Type:
Run these in your terminal to ensure the file exists and is mapped to the correct architecture:
ls -la /teamspace/studios/this_studio/gemma4_test/gemma-4-E2B/config.json
grep "model_type" /teamspace/studios/this_studio/gemma4_test/gemma-4-E2B/config.json
Additionally could you please provide a screenshot of the files stored in your local directory? This will help us to confirm that all necessary architectural files are present.
Could you please confirm on the priorities and we can look into the next steps.
I cloned the repo from Huggingface with git clone https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B
I'm trying to run the Gemma4 E2B model locally through the Huggingface
transformersmodulefrom transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM local_path = /teamspace/studios/this_studio/gemma4_test/gemma-4-E2B tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(local_path) model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(local_path) inputs = tokenizer("Hello, world!", return_tensors="pt") outputs = model.generate(**inputs) print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))but I keep getting the error message
ModuleNotFoundError: Could not import module 'Gemma4Config'. Are this object's requirements defined correctly?I've already tried upgrading
transformersto version5.7.0but it's still the same thing
Please, has anyone faced a similar issue and how did you resolve it
Good Sir/Maam or M/F/D polymathLTE:
I tried to perform it too, But unfortunately after 8+ hours of work
Tutorial here https://developers.googleblog.com/en/own-your-ai-fine-tune-gemma-3-270m-for-on-device/ , Task was not that hilarious as you can maybe think

I am Right to be Honest. Papaev Burin-Zhargal .
P.S. Result was pretty good


