Image-Text-to-Text
Transformers
Safetensors
MLX
gemma3n
automatic-speech-recognition
automatic-speech-translation
audio-text-to-text
video-text-to-text
conversational
Instructions to use mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16 with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16") 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)# pip install -U transformers accelerate # Load model directly from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16") model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16", device_map="auto") 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=256) print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:])) - MLX
How to use mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16 with MLX:
# Make sure mlx-vlm is installed # pip install --upgrade mlx-vlm from mlx_vlm import load, generate from mlx_vlm.prompt_utils import apply_chat_template from mlx_vlm.utils import load_config # Load the model model, processor = load("mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16") config = load_config("mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16") # Prepare input image = ["http://images.cocodataset.org/val2017/000000039769.jpg"] prompt = "Describe this image." # Apply chat template formatted_prompt = apply_chat_template( processor, config, prompt, num_images=1 ) # Generate output output = generate(model, processor, formatted_prompt, image) print(output) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- LM Studio
- vLLM
How to use mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16 with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16", "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/mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16
- SGLang
How to use mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16 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 "mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16" \ --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": "mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16", "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 "mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16" \ --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": "mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16", "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 mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16 with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/mlx-community/gemma-3n-E4B-it-bf16
- Atomic Chat
inference code
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by LolaRoseHB - opened
from mlx_lm import load, generate
import sys
import time # for optional delay during streaming
model_name = "mlx-community/gemma-3n-E2B-it-lm-bf16"
model, tokenizer = load(model_name)
system_prompt = "You are a helpful assistant. Provide clear, direct answers."
def create_prompt(user_input, conversation_history=None):
"""Create a clean prompt with minimal formatting"""
if hasattr(tokenizer, "apply_chat_template") and tokenizer.chat_template is not None:
try:
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": user_input}]
try:
messages.insert(0, {"role": "system", "content": system_prompt})
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
messages,
tokenize=False,
add_generation_prompt=True
)
except:
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": user_input}]
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
messages,
tokenize=False,
add_generation_prompt=True
)
return prompt
except Exception as e:
print(f"Chat template failed: {e}")
return f"User: {user_input}\nAssistant:"
def stream_generate(model, tokenizer, prompt):
"""Generate with streaming simulation - strip prompt first"""
try:
response = generate(
model=model,
tokenizer=tokenizer,
prompt=prompt,
max_tokens=1024,
verbose=False
)
# Strip the prompt from the response first
if prompt in response:
clean_response = response.replace(prompt, "").strip()
else:
clean_response = response.strip()
# Now stream the clean response character by character
for char in clean_response:
print(char, end="", flush=True)
# Optional: uncomment for typing effect
time.sleep(0.01)
return clean_response
except Exception as e:
print(f"[Error] Generation failed: {e}")
return f"Error: {e}"
print("Chat with the model (type 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to exit)")
print("=" * 50)
conversation_count = 0
while True:
try:
user_input = input(f"\n[{conversation_count + 1}] You: ").strip()
if user_input.lower() in ['exit', 'quit', 'q', '']:
print("\nGoodbye!")
break
prompt = create_prompt(user_input)
print(f"\n[{conversation_count + 1}] Assistant: ", end="", flush=True)
response = stream_generate(model, tokenizer, prompt)
# Add a newline after streaming is complete
print()
conversation_count += 1
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print("\n\nChat interrupted. Goodbye!")
break
except Exception as e:
print(f"\nError: {e}")
continue
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