Instructions to use prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF") 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 AutoModel model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF", dtype="auto") - llama-cpp-python
How to use prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF with llama-cpp-python:
# !pip install llama-cpp-python from llama_cpp import Llama llm = Llama.from_pretrained( repo_id="prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF", filename="gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.BF16.gguf", )
llm.create_chat_completion( 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" } } ] } ] ) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- llama.cpp
How to use prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF with llama.cpp:
Install from brew
brew install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: llama-server -hf prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: llama-cli -hf prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Install from WinGet (Windows)
winget install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: llama-server -hf prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: llama-cli -hf prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Use pre-built binary
# Download pre-built binary from: # https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: ./llama-server -hf prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: ./llama-cli -hf prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Build from source code
git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git cd llama.cpp cmake -B build cmake --build build -j --target llama-server llama-cli # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server with a web UI: ./build/bin/llama-server -hf prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M # Run inference directly in the terminal: ./build/bin/llama-cli -hf prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M
- LM Studio
- Jan
- vLLM
How to use prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF", "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/prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M
- SGLang
How to use prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF 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 "prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF" \ --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": "prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF", "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 "prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF" \ --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": "prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF", "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" } } ] } ] }' - Ollama
How to use prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF with Ollama:
ollama run hf.co/prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M
- Unsloth Studio
How to use prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF with Unsloth Studio:
Install Unsloth Studio (macOS, Linux, WSL)
curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh # Run unsloth studio unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888 # Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser # Search for prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF to start chatting
Install Unsloth Studio (Windows)
irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex # Run unsloth studio unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888 # Then open http://localhost:8888 in your browser # Search for prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF to start chatting
Using HuggingFace Spaces for Unsloth
# No setup required # Open https://huggingface.co/spaces/unsloth/studio in your browser # Search for prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF to start chatting
- Pi
How to use prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF with Pi:
Start the llama.cpp server
# Install llama.cpp: brew install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: llama-server -hf prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Configure the model in Pi
# Install Pi: npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent # Add to ~/.pi/agent/models.json: { "providers": { "llama-cpp": { "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/v1", "api": "openai-completions", "apiKey": "none", "models": [ { "id": "prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M" } ] } } }Run Pi
# Start Pi in your project directory: pi
- Hermes Agent new
How to use prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF with Hermes Agent:
Start the llama.cpp server
# Install llama.cpp: brew install llama.cpp # Start a local OpenAI-compatible server: llama-server -hf prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Configure Hermes
# Install Hermes: curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash hermes setup # Point Hermes at the local server: hermes config set model.provider custom hermes config set model.base_url http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1 hermes config set model.default prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Run Hermes
hermes
- Atomic Chat new
- Docker Model Runner
How to use prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M
- Lemonade
How to use prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF with Lemonade:
Pull the model
# Download Lemonade from https://lemonade-server.ai/ lemonade pull prithivMLmods/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_M
Run and chat with the model
lemonade run user.gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF-Q4_K_M
List all available models
lemonade list
gemma-4-12B-it-qat-GGUF
gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized is a 12-billion-parameter instruction-tuned vision-language model from Google DeepMind, part of the Gemma 4 family, optimized using Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) to preserve bfloat16-level quality while significantly reducing memory requirements. It features a unified encoder-free architecture that projects raw image patches and audio waveforms directly into the LLM's embedding space, supports text, image, and audio modalities, and offers a 256K token context window. The model employs a hybrid attention mechanism interleaving local sliding window and full global attention, with multilingual support across 140+ languages, native function calling, configurable thinking/reasoning mode, and achieves strong benchmark scores including 77.2% on MMLU Pro, 78.8% on GPQA Diamond, and 77.5% on AIME 2026. The Q4_0 unquantized variant specifically refers to half-precision weights extracted from the QAT pipeline, making it ideal for custom downstream compilation and research rather than direct deployment.
Google DeepMind’s Gemma 4 Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) releases compress models by simulating lower precision during the training process itself. This drastically reduces VRAM requirements and accelerates local inference on consumer hardware and mobile devices while preserving the near-original quality of uncompressed baselines.
Model Files
| File Name | Quant Type | File Size | File Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.BF16.gguf | BF16 | 23.8 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.F16.gguf | F16 | 23.8 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.Q2_K.gguf | Q2_K | 4.83 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.Q3_K_L.gguf | Q3_K_L | 6.57 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.Q3_K_M.gguf | Q3_K_M | 6.09 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.Q3_K_S.gguf | Q3_K_S | 5.53 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.Q4_0.gguf | Q4_0 | 6.98 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.Q4_K_M.gguf | Q4_K_M | 7.38 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.Q4_K_S.gguf | Q4_K_S | 7.02 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.Q5_0.gguf | Q5_0 | 8.34 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.Q5_K_M.gguf | Q5_K_M | 8.55 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.Q5_K_S.gguf | Q5_K_S | 8.34 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.Q6_K.gguf | Q6_K | 9.79 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.Q8_0.gguf | Q8_0 | 12.7 GB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.mmproj-bf16.gguf | mmproj-bf16 | 175 MB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.mmproj-f16.gguf | mmproj-f16 | 175 MB | Download |
| gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized.mmproj-q8_0.gguf | mmproj-q8_0 | 159 MB | Download |
llama.cpp
LLM inference in C/C++ — https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp
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