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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, 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. ( messages, add_generation_prompt=True, tokenize=True, =True, ="pt", ).to(model.device) outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40) print(processor.decode(outputs[0][inputs[" "].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": " ", " ": { "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. \ --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": " ", " ": { "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= " \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang. \ --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": " ", " ": { "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