Instructions to use alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx")
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("alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx")
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx")
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]:]))

MLX

How to use alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx with MLX:

# Make sure mlx-lm is installed
# pip install --upgrade mlx-lm

# Generate text with mlx-lm
from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx")

prompt = "Write a story about Einstein"
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages, add_generation_prompt=True
)

text = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True)

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings
LM Studio

vLLM

How to use alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx

SGLang

How to use alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx 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 "alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx" \
    --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": "alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

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 "alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx" \
        --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": "alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

MLX LM

How to use alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx with MLX LM:

Generate or start a chat session

# Install MLX LM
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Interactive chat REPL
mlx_lm.chat --model "alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx"

Run an OpenAI-compatible server

# Install MLX LM
uv tool install mlx-lm
# Start the server
mlx_lm.server --model "alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx"
# Calling the OpenAI-compatible server with curl
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   --data '{
     "model": "alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx",
     "messages": [
       {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}
     ]
   }'

Docker Model Runner
How to use alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx
```

alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx

The Model alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx was converted to MLX format from google/gemma-3-4b-it using mlx-lm version 0.22.0.

Use with mlx

pip install mlx-lm

from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("alexgusevski/gemma-3-text-4b-it-q8-mlx")

prompt = "hello"

if tokenizer.chat_template is not None:
    messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
    prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
        messages, add_generation_prompt=True
    )

response = generate(model, tokenizer, prompt=prompt, verbose=True)