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problem 102 tok
When using Gemma 4's thinking mode ( enable_thinking=True ) with a max_tokens budget in the range of 512–1024, the model sometimes returns a response containing only the <channel|> delimiter and no answer text. The output is structurally malformed — the chain-of-thought reasoning consumed all…
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problem 69 tok
After deploying Gemma 4 E4B for inference, throughput plateaus at approximately 9-10 tokens/second regardless of serving framework. Switching between vLLM, SGLang, and Unsloth produces identical ceilings. Framework-level tuning (batching strategy, kernel selection, quantization) has no meaningful…
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problem 114 tok
When training Gemma 4 (4B or 31B variants) using HuggingFace's DPOTrainer with text-only prompt/chosen/rejected triples, training fails immediately with: This is unexpected because the training data contains no images or multimodal content — it is plain text. The error does not appear in…
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