This repository contains an MLX-ready Q8 distribution of Google's Gemma 4 E4B instruction-tuned model, prepared for local inference on Apple Silicon Macs.
This is not a newly fine-tuned model. It is a quantized MLX redistribution converted from Google's official Gemma 4 E4B instruction-tuned checkpoint. No structural modifications or additional training have been applied to the model architecture.
Important Notice
This repository is hosted primarily as a dedicated engine source for the R.E.V.I.S. application ecosystem. You are free to download and use this model package for your own local MLX projects or workflows, subject to the Apache License 2.0 and Google's Gemma terms.
For the original model card, architecture details, intended usage, limitations, and evaluation information, refer to the official upstream model:
This package follows the quantization boundaries used by Google's official Gemma 4 QAT Q4 GGUF release, adapted for a regular Q8 build:
Source checkpoint: google/gemma-4-E4B-it
Default language tensor quantization: MLX affine Q8
Token embeddings: BF16
Per-layer token embeddings: BF16
Per-layer model projection: BF16
Audio, vision, and multimodal projection components: BF16
Group size: 64
Mode: affine
In practical terms, this is not a plain "quantize every linear layer to Q8" package. The embedding tables are intentionally kept at higher precision, and the audio / vision side of the model is not aggressively quantized. This keeps the MLX package closer to the official Google QAT Q4 tensor policy while still reducing local storage and memory requirements.
Optimized for R.E.V.I.S. (Local Cognitive OS)
We host and test this model package to serve as a compact local reasoning and judgment engine for R.E.V.I.S.
R.E.V.I.S. is a 100% local Cognitive OS for Multi-Agentic AI. It transforms your Mac devices into a distributed Agentic Swarm via zero-config Wi-Fi clustering, allowing you to run heavy AI workloads like recursive web research, dynamic RAG generation, and multi-step logic without killing single-machine performance.
If you are interested in pushing the limits of local AI and open-weight models, check out our project.
Gemma 4 E4B is still compact, but gives more headroom than E2B for local RAG support, extraction-quality review, structured document handling, and fast second-opinion judgment tasks.
For heavier judgment, long-document inspection, or stronger second-opinion reasoning, the larger Gemma 4 variants may be more appropriate if your Mac has enough unified memory.
License
This repository redistributes a quantized derivative of Google's Gemma 4 E4B instruction-tuned release, which is distributed by Google under the Apache License 2.0.
This derivative is likewise distributed under the Apache License 2.0. A copy of the license is included in the LICENSE file in this repository, and can also be found at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
Modification Notice
Compared with the official Google source checkpoint, this repository applies the following packaging modification:
The source checkpoint was converted to MLX format and quantized with a mixed Q8/BF16 policy for local MLX inference.
No fine-tuning, additional training, or architecture-level modification has been applied.
