This model is a 58.67% smaller version of google/gemma-3-270m-it optimized for Swahili language via vocabulary size reduction using the trimming method.
This trimmed model should perform similarly to the original model with only 16,384 tokens and a much smaller memory footprint. However, it may not perform well for other languages as tokens not commonly used in the selected languages were removed from the vocabulary.

Model Statistics

Metric	Original	Trimmed	Reduction
Vocabulary size	262,144 tokens	16,384 tokens	93.75%
Model size	268,098,176 params	110,811,776 params	58.67%

Mining Dataset Statistics

Number of texts used for mining: 200,000 texts
Dataset: lbourdois/fineweb-2-trimming

Usage

python

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "alphaedge-ai/gemma-3-270m-it-swh-16384"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    torch_dtype="auto",
    device_map="auto"
)

prompt = "Your prompt in Swahili."
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True
)
model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

generated_ids = model.generate(**model_inputs, max_new_tokens=256)
output_ids = generated_ids[0][len(model_inputs.input_ids[0]):]
response = tokenizer.decode(output_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
print(response)

Citations

Gemma 3

bibtex

@misc{gemmateam2025gemma3technicalreport,
      title={Gemma 3 Technical Report},
      author={Gemma Team},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2503.19786},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19786},
}

Trimming blog post

@misc{hf_blogpost_trimming,
      title={Introduction to Trimming}, 
      author={Loïck BOURDOIS and Tom AARSEN and Bram VANROY and Christopher AKIKI and Woojun JUNG and Manuel ROMERO and Prithiv SAKTHI},
      year={2026},
      url={https://huggingface.co/blog/lbourdois/introduction-to-trimming}, 
}

License

This model is derived from google/gemma-3-270m-it. Use of this model is governed by the Gemma Terms of Use. By using this model, you agree to the Gemma Terms of Use. This model is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.