Main Model Card: google/gemma-4-E4B-it

This model card provides the Gemma 4 E4B model in a way that is ready for deployment on Android, iOS, Desktop, IoT and Web.

Gemma is a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models from Google, built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models. This particular Gemma 4 model is small so it is ideal for on-device use cases. By running this model on device, users can have private access to Generative AI technology without even requiring an internet connection.

These models are provided in the .litertlm format for use with the LiteRT-LM framework. LiteRT-LM is a specialized orchestration layer built directly on top of LiteRT, Google’s high-performance multi-platform runtime trusted by millions of Android and edge developers. LiteRT provides the foundational hardware acceleration via XNNPack for CPU and ML Drift for GPU. LiteRT-LM adds the specialized GenAI libraries and APIs, such as KV-cache management, prompt templating, and function calling. This integrated stack is the same technology powering the Google AI Edge Gallery showcase app.

The model file size is 3.66 GB, which includes a text decoder with 2.24 GB of weights and 0.67 GB of embedding parameters. LiteRT-LM framework always keeps main weights in memory, while the embedding parameters are memory mapped which enables significant working memory savings on some platforms as seen in the detailed data below. The vision and audio models are loaded as needed to further reduce memory consumption.

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All benchmarks were taken using 1024 prefill tokens and 256 decode tokens with a context length of 2048 tokens via LiteRT-LM. The model can support up to 32k context length. The inference on CPU is accelerated via the LiteRT XNNPACK delegate with 4 threads. Time-to-first-token does not include load time. Benchmarks were run with caches enabled and initialized. During the first run, the latency and memory usage may differ. Model size is the size of the file on disk.

CPU memory was measured using, rusage::ru_maxrss on Android, Linux and Raspberry Pi, task_vm_info::phys_footprint on iOS and MacBook and process_memory_counters::PrivateUsage on Windows.

Running Gemma inference on the web is currently supported through LLM Inference Engine and uses the gemma-4-E4B-it-web.task model file. Try it out live in your browser (Chrome with WebGPU recommended). To start developing with it, download the web model and run with our sample web page, or follow the guide to add it to your own app.

Benchmarked in Chrome on a MacBook Pro 2024 (Apple M4 Max) with 1024 prefill tokens and 256 decode tokens, but the model can support context lengths up to 128K.