Model reference · open weights
gemma-3 is an open-weight language model from tiny-random. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.
Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.
What it is
| Released by | tiny-random |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Task | Vision + text |
| Parameters (lead) | 9M |
| Context | 128k tokens |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2025-03-15 |
| Popularity | 10k downloads / month |
| Licence | Unknown |
About
This tiny model is for debugging. It is randomly initialized with the config adapted from google/gemma-3-27b-it.
from transformers import pipeline
model_id = "tiny-random/gemma-3"
pipe = pipeline(
"image-text-to-text", model=model_id, device="cuda",
trust_remote_code=True, max_new_tokens=3,
)
messages = [
{
"role": "system",
"content": [{"type": "text", "text": "You are a helpful assistant."}]
},
{
"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?"}
]
}
]
output = pipe(text=messages, max_new_tokens=5)
print(output)
import torch
from transformers import (
AutoConfig,
AutoModelForCausalLM,
AutoProcessor,
AutoTokenizer,
Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration,
GenerationConfig,
pipeline,
set_seed,
)
source_model_id = "google/gemma-3-27b-it"
save_folder = "/tmp/tiny-random/gemma-3"
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
source_model_id, trust_remote_code=True,
)
processor.save_pretrained(save_folder)
config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(
source_model_id, trust_remote_code=True,
)
config.text_config.hidden_size = 32
config.text_config.intermediate_size = 128
config.text_config.head_dim = 32
config.text_config.num_attention_heads = 1
config.text_config.num_key_value_heads = 1
config.text_config.num_hidden_layers = 2
config.text_config.sliding_window_pattern = 2
config.vision_config.hidden_size = 32
config.vision_config.num_hidden_layers = 2
config.vision_config.num_attention_heads = 1
config.vision_config.intermediate_size = 128
model = Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration(
config,
).to(torch.bfloat16)
for layer in model.language_model.model.layers:
print(layer.is_sliding)
model.generation_config = GenerationConfig.from_pretrained(
source_model_id, trust_remote_code=True,
)
set_seed(42)
with torch.no_grad():
for name, p in sorted(model.named_parameters()):
torch.nn.init.normal_(p, 0, 0.5)
print(name, p.shape)
model.save_pretrained(save_folder)
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Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys tiny-random-gemma-3 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (tiny-random-gemma-3 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"tiny-random-gemma-3","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.