---
inference: false
language:
- en
tags:
- gemma
- text-generation-inference
pipeline_tag: text-generation
license: other
license_name: gemma-terms-of-use
license_link: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/terms
---

# Google's Gemma-2b-it GGUF

These files are GGUF format model files for [Googles's Gemma-2b-it](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-2b-it).

GGUF files are for CPU + GPU inference using [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp) and libraries and UIs which support this format, such as:
* [text-generation-webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui)
* [KoboldCpp](https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp)
* [ParisNeo/GPT4All-UI](https://github.com/ParisNeo/gpt4all-ui)
* [llama-cpp-python](https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python)
* [ctransformers](https://github.com/marella/ctransformers)

## How to run in `llama.cpp`

I use the following command line, adjust for your tastes and needs:

```
./main -t 2 -ngl 18 -m gemma-2b-it.q8_0.gguf -p '<start_of_turn>user\nWhat is love?\n<end_of_turn>\n<start_of_turn>model\n' --no-penalize-nl -e --color --temp 0.95 -c 1024 -n 512 --repeat_penalty 1.2 --top_p 0.95 --top_k 50
```
Change `-t 2` to the number of physical CPU cores you have. For example if your system has 8 cores/16 threads, use `-t 8`.

Change `-ngl 18` to the number of layers to offload to GPU. Remove it if you don't have GPU acceleration.

If you want to have a chat-style conversation, replace the `-p <PROMPT>` argument with `-i -ins`, you can use `--interactive-first` to start in interactive mode:

```
./main -t 2 -ngl 18 -m gemma-2b-it.q8_0.gguf --in-prefix '<start_of_turn>user\n' --in-suffix '<end_of_turn>\n<start_of_turn>model\n' -i -ins --no-penalize-nl -e --color --temp 0.95 -c 1024 -n 512 --repeat_penalty 1.2 --top_p 0.95 --top_k 50
```

## Compatibility

I have uploded both the original llama.cpp quant methods (`q4_0, q4_1, q5_0, q5_1, q8_0`) as well as the k-quant methods (`q2_K, q3_K_S, q3_K_M, q3_K_L, q4_K_S, q4_K_M, q5_K_S, q6_K`).

Please refer to [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp) and [TheBloke](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke)'s GGUF models for further explanation.

## How to run in `text-generation-webui`

Further instructions here: [text-generation-webui/docs/llama.cpp-models.md](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main/docs/llama.cpp-models.md).

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## Thanks

Thanks to [Google](https://huggingface.co/google) for providing checkpoints of the model.

Thanks to [Georgi Gerganov](https://github.com/ggerganov) and all of the awesome people in the AI community.