Instructions to use google/gemma-2-2b-it with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use google/gemma-2-2b-it with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="google/gemma-2-2b-it")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/gemma-2-2b-it")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("google/gemma-2-2b-it")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Inference
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use google/gemma-2-2b-it with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "google/gemma-2-2b-it"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "google/gemma-2-2b-it",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/google/gemma-2-2b-it

SGLang

How to use google/gemma-2-2b-it with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "google/gemma-2-2b-it" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "google/gemma-2-2b-it",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "google/gemma-2-2b-it" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "google/gemma-2-2b-it",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use google/gemma-2-2b-it with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/google/gemma-2-2b-it
```

text-generation-with-past

#68

by prudhvikumar - opened Apr 29, 2025

Discussion

prudhvikumar

Apr 29, 2025

Hi All,
Hope doing well

ValueError: Asked to export a gemma3 model for the task text-generation-with-past, but the Optimum OpenVINO exporter only supports the tasks image-text-to-text for gemma3. Please use a supported task. Please open an issue at https://github.com/huggingface/optimum/issues if you would like the task text-generation-with-past to be supported in the ONNX export for gemma3.

BalakrishnaCh

Google org Aug 6, 2025

Hi @prudhvikumar ,

Apologies for the late reply, could you please help us with by providing the full reproducible code that your executing or commands that you are running to help better. Thank you so much for your interest and contribution to make the Gemma models better.

Thanks.

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