gemma-4-E4B-it-litert-lm

litert-community/gemma-4-E4B-it-litert-lm

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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Gemma 4 E4B Performance on LiteRT-LM

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.

Android

Note: On supported Android devices, Gemma 4 is available through Android AI Core as Gemini Nano, which is the recommended path for production applications.

To run this model in your own Android app, add com.google.ai.edge.litertlm:litertlm-android as shown in the LiteRT-LM Kotlin guide and load gemma-4-E4B-it.litertlm from this repository. The repository is not gated, and the model is under the Apache 2.0 license.

🚨 NEW: Android with Speculative Decoding 🚨

The numbers in this section include speculative decoding. Speculative decoding is an optimization that accelerates LLMs by using a small, fast "draft" model to quickly predict multiple upcoming tokens, while a larger “target” model then verifies those tokens in parallel. The effectiveness of speculative decoding is task dependent because the “draft” model can more easily predict the correct tokens of some tasks. The metrics in this section were collected from a variety of sample prompts and grouped into categories by task type. The baseline measurements are an average across all task types. The number of input and output tokens varied across prompts. Note that if you download this model before May 5, 2026, you should re-download the model if you want to use speculative decoding. Speculative decoding is available on CPU and GPU on Mobile and Desktop.

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Web

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• Web on LiteRT-LM uses a specially optimized model for Web because of its unique memory constraints. It can support up to 128k context length.

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IoT

Running Gemma 4 E4B on Web with LiteRT-LM.js

See our LiteRT-LM.js overview to get started using the gemma-4-E4B-it-gpu.litertlm model file.