feat(speculative): support Gemma-4-E4B as a streaming DFlash/DSpark target - #2186
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…arget Adds the pieces needed to train a drafter against Gemma-4-E4B-it with streaming hidden-state capture, plus two fake-base fixes the model exposed. Validated end-to-end on AWS-PDX: 20-step DSpark streaming smoke, loss 3.79 -> 3.28 monotonically, drafter exported (62 tensors). modeling_final_norm: whitelist "gemma4_text" / "gemma4". Gemma 4 is a VLM that nests the LLM under text_config with model_type "gemma4_text", so from_source reads the nested config and a "gemma4" key alone would never match. Without an entry the fake base builds no final norm and the streaming teacher logits are reconstructed from an un-normed hidden -- a silent distillation-target corruption. Verified numerically that Gemma4RMSNorm is plain `normed * weight`, NOT the `(1 + weight)` form used by Gemma 2/3: it reproduces HF hidden_states[-1] at cos=0.999999, versus cos=0.9719 / maxabs_err 47.6 for the `(1 + weight)` form. So plain "rmsnorm" is correct here and "gemma_rmsnorm" would be wrong. modeling_fakebase: resolve RoPE theta from nested rope_parameters. Gemma 4 has no flat `rope_theta`; it nests per-attention-kind settings under `rope_parameters` (full_attention: 1e6 + rope_type "proportional" + partial_rotary_factor 0.25; sliding_attention: 1e4 + rope_type "default"). The flat getattr returned None, so the draft would silently train on its own class default -- loss and accuracy still improve while MT-Bench AAL is capped, because RoPE frequencies bake into the trained weights. This could not be worked around from the recipe: hf_dflash enforces rope_theta from the base config and overwrites any dflash_architecture_config value. Models with a flat rope_theta are unaffected (covered by the added fallbacks). chat_template_train.jinja: Gemma 4's stock template has no generation markers, so `return_assistant_tokens_mask` yields an all-zero loss_mask under answer_only_loss and EVERY row is rejected with "no fetchable sample found in the entire corpus". This copy wraps the model-turn content in generation markers; the rendered text is byte-identical to the stock template, and the zero-mask rate drops from 200/200 to 4/200 at max_seq_len 2048. dspark_gemma4_e4b.yaml / hf_streaming_dspark_smoke.yaml: DSpark recipe and a single-node co-located streaming smoke. Notable Gemma-4 settings are the native <mask> token id 4 (the vocab is fully packed, so there is no spare id to borrow), an SWA draft matching the base's 512 window, and capture ids [6,12,18,24,36,42] -- the full-attention layers of the 5:1 sliding/full cycle. len(EAGLE_CAPTURE_IDS) must equal num_draft_layers + 1, since the projector is sized from the draft's num_hidden_layers. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
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Slurm->>DSparkTrainer: start Gemma-4 fake-base training
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DSparkTrainer->>Gemma4ChatTemplate: format training messages
DSparkTrainer->>vLLM: request serving responses with Eagle captures
vLLM-->>DSparkTrainer: return model responses
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In `@modelopt_recipes/general/speculative_decoding/dspark_gemma4_e4b.yaml`:
- Around line 43-46: Update the model configuration’s trust_remote_code setting
to false, preserving native Gemma 4 support while requiring callers to
explicitly opt in for trusted custom model repositories.
In `@tools/launcher/examples/google/gemma-4-E4B-it/chat_template_train.jinja`:
- Around line 244-266: Wrap each emitted tool call in the tool_calls loop around
the <|tool_call> content, including its arguments and closing token, with a
generation block so assistant tool-call tokens are captured for answer-only loss
labeling. Keep tool-response content outside the generation block and preserve
the existing formatting and argument validation.
- Around line 1-6: Add the required third-party metadata to the header of the
canonical Gemma template: include the upstream source reference with its commit
hash, preserve the original copyright and license text, and add the NVIDIA
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Google Gemma 4 E4B-it Hugging Face Transformers trust_remote_code native support
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Google Gemma 4 E4B-it has native support in the Hugging Face Transformers library [1][2]. Because it is natively supported, you do not need to set trust_remote_code=True when loading the model [3][4]. To use the model, ensure you have the latest version of the transformers library installed [5][2]. You can load the model using the standard AutoModelForMultimodalLM class for multimodal tasks (as Gemma 4 E4B-it supports text, image, and audio inputs) [5][1]: from transformers import AutoProcessor, AutoModelForMultimodalLM MODEL_ID = "google/gemma-4-E4B-it" # Load processor and model processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID) model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained( MODEL_ID, dtype="auto", device_map="auto") Official documentation confirms that the Gemma 4 architecture is integrated directly into the Transformers codebase, eliminating the requirement for custom code execution from the model repository [1][6][7].
Citations:
- 1: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/gemma4
- 2: https://huggingface.co/blog/gemma4
- 3: https://huggingface.co/tuandunghcmut/gemma-4-E4B-it-text-only
- 4: https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/cpu-offloading-error-scenario/175522/10
- 5: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E4B-it
- 6: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/v5.9.0/model_doc/gemma4
- 7: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/v5.12.0/en/model_doc/gemma4
Disable remote code by default.
Gemma 4 has native Transformers support and does not require remote code. This recipe accepts a caller-provided model_name_or_path, so trust_remote_code: true can execute Python from an arbitrary model repository. Set it to false and require explicit opt-in for trusted custom models.
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In `@modelopt_recipes/general/speculative_decoding/dspark_gemma4_e4b.yaml` around
lines 43 - 46, Update the model configuration’s trust_remote_code setting to
false, preserving native Gemma 4 support while requiring callers to explicitly
opt in for trusted custom model repositories.
| {# | ||
| Template: Google Gemma 4 Canonical Chat Template | ||
| Author: Google Gemma Engineering Team | ||
| Published: 2026-07-09 | ||
| Context: Fixed tool-calling loops, turn closures, and thinking content-ordering. | ||
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Add third-party source and license metadata.
The header identifies this file as a Google canonical template. The file does not include a source reference with commit hash, the original copyright and license text, or the NVIDIA Apache 2.0 header. Add the required metadata and update SPDX and LICENSE notices as needed.
As per coding guidelines, copied third-party source must include “a source reference with commit hash, the original copyright/license, and the NVIDIA Apache 2.0 header.”
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In `@tools/launcher/examples/google/gemma-4-E4B-it/chat_template_train.jinja`
around lines 1 - 6, Add the required third-party metadata to the header of the
canonical Gemma template: include the upstream source reference with its commit
hash, preserve the original copyright and license text, and add the NVIDIA
Apache 2.0 header. Update the SPDX and LICENSE notices consistently without
changing the template behavior.
Source: Coding guidelines
| {%- if message.get('tool_calls') -%} | ||
| {%- for tool_call in message.get('tool_calls') -%} | ||
| {%- set function = tool_call['function'] -%} | ||
| {{- '<|tool_call>call:' + function['name'] + '{' -}} | ||
| {%- if function['arguments'] is mapping -%} | ||
| {%- set ns_args = namespace(found_first=false) -%} | ||
| {%- for key, value in function['arguments'] | dictsort -%} | ||
| {%- if ns_args.found_first %},{% endif -%} | ||
| {%- set ns_args.found_first = true -%} | ||
| {{- key -}}:{{- format_argument(value, escape_keys=False) -}} | ||
| {%- endfor -%} | ||
| {%- elif function['arguments'] is none -%} | ||
| {%- else -%} | ||
| {{- raise_exception( | ||
| "chat_template: tool_calls[].function.arguments must be a " | ||
| "JSON object (mapping), not a string. Deserialize arguments " | ||
| "before passing to the template." | ||
| ) -}} | ||
| {%- endif -%} | ||
| {{- '}<tool_call|>' -}} | ||
| {%- endfor -%} | ||
| {%- set ns.prev_message_type = 'tool_call' -%} | ||
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Mark tool-call tokens as generation output.
Lines 244-266 emit <|tool_call> content before the only {% generation %} block at lines 348-350. An assistant message with only tool_calls has empty captured_content, so answer-only loss labels none of its output tokens. Wrap each emitted tool call in a generation block. Keep tool-response context outside that block.
The downstream smoke configuration selects this template to prevent all-zero answer-only loss masks.
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In `@tools/launcher/examples/google/gemma-4-E4B-it/chat_template_train.jinja`
around lines 244 - 266, Wrap each emitted tool call in the tool_calls loop
around the <|tool_call> content, including its arguments and closing token, with
a generation block so assistant tool-call tokens are captured for answer-only
loss labeling. Keep tool-response content outside the generation block and
preserve the existing formatting and argument validation.
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What
Adds support for Gemma-4-E4B as a streaming DFlash/DSpark target, plus two fake-base fixes that this model exposed. Both fixes are general — they are not Gemma-specific workarounds.
Validated end-to-end on AWS-PDX: a 20-step DSpark streaming smoke run, loss 3.79 → 3.28 monotonically, drafter exported (62 tensors).
Why
Gemma 4 tripped three silent failures. Each one either corrupts the distillation target without raising anything, or rejects the entire corpus.
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modeling_final_norm: whitelistgemma4_text/gemma4Gemma 4 is a VLM that nests the LLM under
text_configwithmodel_type: "gemma4_text".from_sourcereads the nested config, so a"gemma4"key alone would never match. Without an entry the fake base builds no final norm, and streaming teacher logits get reconstructed from an un-normed hidden — a silent distillation-target corruption (same failure mode as the earlier Kimi VLM case).The in-file comment warns that Gemma uses a
(1 + weight)RMSNorm, which would suggestgemma_rmsnorm. That holds for Gemma 2/3 but not Gemma 4. Verified numerically ongemma-4-E4B-itby reconstructing HF'shidden_states[-1]from the pre-norm residual:normed * weight(existing_FinalRMSNorm)normed * (1 + weight)(Gemma 2/3)So plain
"rmsnorm"is correct here and"gemma_rmsnorm"would be wrong. No new norm class is needed.2.
modeling_fakebase: resolve RoPE theta from nestedrope_parametersGemma 4 has no flat
rope_theta. It nests per-attention-kind settings:The flat
getattr(base_cfg, "rope_theta", None)returnsNone, so the draft silently trains on its own class default. Training loss and accuracy still improve while MT-Bench AAL is capped, because RoPE frequencies bake into the trained weights — and the drafter then has to be retrained.This could not be worked around from the recipe:
hf_dflashenforcesrope_thetafrom the base config and overwrites anydflash_architecture_configvalue (with a warning), by design, since the draft injects the target's KV._resolve_rope_thetadefaults to thesliding_attentionentry, because SWA drafts are the common case for Gemma 4 and itsrope_typeis plaindefault— thefull_attentionentry usesproportionalrope withpartial_rotary_factor, which the draft classes do not implement. Models with a flatrope_thetaare unaffected (covered by regression checks, including the no-rope case).3.
chat_template_train.jinja: add generation markersGemma 4's stock chat template has no
{% generation %}markers, soreturn_assistant_tokens_maskyields an all-zeroloss_maskunderanswer_only_loss. Every row is then rejected and streaming dies with:Transformers only hints at the cause via a stderr line. This is not a sequence-length problem — it reproduces identically at
max_seq_len2048 and 4096, andanswer_only_loss=falsegives a full mask.This copy wraps the model-turn content in generation markers, following the existing per-model
chat_template_train.jinjaconvention. Verified:max_seq_len2048Files
modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/modeling_final_norm.pygemma4_text/gemma4modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/modeling_fakebase.py_resolve_rope_theta()for nestedrope_parametersmodelopt_recipes/general/speculative_decoding/dspark_gemma4_e4b.yamltools/launcher/examples/google/gemma-4-E4B-it/chat_template_train.jinjatools/launcher/examples/google/gemma-4-E4B-it/hf_streaming_dspark_smoke.yamlRecipe notes
<mask>at id 4.[6,12,18,24,36,42]: Gemma 4 repeats 5× sliding + 1× full attention, so the full-attention layers land on exactly these post-layer capture ids. Chosen to sit on residual-stream boundaries rather than spacing uniformly — measured adjacent-layer cosine is 0.55–0.70 in the shallow half but 0.98–0.99 in the deep half, so uniform spacing wastes capture slots on near-duplicates.len(EAGLE_CAPTURE_IDS)must equalnum_draft_layers + 1— the projector is sized from the draft'snum_hidden_layers, not from the number of capture ids. Getting this wrong givesmat1 and mat2 shapes cannot be multiplied.Testing
output_hidden_states: capture ids 9/18/27/36 match at cos = 1.0000, with off-by-one dropping to 0.55–0.98, which also pins capture id 42 as the true final layer.rope_thetamodels and no-rope configs resolve unchanged.