Gemma 3 12b It Q5 K M GGUF

🚀 NikolayKozloff/gemma-3-12b-it-Q5_K_M-GGUF

This model is converted to GGUF format from the original model, aiming to provide more convenient usage and compatibility.

🚀 Quick Start

This model was converted to GGUF format from google/gemma-3-12b-it using llama.cpp via the ggml.ai's GGUF-my-repo space. Refer to the original model card for more details on the model.

✨ Features

• Model Source: Converted from google/gemma-3-12b-it.
• Format: GGUF format, which can be used with llama.cpp.
• Access Requirement: To access Gemma on Hugging Face, you’re required to review and agree to Google’s usage license. To do this, please ensure you’re logged in to Hugging Face and click the "Acknowledge license" button. Requests are processed immediately.

📦 Installation

Install llama.cpp

Install llama.cpp through brew (works on Mac and Linux)

brew install llama.cpp

💻 Usage Examples

Use with llama.cpp

CLI:

llama-cli --hf-repo NikolayKozloff/gemma-3-12b-it-Q5_K_M-GGUF --hf-file gemma-3-12b-it-q5_k_m.gguf -p "The meaning to life and the universe is"

Server:

llama-server --hf-repo NikolayKozloff/gemma-3-12b-it-Q5_K_M-GGUF --hf-file gemma-3-12b-it-q5_k_m.gguf -c 2048

Alternative Usage Steps

Step 1: Clone llama.cpp from GitHub.

git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

Step 2: Move into the llama.cpp folder and build it with LLAMA_CURL=1 flag along with other hardware-specific flags (for ex: LLAMA_CUDA=1 for Nvidia GPUs on Linux).

cd llama.cpp && LLAMA_CURL=1 make

Step 3: Run inference through the main binary.

./llama-cli --hf-repo NikolayKozloff/gemma-3-12b-it-Q5_K_M-GGUF --hf-file gemma-3-12b-it-q5_k_m.gguf -p "The meaning to life and the universe is"

or

./llama-server --hf-repo NikolayKozloff/gemma-3-12b-it-Q5_K_M-GGUF --hf-file gemma-3-12b-it-q5_k_m.gguf -c 2048

📄 License

This model uses the Gemma license.

📚 Documentation