emanubiz/gemma4-E4B-opus-finetuned

Gemma-4-Opus-Reasoning

A locally fine-tuned Gemma 4 E4B model optimized for structured reasoning, multi-step problem solving, and efficient inference on Apple Silicon and GGUF-compatible runtimes.

Overview

This model was fine-tuned using LoRA on a curated dataset of approximately 11k reasoning-focused examples, merged from two high-quality sources. The result is a compact model that preserves Gemma's conversational fluency while improving logical coherence and response structure.

Property	Value
Base model	mlx-community/gemma-4-e4b-it-4bit
Fine-tuning	LoRA (rank=16, layers=8)
Training steps	15k iterations
Training samples	~11k conversations
Export format	GGUF (q8_0)
Target runtime	Apple Silicon M-series, llama.cpp, Ollama, mlx-lm

Dataset

Training data was built by merging and normalizing two sources:

1. nohurry/Opus-4.6-Reasoning-3000x-filtered – structured logical reasoning examples
2. Roman1111111/claude-opus-4.6-10000x – multi-turn problem solving dialogues

The merged dataset is available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/emanubiz/opus-claude-merged

Capabilities

• Multi-step reasoning and structured problem solving
• Math and logic tasks
• Clear and well-formatted responses
• Efficient inference on consumer hardware (16 GB RAM)
• Tool calling via custom chat template (experimental — see Notes)

Repository Contents

• gemma4-opus.gguf — quantized model (q8_0)
• chat_template.jinja — inference template with tool calling support
• README.md — documentation

Chat Format

This model uses a custom turn-based format.

Jinja template

{{ bos_token }}
{%- if tools %}
<|turn>system
You are a helpful assistant with access to tools. When you need to use a tool, respond with a tool call in this exact JSON format:
<tool_call>{"name": "FUNCTION_NAME", "arguments": {"param": "value"}}</tool_call>

Available tools:
{%- for t in tools %}
{{ t.function.name }}: {{ t.function.description }}
Parameters: {{ t.function.parameters | tojson }}
{%- endfor %}
<turn|>
{%- endif %}
{%- for m in messages %}
{%- if m.role == 'user' %}
<|turn>user
{{ m.content }}
<turn|>
{%- elif m.role == 'assistant' or m.role == 'model' %}
<|turn>model
{%- if m.tool_calls %}
{%- for tc in m.tool_calls %}
<tool_call>{"name": "{{ tc.function.name }}", "arguments": {{ tc.function.arguments | tojson }}}</tool_call>
{%- endfor %}
{%- endif %}
{%- if m.content %} {{ m.content }}{%- endif %}
<turn|>
{%- elif m.role == 'tool' %}
<|turn>tool
<tool_result>{{ m.content }}</tool_result>
<turn|>
{%- endif %}
{%- endfor %}
{%- if add_generation_prompt %}
<|turn>model
{% endif %}

Example

<|turn>user
What is the square root of 144 plus 13?
<turn|>
<|turn>model
The square root of 144 is 12. Adding 13 gives 25.
<turn|>

Usage

llama.cpp / llama-server

llama-server \
  -m gemma4-opus.gguf \
  -ngl 99 \
  -c 65536 \
  --chat-template-file chat_template.jinja \
  --port 8080 \
  --host 0.0.0.0

Ollama

Modelfile:

FROM ./gemma4-opus.gguf
TEMPLATE "<|turn>user {{ .Prompt }}<turn|> <|turn>model {{ .Response }}<turn|>"
PARAMETER temperature 0.7
PARAMETER top_p 0.9
PARAMETER top_k 64
PARAMETER stop "<turn|>"

Note: Ollama's Modelfile format does not support the full Jinja template. For tool calling, use llama-server with --chat-template-file.

Notes

• Tool calling is experimental. The model was not fine-tuned on tool-use data. Tool calling works through prompt injection via the chat template, relying on the base Gemma 4 model's pre-training. Simple single-tool calls work; complex multi-tool chains may be inconsistent.
• The base model was quantized from a 4-bit MLX checkpoint, not from full-precision weights — some quality loss was already present before GGUF conversion.
• Internal reasoning tokens (think blocks) are removed via training data preprocessing, not post-processing.
• Not evaluated on standard benchmarks.
• GGUF q8_0 balances quality vs memory.

License

Same license as base Gemma model: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/terms

Author

Created by emanubiz

• HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/emanubiz
• GitHub: https://github.com/emanubiz

Acknowledgements

• Google DeepMind (Gemma)
• mlx-lm and llama.cpp communities
• Opus reasoning dataset contributors
• Anthropic Claude