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Gemma 4 E2B-it GGUFs hit shape mismatch

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Gemma 4 E2B-it GGUFs hit shape mismatch
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// 55d agoNEWS

Gemma 4 E2B-it GGUFs hit shape mismatch

Users trying to load Gemma-4-E2B-IT GGUFs in llama.cpp are hitting tensor-shape errors on startup, even after redownloading and using recent builds. The failure points to a bad or mismatched conversion rather than a simple VRAM or `-ngl` problem.

// ANALYSIS

This looks like a launch-week compatibility bug in the GGUF ecosystem, not a hardware limitation. If the tensor layout in the file does not match what llama.cpp expects, no amount of extra GPU memory will make it load.

  • The error shows `blk.2.attn_q.weight` with the wrong dimensions, which is classic evidence of a model-format mismatch or stale conversion
  • Community chatter suggests some Gemma-4-E2B-IT GGUFs were broken or outdated, while reworked quants from other sources load successfully
  • Gemma-4-E2B-IT is being pushed hard for local multimodal use, so loader correctness matters as much as benchmark quality
  • For developers, the practical fix is to swap to a freshly rebuilt Gemma-4-E2B-IT GGUF and verify the exact quant/source, not just the llama.cpp version
  • This is a reminder that open-weight model releases can still be fragile at the packaging layer even when the model itself is fine
// TAGS
gemma-4-e2b-itllama-cppllmopen-sourceinferencegpu

DISCOVERED

55d ago

2026-04-04

PUBLISHED

55d ago

2026-04-04

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

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