Gemma 3: Advancing Open-Source Multimodal AI with Scalable Training and Efficient Architectures
Vedant Pandya
Google’s Gemma 3 marks a pivotal advancement in open-weight multimodal AI, demonstrating unparalleled efficiency, scalability, and safety. With enhanced long-context processing, optimized transformer architectures, and robust multimodal integration, it extends the possibilities of open-source AI. Here’s an in-depth exploration of the research innovations driving Gemma 3.
1. Pre-training: Scaling Knowledge While Ensuring Diversity
Dataset Scale and Composition
🔹 14 Trillion Tokens for the 27B Model – The sheer scale of Gemma 3’s training dataset ensures a rich and nuanced understanding of language. The focus is not just on volume but on curating a balanced dataset that generalizes well across domains.
🔹 Multilingual Expansion – Covering 140+ languages, Gemma 3 incorporates a diverse set of linguistic structures, making it one of the most comprehensive open-weight multilingual models available.
🔹 Multimodal Integration – Unlike previous iterations, Gemma 3’s pre-training includes image data, which enhances its ability to understand and generate cross-modal outputs.
🔹 Decontamination and Responsible Data Curation – A rigorous decontamination process was employed to mitigate risks related to memorization, sensitive data leakage, and bias, reinforcing Google’s commitment to responsible AI development.
Tokenization: Optimizing for Efficiency
🔹 SentencePiece Tokenizer – Chosen for its subword tokenization capabilities, SentencePiece allows Gemma 3 to effectively process out-of-vocabulary words, morphologically rich languages, and diverse scripts.
🔹 Efficiency Gains – By refining tokenization strategies, the model achieves better compression and improved language modeling, reducing unnecessary token overhead.
Computational Infrastructure: Scaling Training Efficiently
🔹 Trained on Google TPUs (TPUv4p, TPUv5p, TPUv5e) – These next-generation accelerators provide unmatched efficiency in matrix computations, reducing both training time and energy consumption.
🔹 Optimized for Large-Scale Training – Leveraging distributed training strategies, Gemma 3 maximizes hardware utilization, ensuring the best performance-to-compute ratio.
# SECTION 1: Pre-training - Dataset Processing and Tokenization
"""
This example demonstrates how to process a multilingual dataset and apply
tokenization techniques similar to those used in Gemma 3's pre-training.
"""
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from typing import List, Dict, Any
from sentencepiece import SentencePieceProcessor
class GemmaDatasetProcessor:
def __init__(self, tokenizer_path: str, languages: List[str] = None):
"""Initialize the dataset processor with a SentencePiece tokenizer."""
self.tokenizer = SentencePieceProcessor()
self.tokenizer.Load(tokenizer_path)
self.languages = languages or ["en", "fr", "de", "es", "zh", "ja", "ar", "hi"]
self.stats = {"token_count": 0, "examples_per_lang": {lang: 0 for lang in self.languages}}
def load_and_process_data(self, data_paths: Dict[str, str]) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
"""Load and process data from multiple sources, keeping track of statistics."""
processed_data = []
for lang, path in data_paths.items():
if lang not in self.languages:
continue
print(f"Processing {lang} data from {path}")
# Load data (simplified example)
raw_texts = pd.read_csv(path)["text"].tolist()
for text in raw_texts:
# Apply tokenization
tokens = self.tokenizer.EncodeAsIds(text)
# Apply decontamination logic (simplified)
is_clean = self._decontaminate_text(text)
if is_clean and len(tokens) > 0:
processed_example = {
"language": lang,
"text": text,
"tokens": tokens,
"n_tokens": len(tokens)
}
processed_data.append(processed_example)
# Update statistics
self.stats["token_count"] += len(tokens)
self.stats["examples_per_lang"][lang] += 1
print(f"Processed {len(processed_data)} examples with {self.stats['token_count']} tokens")
return processed_data
def _decontaminate_text(self, text: str) -> bool:
"""
Simplified decontamination that checks for sensitive patterns.
In a real implementation, this would be much more sophisticated.
"""
sensitive_patterns = ["password:", "secret:", "private key"]
return not any(pattern in text.lower() for pattern in sensitive_patterns)
def get_dataset_stats(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
"""Return statistics about the processed dataset."""
return {
"total_tokens": self.stats["token_count"],
"languages": len(self.languages),
"language_distribution": {
lang: count / sum(self.stats["examples_per_lang"].values())
for lang, count in self.stats["examples_per_lang"].items() if count > 0
}
}
# Example usage (not executed)
if __name__ == "__main__":
processor = GemmaDatasetProcessor("path/to/sentencepiece_model.model")
data_paths = {
"en": "path/to/english_data.csv",
"fr": "path/to/french_data.csv",
# Add more languages
}
processed_data = processor.load_and_process_data(data_paths)
stats = processor.get_dataset_stats()
print(f"Dataset statistics: {stats}")
2. Architectural Innovations: Balancing Efficiency and Scalability
Enhanced Attention Mechanisms
🔹 Interleaved Local and Global Attention – This novel strategy mitigates the quadratic complexity of self-attention, allowing Gemma 3 to efficiently process longer contexts (up to 128K tokens).
🔹 Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) & QK-Norm – These refinements reduce memory overhead while maintaining high-quality representations, making the model more practical for real-time and production applications.
🔹 Refined Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE) – Adjustments to RoPE base frequency improve the model’s ability to track relationships over long sequences, further strengthening its context retention.
Multimodal Capabilities: A Step Towards General Intelligence
🔹 SigLIP Vision Encoder – A key addition enabling seamless image-text processing, making the model more adept at handling multimodal queries.
🔹 Adaptive Windowing for Images – This technique allows Gemma 3 to dynamically process images of varying resolutions and aspect ratios, improving its visual comprehension abilities.
# SECTION 2: Architectural Innovations - Implementing Enhanced Attention Mechanisms
"""
This example demonstrates how to implement the enhanced attention mechanisms
used in Gemma 3, including interleaved local and global attention and grouped-query attention.
"""
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import math
from typing import Optional, Tuple
class GemmaRotaryEmbedding(nn.Module):
"""Rotary positional embeddings with frequency adjustments."""
def __init__(self, dim: int, base=10000.0, scaling_factor=1.0):
super().__init__()
self.dim = dim
self.base = base * scaling_factor
inv_freq = 1.0 / (self.base ** (torch.arange(0, dim, 2).float() / dim))
self.register_buffer("inv_freq", inv_freq)
def forward(self, seq_len: int, device: torch.device):
t = torch.arange(seq_len, device=device).type_as(self.inv_freq)
freqs = torch.einsum("i,j->ij", t, self.inv_freq)
emb = torch.cat((freqs, freqs), dim=-1)
return emb
def apply_rotary_pos_emb(q: torch.Tensor, k: torch.Tensor, cos: torch.Tensor, sin: torch.Tensor):
"""Apply rotary position embeddings to query and key tensors."""
# Reshape for broadcasting
cos = cos[:, :, None, :] # [batch, seq_len, 1, dim]
sin = sin[:, :, None, :] # [batch, seq_len, 1, dim]
# Apply rotation using complex multiplication logic
q_embed = (q * cos) + (rotate_half(q) * sin)
k_embed = (k * cos) + (rotate_half(k) * sin)
return q_embed, k_embed
def rotate_half(x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
"""Rotate half of the hidden dims."""
x1, x2 = x.chunk(2, dim=-1)
return torch.cat((-x2, x1), dim=-1)
class GemmaAttention(nn.Module):
"""
Enhanced attention module implementing interleaved local and global attention
with Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) and QK-Norm.
"""
def __init__(
self,
hidden_size: int,
num_heads: int,
num_kv_heads: int = None, # For GQA
window_size: int = 1024, # For local attention
qk_norm: bool = True,
dropout_prob: float = 0.0,
):
super().__init__()
self.hidden_size = hidden_size
self.num_heads = num_heads
self.num_kv_heads = num_kv_heads or num_heads
self.head_dim = hidden_size // num_heads
self.window_size = window_size
self.qk_norm = qk_norm
# Calculate grouping factor for GQA
self.num_groups = self.num_heads // self.num_kv_heads
# Projection matrices
self.q_proj = nn.Linear(hidden_size, hidden_size, bias=False)
self.k_proj = nn.Linear(hidden_size, self.num_kv_heads * self.head_dim, bias=False)
self.v_proj = nn.Linear(hidden_size, self.num_kv_heads * self.head_dim, bias=False)
self.o_proj = nn.Linear(hidden_size, hidden_size, bias=False)
# Rotary embeddings
self.rotary_emb = GemmaRotaryEmbedding(self.head_dim, scaling_factor=0.1) # Adjusted base freq
# Layer norms for QK-Norm
if qk_norm:
self.q_norm = nn.LayerNorm(self.head_dim)
self.k_norm = nn.LayerNorm(self.head_dim)
self.dropout = nn.Dropout(dropout_prob)
def forward(
self,
hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
is_local: bool = True, # Switch between local and global attention
position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Forward pass with support for interleaved local and global attention.
Args:
hidden_states: Input tensor [batch_size, seq_len, hidden_size]
attention_mask: Attention mask [batch_size, 1, 1, seq_len]
is_local: Whether to use local attention (True) or global attention (False)
position_ids: Optional explicit position IDs
Returns:
output: Output tensor [batch_size, seq_len, hidden_size]
attention_weights: Attention weights for visualization
"""
batch_size, seq_length, _ = hidden_states.shape
# Project inputs to queries, keys, and values
q = self.q_proj(hidden_states).view(batch_size, seq_length, self.num_heads, self.head_dim)
k = self.k_proj(hidden_states).view(batch_size, seq_length, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim)
v = self.v_proj(hidden_states).view(batch_size, seq_length, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_dim)
# Apply QK-Norm if enabled
if self.qk_norm:
q = self.q_norm(q)
k = self.k_norm(k)
# Apply rotary embeddings
if position_ids is None:
position_ids = torch.arange(seq_length, device=hidden_states.device)
cos, sin = self.rotary_emb(seq_length, hidden_states.device)
cos = cos[position_ids].unsqueeze(0) # [1, seq_len, dim]
sin = sin[position_ids].unsqueeze(0) # [1, seq_len, dim]
q, k = apply_rotary_pos_emb(q, k, cos, sin)
# Grouped-Query Attention: Repeat KV heads for each query group
if self.num_groups > 1:
k = k.unsqueeze(2).expand(-1, -1, self.num_groups, -1, -1)
v = v.unsqueeze(2).expand(-1, -1, self.num_groups, -1, -1)
k = k.reshape(batch_size, seq_length, self.num_heads, self.head_dim)
v = v.reshape(batch_size, seq_length, self.num_heads, self.head_dim)
# Transpose for attention computation
q = q.transpose(1, 2) # [batch_size, num_heads, seq_length, head_dim]
k = k.transpose(1, 2) # [batch_size, num_heads, seq_length, head_dim]
v = v.transpose(1, 2) # [batch_size, num_heads, seq_length, head_dim]
# Create local or global attention pattern
if is_local:
# Local attention with window
attention_weights = torch.zeros(
batch_size, self.num_heads, seq_length, seq_length,
device=hidden_states.device
)
# For each position, attend only to nearby positions within window
for i in range(seq_length):
start = max(0, i - self.window_size // 2)
end = min(seq_length, i + self.window_size // 2 + 1)
local_q = q[:, :, i:i+1] # [batch_size, num_heads, 1, head_dim]
local_k = k[:, :, start:end] # [batch_size, num_heads, window_size, head_dim]
local_v = v[:, :, start:end] # [batch_size, num_heads, window_size, head_dim]
# Compute attention scores for this position
attn_scores = torch.matmul(local_q, local_k.transpose(2, 3)) / math.sqrt(self.head_dim)
if attention_mask is not None:
local_mask = attention_mask[:, :, :, start:end]
attn_scores = attn_scores + local_mask
attn_probs = torch.softmax(attn_scores, dim=-1)
attn_probs = self.dropout(attn_probs)
# Update the value for this position
local_output = torch.matmul(attn_probs, local_v)
attention_weights[:, :, i, start:end] = attn_probs.squeeze(2)
if i == 0:
output = local_output
else:
output = torch.cat([output, local_output], dim=2)
else:
# Global attention (standard self-attention)
attention_scores = torch.matmul(q, k.transpose(2, 3)) / math.sqrt(self.head_dim)
if attention_mask is not None:
attention_scores = attention_scores + attention_mask
attention_weights = torch.softmax(attention_scores, dim=-1)
attention_weights = self.dropout(attention_weights)
output = torch.matmul(attention_weights, v)
# Restore original shape
output = output.transpose(1, 2).reshape(batch_size, seq_length, self.hidden_size)
# Final projection
output = self.o_proj(output)
return output, attention_weights
3. Post-training: Refining the Model Through Alignment and Safety
Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Deployment
🔹 Distillation from Large Models to Smaller Variants – By leveraging teacher-student learning, smaller models inherit the capabilities of larger counterparts, making them ideal for resource-constrained environments (e.g., edge devices).
Instruction Tuning (IT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL)
🔹 Improved Instruction Following – IT significantly enhances Gemma 3’s ability to understand, execute, and generalize user instructions.
🔹 RLHF & RLMF for Alignment – Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and Machine Feedback (RLMF) optimize the model’s reasoning skills, particularly improving its mathematical and logical consistency.
Safety and Responsible AI
🔹 Robust Safety Evaluations – The model underwent extensive red-teaming and adversarial testing to detect and mitigate harmful content generation, biases, and privacy risks.
🔹 Alignment for Ethical AI – Special attention was given to reducing toxic outputs, representational harms, and information leakage, ensuring Gemma 3 meets high ethical and safety standards.
# SECTION 3: Post-training - Knowledge Distillation and Safety
"""
This example demonstrates how to implement knowledge distillation to transfer knowledge
from a large teacher model to a smaller student model, as well as a basic safety classifier.
"""
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from typing import Dict, List, Tuple
class KnowledgeDistillationTrainer:
"""Trainer for knowledge distillation from a larger Gemma 3 model to a smaller one."""
def __init__(
self,
teacher_model_id: str,
student_model_id: str,
alpha: float = 0.5, # Balance between distillation and ground truth
temperature: float = 2.0, # Temperature for softening probability distributions
):
# Initialize teacher model (larger model like Gemma 3 27B)
self.teacher_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(teacher_model_id)
self.teacher_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(teacher_model_id)
# Initialize student model (smaller model to be trained)
self.student_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(student_model_id)
self.student_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(student_model_id)
# Freeze teacher parameters
for param in self.teacher_model.parameters():
param.requires_grad = False
self.alpha = alpha
self.temperature = temperature
# Optimizer for student model
self.optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(self.student_model.parameters(), lr=5e-5)
def compute_distillation_loss(
self,
teacher_logits: torch.Tensor,
student_logits: torch.Tensor,
target_ids: torch.Tensor,
attention_mask: torch.Tensor
) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, Dict[str, float]]:
"""
Compute the knowledge distillation loss.
Args:
teacher_logits: Logits from teacher model [batch, seq_len, vocab_size]
student_logits: Logits from student model [batch, seq_len, vocab_size]
target_ids: Target token IDs [batch, seq_len]
attention_mask: Attention mask [batch, seq_len]
Returns:
total_loss: Combined distillation and cross-entropy loss
loss_dict: Dictionary containing individual loss components
"""
# Apply temperature to soften probability distributions
soft_teacher_logits = teacher_logits / self.temperature
soft_student_logits = student_logits / self.temperature
# Compute KL divergence loss for knowledge distillation
distillation_loss = F.kl_div(
F.log_softmax(soft_student_logits, dim=-1),
F.softmax(soft_teacher_logits, dim=-1),
reduction="batchmean"
) * (self.temperature ** 2)
# Compute cross-entropy loss against ground truth
ce_loss = F.cross_entropy(
student_logits.view(-1, student_logits.size(-1)),
target_ids.view(-1),
ignore_index=-100
)
# Combine losses
total_loss = self.alpha * distillation_loss + (1 - self.alpha) * ce_loss
return total_loss, {
"total_loss": total_loss.item(),
"distillation_loss": distillation_loss.item(),
"ce_loss": ce_loss.item()
}
def train_step(self, batch: Dict[str, torch.Tensor]) -> Dict[str, float]:
"""Perform a single training step with knowledge distillation."""
# Move batch to device
input_ids = batch["input_ids"]
attention_mask = batch["attention_mask"]
target_ids = batch["labels"]
# Forward pass through teacher model (no gradients)
with torch.no_grad():
teacher_outputs = self.teacher_model(
input_ids=input_ids,
attention_mask=attention_mask,
return_dict=True
)
teacher_logits = teacher_outputs.logits
# Forward pass through student model
student_outputs = self.student_model(
input_ids=input_ids,
attention_mask=attention_mask,
return_dict=True
)
student_logits = student_outputs.logits
# Compute loss
loss, loss_dict = self.compute_distillation_loss(
teacher_logits, student_logits, target_ids, attention_mask
)
# Backward pass and update student parameters
self.optimizer.zero_grad()
loss.backward()
self.optimizer.step()
return loss_dict
class SafetyClassifier(nn.Module):
"""Safety classifier based on a pre-trained model to detect harmful content."""
def __init__(self, base_model_id: str, num_safety_categories: int = 8):
super().__init__()
# Load base model
self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(base_model_id)
self.encoder = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(base_model_id)
# Freeze base model
for param in self.encoder.parameters():
param.requires_grad = False
# Classification head
self.safety_head = nn.Sequential(
nn.Linear(self.encoder.config.hidden_size, 512),
nn.ReLU(),
nn.Dropout(0.1),
nn.Linear(512, num_safety_categories)
)
# Safety categories
self.safety_categories = [
"hate_speech",
"harassment",
"self_harm",
"sexual_content",
"violence",
"dangerous_content",
"misinformation",
"personal_data"
]
def forward(self, input_ids: torch.Tensor, attention_mask: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
"""Forward pass to classify text for safety risks."""
# Get embeddings from base model
with torch.no_grad():
outputs = self.encoder(
input_ids=input_ids,
attention_mask=attention_mask,
output_hidden_states=True,
return_dict=True
)
# Use the last hidden state of the final token
last_token_indices = attention_mask.sum(dim=1) - 1
batch_indices = torch.arange(input_ids.size(0))
last_token_hidden = outputs.hidden_states[-1][batch_indices, last_token_indices]
# Pass through safety classification head
safety_logits = self.safety_head(last_token_hidden)
return safety_logits
def classify_text(self, text: str, threshold: float = 0.5) -> Dict[str, float]:
"""Classify a text for safety risks."""
# Tokenize text
inputs = self.tokenizer(
text,
return_tensors="pt",
truncation=True,
max_length=512,
padding=True
)
# Get safety logits
safety_logits = self(inputs.input_ids, inputs.attention_mask)
# Apply sigmoid to get probabilities
safety_probs = torch.sigmoid(safety_logits).squeeze().detach().numpy()
# Create results dictionary
results = {
category: float(prob)
for category, prob in zip(self.safety_categories, safety_probs)
}
# Add overall safety assessment
results["is_unsafe"] = any(prob > threshold for prob in safety_probs)
results["max_risk_category"] = self.safety_categories[safety_probs.argmax()]
results["max_risk_score"] = float(safety_probs.max())
return results
4. Benchmarking: Performance at Scale
Competitive Performance Against Leading Open Models
✅ Outperforms Llama 3 and DeepSeek R1 across multiple language and reasoning benchmarks.
✅ Excels in multilingual NLP tasks, leveraging its diverse training data.
Long-Context Mastery
✅ With a 128K token context window, Gemma 3 can retain and utilize information over extended sequences, making it ideal for applications requiring document synthesis, code completion, and legal/academic analysis.
Safety and Trustworthiness
✅ Significant improvements in safety benchmarks, reflecting a lower propensity for harmful or misleading outputs.
# SECTION 3: Post-training - Knowledge Distillation and Safety
"""
This example demonstrates how to implement knowledge distillation to transfer knowledge
from a large teacher model to a smaller student model, as well as a basic safety classifier.
"""
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.nn.functional as F
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from typing import Dict, List, Tuple
class KnowledgeDistillationTrainer:
"""Trainer for knowledge distillation from a larger Gemma 3 model to a smaller one."""
def __init__(
self,
teacher_model_id: str,
student_model_id: str,
alpha: float = 0.5, # Balance between distillation and ground truth
temperature: float = 2.0, # Temperature for softening probability distributions
):
# Initialize teacher model (larger model like Gemma 3 27B)
self.teacher_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(teacher_model_id)
self.teacher_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(teacher_model_id)
# Initialize student model (smaller model to be trained)
self.student_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(student_model_id)
self.student_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(student_model_id)
# Freeze teacher parameters
for param in self.teacher_model.parameters():
param.requires_grad = False
self.alpha = alpha
self.temperature = temperature
# Optimizer for student model
self.optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(self.student_model.parameters(), lr=5e-5)
def compute_distillation_loss(
self,
teacher_logits: torch.Tensor,
student_logits: torch.Tensor,
target_ids: torch.Tensor,
attention_mask: torch.Tensor
) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, Dict[str, float]]:
"""
Compute the knowledge distillation loss.
Args:
teacher_logits: Logits from teacher model [batch, seq_len, vocab_size]
student_logits: Logits from student model [batch, seq_len, vocab_size]
target_ids: Target token IDs [batch, seq_len]
attention_mask: Attention mask [batch, seq_len]
Returns:
total_loss: Combined distillation and cross-entropy loss
loss_dict: Dictionary containing individual loss components
"""
# Apply temperature to soften probability distributions
soft_teacher_logits = teacher_logits / self.temperature
soft_student_logits = student_logits / self.temperature
# Compute KL divergence loss for knowledge distillation
distillation_loss = F.kl_div(
F.log_softmax(soft_student_logits, dim=-1),
F.softmax(soft_teacher_logits, dim=-1),
reduction="batchmean"
) * (self.temperature ** 2)
# Compute cross-entropy loss against ground truth
ce_loss = F.cross_entropy(
student_logits.view(-1, student_logits.size(-1)),
target_ids.view(-1),
ignore_index=-100
)
# Combine losses
total_loss = self.alpha * distillation_loss + (1 - self.alpha) * ce_loss
return total_loss, {
"total_loss": total_loss.item(),
"distillation_loss": distillation_loss.item(),
"ce_loss": ce_loss.item()
}
def train_step(self, batch: Dict[str, torch.Tensor]) -> Dict[str, float]:
"""Perform a single training step with knowledge distillation."""
# Move batch to device
input_ids = batch["input_ids"]
attention_mask = batch["attention_mask"]
target_ids = batch["labels"]
# Forward pass through teacher model (no gradients)
with torch.no_grad():
teacher_outputs = self.teacher_model(
input_ids=input_ids,
attention_mask=attention_mask,
return_dict=True
)
teacher_logits = teacher_outputs.logits
# Forward pass through student model
student_outputs = self.student_model(
input_ids=input_ids,
attention_mask=attention_mask,
return_dict=True
)
student_logits = student_outputs.logits
# Compute loss
loss, loss_dict = self.compute_distillation_loss(
teacher_logits, student_logits, target_ids, attention_mask
)
# Backward pass and update student parameters
self.optimizer.zero_grad()
loss.backward()
self.optimizer.step()
return loss_dict
class SafetyClassifier(nn.Module):
"""Safety classifier based on a pre-trained model to detect harmful content."""
def __init__(self, base_model_id: str, num_safety_categories: int = 8):
super().__init__()
# Load base model
self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(base_model_id)
self.encoder = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(base_model_id)
# Freeze base model
for param in self.encoder.parameters():
param.requires_grad = False
# Classification head
self.safety_head = nn.Sequential(
nn.Linear(self.encoder.config.hidden_size, 512),
nn.ReLU(),
nn.Dropout(0.1),
nn.Linear(512, num_safety_categories)
)
# Safety categories
self.safety_categories = [
"hate_speech",
"harassment",
"self_harm",
"sexual_content",
"violence",
"dangerous_content",
"misinformation",
"personal_data"
]
def forward(self, input_ids: torch.Tensor, attention_mask: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
"""Forward pass to classify text for safety risks."""
# Get embeddings from base model
with torch.no_grad():
outputs = self.encoder(
input_ids=input_ids,
attention_mask=attention_mask,
output_hidden_states=True,
return_dict=True
)
# Use the last hidden state of the final token
last_token_indices = attention_mask.sum(dim=1) - 1
batch_indices = torch.arange(input_ids.size(0))
last_token_hidden = outputs.hidden_states[-1][batch_indices, last_token_indices]
# Pass through safety classification head
safety_logits = self.safety_head(last_token_hidden)
return safety_logits
def classify_text(self, text: str, threshold: float = 0.5) -> Dict[str, float]:
"""Classify a text for safety risks."""
# Tokenize text
inputs = self.tokenizer(
text,
return_tensors="pt",
truncation=True,
max_length=512,
padding=True
)
# Get safety logits
safety_logits = self(inputs.input_ids, inputs.attention_mask)
# Apply sigmoid to get probabilities
safety_probs = torch.sigmoid(safety_logits).squeeze().detach().numpy()
# Create results dictionary
results = {
category: float(prob)
for category, prob in zip(self.safety_categories, safety_probs)
}
# Add overall safety assessment
results["is_unsafe"] = any(prob > threshold for prob in safety_probs)
results["max_risk_category"] = self.safety_categories[safety_probs.argmax()]
results["max_risk_score"] = float(safety_probs.max())
return results
Final Thoughts: The Future of Open AI
Gemma 3 represents a significant advancement in scalable, efficient, and safe AI, demonstrating Google’s commitment to open research and responsible AI development.
With its cutting-edge transformer refinements, long-context capabilities, and multimodal integration, this model is poised to accelerate progress in AI research and real-world applications.
Conclusion
Gemma 3 stands as a remarkable leap forward in the realm of open-source multimodal AI, showcasing Google's dedication to advancing AI technology responsibly and efficiently. With its innovative transformer architectures, extensive multilingual capabilities, and robust multimodal integration, Gemma 3 is set to drive significant progress in AI research and practical applications. Its ability to process long contexts and handle diverse tasks with improved safety and ethical standards positions it as a pivotal tool for future developments in AI. As the landscape of AI continues to evolve, Gemma 3 exemplifies the potential of open-weight models to contribute to a more inclusive and advanced technological future.
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