fix(gemma): resolve Gemma 3 defaults a sparse config omits, and qualify gemma-3-12b - #1362
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📝 SummarySummaryFixes sparse Gemma 3 configuration handling and qualifies
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HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED WalkthroughGemma 3 configuration handling now applies sparse-attention defaults and rejects incomplete schedule data. Tests cover Gemma 3 and Gemma 2 behavior. A Gemma 3 12B manifest and performance exclusion were added. ChangesGemma 3 sparse configuration support
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participant GemmaConfig
participant _apply_gemma3_config_defaults
participant gemma3_attention_schedule
GemmaConfig->>_apply_gemma3_config_defaults: provide model configuration
_apply_gemma3_config_defaults->>_apply_gemma3_config_defaults: apply missing Gemma 3 defaults
_apply_gemma3_config_defaults->>gemma3_attention_schedule: pass schedule fields
gemma3_attention_schedule-->>GemmaConfig: return local and global attention schedule
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Gemma 3 checkpoints that specify a non-default RoPE base in a supported nested configuration can run with incorrect global positional encoding. Preserve those explicit values before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 7 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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In `@families/gemma/model.py`:
- Line 103: Update the Gemma configuration defaulting logic around
ModelConfig.from_json so it recognizes explicit rope_theta values in
raw["rope_theta"], raw["rope_parameters"]["rope_theta"], or
raw["rope_scaling"]["rope_theta"] before applying the 1000000.0 default.
Preserve parser-supplied values for all supported representations and keep the
existing default only when none is provided.
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| config.rms_norm_eps = _GEMMA3_CONFIG_DEFAULTS["rms_norm_eps"] | ||
| if raw.get("max_position_embeddings") is None: | ||
| config.max_position_embeddings = _GEMMA3_CONFIG_DEFAULTS["max_position_embeddings"] | ||
| if raw.get("rope_theta") is None: |
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Preserve parser-supplied rope_theta.
ModelConfig.from_json stores rope_theta from rope_parameters or rope_scaling in config.rope_theta, while config.raw retains the nested representation. This guard checks only raw["rope_theta"], so it can replace that explicit value with 1000000.0. The Gemma 3 RoPE builders then use the overwritten config.rope_theta for global layers. If the explicit value differs from 1000000.0, the graph uses the wrong global RoPE base.
Detect an explicit value in every parser-supported representation before applying the default.
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- if raw.get("rope_theta") is None:
+ rope_theta_is_explicit = raw.get("rope_theta") is not None or any(
+ isinstance(raw.get(key), dict) and raw[key].get("rope_theta") is not None
+ for key in ("rope_parameters", "rope_scaling")
+ )
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| if raw.get("rope_theta") is None: | |
| rope_theta_is_explicit = raw.get("rope_theta") is not None or any( | |
| isinstance(raw.get(key), dict) and raw[key].get("rope_theta") is not None | |
| for key in ("rope_parameters", "rope_scaling") | |
| ) | |
| if not rope_theta_is_explicit: |
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In `@families/gemma/model.py` at line 103, Update the Gemma configuration
defaulting logic around ModelConfig.from_json so it recognizes explicit
rope_theta values in raw["rope_theta"], raw["rope_parameters"]["rope_theta"], or
raw["rope_scaling"]["rope_theta"] before applying the 1000000.0 default.
Preserve parser-supplied values for all supported representations and keep the
existing default only when none is provided.
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…fy gemma-3-12b google/gemma-3-12b-it states only geometry and leans on Gemma3TextConfig for everything else. The family read rope_theta as the parser's 1e4 fallback rather than Gemma 3's 1e6, and gemma3_attention_schedule treated the absent rope_local_base_freq as 'this checkpoint has no local attention', rebuilding all 48 layers as global. That built cleanly and generated fluent, wrong text. Default the fields transformers supplies, and refuse rather than guess when a Gemma 3 checkpoint reaches the schedule without them. Signed-off-by: Zhenshan Xie <zhenshanx@nvidia.com>
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Background
gemma-3-12bwas dropped from #1327 because the internal premerge run failed only on thatcase: the engine produced
The capital of France is Paris.where the HF reference producedParis(NED 0.8387 against a 0.15 threshold). The same manifest passed locally, exactly.The cause is that
google/gemma-3-12b-itstates only geometry —hidden_size,intermediate_size, the layer and head counts,sliding_windowandrope_scaling— and leanson
Gemma3TextConfigfor everything else. The mirrors that local runs must use, because theGoogle repos are gated, write the full set out. So a build against a mirror exercised a config
the official checkpoint never produces.
Two fields were then resolved wrongly, both silently:
rope_thetawindow=None, 0 of 48 layers localwindow=1024, 40 of 48 localgemma3_attention_scheduletreats a missingrope_local_base_freqas "this checkpoint has nolocal attention" — correct for Gemma 2, which interleaves windows on a single rope base, but
never correct for Gemma 3. All 48 layers were built as global attention on the local base. That
builds cleanly and generates fluent, wrong text.
Everything else already resolved correctly:
head_dim256,vocab_size262208,hidden_activation,rms_norm_eps, the attention scale, and the linear global rope scale.Exit Criteria
A Gemma 3 checkpoint that states only geometry builds the same model as one that states
everything.
gemma-3-12bpasses reference parity. The already-merged Gemma manifests do notregress. A Gemma 3 checkpoint can no longer reach the graph without its schedule inputs.
Implementation
Extends
_GEMMA3_CONFIG_DEFAULTSwithrope_theta,rope_local_base_freq,sliding_window_patternandquery_pre_attn_scalar, taken fromGemma3TextConfig's ownrope_parametersrather than from the fields that happened to fail before. The three thatgraph_blocksreads back through_gemma_raware written intoconfig.raw, so a nestedtext_configstill wins.gemma3_attention_schedulenow raises for a Gemma 3model_typethat arrives without bothsliding_windowandrope_local_base_freq, instead of falling back to all-global. Gemma andGemma 2 keep the existing fallback.
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Commands and Results
The official config shape was reconstructed locally from the key set an instrumented CI run
reported, then applied over the mirror's weights, which reproduces the CI failure exactly:
No regression on the merged manifests, each against its mirror:
Suites:
pytest tools/tests/test_architecture.py families/gemma/tests-> 92 passed.ruff check families/gemma apps/benchmark-> clean.Hardware, Environment, and Revisions
Branched from
upstream/mainat e48814b. H100 80GB HBM3, sm90, TensorRT backend, bf16 buildswith fp32 references, transformers 5.2.0. Checkpoints:
unslothmirrors ofgemma-2-2b-it,gemma-3-1b-it,gemma-3-4b-it,gemma-3-270m-itandgemma-3-12b-it, because the Googlerepos are gated and this environment has no HF token.
Not Run / Remaining Gaps
The official gated checkpoints themselves. The 12b config shape is reconstructed from a CI
diagnostic rather than read directly, so the internal run is the real confirmation. The other
Gemma 3 widths were not re-run against reconstructed sparse configs; only 12b was.
Contributor Self-Review
Notes For Future Readers
The test that should have caught this,
test_a_checkpoint_without_a_second_rope_base_stays_global,was added in #1304 with a docstring describing Gemma 2 but a
gemma3_textconfig. It assertedthe buggy behavior as correct. It now uses
gemma2, matching what it always claimed, and acompanion case asserts the Gemma 3 refusal.
The wider lesson is that qualifying against a mirror does not qualify the official checkpoint.
Three earlier rounds on #1304 came from the same gap, and each was fixed one field at a time;
this change instead takes the defaults from the transformers class that supplies them.
Risk level
It changes resolved config values for every Gemma 3 build, so any checkpoint stating these
fields explicitly is unaffected while any omitting them changes shape — which is the point. The
new refusal can turn a previously silent build into a hard error, which is intended, and the
merged manifests were re-qualified to confirm none of them relied on the old fallback.