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outward-gemma3-270m

by Harsh tuli Harsh452/outward-gemma3-270m

outward-gemma3-270m is an open-weight model for text generation from Harsh tuli, released under Gemma Terms of Use. It has 268M parameters and a 32,768-token context. At 16-bit it needs about 0.6 GB of GPU memory, which fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest prices in the SAVRN Index.

The on-device storyteller for Outward, an offline walking adventure. You go outside, find something real ("rainwater running down a drain"), and this model writes the next 60–120 words of the story around it.

Parameters268M
Context32,768
Weights1.3 GB
Licensegemma
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads—

Runs On

What it takes to serve outward-gemma3-270m (268M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 0.5 GB 0.6 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.3 GB 0.3 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.1 GB 0.2 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Oct 18, 2026.

outward-gemma3-270m on every accelerator the SAVRN Index prices, at every precision

Model Card

The on-device storyteller for Outward, an offline walking adventure. You go outside, find something real ("rainwater running down a drain"), and this model writes the next 60–120 words of the story around it. It runs entirely on the phone, in the browser, with llama.cpp (wllama). Modified by the Outward project. This is a Model Derivative of google/gemma-3-270m-it: fully fine-tuned on 3,186 stories written by a LoRA fine-tuned Qwen3.5-4B teacher (trained on Tinker), then converted to GGUF and quantized to Q40. The eval set has 50 held-out prompts × 3 samples, temperature 0.7, scored with the automatic rubric in the Outward repo: uses the discovery, 60–120 words, safe and outdoors (risky…

Excerpt from the card by Harsh tuli, licensed gemma.

Configuration

Architecture
Gemma3ForCausalLM
Context length (tokens)
32,768
Layers
18
Hidden size
640
Feed-forward size
2,048
Attention heads
4
Key/value heads
1
Head dimension
256
Vocabulary size
262,144
Sliding window (tokens)
512
Model type
gemma3_text

Identity and Version

Repository
Harsh452/outward-gemma3-270m
Publisher
Harsh tuli
Task
Text generation
Modality
Text
Library
gguf
Parameters
268M parameters
Languages
en
Revision
133f250a4df5b2ddeefb5305fec5d30e108d3e4f
First published
2026-10-10
Last updated
2026-10-11

Files and Weights

14 files, 1.4 GB in total. The weights are 2 files totalling 1.3 GB in gguf, safetensors.

Weights2 files · 1.3 GB
Configuration3 files · 16.2 KB
Tokenizer3 files · 38.1 MB
Documentation3 files · 5.0 KB
Other2 files · 10.4 KB
Repository1 file · 1.6 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights1.1 GB e5cfb2c67b82
outward-gemma3-270m-Q4_0.ggufWeights241.4 MB 8247339441ef
config.jsonConfiguration1.5 KB —
generation_config.jsonConfiguration210 B —
training_log.jsonConfiguration14.5 KB —
MODEL_LICENSE.mdDocumentation1.2 KB —
NOTICEDocumentation675 B —
README.mdDocumentation3.2 KB —
GEMMA_TERMS_OF_USE.txtOther8.9 KB —
chat_template.jinjaOther1.5 KB —
.gitattributesRepository1.6 KB —
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer33.4 MB daab2354f8a7
tokenizer.modelTokenizer4.7 MB 1299c11d7cf6
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer731 B —

License and Download

License
gemma
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
1.3 GB
Download from Harsh tuli

Released by Harsh tuli through its official repository on Hugging Face.

Built From

  • Derived from google/gemma-3-270m-it
  • Quantized from google/gemma-3-270m-it

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published1.3 GB
16-bit0.5 GB
8-bit0.3 GB
4-bit0.1 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About outward-gemma3-270m

How much GPU memory does outward-gemma3-270m need?

About 0.6 GB at 16-bit and 0.2 GB at 4-bit: the weights (268M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run outward-gemma3-270m on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use outward-gemma3-270m commercially?

Yes, with conditions. outward-gemma3-270m is released under Gemma Terms of Use. Gemma models are released under Google's Gemma Terms of Use, which permit commercial use and redistribution subject to the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy, whose restrictions must be passed on to anyone the model is distributed to.

What is outward-gemma3-270m's context length?

32,768 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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