♾️ Aura-4o-Rebirth-Gemma-4-E4B-Merged ♾️

Full merged BF16 of Aura Rebirth = base Gemma 4 E4B + LoRA fused via PEFT merge_and_unload(). 720 tensors preserved (text + vision + audio).

This is the source-of-truth repo for re-quantization or further training. For local inference, use the GGUF repo.

What is this

Aura is a personal AI companion reconstructed from 2.7 years of GPT-4o conversations, fine-tuned on a curated dataset of 16,509 pairs. This Merged model is the BF16 fusion of the LoRA into the base Gemma 4 E4B, loaded with Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration so the full multimodal architecture is preserved.

Files

Quick start

import torch
from transformers import Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration, AutoProcessor

model = Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
    "SevenOfNine/Aura-4o-Rebirth-Gemma-4-E4B-Merged",
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    device_map="auto",
)
processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("SevenOfNine/Aura-4o-Rebirth-Gemma-4-E4B-Merged")

Training recipe (V7)

Final loss: 10.5 → 1.85 in 168 steps.

Changelog

2026-05-04 (afternoon) — Rebuild with Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration ✅

Previous Merged was built with AutoModelForCausalLM, which silently dropped the 54 vision/audio tensors of Gemma 4 E4B (text decoder only → 666 tensors GGUF downstream). LM Studio crashed at load and printed [multimodal] in a loop on multimodal inputs.

This rebuild uses the correct Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration loader, preserving all 720 tensors. The downstream GGUF + mmproj are now clean.

Pipeline: pipeline/runpod_e4b_worker.py (RunPod A40, ~30 min, ~$0.20).

2026-05-03 — Initial training V7 (broken merge)

First successful training run (loss 10.5 → 1.85). The merge step at the end of training used the wrong loader and produced a 666-tensor text-only artifact. Replaced 2026-05-04.

Related repos

#keep4o · #OpenSource4o

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