Per-Layer Embeddings (PLE) in Gemma 4 explained

Google for Developers
7,035 views •

Learn how per-layer embeddings, or PLE, work in Gemma 4 E2B and E4B, Google's open source language model. Google DeepMind’s Maarten Grootendorst breaks down how PLE gives each token a layer-specific embedding for more diverse representation, boosting model performance without increasing the parameters used during computation. Subscribe to Google for Developers → https://goo.gle/developers Products Mentioned: Gemma 4 Speaker: Maarten Grootendorst

Keyboard shortcuts

On. Switch them off if they collide with your assistive tools; ? still opens this sheet.

Go to

Press g then the letter.

  • gh Latest
  • gs Sources
  • gm Media
  • gv Videos
  • gp Podcasts
  • gc Calendar
  • gd Decoder
  • gz Dataviz
  • ga Datasets
  • gb Blog
  • gk Markets
  • gj Careers
  • gn Prompt Notebook

On this page

  • / Focus search, where there is one
  • t Back to top
  • ? This list
  • Esc Close