Gemma3 under Flash Attention silently drops the bidirectional attention over image tokens
Public issue #50710 in huggingface/transformers. The source issue contains the full report and discussion.
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Recent records to compare: “Add a PIL backend for Gemma4UnifiedImageProcessor (Gemma 4 12B)” (GitHub Issues, Nov 12, 2026); “[Bug] `AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(..., backend="pil")` fails when the video processor has no PIL backend” (GitHub Issues, Nov 12, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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