fix: force train split for json,csv,txt for test_datasets and misc doc changes (#3226)

* fix: force train split for json,csv,txt for test_datasets

* feat(doc): add info on mixing datasets for VLM

* feat(doc): max memory

* fix(doc): clarify lr groups

* fix: add info on vision not being dropped

* feat: add qwen3-vl to multimodal docs

* fix: add moe blocks to arch list

* feat(doc): improve mistral docs

* chore: add helpful link [skip-e2e]

* fix: add vram usage for mistral small

* Update link in docs/faq.qmd

Co-authored-by: salman <salman.mohammadi@outlook.com>

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Co-authored-by: Wing Lian <wing@axolotl.ai>
Co-authored-by: salman <salman.mohammadi@outlook.com>

src/axolotl/common/architectures.py

@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ MOE_ARCH_BLOCK = {
     "mixtral": "MixtralSparseMoeBlock",
     "qwen2_moe": "Qwen2MoeSparseMoeBlock",
     "qwen3_moe": "Qwen3MoeSparseMoeBlock",
+    "qwen3_vl_moe": "Qwen3VLMoeTextSparseMoeBlock",
     "deepseek_v2": "DeepseekV2MoE",
+    "deepseek_v3": "DeepseekV3MoE",
     "gpt_oss": "GptOssDecoderLayer",
     "lfm2_moe": "Lfm2MoeSparseMoeBlock",
 }

src/axolotl/utils/data/shared.py

@@ -239,6 +239,11 @@ def _load_from_local_path(
             return load_dataset(dataset_config.path, **load_dataset_kwargs)
     elif local_path.is_file():
         dataset_type = get_dataset_type(dataset_config)
+
+        # For single file datasets, HF always creates only a "train" split
+        if dataset_type in ("json", "csv", "text"):
+            load_dataset_kwargs["split"] = "train"
+
         return load_dataset(
             dataset_type,
             data_files=dataset_config.path,