Fix: RL base feature parity (#2133)

* feat: add num_proc and load from cache for rl mapping

* fix: refactor sft and rl trainer to set same base args

* feat: add report_to to set run name

* fix: consolidate handling of fp16, bf16, tf32 kwarg

* chore: consolidate eval_strat, loraplus, lr sched, max_length

* fix: deprecate old types

* fix: adding missing Any

* fix: max_steps incorrectly set

* fix: remove unnecessary datacollator kwarg insert and pop

* fix: update default max_steps

* fix: add missing weight_decay handling

* fix: ignore max_length for grpo

* feat: update CI on trainer_builder

* fix: comments

* improve handling of warmup/logging steps

* use transformers default for logging steps, not None

* fix: remove redundant override

* fix: lint

* feat: allow custom optim for rl methods

* fix: duplicate optim setting

* fix(test): set sequence_parallel_degree default in base cfg

* feat: add handling for seed and SP/ring-attn config

* chore: add back return typing from rebase

* fix(test): use RLType directly to skip needing to validate

* feat: split training builder into sub modules

* fix: remove deprecated clause

* chore: add missing config to doc

* fix: update quarto autodoc

* fix: import path for trainer builder and submodules

* fix: remove redundant configs from rebase mistake

* chore: simplify dynamo check

* fix: optimizer_cls_and_kwargs to be passed into trainer_kwargs

* fix: add missing rex from rebase

* fix: move pop optimizer_cls_and_kwargs

* fix: pop optimizer cls in rl too

* fix: leftover bug from rebase

* fix: update handling of trainer_cls in RL

* fix: address pr feedback

* feat: call hook_pre_create_trainer for rl

* chore: lint

* fix: return notimplemented for ppo

* feat: moved torch compile to base and refactor collator setting

* chore: remove unused importlib.util import

* fix: optimizer cls not being popped

* feat: move epoch setting to base

* fix: catch unhandled custom optimizer

* fix: remove duplicate lora plus setting

* chore: refactor if condition

* chore: refactor set_base_training_args into smaller modules

* fix: address TrainerBuilderBase class variables to instance var

* fix: add handling for beta3 and episilon2

* fix: change to pass dict via arg instead of updating dict

* chore: simplify if condition

* fix: force access to lr & weight decay in case not provided to early error

* fix: remove log sweep

* chore: refactor if condition

* fix: address renamed cfg

* fix: improve handling of cosine hyp

* fix: remove unused params

* chore: refactor

* chore: clarify doc safetensors

* fix: update import path to be unified following comments

* fix: duplicate kwargs passed

* feat: return separate trainer_kwargs

* chore: refactor

* chore: refactor based on comments

* chore: refactor based on comments

* fix: move gpustats callback to base

* chore: create trainer_cls_args first based on comments

* fix: ipo label smoothing passed incorrectly

* feat: add optimizer parity for RL methods with test

* feat: add parity for optimizer in RM/PRM and add test

* fix: remove redundant function override for orpo/cpo batch metrics

* fix: improve handling of dpo_label_smoothing and merge issue

* fix: test fixture returning wrong field

* fix: address avoid direct modify fixture

* chore: minor refactor

* Revert "chore: refactor"

This reverts commit 99c8859eb0.

* feat: rename trainer_builder to builders

---------

Co-authored-by: Wing Lian <wing@axolotl.ai>

_quarto.yml

@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ quartodoc:
         - convert
         - prompt_tokenizers
         - logging_config
-        - core.trainer_builder
+        - core.builders.base
+        - core.builders.causal
+        - core.builders.rl
         - core.training_args
         - core.chat.messages
         - core.chat.format.chatml

docs/config.qmd

@@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ output_dir: ./completed-model
 # setting to `auto` will enable torch compile when torch>=2.5.1
 torch_compile:  # Optional[Union[Literal["auto"], bool]]
 torch_compile_backend:  # Optional[str]
+torch_compile_mode:  # 'default' | 'reduce-overhead' | 'max-autotune'
 
 # Training hyperparameters
 
@@ -560,7 +561,7 @@ profiler_steps: # enable the pytorch profiler to capture the first N steps of tr
 loss_watchdog_threshold: # High loss value, indicating the learning has broken down (a good estimate is ~2 times the loss at the start of training)
 loss_watchdog_patience: # Number of high-loss steps in a row before the trainer aborts (default: 3)
 
-# Save model as safetensors (require safetensors package)
+# Save model as safetensors (require safetensors package). Default True
 save_safetensors:
 
 # Whether to mask out or include the human's prompt from the training labels

src/axolotl/core/builders/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+"""Trainer builder classes"""
+
+from .causal import HFCausalTrainerBuilder
+from .rl import HFRLTrainerBuilder
+
+__all__ = ["HFCausalTrainerBuilder", "HFRLTrainerBuilder"]

src/axolotl/core/builders/base.py

@@ -0,0 +1,503 @@
+# Copyright 2024 Axolotl AI. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Base class for trainer builder"""
+
+import abc
+import importlib
+import logging
+import sys
+from abc import abstractmethod
+from contextlib import suppress
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any
+
+import torch
+from transformers import (
+    TrainerCallback,
+)
+from transformers.training_args import OptimizerNames
+
+from axolotl.integrations.base import PluginManager
+from axolotl.monkeypatch.trainer.lr import patch_trainer_get_lr
+from axolotl.utils import is_comet_available, is_mlflow_available
+from axolotl.utils.callbacks import (
+    GCCallback,
+    GPUStatsCallback,
+    SaveAxolotlConfigtoWandBCallback,
+)
+from axolotl.utils.callbacks.profiler import PytorchProfilerCallback
+from axolotl.utils.schemas.enums import CustomSupportedOptimizers
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+with suppress(ImportError):
+    import torch._dynamo  # pylint: disable=ungrouped-imports
+
+
+class TrainerBuilderBase(abc.ABC):
+    """Base class for trainer builder."""
+
+    def __init__(self, cfg, model, tokenizer, processor=None):
+        self.cfg = cfg
+        self.model = model
+        self.tokenizer = tokenizer
+        self.processor = processor
+
+        self._train_dataset = None
+        self._eval_dataset = None
+        self._model_ref = None
+        self._peft_config = None
+
+        # If the model supports tagging, add the axolotl tag.
+        # This makes sure the tag is correctly pushed even if a user calls
+        # model.push_to_hub instead of trainer.push_to_hub.
+        if hasattr(model, "add_model_tags"):
+            model.add_model_tags(["axolotl"])
+
+        patch_trainer_get_lr()
+
+    @property
+    def model_ref(self):
+        return self._model_ref
+
+    @model_ref.setter
+    def model_ref(self, model):
+        self._model_ref = model
+
+    @property
+    def train_dataset(self):
+        return self._train_dataset
+
+    @train_dataset.setter
+    def train_dataset(self, dataset):
+        self._train_dataset = dataset
+
+    @property
+    def eval_dataset(self):
+        return self._eval_dataset
+
+    @eval_dataset.setter
+    def eval_dataset(self, dataset):
+        self._eval_dataset = dataset
+
+    @property
+    def peft_config(self):
+        return self._peft_config
+
+    @peft_config.setter
+    def peft_config(self, peft_config):
+        self._peft_config = peft_config
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def build(self, total_num_steps):
+        pass
+
+    def get_callbacks(self) -> list[TrainerCallback]:
+        callbacks = []
+
+        plugin_manager = PluginManager.get_instance()
+        callbacks.extend(
+            plugin_manager.add_callbacks_pre_trainer(cfg=self.cfg, model=self.model)
+        )
+
+        if self.cfg.profiler_steps:
+            callbacks.append(
+                PytorchProfilerCallback(
+                    steps_to_profile=self.cfg.profiler_steps,
+                )
+            )
+
+        if self.cfg.gc_steps:
+            callbacks.append(GCCallback(gc_steps=self.cfg.gc_steps))
+
+        if self.cfg.use_wandb:
+            callbacks.append(
+                SaveAxolotlConfigtoWandBCallback(self.cfg.axolotl_config_path)
+            )
+        if self.cfg.use_mlflow and is_mlflow_available():
+            from axolotl.utils.callbacks.mlflow_ import (
+                SaveAxolotlConfigtoMlflowCallback,
+            )
+
+            callbacks.extend(
+                [
+                    SaveAxolotlConfigtoMlflowCallback(self.cfg.axolotl_config_path),
+                ]
+            )
+        if self.cfg.use_comet and is_comet_available():
+            from axolotl.utils.callbacks.comet_ import SaveAxolotlConfigtoCometCallback
+
+            callbacks.append(
+                SaveAxolotlConfigtoCometCallback(self.cfg.axolotl_config_path)
+            )
+
+        callbacks.append(GPUStatsCallback(cfg=self.cfg))
+
+        return callbacks
+
+    def get_post_trainer_create_callbacks(self, trainer):
+        """
+        Callbacks added after the trainer is created, usually b/c these need access to the trainer
+        """
+        callbacks = []
+        if self.cfg.plugins:
+            plugin_manager = PluginManager.get_instance()
+            callbacks.extend(
+                [
+                    cb
+                    for cb in plugin_manager.add_callbacks_post_trainer(
+                        self.cfg, trainer
+                    )
+                    if cb
+                ]
+            )
+        return callbacks
+
+    def hook_pre_create_training_args(self, training_arguments_kwargs):
+        # TODO
+        return training_arguments_kwargs
+
+    def hook_post_create_training_args(self, training_arguments):
+        # TODO
+        return training_arguments
+
+    def hook_pre_create_trainer(self, trainer_kwargs, trainer_cls):
+        # TODO
+        return trainer_kwargs, trainer_cls
+
+    def hook_post_create_trainer(self, trainer):
+        # TODO
+        return trainer
+
+    def _configure_warmup_and_logging(
+        self, total_num_steps: int, training_args_kwargs: dict
+    ):
+        warmup_steps = 0
+        warmup_ratio = 0.0
+        if self.cfg.warmup_steps:
+            warmup_steps = self.cfg.warmup_steps
+        elif self.cfg.warmup_ratio:
+            if total_num_steps:
+                warmup_steps = max(int(self.cfg.warmup_ratio * total_num_steps), 0)
+            else:
+                warmup_ratio = self.cfg.warmup_ratio
+        elif total_num_steps:
+            warmup_steps = min(int(0.03 * total_num_steps), 100)
+        else:
+            warmup_ratio = 0.03
+
+        if warmup_steps == 1:
+            warmup_steps = 2
+
+        if self.cfg.logging_steps is not None:
+            training_args_kwargs["logging_steps"] = self.cfg.logging_steps
+        else:
+            training_args_kwargs["logging_steps"] = (
+                500  # transformers defaults to 500
+                if not total_num_steps
+                else max(min(int(0.005 * total_num_steps), 10), 1)
+            )
+
+        training_args_kwargs["warmup_ratio"] = warmup_ratio
+        training_args_kwargs["warmup_steps"] = warmup_steps
+
+    def _configure_precision_settings(self, training_args_kwargs: dict):
+        training_args_kwargs["fp16"] = (self.cfg.fp16 and not self.cfg.bf16) or False
+        training_args_kwargs["tf32"] = self.cfg.tf32
+        if self.cfg.bf16 == "full":
+            training_args_kwargs["bf16_full_eval"] = True
+        else:
+            training_args_kwargs["bf16"] = self.cfg.bf16 or self.cfg.bfloat16
+
+    def _configure_scheduler(self, training_args_kwargs: dict):
+        if self.cfg.lr_scheduler in ["one_cycle", "rex"]:
+            training_args_kwargs["lr_scheduler_type"] = "cosine"
+            training_args_kwargs["alternate_lr_scheduler_type"] = self.cfg.lr_scheduler
+        else:
+            training_args_kwargs["lr_scheduler_type"] = (
+                self.cfg.lr_scheduler if self.cfg.lr_scheduler else "cosine"
+            )
+        training_args_kwargs["lr_scheduler_kwargs"] = (
+            self.cfg.lr_scheduler_kwargs if self.cfg.lr_scheduler_kwargs else {}
+        )
+
+    def _configure_optimizer(self, training_args_kwargs: dict, trainer_kwargs: dict):
+        def _configure_custom_optimizer(
+            training_args_kwargs: dict, trainer_kwargs: dict
+        ):
+            # Common optimizer kwargs
+            optimizer_kwargs = {
+                "lr": training_args_kwargs["learning_rate"],
+                "weight_decay": training_args_kwargs["weight_decay"],
+            }
+
+            # Adam-specific kwargs
+            adam_kwargs: dict = {}
+            if training_args_kwargs.get("adam_beta1") and training_args_kwargs.get(
+                "adam_beta2"
+            ):
+                adam_kwargs["betas"] = (
+                    training_args_kwargs.get("adam_beta1"),
+                    training_args_kwargs.get("adam_beta2"),
+                )
+            if training_args_kwargs.get("adam_epsilon"):
+                adam_kwargs["eps"] = training_args_kwargs.get("adam_epsilon")
+
+            if self.cfg.optimizer == "muon":
+                from axolotl.contribs.mit.muon import (  # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
+                    MuonOptimizerFactory,
+                )
+
+                optimizer_cls = MuonOptimizerFactory
+                optimizer_kwargs.update(adam_kwargs)
+            elif self.cfg.optimizer == "optimi_adamw":
+                from optimi import AdamW
+
+                optimizer_kwargs["foreach"] = False
+                optimizer_cls = AdamW
+                optimizer_kwargs.update(adam_kwargs)
+            elif self.cfg.optimizer == "ao_adamw_4bit":
+                # TODO remove 20250401
+                from torchao.prototype.low_bit_optim import AdamW4bit
+
+                optimizer_cls = AdamW4bit
+                optimizer_kwargs.update(adam_kwargs)
+
+                LOG.warning(
+                    f"`ao_adamw_4bit` will be deprecated soon. Please use `{OptimizerNames.ADAMW_TORCH_4BIT}` instead."
+                )
+            elif self.cfg.optimizer == "ao_adamw_8bit":
+                from torchao.prototype.low_bit_optim import AdamW8bit
+
+                optimizer_cls = AdamW8bit
+                optimizer_kwargs.update(adam_kwargs)
+            elif self.cfg.optimizer == "ao_adamw_fp8":
+                from torchao.prototype.low_bit_optim import AdamWFp8
+
+                optimizer_cls = AdamWFp8
+                optimizer_kwargs.update(adam_kwargs)
+            elif self.cfg.optimizer == "adopt_adamw":
+                from axolotl.utils.optimizers.adopt import ADOPT
+
+                optimizer_cls = ADOPT
+                adam_kwargs["decouple"] = True
+                optimizer_kwargs.update(adam_kwargs)
+            elif self.cfg.optimizer == "came_pytorch":
+                from came_pytorch import CAME
+
+                optimizer_cls = CAME
+
+                beta1 = training_args_kwargs.get("adam_beta1", 0.9)
+                beta2 = training_args_kwargs.get("adam_beta2", 0.999)
+                beta3 = training_args_kwargs.get("adam_beta3", 0.9999)
+                eps1 = training_args_kwargs.get("adam_epsilon", 1e-30)
+                eps2 = training_args_kwargs.get("adam_epsilon2", 1e-16)
+                adam_kwargs["betas"] = (beta1, beta2, beta3)
+                adam_kwargs["eps"] = (eps1, eps2)
+
+                optimizer_kwargs.update(adam_kwargs)
+            else:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"Unhandled optimizer: {self.cfg.optimizer}. Please raise an Issue."
+                )
+
+            # Parse any additional optimizer args from config
+            if self.cfg.optim_args:
+                if isinstance(self.cfg.optim_args, dict):
+                    optimizer_kwargs.update(self.cfg.optim_args)
+                else:
+                    # Parse string format "key1=value1,key2=value2"
+                    for mapping in self.cfg.optim_args.replace(" ", "").split(","):
+                        key, value = mapping.split("=")
+                        optimizer_kwargs[key] = value
+
+            # Note: This is not used in training_args_kwargs, but in trainer_kwargs
+            trainer_kwargs["optimizer_cls_and_kwargs"] = (
+                optimizer_cls,
+                optimizer_kwargs,
+            )
+
+        # Handle custom optimizer
+        custom_supported_optimizers = [opt.value for opt in CustomSupportedOptimizers]
+        if self.cfg.optimizer in custom_supported_optimizers:
+            _configure_custom_optimizer(training_args_kwargs, trainer_kwargs)
+        else:
+            # Use transformers' optimizer
+            training_args_kwargs["optim"] = self.cfg.optimizer
+
+            # Parse any additional optimizer args from config
+            if self.cfg.optim_args:
+                if isinstance(self.cfg.optim_args, dict):
+                    optim_args = ",".join(
+                        [f"{key}={value}" for key, value in self.cfg.optim_args.items()]
+                    )
+                else:
+                    optim_args = self.cfg.optim_args
+                training_args_kwargs["optim_args"] = optim_args
+
+            if (
+                self.cfg.optimizer == "adamw_anyprecision"
+                and Path(self.cfg.torchdistx_path).exists()
+            ):
+                sys.path.append(self.cfg.torchdistx_path)
+                importlib.import_module("torchdistx")
+
+    def _configure_hub_parameters(self, training_args_kwargs: dict):
+        if self.cfg.hub_model_id:
+            training_args_kwargs["hub_model_id"] = self.cfg.hub_model_id
+            training_args_kwargs["push_to_hub"] = True
+            training_args_kwargs["hub_private_repo"] = True
+            training_args_kwargs["hub_always_push"] = True
+
+            if self.cfg.hub_strategy:
+                training_args_kwargs["hub_strategy"] = self.cfg.hub_strategy
+
+    def _configure_save_and_eval_strategy(self, training_args_kwargs: dict):
+        # save_strategy and save_steps
+        if self.cfg.save_steps:
+            training_args_kwargs["save_strategy"] = "steps"
+            training_args_kwargs["save_steps"] = self.cfg.save_steps
+        elif self.cfg.save_strategy:
+            training_args_kwargs["save_strategy"] = self.cfg.save_strategy
+        else:
+            # default to saving each epoch if not defined
+            training_args_kwargs["save_strategy"] = "epoch"
+
+        training_args_kwargs["save_total_limit"] = (
+            self.cfg.save_total_limit if self.cfg.save_total_limit else 4
+        )
+
+        # eval_strategy and eval_steps
+        if not self.eval_dataset or self.cfg.val_set_size == 0:
+            # do not eval if no eval_dataset or val_set_size=0
+            training_args_kwargs["eval_strategy"] = "no"
+        elif self.cfg.eval_steps:
+            training_args_kwargs["eval_strategy"] = "steps"
+            training_args_kwargs["eval_steps"] = self.cfg.eval_steps
+        elif self.cfg.eval_strategy:
+            training_args_kwargs["eval_strategy"] = self.cfg.eval_strategy
+
+    def _configure_reporting(self, training_args_kwargs: dict):
+        report_to = []
+        if self.cfg.use_wandb:
+            report_to.append("wandb")
+        if self.cfg.use_mlflow:
+            report_to.append("mlflow")
+        if self.cfg.use_tensorboard:
+            report_to.append("tensorboard")
+        if self.cfg.use_comet:
+            report_to.append("comet_ml")
+
+        training_args_kwargs["report_to"] = report_to
+
+        if self.cfg.use_wandb:
+            training_args_kwargs["run_name"] = self.cfg.wandb_name
+        elif self.cfg.use_mlflow:
+            training_args_kwargs["run_name"] = self.cfg.mlflow_run_name
+        else:
+            training_args_kwargs["run_name"] = None
+
+    def _configure_torch_compile(self, training_args_kwargs: dict):
+        if self.cfg.torch_compile and getattr(torch, "_dynamo", None):
+            torch._dynamo.config.suppress_errors = (  # pylint: disable=protected-access
+                True
+            )
+            training_args_kwargs["torch_compile"] = self.cfg.torch_compile
+            if self.cfg.torch_compile_backend:
+                training_args_kwargs["torch_compile_backend"] = (
+                    self.cfg.torch_compile_backend
+                )
+            if self.cfg.torch_compile_mode:
+                training_args_kwargs["torch_compile_mode"] = self.cfg.torch_compile_mode
+
+    def _configure_gradient_checkpointing(self, training_args_kwargs: dict):
+        if self.cfg.gradient_checkpointing:
+            training_args_kwargs["gradient_checkpointing"] = (
+                self.cfg.gradient_checkpointing
+            )
+            if self.cfg.gradient_checkpointing_kwargs is not None:
+                training_args_kwargs["gradient_checkpointing_kwargs"] = (
+                    self.cfg.gradient_checkpointing_kwargs
+                )
+            else:
+                training_args_kwargs["gradient_checkpointing_kwargs"] = {
+                    "use_reentrant": False
+                }
+
+    def _set_base_training_args(
+        self, total_num_steps
+    ) -> tuple[dict[str, Any], dict[str, Any]]:
+        training_args_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {}
+        trainer_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {}
+
+        self._configure_warmup_and_logging(total_num_steps, training_args_kwargs)
+        self._configure_precision_settings(training_args_kwargs)
+        self._configure_save_and_eval_strategy(training_args_kwargs)
+        self._configure_gradient_checkpointing(training_args_kwargs)
+
+        # set arg into trainer_args_kwargs with same name if value not None
+        for arg in [
+            # optim/scheduler
+            "adam_beta1",
+            "adam_beta2",
+            "adam_beta3",
+            "adam_epsilon",
+            "adam_epsilon2",
+            "cosine_min_lr_ratio",
+            "cosine_constant_lr_ratio",
+            "optim_target_modules",
+            # trainer
+            "max_grad_norm",
+            "dataloader_num_workers",
+            "dataloader_pin_memory",
+            "dataloader_prefetch_factor",
+            "gradient_accumulation_steps",
+            "learning_rate",
+            "embedding_lr",
+            "embedding_lr_scale",
+            "lr_groups",
+            "loraplus_lr_ratio",
+            "loraplus_lr_embedding",
+            "output_dir",
+            "save_safetensors",
+            "save_only_model",
+            "include_tokens_per_second",
+            "weight_decay",
+            "seed",
+        ]:
+            if hasattr(self.cfg, arg) and getattr(self.cfg, arg) is not None:
+                training_args_kwargs[arg] = getattr(self.cfg, arg)
+
+        training_args_kwargs["per_device_train_batch_size"] = self.cfg.micro_batch_size
+
+        if self.cfg.eval_batch_size:
+            training_args_kwargs["per_device_eval_batch_size"] = (
+                self.cfg.eval_batch_size
+            )
+
+        training_args_kwargs["max_steps"] = self.cfg.max_steps or total_num_steps or -1
+        training_args_kwargs["num_train_epochs"] = self.cfg.num_epochs
+
+        # max_length is not used in CausalTrainer
+        if self.cfg.reward_model or self.cfg.rl:
+            training_args_kwargs["max_length"] = self.cfg.sequence_len
+
+        self._configure_reporting(training_args_kwargs)
+        self._configure_hub_parameters(training_args_kwargs)
+        self._configure_scheduler(training_args_kwargs)
+        self._configure_optimizer(training_args_kwargs, trainer_kwargs)
+        self._configure_torch_compile(training_args_kwargs)
+
+        return training_args_kwargs, trainer_kwargs

src/axolotl/core/builders/causal.py

@@ -0,0 +1,487 @@
+"""Builder for causal trainers"""
+
+import inspect
+import math
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Type, Union
+
+import transformers
+from transformers import (
+    DataCollatorWithFlattening,
+    EarlyStoppingCallback,
+)
+from trl.trainer.utils import RewardDataCollatorWithPadding
+
+from axolotl.core.builders.base import TrainerBuilderBase
+from axolotl.core.trainers import (
+    AxolotlMambaTrainer,
+    AxolotlPRMTrainer,
+    AxolotlRewardTrainer,
+    AxolotlTrainer,
+    ReLoRATrainer,
+)
+from axolotl.core.training_args import (
+    AxolotlPRMConfig,
+    AxolotlRewardConfig,
+    AxolotlTrainingArguments,
+)
+from axolotl.integrations.base import PluginManager
+from axolotl.monkeypatch.multipack import SUPPORTED_MULTIPACK_MODEL_TYPES
+from axolotl.monkeypatch.relora import ReLoRACallback
+from axolotl.processing_strategies import get_processing_strategy
+from axolotl.utils import is_comet_available, is_mlflow_available
+from axolotl.utils.callbacks import (
+    EvalFirstStepCallback,
+    LossWatchDogCallback,
+    SaveBetterTransformerModelCallback,
+    bench_eval_callback_factory,
+    causal_lm_bench_eval_callback_factory,
+    colab_inference_post_train_callback,
+    log_prediction_callback_factory,
+)
+from axolotl.utils.callbacks.lisa import lisa_callback_factory
+from axolotl.utils.callbacks.qat import QATCallback
+from axolotl.utils.chat_templates import get_chat_template_from_config
+from axolotl.utils.collators import (
+    BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq,
+    DataCollatorForSeq2Seq,
+    MambaDataCollator,
+    V2BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq,
+)
+from axolotl.utils.collators.mm_chat import MultiModalChatDataCollator
+from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
+
+LOG = get_logger(__name__)
+
+
+class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
+    """
+    Build the HuggingFace training args/trainer for causal models and reward modeling
+    using TRL.
+    """
+
+    def get_callbacks(self):
+        callbacks = super().get_callbacks()
+        callbacks.append(EvalFirstStepCallback())
+
+        if self.cfg.relora_steps:
+            callbacks.append(ReLoRACallback(self.cfg))
+
+        if (
+            hasattr(self.model, "use_bettertransformer")
+            and self.model.use_bettertransformer is True
+        ):
+            callbacks.append(SaveBetterTransformerModelCallback())
+
+        # TODO: check if can move to base class
+        if self.cfg.loss_watchdog_threshold is not None:
+            callbacks.append(LossWatchDogCallback(self.cfg))
+
+        if self.cfg.qat:
+            callbacks.append(QATCallback(self.cfg.qat))
+
+        return callbacks
+
+    def get_post_trainer_create_callbacks(self, trainer):
+        callbacks = []
+        if self.cfg.use_wandb and self.cfg.eval_table_size > 0:
+            LogPredictionCallback = log_prediction_callback_factory(
+                trainer, self.tokenizer, "wandb"
+            )
+            callbacks.append(LogPredictionCallback(self.cfg))
+        if (
+            self.cfg.use_mlflow
+            and is_mlflow_available()
+            and self.cfg.eval_table_size > 0
+        ):
+            LogPredictionCallback = log_prediction_callback_factory(
+                trainer, self.tokenizer, "mlflow"
+            )
+            callbacks.append(LogPredictionCallback(self.cfg))
+        if self.cfg.use_comet and is_comet_available() and self.cfg.eval_table_size > 0:
+            LogPredictionCallback = log_prediction_callback_factory(
+                trainer, self.tokenizer, "comet_ml"
+            )
+            callbacks.append(LogPredictionCallback(self.cfg))
+
+        if self.cfg.do_bench_eval:
+            callbacks.append(bench_eval_callback_factory(trainer, self.tokenizer))
+        if self.cfg.do_causal_lm_eval:
+            CausalLMBenchEvalCallback = causal_lm_bench_eval_callback_factory(
+                trainer, self.tokenizer
+            )
+            callbacks.append(CausalLMBenchEvalCallback(self.cfg))
+
+        if self.cfg.early_stopping_patience:
+            early_stop_cb = EarlyStoppingCallback(
+                self.cfg.early_stopping_patience,
+            )
+            callbacks.append(early_stop_cb)
+
+        if self.cfg.lisa_step_interval and self.cfg.lisa_n_layers:
+            callbacks.append(lisa_callback_factory(trainer))
+
+        if any("COLAB_" in key for key in os.environ):
+            ColabCallback = colab_inference_post_train_callback(trainer)
+            callbacks.append(ColabCallback(self.cfg))
+
+        callbacks.extend(super().get_post_trainer_create_callbacks(trainer=trainer))
+        return callbacks
+
+    def _get_trainer_cls(self):
+        if self.cfg.plugins:
+            plugin_manager = PluginManager.get_instance()
+            trainer_cls = plugin_manager.get_trainer_cls(self.cfg)
+            if trainer_cls:
+                return trainer_cls
+        if self.cfg.relora_steps:
+            return ReLoRATrainer
+        if self.cfg.model_config_type == "mamba":
+            return AxolotlMambaTrainer
+        if self.cfg.reward_model:
+            return AxolotlRewardTrainer
+        if self.cfg.process_reward_model:
+            return AxolotlPRMTrainer
+        return AxolotlTrainer
+
+    def build(self, total_num_steps):
+        training_arguments_kwargs, trainer_kwargs = self._set_base_training_args(
+            total_num_steps
+        )
+
+        if self.cfg.fsdp:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["fsdp"] = self.cfg.fsdp
+            if self.cfg.fsdp_config:
+                training_arguments_kwargs["fsdp_config"] = {
+                    k.lstrip("fsdp_"): v for k, v in dict(self.cfg.fsdp_config).items()
+                }
+
+        if self.cfg.adapter == "qlora":
+            training_arguments_kwargs["qlora"] = True
+
+        # deepspeed
+        if self.cfg.deepspeed:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["deepspeed"] = self.cfg.deepspeed
+
+        if self.cfg.lr_quadratic_warmup is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["lr_quadratic_warmup"] = (
+                self.cfg.lr_quadratic_warmup
+            )
+
+        if self.cfg.dataloader_drop_last is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["dataloader_drop_last"] = (
+                self.cfg.dataloader_drop_last
+            )
+        elif self.cfg.sample_packing and self.cfg.eval_sample_packing is False:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["dataloader_drop_last"] = True
+
+        if self.cfg.remove_unused_columns is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["remove_unused_columns"] = (
+                self.cfg.remove_unused_columns
+            )
+
+        if self.cfg.do_bench_eval:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["do_bench_eval"] = self.cfg.do_bench_eval
+            if self.cfg.bench_dataset:
+                training_arguments_kwargs["bench_dataset"] = self.cfg.bench_dataset
+        if self.cfg.do_causal_lm_eval:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["do_causal_lm_eval"] = self.cfg.do_causal_lm_eval
+        if self.cfg.metric_for_best_model:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["metric_for_best_model"] = (
+                self.cfg.metric_for_best_model
+            )
+        if self.cfg.greater_is_better:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["greater_is_better"] = self.cfg.greater_is_better
+
+        # DDP Config
+        if self.cfg.ddp_timeout:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["ddp_timeout"] = self.cfg.ddp_timeout
+        # see https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.nn.parallel.DistributedDataParallel.html
+        if self.cfg.ddp_bucket_cap_mb:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["ddp_bucket_cap_mb"] = self.cfg.ddp_bucket_cap_mb
+        if self.cfg.ddp_broadcast_buffers is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["ddp_broadcast_buffers"] = (
+                self.cfg.ddp_broadcast_buffers
+            )
+
+        # these are all the "standard" kwargs that are def used
+        training_arguments_kwargs["max_seq_length"] = self.cfg.sequence_len
+
+        if self.cfg.auto_find_batch_size is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["auto_find_batch_size"] = (
+                self.cfg.auto_find_batch_size
+            )
+
+        training_arguments_kwargs["eval_accumulation_steps"] = (
+            self.cfg.gradient_accumulation_steps
+        )
+
+        training_arguments_kwargs["load_best_model_at_end"] = (
+            (
+                self.cfg.load_best_model_at_end is not False
+                or self.cfg.early_stopping_patience
+            )
+            and (
+                (not self.cfg.test_datasets and self.cfg.val_set_size > 0)
+                or (self.cfg.test_datasets and self.cfg.val_set_size == 0)
+            )
+            and self.cfg.save_steps
+            and self.cfg.eval_steps
+            and self.cfg.save_steps % self.cfg.eval_steps == 0
+        ) or False
+
+        # handle ddp
+        ddp_find_unused_parameters = None
+        if self.cfg.ddp:
+            ddp_find_unused_parameters = bool(self.cfg.ddp_find_unused_parameters)
+        training_arguments_kwargs["ddp_find_unused_parameters"] = (
+            ddp_find_unused_parameters
+        )
+
+        training_arguments_kwargs["group_by_length"] = self.cfg.group_by_length
+        training_arguments_kwargs["curriculum_sampling"] = self.cfg.curriculum_sampling
+
+        training_arguments_kwargs["sample_packing"] = bool(self.cfg.sample_packing)
+        training_arguments_kwargs["multipack_real_batches"] = (
+            not self.cfg.flash_attention or self.cfg.multipack_real_batches
+        )
+        training_arguments_kwargs["eval_sample_packing"] = bool(
+            self.cfg.eval_sample_packing
+        )
+        if self.cfg.sample_packing_bin_size is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["sample_packing_bin_size"] = (
+                self.cfg.sample_packing_bin_size
+            )
+        if self.cfg.sample_packing_group_size is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["sample_packing_group_size"] = (
+                self.cfg.sample_packing_group_size
+            )
+        if self.cfg.sample_packing_eff_est:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["sample_packing_efficiency"] = (
+                self.cfg.sample_packing_eff_est
+            )
+
+        if self.cfg.relora_steps:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["relora_steps"] = self.cfg.relora_steps
+            training_arguments_kwargs["relora_warmup_steps"] = (
+                self.cfg.relora_warmup_steps
+            )
+            if self.cfg.relora_anneal_steps:
+                training_arguments_kwargs["relora_anneal_steps"] = (
+                    self.cfg.relora_anneal_steps
+                )
+            if self.cfg.relora_prune_ratio:
+                training_arguments_kwargs["relora_prune_ratio"] = (
+                    self.cfg.relora_prune_ratio
+                )
+
+        if self.cfg.lisa_step_interval and self.cfg.lisa_n_layers:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["lisa_n_layers"] = self.cfg.lisa_n_layers
+            training_arguments_kwargs["lisa_step_interval"] = (
+                self.cfg.lisa_step_interval
+            )
+            training_arguments_kwargs["lisa_layers_attribute"] = (
+                self.cfg.lisa_layers_attribute
+            )
+
+        training_arguments_kwargs = self.hook_pre_create_training_args(
+            training_arguments_kwargs
+        )
+        training_arguments_kwargs["model_type"] = self.cfg.model_config_type
+        training_arguments_kwargs["pretraining"] = bool(self.cfg.pretraining_dataset)
+        if self.cfg.chat_template:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["chat_template"] = get_chat_template_from_config(
+                cfg=self.cfg,
+                tokenizer=self.tokenizer,
+            )
+
+        if self.cfg.neftune_noise_alpha is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["neftune_noise_alpha"] = (
+                self.cfg.neftune_noise_alpha
+            )
+
+        if self.cfg.accelerator_config:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["accelerator_config"] = (
+                self.cfg.accelerator_config
+            )
+
+        if self.cfg.image_size:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["image_size"] = self.cfg.image_size
+        if self.cfg.image_resize_algorithm:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["image_resize_algorithm"] = (
+                self.cfg.image_resize_algorithm
+            )
+        if self.cfg.kd_ce_alpha is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["kd_ce_alpha"] = self.cfg.kd_ce_alpha
+        if self.cfg.kd_alpha is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["kd_alpha"] = self.cfg.kd_alpha
+        if self.cfg.kd_temperature is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["kd_temperature"] = self.cfg.kd_temperature
+        if self.cfg.kd_zscore_base_temp is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["kd_zscore_base_temp"] = (
+                self.cfg.kd_zscore_base_temp
+            )
+        if self.cfg.kd_top_k_before_softmax is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["kd_top_k_before_softmax"] = (
+                self.cfg.kd_top_k_before_softmax
+            )
+
+        if self.cfg.reward_model:
+            training_args_cls = AxolotlRewardConfig
+        elif self.cfg.process_reward_model:
+            training_args_cls = AxolotlPRMConfig
+        else:
+            training_args_cls = AxolotlTrainingArguments
+        training_args = training_args_cls(  # pylint: disable=unexpected-keyword-arg
+            **training_arguments_kwargs,
+        )
+        training_args = self.hook_post_create_training_args(training_args)
+
+        # unset run_name so wandb sets up experiment names
+        if self.cfg.use_wandb and training_args.run_name == training_args.output_dir:
+            training_args.run_name = (  # pylint: disable=attribute-defined-outside-init
+                None
+            )
+
+        data_collator_kwargs = {
+            "padding": True,  # True/"longest" is the default
+        }
+        multiple = 64
+        if self.cfg.pad_to_sequence_len:
+            data_collator_kwargs["pad_to_multiple_of"] = multiple * math.ceil(
+                self.cfg.sequence_len / multiple
+            )
+        else:
+            # A100 is best at 64, while others at 8. Let's use the larger so we don't have to check
+            # https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/performance/dl-performance-matrix-multiplication/index.html
+            data_collator_kwargs["pad_to_multiple_of"] = multiple
+
+        trainer_cls = self._get_trainer_cls()
+
+        trainer_kwargs, trainer_cls = self.hook_pre_create_trainer(
+            trainer_kwargs, trainer_cls
+        )
+        if eval_data_collator := self.build_collator(
+            training_args, is_eval=True, **data_collator_kwargs
+        ):
+            if not (self.cfg.reward_model or self.cfg.process_reward_model):
+                trainer_kwargs["eval_data_collator"] = eval_data_collator
+        if not (self.cfg.reward_model or self.cfg.process_reward_model):
+            trainer_kwargs["bench_data_collator"] = transformers.DataCollatorForSeq2Seq(
+                self.tokenizer,
+                return_tensors="pt",
+                **data_collator_kwargs,
+            )
+        sig = inspect.signature(trainer_cls)
+        if "processing_class" in sig.parameters:
+            trainer_kwargs["processing_class"] = self.tokenizer
+        elif "tokenizer" in sig.parameters:
+            trainer_kwargs["tokenizer"] = self.tokenizer
+        if (
+            not (trainer_cls in [AxolotlRewardTrainer, AxolotlPRMTrainer])
+            and self.cfg.datasets is not None
+        ):
+            trainer_kwargs["dataset_tags"] = [
+                d["path"] for d in self.cfg.datasets if not Path(d["path"]).is_dir()
+            ]
+        trainer = trainer_cls(
+            model=self.model,
+            train_dataset=self.train_dataset,
+            eval_dataset=self.eval_dataset,
+            args=training_args,
+            data_collator=self.build_collator(training_args, **data_collator_kwargs),
+            callbacks=self.get_callbacks(),
+            **trainer_kwargs,
+        )
+        trainer = self.hook_post_create_trainer(trainer)
+        for callback in self.get_post_trainer_create_callbacks(trainer):
+            trainer.add_callback(callback)
+
+        if self.cfg.deepspeed and self.cfg.sample_packing:
+            trainer.accelerator.state.deepspeed_plugin.deepspeed_config[
+                "train_micro_batch_size_per_gpu"
+            ] = self.cfg.micro_batch_size
+
+        return trainer
+
+    def build_collator(
+        self, training_args: AxolotlTrainingArguments, is_eval=False, **kwargs
+    ):
+        if training_args.pretraining:
+            if (
+                self.cfg.pretraining_sample_concatenation is False
+                or self.cfg.micro_batch_size > 1
+            ):
+                return DataCollatorForSeq2Seq(self.tokenizer, **kwargs)
+            return None
+
+        if self.cfg.model_config_type == "mamba":
+            return MambaDataCollator(tokenizer=self.tokenizer)
+
+        use_batch_sampler_collator = False
+        if is_eval is False and training_args.sample_packing:
+            use_batch_sampler_collator = True
+        if is_eval and training_args.eval_sample_packing:
+            use_batch_sampler_collator = True
+
+        collator: Type[
+            Union[
+                V2BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq,
+                BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq,
+                DataCollatorForSeq2Seq,
+                DataCollatorWithFlattening,
+                RewardDataCollatorWithPadding,
+            ]
+        ]
+        collator_args = [self.tokenizer]
+        if self.cfg.reward_model:
+            collator = RewardDataCollatorWithPadding
+        elif use_batch_sampler_collator:
+            # Use V2BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq for flex attention,
+            # supported multipack models, or non-flash-attention llama
+            if (
+                self.cfg.flex_attention
+                or self.cfg.model_config_type in SUPPORTED_MULTIPACK_MODEL_TYPES
+                or (
+                    self.cfg.model_config_type in ["llama"]
+                    and self.cfg.flash_attention is not True
+                )
+            ):
+                collator = V2BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq
+            else:
+                collator = BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq
+        else:
+            if self.cfg.processor_type and self.processor:
+                collator = MultiModalChatDataCollator
+                kwargs["processing_strategy"] = get_processing_strategy(
+                    self.processor,
+                    training_args.chat_template,
+                    self.cfg.chat_template,
+                    image_size=training_args.image_size,
+                    image_resize_algorithm=training_args.image_resize_algorithm,
+                )
+            elif self.cfg.batch_flattening:
+                collator = DataCollatorWithFlattening
+                collator_args.pop(0)
+                kwargs.pop("pad_to_multiple_of", None)
+                kwargs.pop("padding", None)
+            elif self.cfg.kd_trainer:
+                from axolotl.integrations.kd.collator import (
+                    DataCollatorForKD,
+                    KDBatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq,
+                )
+
+                if self.cfg.sample_packing:
+                    collator = KDBatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq
+                else:
+                    collator = DataCollatorForKD
+            else:
+                collator = DataCollatorForSeq2Seq
+
+        kwargs["return_tensors"] = "pt"
+
+        return collator(
+            *collator_args,
+            **kwargs,
+        )

src/axolotl/core/builders/rl.py

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+"""Builder for RLHF trainers"""
+
+import inspect
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from axolotl.core.builders.base import TrainerBuilderBase
+from axolotl.core.trainers import (
+    AxolotlCPOTrainer,
+    AxolotlKTOTrainer,
+    AxolotlORPOTrainer,
+)
+from axolotl.core.trainers.dpo import DPOStrategy
+from axolotl.core.trainers.dpo.args import AxolotlDPOConfig
+from axolotl.core.trainers.grpo import GRPOStrategy
+from axolotl.core.training_args import (
+    AxolotlCPOConfig,
+    AxolotlKTOConfig,
+    AxolotlORPOConfig,
+)
+from axolotl.integrations.base import PluginManager
+from axolotl.loaders.utils import ensure_dtype
+from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
+from axolotl.utils.schemas.enums import RLType
+
+LOG = get_logger(__name__)
+
+
+class HFRLTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
+    """Trainer factory class for TRL-based RLHF trainers (e.g. DPO)"""
+
+    def get_callbacks(self):
+        callbacks = super().get_callbacks()
+
+        return callbacks
+
+    def get_post_trainer_create_callbacks(self, trainer):
+        callbacks = super().get_post_trainer_create_callbacks(trainer=trainer)
+        return callbacks
+
+    def _get_trainer_cls(self, trainer_kwargs: dict):
+        """
+        Returns trainer_cls and trainer_cls_args
+        """
+        if self.cfg.plugins:
+            plugin_manager = PluginManager.get_instance()
+            trainer_cls = plugin_manager.get_trainer_cls(self.cfg)
+            trainer_cls_args = []  # type: ignore
+
+            if trainer_cls is not None:
+                return trainer_cls, trainer_cls_args
+
+        trainer_cls = None
+        trainer_cls_args = [self.model]
+
+        if self.cfg.rl is RLType.GRPO:
+            trainer_cls = GRPOStrategy.get_trainer_class(
+                sequence_parallel=self.cfg.sequence_parallel_degree > 1
+            )
+            trainer_cls_args.extend(GRPOStrategy.set_trainer_args(self.cfg))
+
+            trainer_kwargs.update(GRPOStrategy.set_trainer_kwargs(self.cfg))
+
+        elif self.cfg.rl in [RLType.DPO, RLType.IPO]:
+            trainer_cls = DPOStrategy.get_trainer_class()
+            trainer_cls_args.append(self.model_ref)
+
+        elif self.cfg.rl is RLType.ORPO:
+            trainer_cls = AxolotlORPOTrainer
+        elif self.cfg.rl is RLType.KTO:
+            trainer_cls = AxolotlKTOTrainer
+        elif self.cfg.rl is RLType.SIMPO:
+            trainer_cls = AxolotlCPOTrainer
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"Unsupported RL: {self.cfg.rl}")
+
+        return trainer_cls, trainer_cls_args
+
+    def _build_training_arguments(self, total_num_steps):
+        """
+        Returns training_args and trainer_kwargs
+        """
+        training_args_kwargs, trainer_kwargs = self._set_base_training_args(
+            total_num_steps=total_num_steps
+        )
+
+        if self.cfg.remove_unused_columns is not None:
+            training_args_kwargs["remove_unused_columns"] = (
+                self.cfg.remove_unused_columns
+            )
+        else:
+            training_args_kwargs["remove_unused_columns"] = False
+
+        # only rlhf
+        if self.cfg.dataset_processes:
+            training_args_kwargs["dataset_num_proc"] = self.cfg.dataset_processes
+
+        if self.cfg.trl and self.cfg.trl.beta is not None:
+            training_args_kwargs["beta"] = self.cfg.trl.beta
+        elif self.cfg.rl_beta is not None:
+            training_args_kwargs["beta"] = self.cfg.rl_beta
+        elif self.cfg.orpo_alpha is not None:
+            # trl does some odd mapping of alpha to beta to reuse the beta parameter ???
+            training_args_kwargs["beta"] = self.cfg.orpo_alpha
+
+        if self.cfg.rpo_alpha is not None:
+            training_args_kwargs["rpo_alpha"] = self.cfg.rpo_alpha
+
+        if self.cfg.use_wandb:
+            training_args_kwargs["run_name"] = self.cfg.wandb_name
+
+        training_args_cls = None
+        blocklist_args_kwargs = []
+        if self.cfg.rl is RLType.SIMPO:
+            training_args_cls = AxolotlCPOConfig
+            training_args_kwargs["loss_type"] = "simpo"
+            training_args_kwargs["simpo_gamma"] = self.cfg.simpo_gamma
+            if self.cfg.cpo_alpha is not None:
+                training_args_kwargs["cpo_alpha"] = self.cfg.cpo_alpha
+
+        elif self.cfg.rl is RLType.ORPO:
+            training_args_cls = AxolotlORPOConfig
+            if self.cfg.max_prompt_len:
+                training_args_kwargs["max_prompt_length"] = self.cfg.max_prompt_len
+
+        elif self.cfg.rl is RLType.KTO:
+            training_args_cls = AxolotlKTOConfig
+
+            training_args_kwargs["desirable_weight"] = (
+                self.cfg.kto_desirable_weight or 1.0
+            )
+            training_args_kwargs["undesirable_weight"] = (
+                self.cfg.kto_undesirable_weight or 1.0
+            )
+
+            if self.cfg.max_prompt_len:
+                training_args_kwargs["max_prompt_length"] = self.cfg.max_prompt_len
+
+        elif self.cfg.rl is RLType.GRPO:
+            training_args_cls = GRPOStrategy.get_training_args_class()
+            training_args_kwargs.update(GRPOStrategy.set_training_args_kwargs(self.cfg))
+            blocklist_args_kwargs = GRPOStrategy.get_blocklist_args_kwargs()
+
+        elif self.cfg.rl in [RLType.DPO, RLType.IPO]:
+            training_args_cls = AxolotlDPOConfig
+            if self.cfg.rl is RLType.IPO:
+                training_args_kwargs["loss_type"] = "ipo"
+
+            # Not compatible with IPO
+            if self.cfg.rl is RLType.DPO and self.cfg.dpo_label_smoothing:
+                training_args_kwargs["label_smoothing"] = self.cfg.dpo_label_smoothing
+
+            training_args_kwargs["max_completion_length"] = None
+            training_args_kwargs["max_prompt_length"] = self.cfg.sequence_len
+            training_args_kwargs["generate_during_eval"] = self.cfg.use_wandb
+            if self.cfg.dpo_use_weighting is not None:
+                training_args_kwargs["use_weighting"] = self.cfg.dpo_use_weighting
+            if self.cfg.dpo_use_logits_to_keep is not None:
+                training_args_kwargs["use_logits_to_keep"] = (
+                    self.cfg.dpo_use_logits_to_keep
+                )
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"Unsupported RL: {self.cfg.rl}")
+
+        for blocklist_key in blocklist_args_kwargs:
+            if blocklist_key in training_args_kwargs:
+                del training_args_kwargs[blocklist_key]
+
+        training_args = training_args_cls(  # pylint: disable=unexpected-keyword-arg
+            logging_first_step=True,
+            **training_args_kwargs,
+        )
+
+        # unset run_name so wandb sets up experiment names
+        if self.cfg.use_wandb and training_args.run_name == training_args.output_dir:
+            training_args.run_name = (  # pylint: disable=attribute-defined-outside-init
+                None
+            )
+
+        return training_args, trainer_kwargs
+
+    def build(self, total_num_steps):
+        training_args, trainer_kwargs = self._build_training_arguments(total_num_steps)
+
+        if self.eval_dataset:
+            trainer_kwargs["eval_dataset"] = self.eval_dataset
+        if self.cfg.adapter and self.peft_config and self.cfg.rl is not RLType.GRPO:
+            trainer_kwargs["peft_config"] = self.peft_config
+        if self.cfg.precompute_ref_log_probs is not None:
+            trainer_kwargs["precompute_ref_log_probs"] = (
+                self.cfg.precompute_ref_log_probs
+            )
+
+        trainer_cls, trainer_cls_args = self._get_trainer_cls(trainer_kwargs)
+
+        sig = inspect.signature(trainer_cls)
+        if "tokenizer" in sig.parameters:
+            trainer_kwargs["tokenizer"] = self.tokenizer
+        else:
+            trainer_kwargs["processing_class"] = self.tokenizer
+
+        if self.cfg.datasets is not None and (
+            trainer_cls is DPOStrategy.get_trainer_class()
+        ):
+            trainer_kwargs["dataset_tags"] = [
+                d["path"] for d in self.cfg.datasets if not Path(d["path"]).is_dir()
+            ]
+
+        trainer_kwargs, trainer_cls = self.hook_pre_create_trainer(
+            trainer_kwargs, trainer_cls
+        )
+
+        trainer = trainer_cls(
+            *trainer_cls_args,
+            args=training_args,
+            train_dataset=self.train_dataset,
+            callbacks=self.get_callbacks(),
+            **trainer_kwargs,
+        )
+        if self.cfg.fsdp:
+            ensure_dtype(trainer.model, dtype=self.cfg.torch_dtype)
+            if self.cfg.rl in [RLType.DPO, RLType.IPO] and trainer.ref_model:
+                ensure_dtype(trainer.ref_model, dtype=self.cfg.torch_dtype)
+
+        trainer = self.hook_post_create_trainer(trainer)
+        for callback in self.get_post_trainer_create_callbacks(trainer):
+            trainer.add_callback(callback)
+
+        return trainer
+
+
+class HFPPOTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
+    """
+    HF Factory class for PPO Trainer
+    """
+
+    def get_callbacks(self):
+        callbacks = super().get_callbacks()
+        return callbacks
+
+    def get_post_trainer_create_callbacks(self, trainer):
+        callbacks = super().get_post_trainer_create_callbacks(trainer=trainer)
+        return callbacks
+
+    def build(self, total_num_steps):
+        # TODO: build PPOConfig
+        raise NotImplementedError("PPO trainer builder is not implemented yet.")

src/axolotl/core/trainers/dpo/trainer.py

@@ -5,65 +5,31 @@ from functools import wraps
 from typing import Any, Dict, Union
 
 import torch
-from peft.optimizers import create_loraplus_optimizer
 from torch import nn
-from transformers import Trainer
-from transformers.utils import is_sagemaker_mp_enabled
 from trl import DPOTrainer
 
 from axolotl.core.trainers.mixins import RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin
+from axolotl.core.trainers.mixins.optimizer import OptimizerInitMixin, OptimizerMixin
 from axolotl.core.trainers.utils import (
     sanitize_kwargs_for_ds_tagging,
     sanitize_kwargs_for_tagging,
 )
 
-if is_sagemaker_mp_enabled():
-    import smdistributed.modelparallel.torch as smp
 
-
-class AxolotlDPOTrainer(RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, DPOTrainer):
+class AxolotlDPOTrainer(
+    RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, OptimizerMixin, OptimizerInitMixin, DPOTrainer
+):
     """Extend the base DPOTrainer for axolotl helpers."""
 
     tag_names = ["axolotl", "dpo"]
 
     def __init__(self, *args, dataset_tags=None, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
         self.dataset_tags = dataset_tags
         self.optimizer = None
         self.model_accepts_loss_kwargs = False
 
-    def create_optimizer(self):
-        # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
-        if self.args.loraplus_lr_ratio is None:
-            return super().create_optimizer()
-
-        opt_model = self.model_wrapped if is_sagemaker_mp_enabled() else self.model
-        if self.optimizer is None:  # pylint: disable=access-member-before-definition
-            optimizer_cls, optimizer_kwargs = Trainer.get_optimizer_cls_and_kwargs(
-                self.args,
-                opt_model,
-            )
-
-            loraplus_lr_ratio = getattr(self.args, "loraplus_lr_ratio", None)
-            if loraplus_lr_ratio:
-                print("Using lora+")
-            loraplus_lr_embedding = getattr(self.args, "loraplus_lr_embedding", None)
-            # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
-            self.optimizer = create_loraplus_optimizer(  # pylint: disable=attribute-defined-outside-init
-                opt_model,
-                optimizer_cls,
-                loraplus_lr_ratio=loraplus_lr_ratio,
-                loraplus_lr_embedding=loraplus_lr_embedding,
-                **optimizer_kwargs,
-            )
-
-        if is_sagemaker_mp_enabled():
-            self.optimizer = smp.DistributedOptimizer(  # pylint: disable=attribute-defined-outside-init
-                self.optimizer
-            )
-
-        return self.optimizer
-
     @wraps(DPOTrainer.push_to_hub)
     def push_to_hub(self, *args, **kwargs) -> str:
         """

src/axolotl/core/trainers/grpo/__init__.py

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ class GRPOStrategy:
 
     @classmethod
     def get_blocklist_args_kwargs(cls) -> list[str]:
-        return ["dataset_num_proc"]
+        return ["dataset_num_proc", "max_length"]
 
     @classmethod
     def get_reward_func(cls, reward_func_fqn: str) -> RewardFunc:
@@ -167,4 +167,4 @@ class GRPOStrategy:
             LOG.info(
                 f"Reward function {reward_func_fqn} is a pre-trained model path - if this is unexpected, please check the reward function path."
             )
-            return reward_func
+            return reward_func_fqn

src/axolotl/core/trainers/grpo/trainer.py

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ from trl.trainer.utils import pad
 
 from axolotl.core.trainers.grpo.sampler import SequenceParallelRepeatRandomSampler
 from axolotl.core.trainers.mixins import RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin
+from axolotl.core.trainers.mixins.optimizer import OptimizerInitMixin, OptimizerMixin
 from axolotl.monkeypatch.ring_attn import get_ring_attn_group
 
 if is_peft_available():
@@ -50,7 +51,9 @@ if is_peft_available():
     from peft import PeftConfig
 
 
-class AxolotlGRPOTrainer(RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, GRPOTrainer):
+class AxolotlGRPOTrainer(
+    RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, OptimizerMixin, OptimizerInitMixin, GRPOTrainer
+):
     """Extend the base GRPOTrainer for axolotl helpers"""
 
     _tag_names = ["trl", "grpo", "axolotl"]
@@ -77,6 +80,7 @@ class AxolotlGRPOSequenceParallelTrainer(AxolotlGRPOTrainer):
             torch.optim.Optimizer | None, torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LambdaLR | None
         ] = (None, None),
         peft_config: "PeftConfig | None" = None,
+        optimizer_cls_and_kwargs: tuple[type, dict] | None = None,
     ):
         # First call the superclass constructor with all arguments
         super().__init__(
@@ -90,6 +94,7 @@ class AxolotlGRPOSequenceParallelTrainer(AxolotlGRPOTrainer):
             callbacks=callbacks,
             optimizers=optimizers,
             peft_config=peft_config,
+            optimizer_cls_and_kwargs=optimizer_cls_and_kwargs,
         )
 
         # Get number of SP groups (number of processes divided by SP degree)

src/axolotl/core/trainers/mixins/optimizer.py

@@ -198,3 +198,20 @@ class OptimizerMixin(Trainer):
             )
 
         return self.optimizer
+
+
+class OptimizerInitMixin:
+    """
+    Mixin to handle common optimizer initialization logic for Trainers (mostly TRL) that do not
+    accept optimizer_cls_and_kwargs as kwarg in constructor.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        optimizer_cls_and_kwargs = kwargs.pop("optimizer_cls_and_kwargs", None)
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        if (
+            optimizer_cls_and_kwargs
+            and self.optimizer_cls_and_kwargs is None
+            and self.optimizer is None
+        ):
+            self.optimizer_cls_and_kwargs = optimizer_cls_and_kwargs

src/axolotl/core/trainers/trl.py

@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 """Module for TRL PPO trainer"""
 
-from typing import Literal, Union
-
 import torch
 from tqdm import tqdm
 from trl import (
@@ -14,6 +12,7 @@ from trl import (
 )
 
 from axolotl.core.trainers.mixins import RngLoaderMixin
+from axolotl.core.trainers.mixins.optimizer import OptimizerInitMixin, OptimizerMixin
 from axolotl.core.trainers.mixins.scheduler import SchedulerMixin
 
 
@@ -75,87 +74,19 @@ class TRLPPOTrainer(PPOTrainer):
             )
 
 
-class AxolotlORPOTrainer(RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, ORPOTrainer):
+class AxolotlORPOTrainer(
+    RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, OptimizerMixin, OptimizerInitMixin, ORPOTrainer
+):
     """
     Extend the base ORPOTrainer for axolotl helpers
     """
 
     tag_names = ["axolotl", "orpo"]
 
-    def get_batch_loss_metrics(
-        self,
-        model,
-        batch: dict[str, Union[list, torch.LongTensor]],
-        train_eval: Literal["train", "eval"] = "train",
-    ):
-        """Compute the ORPO loss and other metrics for the given batch of inputs for train or test."""
 
-        # TODO remove once https://github.com/huggingface/trl/pull/3069 is included in a trl release
-
-        metrics = {}
-
-        forward_output = self.concatenated_forward(model, batch)
-        (
-            policy_chosen_logps,
-            policy_rejected_logps,
-            policy_chosen_logits,
-            policy_rejected_logits,
-            policy_nll_loss,
-        ) = forward_output[:5]
-        if self.aux_loss_enabled:
-            aux_loss = forward_output[5]
-
-        losses, chosen_rewards, rejected_rewards, log_odds_ratio, log_odds_chosen = (
-            self.odds_ratio_loss(policy_chosen_logps, policy_rejected_logps)
-        )
-        # full ORPO loss
-        loss = policy_nll_loss - losses.mean()
-
-        reward_accuracies = (chosen_rewards > rejected_rewards).float()
-
-        prefix = "eval_" if train_eval == "eval" else ""
-        metrics[f"{prefix}rewards/chosen"] = self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(
-            chosen_rewards
-        ).mean()
-        metrics[f"{prefix}rewards/rejected"] = self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(
-            rejected_rewards
-        ).mean()
-        metrics[f"{prefix}rewards/accuracies"] = self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(
-            reward_accuracies
-        ).mean()
-        metrics[f"{prefix}rewards/margins"] = self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(
-            chosen_rewards - rejected_rewards
-        ).mean()
-        metrics[f"{prefix}logps/rejected"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(policy_rejected_logps).detach().mean()
-        )
-        metrics[f"{prefix}logps/chosen"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(policy_chosen_logps).detach().mean()
-        )
-        metrics[f"{prefix}logits/rejected"] = self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(
-            policy_rejected_logits.detach().mean()
-        ).mean()
-        metrics[f"{prefix}logits/chosen"] = self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(
-            policy_chosen_logits.detach().mean()
-        ).mean()
-        metrics[f"{prefix}nll_loss"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(policy_nll_loss).detach().mean()
-        )
-        metrics[f"{prefix}log_odds_ratio"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(log_odds_ratio).detach().mean()
-        )
-        metrics[f"{prefix}log_odds_chosen"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(log_odds_chosen).detach().mean()
-        )
-        for k, v in metrics.items():
-            metrics[k] = v.item()
-        if self.aux_loss_enabled:
-            loss += self.aux_loss_coef * aux_loss
-
-        return loss, metrics
-
-
-class AxolotlKTOTrainer(RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, KTOTrainer):
+class AxolotlKTOTrainer(
+    RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, OptimizerMixin, OptimizerInitMixin, KTOTrainer
+):
     """
     Extend the base KTOTrainer for axolotl helpers
     """
@@ -163,89 +94,19 @@ class AxolotlKTOTrainer(RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, KTOTrainer):
     tag_names = ["axolotl", "kto"]
 
 
-class AxolotlCPOTrainer(RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, CPOTrainer):
+class AxolotlCPOTrainer(
+    RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, OptimizerMixin, OptimizerInitMixin, CPOTrainer
+):
     """
     Extend the base CPOTrainer for axolotl helpers
     """
 
     tag_names = ["axolotl", "cpo"]
 
-    def get_batch_loss_metrics(
-        self,
-        model,
-        batch: dict[str, Union[list, torch.LongTensor]],
-        train_eval: Literal["train", "eval"] = "train",
-    ):
-        """Compute the CPO loss and other metrics for the given batch of inputs for train or test."""
-        metrics = {}
 
-        forward_output = self.concatenated_forward(model, batch)
-        (
-            policy_chosen_logps,
-            policy_rejected_logps,
-            policy_chosen_logits,
-            policy_rejected_logits,
-            policy_nll_loss,
-        ) = forward_output[:5]
-        if self.aux_loss_enabled:
-            aux_loss = forward_output[5]
-
-        losses, chosen_rewards, rejected_rewards = self.cpo_loss(
-            policy_chosen_logps,
-            policy_rejected_logps,
-        )
-
-        loss = losses.mean() + self.cpo_alpha * policy_nll_loss
-        reward_accuracies = (chosen_rewards > rejected_rewards).float()
-
-        prefix = "eval_" if train_eval == "eval" else ""
-        metrics[f"{prefix}rewards/chosen"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(chosen_rewards).mean().item()
-        )
-        metrics[f"{prefix}rewards/rejected"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(rejected_rewards).mean().item()
-        )
-        metrics[f"{prefix}rewards/accuracies"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(reward_accuracies).mean().item()
-        )
-        metrics[f"{prefix}rewards/margins"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(chosen_rewards - rejected_rewards)
-            .mean()
-            .item()
-        )
-        metrics[f"{prefix}logps/rejected"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(policy_rejected_logps)
-            .detach()
-            .mean()
-            .item()
-        )
-        metrics[f"{prefix}logps/chosen"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(policy_chosen_logps)
-            .detach()
-            .mean()
-            .item()
-        )
-        metrics[f"{prefix}logits/rejected"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(policy_rejected_logits.detach().mean())
-            .mean()
-            .item()
-        )
-        metrics[f"{prefix}logits/chosen"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(policy_chosen_logits.detach().mean())
-            .mean()
-            .item()
-        )
-        metrics[f"{prefix}nll_loss"] = (
-            self.accelerator.gather_for_metrics(policy_nll_loss).detach().mean().item()
-        )
-
-        if self.aux_loss_enabled:
-            loss += self.aux_loss_coef * aux_loss
-
-        return loss, metrics
-
-
-class AxolotlRewardTrainer(RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, RewardTrainer):
+class AxolotlRewardTrainer(
+    RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, OptimizerMixin, OptimizerInitMixin, RewardTrainer
+):
     """
     Extend the base RewardTrainer for axolotl helpers
     """
@@ -253,7 +114,9 @@ class AxolotlRewardTrainer(RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, RewardTrainer):
     tag_names = ["axolotl", "reward"]
 
 
-class AxolotlPRMTrainer(RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, PRMTrainer):
+class AxolotlPRMTrainer(
+    RngLoaderMixin, SchedulerMixin, OptimizerMixin, OptimizerInitMixin, PRMTrainer
+):
     """
     Extend the base trl.PRMTrainer for axolotl helpers
     """

src/axolotl/core/training_args.py

@@ -164,12 +164,6 @@ class AxolotlTrainingMixins:
         default=None,
         metadata={"help": "whether to use sequential sampling for curriculum learning"},
     )
-    alternate_optimizer: Optional[str] = field(
-        default=None,
-        metadata={
-            "help": "workaround to pass an alternate optimizer to the HF trainer"
-        },
-    )
     alternate_lr_scheduler_type: Optional[str] = field(
         default=None,
         metadata={

src/axolotl/train.py

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ from axolotl.common.datasets import TrainDatasetMeta
 from axolotl.contribs.lgpl import (  # pylint: disable = no-name-in-module
     fix_untrained_tokens,
 )
-from axolotl.core.trainer_builder import HFCausalTrainerBuilder, HFRLTrainerBuilder
+from axolotl.core.builders import HFCausalTrainerBuilder, HFRLTrainerBuilder
 from axolotl.integrations.base import PluginManager
 from axolotl.loaders import (
     ModelLoader,

src/axolotl/utils/callbacks/__init__.py

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
 from axolotl.utils.schemas.config import AxolotlInputConfig
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from axolotl.core.trainer_builder import AxolotlTrainingArguments
+    from axolotl.core.training_args import AxolotlTrainingArguments
 
 
 IGNORE_INDEX = -100

src/axolotl/utils/callbacks/comet_.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from axolotl.utils.distributed import is_main_process
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from axolotl.core.trainer_builder import AxolotlTrainingArguments
+    from axolotl.core.training_args import AxolotlTrainingArguments
 
 LOG = get_logger(__name__)
 

src/axolotl/utils/callbacks/lisa.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from transformers import TrainerCallback
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from axolotl.core.trainer_builder import AxolotlTrainer
+    from axolotl.core.trainers import AxolotlTrainer
 
 LOG = get_logger(__name__)
 

src/axolotl/utils/callbacks/mlflow_.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from axolotl.utils.distributed import is_main_process
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from axolotl.core.trainer_builder import AxolotlTrainingArguments
+    from axolotl.core.training_args import AxolotlTrainingArguments
 
 LOG = get_logger(__name__)
 

src/axolotl/utils/data/rl.py

@@ -71,8 +71,9 @@ def map_dataset(cfg, data_set, ds_transform_fn, tokenizer, **map_kwargs):
 
     data_set = data_set.map(
         ds_transform_fn,
-        desc="Mapping RL Dataset",
         num_proc=cfg.dataset_processes,
+        load_from_cache_file=not cfg.is_preprocess,
+        desc="Mapping RL Dataset",
         **map_kwargs,
     )
 

src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py

@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
     # If `None`, default is `False` in the trainer.
     dpo_use_weighting: bool | None = None
     dpo_use_logits_to_keep: bool | None = None
+    dpo_label_smoothing: float | None = None
 
     datasets: (
         Annotated[

src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from datasets import IterableDataset, disable_caching, enable_caching
 from torch.utils.data import DataLoader, RandomSampler, SequentialSampler
 from transformers.utils import is_torch_bf16_gpu_available
 
-from axolotl.core.trainer_builder import HFCausalTrainerBuilder, HFRLTrainerBuilder
+from axolotl.core.builders import HFCausalTrainerBuilder, HFRLTrainerBuilder
 from axolotl.monkeypatch.trainer_eval_guard import patch_evaluation_loop_for_fsdp2
 from axolotl.utils.distributed import reduce_and_broadcast
 from axolotl.utils.environment import check_cuda_p2p_ib_support

tests/core/test_builders.py

@@ -0,0 +1,595 @@
+"""Unit tests for axolotl.core.builders"""
+
+# pylint: disable=protected-access
+
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+from unittest.mock import patch
+
+import pytest
+
+from axolotl.common.datasets import load_datasets
+from axolotl.core.builders import HFCausalTrainerBuilder, HFRLTrainerBuilder
+from axolotl.loaders import ModelLoader, load_tokenizer
+from axolotl.utils.config import normalize_config
+from axolotl.utils.data.rl import load_prepare_preference_datasets
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
+from axolotl.utils.schemas.enums import RLType
+
+from tests.constants import ALPACA_MESSAGES_CONFIG_REVISION
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="base_cfg")
+def fixture_base_cfg():
+    """
+    Base config with all common arguments between SFT and RLHF
+    """
+    cfg = DictDefault(
+        {
+            # Model and tokenizer settings
+            "base_model": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct",
+            "sequence_len": 2048,
+            "model_config_type": "llama",  # example type
+            # Basic training settings
+            "micro_batch_size": 2,
+            "eval_batch_size": 2,
+            "num_epochs": 1,
+            "gradient_accumulation_steps": 1,
+            "max_steps": 100,
+            "val_set_size": 0,
+            # Optimizer settings
+            "optimizer": "adamw_torch_fused",
+            "learning_rate": 0.00005,
+            "weight_decay": 0.01,
+            "adam_beta1": 0.998,
+            "adam_beta2": 0.9,
+            "adam_epsilon": 0.00001,
+            "max_grad_norm": 1.0,
+            # LR scheduler settings
+            "lr_scheduler": "cosine",
+            "lr_scheduler_kwargs": {"foo": "bar"},
+            "warmup_steps": 10,
+            "warmup_ratio": None,
+            "cosine_min_lr_ratio": 0.1,
+            "cosine_constant_lr_ratio": 0.2,
+            # Checkpointing and saving
+            "save_steps": 100,
+            "output_dir": "./model-out",
+            "save_safetensors": True,
+            "save_total_limit": 4,
+            "save_only_model": False,
+            # Hardware/performance settings
+            "gradient_checkpointing": False,
+            "gradient_checkpointing_kwargs": {"use_reentrant": False},
+            "dataloader_num_workers": 1,
+            "dataloader_pin_memory": True,
+            "dataloader_prefetch_factor": 2,
+            "sequence_parallel_degree": 1,
+            # Dtype
+            "fp16": False,
+            "bf16": False,
+            "tf32": False,
+            # Logging and evaluation
+            "logging_steps": 10,
+            "eval_steps": 50,
+            "eval_strategy": "steps",
+            "save_strategy": "steps",
+            "include_tokens_per_second": True,
+            # Other common settings
+            "seed": 42,
+            "remove_unused_columns": True,
+            "ddp_timeout": 1800,
+            "ddp_bucket_cap_mb": 25,
+            "ddp_broadcast_buffers": False,
+        }
+    )
+
+    normalize_config(cfg)
+    return cfg
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="dpo_cfg")
+def fixture_dpo_cfg(base_cfg):
+    cfg = base_cfg.copy()
+    cfg.update(
+        {
+            "rl": RLType.DPO,
+            "dpo_use_weighting": True,
+            "dpo_use_logits_to_keep": True,
+            "dpo_label_smoothing": 0.1,
+            "beta": 0.1,  # DPO beta
+        }
+    )
+    return cfg
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="orpo_cfg")
+def fixture_orpo_cfg(base_cfg):
+    cfg = base_cfg.copy()
+    cfg.update(
+        {
+            "rl": RLType.ORPO,
+            "orpo_alpha": 0.1,
+            "max_prompt_len": 512,
+        }
+    )
+    return cfg
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="kto_cfg")
+def fixture_kto_cfg(base_cfg):
+    cfg = base_cfg.copy()
+    cfg.update(
+        {
+            "rl": RLType.KTO,
+            "kto_desirable_weight": 1.0,
+            "kto_undesirable_weight": 1.0,
+            "max_prompt_len": 512,
+        }
+    )
+    return cfg
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="grpo_cfg")
+def fixture_grpo_cfg(base_cfg):
+    cfg = base_cfg.copy()
+    cfg.update(
+        {
+            "rl": RLType.GRPO,
+            "trl": DictDefault(
+                {
+                    "beta": 0.001,
+                    "max_completion_length": 256,
+                    "use_vllm": False,  # run on CPU
+                    # "vllm_device": "auto",
+                    # "vllm_gpu_memory_utilization": 0.15,
+                    "num_generations": 4,
+                    "reward_funcs": ["rewards.rand_reward_func"],
+                }
+            ),
+            # Must be evenly divisible by num_generations
+            "micro_batch_size": 4,
+        }
+    )
+    return cfg
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="ipo_cfg")
+def fixture_ipo_cfg(base_cfg):
+    cfg = base_cfg.copy()
+    cfg.update(
+        {
+            "rl": RLType.IPO,
+            "dpo_label_smoothing": 0,
+            "beta": 0.1,
+        }
+    )
+    return cfg
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="simpo_cfg")
+def fixture_simpo_cfg(base_cfg):
+    cfg = base_cfg.copy()
+    cfg.update(
+        {
+            "rl": RLType.SIMPO,
+            "rl_beta": 0.2,
+            "cpo_alpha": 0.9,
+            "simpo_gamma": 0.4,
+        }
+    )
+    return cfg
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="sft_cfg")
+def fixture_sft_cfg(base_cfg):
+    cfg = base_cfg.copy()
+    cfg.update(
+        {
+            "rl": None,
+            "sample_packing": False,
+            "eval_sample_packing": False,
+            "flash_attention": False,
+        }
+    )
+    return cfg
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="rm_cfg")
+def fixture_rm_cfg(sft_cfg):
+    cfg = sft_cfg.copy()
+    cfg.update(
+        DictDefault(
+            {
+                "reward_model": True,
+                "datasets": [
+                    {
+                        "path": "argilla/distilabel-intel-orca-dpo-pairs",
+                        "type": "bradley_terry.chat_template",
+                        "split": "train[:1%]",
+                    }
+                ],
+            }
+        )
+    )
+    return cfg
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="prm_cfg")
+def fixture_prm_cfg(sft_cfg):
+    cfg = sft_cfg.copy()
+    cfg.update(
+        DictDefault(
+            {
+                "process_reward_model": True,
+                "datasets": [
+                    {
+                        "path": "trl-lib/math_shepherd",
+                        "type": "stepwise_supervised",
+                        "split": "train[:1%]",
+                    }
+                ],
+            }
+        )
+    )
+    return cfg
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="tokenizer")
+def fixture_tokenizer(base_cfg):
+    return load_tokenizer(base_cfg)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="model")
+def fixture_model(base_cfg, tokenizer):
+    model, _ = ModelLoader(base_cfg, tokenizer).load()
+    return model
+
+
+class TestHFRLTrainerBuilder:
+    """
+    TestCase class for RLHF trainer builders
+    """
+
+    def _test_common_training_arguments(self, training_arguments, rl: str):
+        """Helper to test common arguments across all variants"""
+        # Basic training settings
+        if rl == "grpo":
+            # grpo_cfg's micro_batch_size is diff from others
+            assert training_arguments.per_device_train_batch_size == 4
+        else:
+            assert training_arguments.per_device_train_batch_size == 2
+        assert training_arguments.gradient_accumulation_steps == 1
+        assert training_arguments.max_steps == 100
+
+        # Optimizer settings
+        assert training_arguments.learning_rate == 0.00005
+        assert training_arguments.weight_decay == 0.01
+        assert training_arguments.adam_beta1 == 0.998
+        assert training_arguments.adam_beta2 == 0.9
+        assert training_arguments.adam_epsilon == 0.00001
+        assert training_arguments.max_grad_norm == 1.0
+
+        # LR scheduler settings
+        assert training_arguments.lr_scheduler_type == "cosine"
+        assert training_arguments.warmup_steps == 10
+        assert training_arguments.cosine_min_lr_ratio == 0.1
+        assert training_arguments.cosine_constant_lr_ratio == 0.2
+
+        # Other settings
+        assert training_arguments.dataloader_num_workers == 1
+        assert training_arguments.dataloader_pin_memory is True
+        assert training_arguments.gradient_checkpointing is False
+
+    def test_dpo_training_arguments(self, dpo_cfg, model, tokenizer):
+        builder = HFRLTrainerBuilder(dpo_cfg, model, tokenizer)
+        training_arguments, _ = builder._build_training_arguments(100)
+
+        self._test_common_training_arguments(training_arguments, rl=dpo_cfg.rl)
+        # DPO specific
+        assert training_arguments.beta == 0.1
+        assert hasattr(training_arguments, "use_weighting")
+        assert training_arguments.use_weighting is True
+        assert training_arguments.label_smoothing == 0.1
+
+    def test_orpo_training_arguments(self, orpo_cfg, model, tokenizer):
+        builder = HFRLTrainerBuilder(orpo_cfg, model, tokenizer)
+        training_arguments, _ = builder._build_training_arguments(100)
+
+        self._test_common_training_arguments(training_arguments, rl=orpo_cfg.rl)
+        # ORPO specific
+        assert training_arguments.beta == 0.1  # maps from orpo_alpha
+        assert training_arguments.max_prompt_length == 512
+
+    def test_kto_training_arguments(self, kto_cfg, model, tokenizer):
+        builder = HFRLTrainerBuilder(kto_cfg, model, tokenizer)
+        training_arguments, _ = builder._build_training_arguments(100)
+
+        self._test_common_training_arguments(training_arguments, rl=kto_cfg.rl)
+        # KTO specific
+        assert training_arguments.desirable_weight == 1.0
+        assert training_arguments.undesirable_weight == 1.0
+        assert training_arguments.max_prompt_length == 512
+
+    def _write_rewards_file(self, rewards_dir: Path):
+        """
+        Writes reward function to local tmp path to be loaded on trainer building
+        """
+        # Create rewards.py in a directory we can import from
+        rewards_dir.mkdir()
+        rewards_file = rewards_dir / "rewards.py"
+        rewards_file.write_text(
+            """import random
+def rand_reward_func(prompts, completions) -> list[float]:
+    return [random.uniform(0, 1) for _ in completions]
+"""
+        )
+
+    def test_grpo_training_arguments(self, grpo_cfg, model, tokenizer, tmp_path):
+
+        rewards_dir = tmp_path / "rewards_test"
+        self._write_rewards_file(rewards_dir)
+
+        # Add the directory to Python path so we can import the module
+        sys.path.insert(0, str(rewards_dir))
+
+        try:
+            builder = HFRLTrainerBuilder(grpo_cfg, model, tokenizer)
+            training_arguments, _ = builder._build_training_arguments(100)
+
+            self._test_common_training_arguments(training_arguments, rl=grpo_cfg.rl)
+            # GRPO specific
+            assert training_arguments.beta == 0.001
+            assert training_arguments.max_completion_length == 256
+            assert training_arguments.use_vllm is False
+            # assert training_arguments.vllm_device == "auto"
+            # assert training_arguments.vllm_gpu_memory_utilization == 0.15
+            assert training_arguments.num_generations == 4
+
+            # Test trainer creation to verify reward_funcs
+            trainer = builder.build(100)
+
+            # Verify reward functions are properly loaded
+            assert len(trainer.reward_funcs) == 1
+            assert trainer.reward_funcs[0].__module__ == "rewards"
+            assert trainer.reward_funcs[0].__name__ == "rand_reward_func"
+        finally:
+            # remove imported module from path
+            if str(rewards_dir) in sys.path:
+                sys.path.remove(str(rewards_dir))
+
+    def test_ipo_training_arguments(self, ipo_cfg, model, tokenizer):
+        builder = HFRLTrainerBuilder(ipo_cfg, model, tokenizer)
+        training_arguments, _ = builder._build_training_arguments(100)
+
+        self._test_common_training_arguments(training_arguments, rl=ipo_cfg.rl)
+        # IPO specific
+        assert training_arguments.beta == 0.1
+        assert training_arguments.loss_type == "ipo"
+        assert training_arguments.label_smoothing == 0
+
+    def test_simpo_training_arguments(self, simpo_cfg, model, tokenizer):
+        builder = HFRLTrainerBuilder(simpo_cfg, model, tokenizer)
+        training_arguments, _ = builder._build_training_arguments(100)
+
+        self._test_common_training_arguments(training_arguments, rl=simpo_cfg.rl)
+        # SIMPO specific
+        assert training_arguments.beta == 0.2
+        assert training_arguments.cpo_alpha == 0.9
+        assert training_arguments.simpo_gamma == 0.4
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        ("cfg_string", "dataset_name"),
+        [
+            (
+                "dpo_cfg",
+                "dataset_fozziethebeat_alpaca_messages_2k_dpo_test_rev_ea82cff",
+            ),
+            (
+                "ipo_cfg",
+                "dataset_fozziethebeat_alpaca_messages_2k_dpo_test_rev_ea82cff",
+            ),
+            (
+                "grpo_cfg",
+                "dataset_fozziethebeat_alpaca_messages_2k_dpo_test_rev_ea82cff",
+            ),
+            ("orpo_cfg", None),  # don't use fixture for orpo to use smaller split
+            ("kto_cfg", None),  # no fixture for kto
+            (
+                "simpo_cfg",
+                "dataset_fozziethebeat_alpaca_messages_2k_dpo_test_rev_ea82cff",
+            ),
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_custom_optimizer_cls_and_kwargs(
+        self,
+        request,
+        cfg_string,
+        dataset_name,
+        tmp_path,
+        model,
+        tokenizer,
+    ):
+        cfg = request.getfixturevalue(cfg_string)
+
+        builder = HFRLTrainerBuilder(cfg, model, tokenizer)
+        cfg["optimizer"] = "muon"
+
+        if cfg_string in ["dpo_cfg", "ipo_cfg", "grpo_cfg", "simpo_cfg"]:
+            cfg["datasets"] = [DictDefault(ALPACA_MESSAGES_CONFIG_REVISION)]
+        elif cfg_string == "kto_cfg":
+            cfg["datasets"] = [
+                DictDefault(
+                    {
+                        "path": "argilla/ultrafeedback-binarized-preferences-cleaned-kto",
+                        "type": "llama3.ultra",
+                        "split": "train[:1%]",
+                    }
+                )
+            ]
+        elif cfg_string == "orpo_cfg":
+            cfg["datasets"] = [
+                DictDefault(
+                    {
+                        "path": "argilla/ultrafeedback-binarized-preferences-cleaned",
+                        "type": "chat_template.argilla",
+                        "split": "train[:1%]",
+                    }
+                )
+            ]
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"Unhandled cfg_string: {cfg_string}")
+
+        if cfg_string == "grpo_cfg":
+            rewards_dir = tmp_path / "rewards_test"
+            self._write_rewards_file(rewards_dir)
+
+            # Add the directory to Python path so we can import the module
+            sys.path.insert(0, str(rewards_dir))
+
+        try:
+            # Only use mock for the commented out configs
+            if dataset_name is not None:
+                with patch(
+                    "axolotl.utils.data.rl.load_dataset_w_config"
+                ) as mock_load_dataset:
+                    mock_load_dataset.return_value = request.getfixturevalue(
+                        dataset_name
+                    )
+                    train_dataset, eval_dataset = load_prepare_preference_datasets(cfg)
+            else:
+                # Load actual datasets for orpo_cfg and kto_cfg
+                train_dataset, eval_dataset = load_prepare_preference_datasets(cfg)
+
+            builder.train_dataset = train_dataset
+            builder.eval_dataset = eval_dataset
+
+            trainer = builder.build(100)
+
+            assert trainer.optimizer_cls_and_kwargs is not None
+
+            from axolotl.contribs.mit.muon import (  # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
+                Muon,
+                MuonOptimizerFactory,
+            )
+
+            optimizer_cls, optimizer_kwargs = trainer.optimizer_cls_and_kwargs
+            assert optimizer_cls is MuonOptimizerFactory
+            assert optimizer_kwargs["lr"] == 0.00005
+            assert optimizer_kwargs["weight_decay"] == 0.01
+            assert optimizer_kwargs["betas"] == (0.998, 0.9)
+            assert optimizer_kwargs["eps"] == 0.00001
+
+            # Ensure optimizer is created with correct class
+            optim = trainer.create_optimizer()
+            assert isinstance(optim, Muon)
+
+        finally:
+            # remove imported module from path
+            if cfg_string == "grpo_cfg" and str(rewards_dir) in sys.path:
+                sys.path.remove(str(rewards_dir))
+
+
+class TestHFCausalTrainerBuilder:
+    """
+    TestCase class for SFT trainer builder
+    """
+
+    def test_training_arguments(self, sft_cfg, model, tokenizer):
+        builder = HFCausalTrainerBuilder(sft_cfg, model, tokenizer)
+        trainer = builder.build(100)
+        training_arguments = trainer.args
+
+        # Test common arguments
+        assert training_arguments.per_device_train_batch_size == 2
+        assert training_arguments.gradient_accumulation_steps == 1
+        assert training_arguments.max_steps == 100
+
+        assert training_arguments.learning_rate == 0.00005
+        assert training_arguments.weight_decay == 0.01
+        assert training_arguments.adam_beta1 == 0.998
+        assert training_arguments.adam_beta2 == 0.9
+        assert training_arguments.adam_epsilon == 0.00001
+        assert training_arguments.max_grad_norm == 1.0
+
+        assert training_arguments.lr_scheduler_type == "cosine"
+        assert training_arguments.warmup_steps == 10
+        assert training_arguments.cosine_min_lr_ratio == 0.1
+
+        assert training_arguments.dataloader_num_workers == 1
+        assert training_arguments.dataloader_pin_memory is True
+        assert training_arguments.gradient_checkpointing is False
+
+        # SFT specific
+        assert training_arguments.sample_packing is False
+        assert training_arguments.eval_sample_packing is False
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "cfg_string",
+        [
+            "sft_cfg",
+            "rm_cfg",
+            "prm_cfg",
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_custom_optimizer_cls_and_kwargs(
+        self, request, cfg_string, model, tokenizer
+    ):
+        cfg = request.getfixturevalue(cfg_string)
+        builder = HFCausalTrainerBuilder(cfg, model, tokenizer)
+        cfg["optimizer"] = "muon"
+
+        # need to load datasets for reward model and process reward model trainer
+        if cfg_string in ["rm_cfg", "prm_cfg"]:
+            dataset_meta = load_datasets(cfg=cfg)
+
+            builder.train_dataset = dataset_meta.train_dataset
+            builder.eval_dataset = dataset_meta.eval_dataset
+
+        trainer = builder.build(100)
+
+        assert trainer.optimizer_cls_and_kwargs is not None
+
+        from axolotl.contribs.mit.muon import (  # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
+            Muon,
+            MuonOptimizerFactory,
+        )
+
+        optimizer_cls, optimizer_kwargs = trainer.optimizer_cls_and_kwargs
+        assert optimizer_cls is MuonOptimizerFactory
+        assert optimizer_kwargs["lr"] == 0.00005
+        assert optimizer_kwargs["weight_decay"] == 0.01
+        assert optimizer_kwargs["betas"] == (0.998, 0.9)
+        assert optimizer_kwargs["eps"] == 0.00001
+
+        # Ensure optimizer is created with correct class
+        optim = trainer.create_optimizer()
+        assert isinstance(optim, Muon)
+
+
+class TestTrainerClsPlugin:
+    """
+    TestCase class for trainer builder with plugin
+    """
+
+    def test_trainer_cls_is_not_none_with_plugin(self, kto_cfg, model, tokenizer):
+        """
+        Test that the trainer cls is not none with plugin
+
+        Fixes #2693
+        """
+        cfg = kto_cfg.copy()
+        cfg.plugins = ["axolotl.integrations.liger.LigerPlugin"]
+
+        # Expected AttributeError as we don't pass regular model configs to RL trainer builder
+        # If it throws `TypeError: None is not a callable object`, trainer_cls could be None
+        try:
+            builder = HFRLTrainerBuilder(cfg, model, tokenizer)
+
+            builder.build(100)
+        except TypeError as e:
+            # Error raised if trainer_cls is None
+            assert "'tuple' object has no attribute 'config'" not in str(e)
+        except Exception:  # pylint: disable=broad-exception-caught
+            # Another error happens, so we passed trainer_cls to builder
+            pass

tests/core/test_trainer_builder.py

@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-"""Unit tests for axolotl.core.trainer_builder"""
-
-import pytest
-
-from axolotl.core.trainer_builder import HFRLTrainerBuilder
-from axolotl.loaders import ModelLoader, load_tokenizer
-from axolotl.utils.config import normalize_config
-from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
-from axolotl.utils.schemas.enums import RLType
-
-
-@pytest.fixture(name="cfg")
-def fixture_cfg():
-    cfg = DictDefault(
-        {
-            "base_model": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M",
-            "micro_batch_size": 1,
-            "gradient_accumulation_steps": 1,
-            "learning_rate": 0.00005,
-            "save_steps": 100,
-            "output_dir": "./model-out",
-            "warmup_steps": 10,
-            "gradient_checkpointing": False,
-            "optimizer": "adamw_torch_fused",
-            "sequence_len": 2048,
-            "rl": True,
-            "adam_beta1": 0.998,
-            "adam_beta2": 0.9,
-            "adam_epsilon": 0.00001,
-            "dataloader_num_workers": 1,
-            "dataloader_pin_memory": True,
-            "model_config_type": "llama",
-            "special_tokens": {
-                "pad_token": "<|endoftext|>",
-            },
-        }
-    )
-
-    normalize_config(cfg)
-
-    return cfg
-
-
-@pytest.fixture(name="tokenizer")
-def fixture_tokenizer(cfg):
-    return load_tokenizer(cfg)
-
-
-@pytest.fixture(name="model")
-def fixture_model(cfg, tokenizer):
-    return ModelLoader(cfg, tokenizer).load()
-
-
-class TestHFRLTrainerBuilder:
-    """
-    TestCase class for DPO trainer builder
-    """
-
-    def test_build_training_arguments(self, cfg, model, tokenizer):
-        builder = HFRLTrainerBuilder(cfg, model, tokenizer)
-        training_arguments = builder.build_training_arguments(100)
-        assert training_arguments.adam_beta1 == 0.998
-        assert training_arguments.adam_beta2 == 0.9
-        assert training_arguments.adam_epsilon == 0.00001
-        assert training_arguments.dataloader_num_workers == 1
-        assert training_arguments.dataloader_pin_memory is True
-
-
-class TestTrainerClsPlugin:
-    """
-    TestCase class for trainer builder with plugin
-    """
-
-    def test_trainer_cls_is_not_none_with_plugin(self, cfg, model, tokenizer):
-        """
-        Test that the trainer cls is not none with plugin
-
-        Fixes #2693
-        """
-        cfg.plugins = ["axolotl.integrations.liger.LigerPlugin"]
-        cfg.rl = RLType.KTO
-
-        # Expected AttributeError as we don't pass regular model configs to RL trainer builder
-        # If it throws `TypeError: None is not a callable object`, trainer_cls could be None
-        with pytest.raises(
-            AttributeError, match=r".*'tuple' object has no attribute 'config'.*"
-        ):
-            builder = HFRLTrainerBuilder(cfg, model, tokenizer)
-
-            builder.build(100)

tests/e2e/test_imports.py

@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ class TestImports(unittest.TestCase):
     """
 
     def test_import_causal_trainer(self):
-        from axolotl.core.trainer_builder import (  # pylint: disable=unused-import  # noqa: F401
+        from axolotl.core.builders import (  # pylint: disable=unused-import  # noqa: F401
             HFCausalTrainerBuilder,
         )
 
     def test_import_rl_trainer(self):
-        from axolotl.core.trainer_builder import (  # pylint: disable=unused-import  # noqa: F401
+        from axolotl.core.builders import (  # pylint: disable=unused-import  # noqa: F401
             HFRLTrainerBuilder,
         )