diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b7a09516c..93a4f81b5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,163 @@
 **/axolotl.egg-info
-**/__pycache__
-.idea
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+
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f3985fea8..f79a49a1f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -97,6 +97,18 @@ Have dataset(s) in one of the following format (JSONL recommended):
   ```json
   {"instruction": "...", "input": "...", "output": "...", "reflection": "...", "corrected": "..."}
   ```
+- `explainchoice`: question, choices, (solution OR explanation)
+  ```json
+  {"question": "...", "choices": ["..."], "solution": "...", "explanation": "..."}
+  ```
+- `concisechoice`: question, choices, (solution OR explanation)
+  ```json
+  {"question": "...", "choices": ["..."], "solution": "...", "explanation": "..."}
+  ```
+- `summarizetldr`: article and summary
+  ```json
+  {"article": "...", "summary": "..."}
+  ```
 
 > Have some new format to propose? Check if it's already defined in [data.py](src/axolotl/utils/data.py) in `dev` branch!
 
@@ -124,17 +136,17 @@ See sample configs in [configs](configs) folder or [examples](examples) for quic
 
 - loading
   ```yaml
-  load_4bit: true
+  load_in_4bit: true
   load_in_8bit: true
-  bf16: true
+  bf16: true # require >=ampere
   fp16: true
-  tf32: true
+  tf32: true # require >=ampere
   ```
   Note: Repo does not do 4-bit quantization.
 
 - lora
   ```yaml
-  adapter: lora # blank for full finetune
+  adapter: lora # qlora or leave blank for full finetune
   lora_r: 8
   lora_alpha: 16
   lora_dropout: 0.05
@@ -163,28 +175,32 @@ tokenizer_type: AutoTokenizer
 # Trust remote code for untrusted source
 trust_remote_code:
 
-# whether you are training a 4-bit quantized model
+# whether you are training a 4-bit GPTQ quantized model
 load_4bit: true
 gptq_groupsize: 128 # group size
 gptq_model_v1: false # v1 or v2
 
 # this will attempt to quantize the model down to 8 bits and use adam 8 bit optimizer
 load_in_8bit: true
+# use bitsandbytes 4 bit
+load_in_4bit:
 
 # Use CUDA bf16
-bf16: true
+bf16: true # bool or 'full' for `bf16_full_eval`. require >=ampere
 # Use CUDA fp16
 fp16: true
 # Use CUDA tf32
-tf32: true
+tf32: true # require >=ampere
 
 # a list of one or more datasets to finetune the model with
 datasets:
   # this can be either a hf dataset, or relative path
   - path: vicgalle/alpaca-gpt4
   # The type of prompt to use for training. [alpaca, sharegpt, gpteacher, oasst, reflection]
-    type: alpaca
+    type: alpaca # format OR format:prompt_style (chat/instruct)
     data_files: # path to source data files
+    shards: # true if use subset data. make sure to set `shards` param also
+shards: # number of shards to split dataset into
 
 # axolotl attempts to save the dataset as an arrow after packing the data together so
 # subsequent training attempts load faster, relative path
@@ -201,7 +217,7 @@ sequence_len: 2048
 # inspired by StackLLaMA. see https://huggingface.co/blog/stackllama#supervised-fine-tuning
 max_packed_sequence_len: 1024
 
-# if you want to use lora, leave blank to train all parameters in original model
+# if you want to use 'lora' or 'qlora' or leave blank to train all parameters in original model
 adapter: lora
 # if you already have a lora model trained that you want to load, put that here
 # lora hyperparameters
@@ -224,6 +240,7 @@ lora_out_dir:
 lora_fan_in_fan_out: false
 
 # wandb configuration if you're using it
+wandb_mode:
 wandb_project:
 wandb_watch:
 wandb_run_id:
@@ -252,8 +269,18 @@ gradient_checkpointing: false
 # stop training after this many evaluation losses have increased in a row
 # https://huggingface.co/transformers/v4.2.2/_modules/transformers/trainer_callback.html#EarlyStoppingCallback
 early_stopping_patience: 3
-# specify a scheduler to use with the optimizer. only one_cycle is supported currently
-lr_scheduler:
+
+# specify a scheduler and kwargs to use with the optimizer
+lr_scheduler: # 'one_cycle' | 'log_sweep' | empty for cosine
+lr_scheduler_kwargs:
+
+# for one_cycle optim
+lr_div_factor: # learning rate div factor
+
+# for log_sweep optim
+log_sweep_min_lr:
+log_sweep_max_lr:
+
 # specify optimizer
 optimizer:
 # specify weight decay
@@ -262,7 +289,7 @@ weight_decay:
 # whether to use xformers attention patch https://github.com/facebookresearch/xformers:
 xformers_attention:
 # whether to use flash attention patch https://github.com/HazyResearch/flash-attention:
-flash_attention:
+flash_attention:  # require a100 for llama
 
 # resume from a specific checkpoint dir
 resume_from_checkpoint:
@@ -288,11 +315,17 @@ fsdp_config:
 # Deepspeed
 deepspeed:
 
-# TODO
+# Path to torch distx for optim 'adamw_anyprecision'
 torchdistx_path:
 
+# Set padding for data collator to 'longest'
+collator_pad_to_longest:
+
 # Debug mode
 debug:
+
+# Seed
+seed:
 ```
 
 </details>
@@ -317,12 +350,16 @@ accelerate launch scripts/finetune.py configs/your_config.yml
 
 ### Inference
 
-Add `--inference` flag to train command above
+Pass the appropriate flag to the train command:
 
-If you are inferencing a pretrained LORA, pass 
-```bash
---lora_model_dir ./completed-model
-```
+- Pretrained LORA:
+  ```bash
+  --inference --lora_model_dir ./completed-model
+  ```
+- Full weights finetune:
+  ```bash
+  --inference --base_model ./completed-model
+  ```
 
 ### Merge LORA to base
 
@@ -341,8 +378,11 @@ Please reduce any below
   - `eval_batch_size`
   - `sequence_len`
 
-  
-## Need help
+> RuntimeError: expected scalar type Float but found Half
+
+Try set `fp16: true`
+
+## Need help? 🙋‍♂️
   
 Join our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/HhrNrHJPRb) where we can help you
 
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile-base b/docker/Dockerfile-base
index 943bae3b0..c63f5a496 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile-base
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile-base
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ RUN git clone https://github.com/HazyResearch/flash-attention.git && \
     python3 setup.py bdist_wheel && \
     cd csrc/fused_dense_lib && \
     python3 setup.py bdist_wheel && \
-    cd csrc/xentropy && \
+    cd ../xentropy && \
     python3 setup.py bdist_wheel && \
-    cd csrc/rotary && \
+    cd ../rotary && \
     python3 setup.py bdist_wheel && \
-    cd csrc/layer_norm && \
+    cd ../layer_norm && \
     python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
 
 FROM base-builder AS deepspeed-builder
diff --git a/examples/lora-openllama-3b/config.yml b/examples/lora-openllama-3b/config.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6665044e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/lora-openllama-3b/config.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+base_model: openlm-research/open_llama_3b_600bt_preview
+base_model_config: openlm-research/open_llama_3b_600bt_preview
+model_type: LlamaForCausalLM
+tokenizer_type: LlamaTokenizer
+load_in_8bit: true
+load_in_4bit: false
+strict: false
+push_dataset_to_hub:
+datasets:
+  - path: teknium/GPT4-LLM-Cleaned
+    type: alpaca
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0.02
+adapter: lora
+lora_model_dir:
+sequence_len: 256
+max_packed_sequence_len:
+lora_r: 8
+lora_alpha: 16
+lora_dropout: 0.0
+lora_target_modules:
+  - gate_proj
+  - down_proj
+  - up_proj
+  - q_proj
+  - v_proj
+  - k_proj
+  - o_proj
+lora_fan_in_fan_out:
+wandb_project:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_run_id:
+wandb_log_model:
+output_dir: ./lora-out
+batch_size: 16
+micro_batch_size: 4
+num_epochs: 3
+optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
+torchdistx_path:
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+train_on_inputs: false
+group_by_length: false
+bf16: false
+fp16: true
+tf32: false
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+early_stopping_patience:
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+local_rank:
+logging_steps: 1
+xformers_attention: true
+flash_attention:
+gptq_groupsize:
+gptq_model_v1:
+warmup_steps: 10
+eval_steps: 50
+save_steps:
+debug:
+deepspeed:
+weight_decay: 0.0
+fsdp:
+fsdp_config:
+special_tokens:
+  bos_token: "<s>"
+  eos_token: "</s>"
+  unk_token: "<unk>"
diff --git a/src/axolotl/prompters.py b/src/axolotl/prompters.py
index a6d237a11..fd9dfc8d4 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/prompters.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/prompters.py
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ class AlpacaPrompter:
     system_no_input_prompt = "Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.\n\n"
     prompt_style = None
 
-    def __init__(self, prompt_style="instruct"):
-        self.prompt_style = prompt_style
+    def __init__(self, prompt_style=PromptStyle.instruct.value):
+        self.prompt_style = prompt_style if prompt_style else PromptStyle.instruct.value
         self.match_prompt_style()
 
     def match_prompt_style(self):
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
index 5b243bec4..de04e9333 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
@@ -211,12 +211,12 @@ def load_model(
         try:
             if is_llama_derived_model and "LlamaTokenizer" in globals():
                 tokenizer = LlamaTokenizer.from_pretrained(
-                    model,
+                    base_model_config,
                     trust_remote_code=True if cfg.trust_remote_code is True else False,
                 )
             else:
                 tokenizer = getattr(transformers, tokenizer_type).from_pretrained(
-                    model,
+                    base_model_config,
                     trust_remote_code=True if cfg.trust_remote_code is True else False,
                 )
         except:
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/validation.py b/src/axolotl/utils/validation.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9bef37406
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/validation.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+def validate_config(cfg):
+    if cfg.adapter == "qlora":
+        assert cfg.load_in_8bit is False
+        assert cfg.load_4bit is False
+        assert cfg.load_in_4bit is True
+    pass
+    # TODO
+    # MPT 7b
+    # https://github.com/facebookresearch/bitsandbytes/issues/25
+    # no 8bit adamw w bf16