Update human_chat_qlora.yml: working config for RTX 5080 (seq_len 2048, qlora, chat_template)

human_chat_qlora.yml

@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
-# Llama 3.1 8B — Human-like LoRA fine-tune (HQQ quantization)
+# Llama 3.1 8B - Human-like QLoRA fine-tune
 #
 # Goal: natural, warm conversation; never corrects user errors; direct responses
 # Hardware: single RTX 5080 (16 GB VRAM)
-# Method: LoRA on HQQ 4-bit quantized base (bypasses bitsandbytes — RTX 5080 compatible)
+# Method: QLoRA (4-bit) via bitsandbytes (compiled from source for sm_120)
 #
 # Prerequisites:
-#   pip install -e '.[flash-attn]'   (inside your axolotl repo)
+#   See SETUP_MIAAI.md for full environment setup including bitsandbytes compilation
-#   huggingface-cli login            (meta-llama is a gated model)
+#   huggingface-cli login   (meta-llama is a gated model)
 #
 # Run:
+#   export PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True
 #   axolotl train human_chat_qlora.yml
 #   axolotl merge-lora human_chat_qlora.yml   # (optional) merge adapter into base
 
@@ -16,57 +17,56 @@ base_model: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
 model_type: LlamaForCausalLM
 tokenizer_type: AutoTokenizer
 
-# HQQ quantization — no bitsandbytes required, works on RTX 5080 (sm_120)
+load_in_4bit: true
-quant_method: hqq
 strict: false
-trust_remote_code: true
-torch_dtype: bfloat16
 
 # --- System prompt baked into every conversation ---
-# This is the primary lever for "no error correcting, more human-like"
 chat_template: llama3
 default_system_message: >-
   You are a direct, warm, and genuinely helpful assistant.
-  Respond to the user's intent naturally — never comment on typos, grammar,
+  Respond to the user's intent naturally - never comment on typos, grammar,
   or phrasing issues in their message. Just understand what they mean and give
   a clear, useful, conversational answer as if talking to a knowledgeable friend.
 
 # --- Datasets ---
-# Both use ShareGPT format: conversations field, from/value keys
+# SlimOrca: ~74k carefully curated conversations - good for natural tone
+# OpenHermes-2.5: broad instruction coverage - sampled to 5% to keep balance
 datasets:
   - path: Open-Orca/SlimOrca
     type: chat_template
     field_messages: conversations
     message_field_role: from
     message_field_content: value
-    split: "train[:3%]"
+    split: train[:3%]
 
   - path: teknium/OpenHermes-2.5
     type: chat_template
     field_messages: conversations
     message_field_role: from
     message_field_content: value
-    split: "train[:5%]"
+    split: train[:5%]
 
 dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
 val_set_size: 0.01
 output_dir: ./outputs/llama31-8b-humanchat
 
-sequence_len: 4096
+# sequence_len 2048 required on 16GB VRAM - 4096 OOMs during loss computation
+# (logits tensor: batch x seq_len x 128k vocab exceeds available memory)
+sequence_len: 2048
 sample_packing: true
 pad_to_sequence_len: true
 
-# --- LoRA adapter (on top of HQQ quantized base) ---
+# --- QLoRA adapter ---
-adapter: lora
+adapter: qlora
 lora_r: 64
 lora_alpha: 32
 lora_dropout: 0.05
 lora_target_linear: true
 
 # --- Training hyperparameters ---
-# Effective batch = micro_batch_size x gradient_accumulation = 2 x 4 = 8
+# Effective batch = micro_batch_size x gradient_accumulation = 1 x 8 = 8
-micro_batch_size: 2
+micro_batch_size: 1
-gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 8
 num_epochs: 2
 optimizer: paged_adamw_32bit
 lr_scheduler: cosine