feat: add Mistral Small 4 (#3502)

* feat: add mistral small 4

* fix: update mistral common

* fix: deepcopy when passing in tokenizer

* feat: add doc on reasoning and thinking section

* fix: don't use custom tokenizer and quantize experts

* chore: update docs and configs

* chore: update doc to follow official name

* feat: update cce to include mistral4

* chore: move

* fix: naming

* fix: test mock breaking get_text_config check

* fix: enable CCE and add expert block targetting to configs

* chore: docs

* fix: use act checkpointing

* chore: doc

* chore: docs

* chore: docs
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"# This step can take ~5-10 minutes to install dependencies\n",
"!pip install --no-build-isolation axolotl[flash-attn]>=0.9.1\n",
"!pip install \"cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@e8ad129\""
"!pip install \"cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@fa9a7fe\""
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# Finetune Mistral Small 4 with Axolotl
Mistral Small 4 is a 119B parameter (6.5B active) multimodal MoE model from MistralAI that unifies instruct, reasoning, and coding capabilities into a single model. It is available on HuggingFace at [Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603).
Thanks to the team at MistralAI for giving us early access to prepare for this release.
## Getting started
Note: Training this model requires weights in BF16 which we will link to later.
Users interested in training can convert / descale the existing FP8 weights.
1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
2. Install [Cut Cross Entropy](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#cut-cross-entropy) to reduce training VRAM usage
3. Install transformers from main
```bash
pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git
```
4. Run one of the example configs:
```bash
# text-only
axolotl train examples/mistral4/qlora-text.yml # no experts ~69 GiB, experts ~93 GiB
axolotl train examples/mistral4/fft-text.yml
# text + vision
# run: wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/Nanobit/text-vision-2k-test/resolve/main/African_elephant.jpg
axolotl train examples/mistral4/qlora-vision.yml # no experts ~68 GiB
axolotl train examples/mistral4/fft-vision.yml
```
Note: FFT configs provided as reference. Please adjust hyperparameters as needed.
## Reasoning Effort
The chat template supports a `reasoning_effort` variable to control the model's reasoning depth:
- `"none"` — instruct mode (default)
- `"high"` — reasoning mode with explicit thinking steps
Pass it via `chat_template_kwargs` under your dataset config:
```yaml
datasets:
- path: your/dataset
type: chat_template
chat_template_kwargs:
reasoning_effort: high
```
## Thinking Support
The chat template supports a `thinking` content type in assistant messages for training on reasoning traces (rendered as `[THINK]...[/THINK]` blocks).
To use thinking datasets, add the `thinking` mapping via `message_property_mappings`:
```yaml
datasets:
- path: your/thinking-dataset
type: chat_template
message_property_mappings:
role: role
content: content
thinking: thinking
chat_template_kwargs:
reasoning_effort: high
```
See the [Magistral thinking guide](../magistral/think/README.md) for dataset format details.
## Tips
- Read more on how to load your own dataset at [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
- The text dataset format follows the OpenAI Messages format as seen [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset-formats/conversation.html#chat_template).
- The vision model requires multi-modal dataset format as documented [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multimodal.html#dataset-format).
## Related Resources
- [MistralAI Mistral Small 4 Blog](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-4)
- [Axolotl Docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai)
- [Axolotl GitHub](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl)
- [Axolotl Discord](https://discord.gg/7m9sfhzaf3)

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base_model: mistralai/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603
plugins:
- axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
- axolotl.integrations.kernels.KernelsPlugin
use_kernels: true
use_sonicmoe: true
# only train language model layers, freeze vision tower
unfrozen_parameters:
- model.language_model.*
- lm_head
- embed_tokens
datasets:
- path: fozziethebeat/alpaca_messages_2k_test
type: chat_template
dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
val_set_size: 0.01
output_dir: ./outputs/out
sequence_len: 2048
sample_packing: true
wandb_project:
wandb_entity:
wandb_watch:
wandb_name:
wandb_log_model:
gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
micro_batch_size: 1
num_epochs: 1
optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
lr_scheduler: cosine
learning_rate: 2e-5
bf16: true
tf32: true
logging_steps: 1
flash_attention: true
warmup_ratio: 0.1
evals_per_epoch: 1
saves_per_epoch: 1
weight_decay: 0.0
fsdp_version: 2
fsdp_config:
offload_params: false
cpu_ram_efficient_loading: false
state_dict_type: FULL_STATE_DICT
auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: Mistral4DecoderLayer
reshard_after_forward: true
activation_checkpointing: true

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base_model: mistralai/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603
processor_type: AutoProcessor
plugins:
- axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
- axolotl.integrations.kernels.KernelsPlugin
use_kernels: true
use_sonicmoe: true
# vision requirements
skip_prepare_dataset: true
remove_unused_columns: false
sample_packing: false
datasets:
- path: Nanobit/text-vision-2k-test
type: chat_template
dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
val_set_size: 0.01
output_dir: ./outputs/out
sequence_len: 2048
wandb_project:
wandb_entity:
wandb_watch:
wandb_name:
wandb_log_model:
gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
micro_batch_size: 1
num_epochs: 1
optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
lr_scheduler: cosine
learning_rate: 2e-5
bf16: true
tf32: true
logging_steps: 1
flash_attention: true
warmup_ratio: 0.1
evals_per_epoch: 1
saves_per_epoch: 1
weight_decay: 0.0
fsdp_version: 2
fsdp_config:
offload_params: false
cpu_ram_efficient_loading: false
state_dict_type: FULL_STATE_DICT
auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: Mistral4DecoderLayer
reshard_after_forward: true
activation_checkpointing: true

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base_model: mistralai/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603
plugins:
- axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
load_in_4bit: true
quantize_moe_experts: true
datasets:
- path: fozziethebeat/alpaca_messages_2k_test
type: chat_template
dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
val_set_size: 0.01
output_dir: ./outputs/out
adapter: qlora
sequence_len: 2048
sample_packing: true
lora_r: 32
lora_alpha: 16
lora_dropout: 0.05
lora_target_modules: 'model.language_model.layers.[\d]+.(mlp|cross_attn|self_attn).(up|down|gate|q|k|v|o)_proj'
# uncomment to train on expert layers
# lora_target_parameters:
# - mlp.experts.gate_up_proj
# - mlp.experts.down_proj
# lora_mlp_kernel: false
# lora_qkv_kernel: false
# lora_o_kernel: false
wandb_project:
wandb_entity:
wandb_watch:
wandb_name:
wandb_log_model:
gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
micro_batch_size: 1
num_epochs: 1
optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
lr_scheduler: cosine
learning_rate: 0.0002
bf16: true
tf32: true
gradient_checkpointing: true
logging_steps: 1
flash_attention: true
warmup_ratio: 0.1
evals_per_epoch: 1
saves_per_epoch: 1
weight_decay: 0.0

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base_model: mistralai/Mistral-Small-4-119B-2603
processor_type: AutoProcessor
plugins:
- axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
load_in_4bit: true
quantize_moe_experts: true
# vision chat template requirements
skip_prepare_dataset: true
remove_unused_columns: false
sample_packing: false
datasets:
- path: Nanobit/text-vision-2k-test
type: chat_template
dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
val_set_size: 0.01
output_dir: ./outputs/out
adapter: qlora
sequence_len: 2048
lora_r: 32
lora_alpha: 16
lora_dropout: 0.05
lora_target_modules: 'model.language_model.layers.[\d]+.(mlp|cross_attn|self_attn).(up|down|gate|q|k|v|o)_proj'
# uncomment to train on expert layers
# lora_target_parameters:
# - mlp.experts.gate_up_proj
# - mlp.experts.down_proj
# lora_mlp_kernel: false
# lora_qkv_kernel: false
# lora_o_kernel: false
wandb_project:
wandb_entity:
wandb_watch:
wandb_name:
wandb_log_model:
gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
micro_batch_size: 1
num_epochs: 1
optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
lr_scheduler: cosine
learning_rate: 0.0002
bf16: true
tf32: true
gradient_checkpointing: true
logging_steps: 1
flash_attention: true
warmup_ratio: 0.1
evals_per_epoch: 1
saves_per_epoch: 1
weight_decay: 0.0