diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..df80c53a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+root = true
+
+[*]
+end_of_line = lf
+insert_final_newline = true
+trim_trailing_whitespace = true
+
+[*.py]
+indent_style = space
+indent_size = 4
+
+[**.yml]
+indent_style = space
+indent_size = 2
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..55344649f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+**/axolotl.egg-info
+**/__pycache__
+.idea
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 812ee1b7f..e490013a9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 # Axolotl
 
-### You know you're going to axolotl questions
+#### You know you're going to axolotl questions
 
 
+### Converting JSON data files to JSONL
 
+```shell
+python3 ./scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py --input data/alpaca_data_gpt4.json > data/alpaca_data_gpt4.jsonl
+python3 ./scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py --input data/raw/vicuna_cleaned.json > data/vicuna_cleaned.jsonl
+python3 ./scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py --input data/raw/roleplay-similarity_0.6-instruct-dataset.json > data/roleplay-similarity_0.6-instruct-dataset.jsonl
+python3 ./scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py --input data/raw/gpt4-instruct-similarity-0.6-dataset.json > data/gpt4-instruct-similarity-0.6-dataset.jsonl
+```
diff --git a/configs/pythia_1_2B_alpaca.yml b/configs/pythia_1_2B_alpaca.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ca91f2aab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configs/pythia_1_2B_alpaca.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+base_model: EleutherAI/pythia-1.4b-deduped
+model_type: GPTNeoXForCausalLM
+tokenizer_type: AutoTokenizer
+load_in_8bit: true
+datasets:
+  - path: ./data/alpaca_data_gpt4.jsonl
+    type: alpaca
+  - path: ./data/vicuna_cleaned.jsonl
+    type: sharegpt
+  - path: ./data/gpt4-instruct-similarity-0.6-dataset.jsonl
+    type: gpteacher
+  - path: ./data/roleplay-similarity_0.6-instruct-dataset.jsonl
+    type: gpteacher
+val_set_size: 0.05
+adapter: lora
+sequence_len: 2048
+lora_r: 16
+lora_alpha: 32
+lora_dropout: 0.05
+lora_target_modules:
+  - q_proj
+  - v_proj
+wandb_project:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb:run_name:
+wandb_log_model: checkpoint
+output_dir: ./lora-alpaca
+batch_size: 128
+micro_batch_size: 8
+num_epochs: 5
+learning_rate: 0.0003
+train_on_inputs: false
+bf16: True
+fp16: True
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+local_rank:
+deepspeed:
diff --git a/data/README.md b/data/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7f40c18f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+
+
+```shell
+curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tloen/alpaca-lora/main/alpaca_data_gpt4.json -o raw/alpaca_data_gpt4.json
+curl https://huggingface.co/datasets/anon8231489123/ShareGPT_Vicuna_unfiltered/resolve/main/ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json -L -o raw/vicuna_cleaned.json
+curl https://github.com/teknium1/GPTeacher/blob/main/Instruct/gpt4-instruct-similarity-0.6-dataset.json?raw=true -L -o raw/gpt4-instruct-similarity-0.6-dataset.json
+curl https://github.com/teknium1/GPTeacher/blob/main/Roleplay/roleplay-similarity_0.6-instruct-dataset.json?raw=true -L -o raw/roleplay-similarity_0.6-instruct-dataset.json
+```
diff --git a/data/raw/.gitignore b/data/raw/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1d085cacc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/raw/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+**
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9787c3bdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools", "wheel"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6ae668860
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git
+git+https://github.com/huggingface/peft.git
+attrdict
+fire
+PyYAML==6.0
+black
diff --git a/scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py b/scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d6b64d454
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/alpaca_json_to_jsonl.py
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import os
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import fire
+from typing import Optional
+
+# add src to the pythonpath so we don't need to pip install this
+project_root = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..'))
+src_dir = os.path.join(project_root, 'src')
+sys.path.insert(0, src_dir)
+
+from axolotl.convert import *
+
+def main(
+    input: Path,
+    output: Optional[Path] = None,
+    to_stdout: Optional[bool] = False,
+):
+    file_reader = FileReader()
+    if to_stdout or output is None:
+        writer = StdoutWriter()
+    else:
+        writer = FileWriter(output)
+    json_parser = JsonParser()
+    jsonl_serializer = JsonlSerializer()
+
+    converter = JsonToJsonlConverter(
+        file_reader, writer, json_parser, jsonl_serializer
+    )
+
+    converter.convert(input, output)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    fire.Fire(main)
diff --git a/scripts/finetune.py b/scripts/finetune.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9e5c61091
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/finetune.py
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+import os
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import fire
+import torch
+import transformers
+import yaml
+from attrdict import AttrDict
+from datasets import load_dataset, IterableDataset
+from peft import (
+    LoraConfig,
+    get_peft_model,
+    prepare_model_for_int8_training,
+)
+from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
+
+# add src to the pythonpath so we don't need to pip install this
+project_root = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..'))
+src_dir = os.path.join(project_root, 'src')
+sys.path.insert(0, src_dir)
+
+from axolotl.datasets import TokenizedPromptDataset
+from axolotl.prompt_tokenizers import AlpacaPromptTokenizingStrategy, ShareGPTPromptTokenizingStrategy, \
+    LLAMA_DEFAULT_PAD_TOKEN, GPTeacherPromptTokenizingStrategy
+from axolotl.prompters import AlpacaPrompter, GPTeacherPrompter, ShareGPTPrompter
+
+def setup_wandb_env_vars(cfg):
+    if len(cfg.wandb_project) > 0:
+        os.environ["WANDB_PROJECT"] = cfg.wandb_project
+        cfg.use_wandb = True
+        if len(cfg.wandb_watch) > 0:
+            os.environ["WANDB_WATCH"] = cfg.wandb_watch
+        if len(cfg.wandb_log_model) > 0:
+            os.environ["WANDB_LOG_MODEL"] = cfg.wandb_log_model
+
+
+def load_model(base_model, model_type, tokenizer_type, cfg, adapter="lora"):
+    if adapter != "lora":
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"{adapter} peft adapter not available")
+    try:
+        model = getattr(transformers, model_type).from_pretrained(
+            base_model,
+            load_in_8bit=cfg.load_in_8bit,
+            torch_dtype=torch.float16 if cfg.load_in_8bit else torch.float32,
+            device_map=cfg.device_map,
+        )
+    except:
+        model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+            base_model,
+            load_in_8bit=cfg.load_in_8bit,
+            torch_dtype=torch.float16 if cfg.load_in_8bit else torch.float32,
+            device_map=cfg.device_map,
+        )
+
+    try:
+        tokenizer = getattr(transformers, tokenizer_type).from_pretrained(model)
+    except:
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(base_model)
+
+    if tokenizer.__class__.__name__ == "LlamaTokenizer":
+        tokenizer.pad_token = LLAMA_DEFAULT_PAD_TOKEN
+
+    if cfg.load_in_8bit:
+        model = prepare_model_for_int8_training(model)
+
+    lora_config = LoraConfig(
+        r=cfg.lora_r,
+        lora_alpha=cfg.lora_alpha,
+        target_modules=cfg.lora_target_modules,
+        lora_dropout=cfg.lora_dropout,
+        bias="none",
+        task_type="CAUSAL_LM",
+    )
+    model = get_peft_model(model, lora_config)
+    if cfg.ddp:
+        model.to(f"cuda:{cfg.local_rank}")
+
+    # TODO resume_from_checkpoint handling
+
+    model.print_trainable_parameters()
+    return model, tokenizer
+
+
+def train(
+    config: Path = Path('configs/pythia_1_2B_alpaca.yml'),
+    **kwargs,
+):
+    # load the config from the yaml file
+    with open(config, 'r') as f:
+        cfg: AttrDict = AttrDict(yaml.load(f))
+    # if there are any options passed in the cli, if it is something that seems valid from the yaml,
+    # then overwrite the value
+    for k, v in enumerate(kwargs):
+        if k in cfg:
+            cfg.k = v
+
+    # setup some derived config / hyperparams
+    cfg.gradient_accumulation_steps = cfg.batch_size // cfg.micro_batch_size
+    cfg.device_map = "auto"
+    cfg.world_size = int(os.environ.get("WORLD_SIZE", 1))
+    cfg.local_rank = int(os.environ.get("LOCAL_RANK", 0))
+    cfg.ddp = cfg.world_size != 1
+    if cfg.ddp:
+        cfg.device_map = {"": int(os.environ.get("LOCAL_RANK", 0))}
+        cfg.gradient_accumulation_steps = cfg.gradient_accumulation_steps // cfg.world_size
+    setup_wandb_env_vars(cfg)
+
+    # Load the model and tokenizer
+    model, tokenizer = load_model(cfg.base_model, cfg.model_type, cfg.tokenizer_type, cfg, adapter=cfg.adapter)
+    datasets = []
+    for d in cfg.datasets:
+        ds: IterableDataset = load_dataset("json", data_files=d.path, streaming=True, num_proc=4, split=None)
+        if d.type == "alpaca":
+            ds_strategy = AlpacaPromptTokenizingStrategy(AlpacaPrompter(), tokenizer, cfg.train_on_inputs, cfg.sequence_len)
+            ds_wrapper = TokenizedPromptDataset(ds_strategy, ds)
+            datasets.append(ds_wrapper)
+        elif d.type == "gpteacher":
+            ds_strategy = GPTeacherPromptTokenizingStrategy(GPTeacherPrompter(), tokenizer, cfg.train_on_inputs, cfg.sequence_len)
+            ds_wrapper = TokenizedPromptDataset(ds_strategy, ds)
+            datasets.append(ds_wrapper)
+        elif d.type == "sharegpt":
+            ds_strategy = ShareGPTPromptTokenizingStrategy(ShareGPTPrompter(), tokenizer, cfg.train_on_inputs, cfg.sequence_len)
+            ds_wrapper = TokenizedPromptDataset(ds_strategy, ds)
+            datasets.append(ds_wrapper)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    fire.Fire(train)
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a35fb96dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+[metadata]
+name = axolotl
+version = 0.1.0
+description = You know you're going to axolotl questions
+author = Wing Lian
+author_email = wing.lian@gmail.com
+license = MIT
+
+[options]
+package_dir =
+    =src
+packages = find:
+install_requires =
+    transformers @ git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@main
+    peft @ git+https://github.com/huggingface/peft.git@main
+    attrdict
+    fire
+    PyYAML == 6.0
+    black
+
+[options.packages.find]
+where = src
+
diff --git a/src/axolotl/__init__.py b/src/axolotl/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/src/axolotl/convert.py b/src/axolotl/convert.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d4c2ccf2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/axolotl/convert.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+import json
+import sys
+
+
+class FileReader:
+    def read(self, file_path):
+        with open(file_path, "r") as file:
+            return file.read()
+
+
+class FileWriter:
+    def __init__(self, file_path):
+        self.file_path = file_path
+
+    def write(self, content):
+        with open(self.file_path, "w") as file:
+            file.write(content)
+
+
+class StdoutWriter:
+    def write(self, content):
+        sys.stdout.write(content)
+        sys.stdout.write("\n")
+
+
+class JsonParser:
+    def parse(self, content):
+        return json.loads(content)
+
+
+class JsonlSerializer:
+    def serialize(self, data):
+        lines = [json.dumps(item) for item in data]
+        return "\n".join(lines)
+
+
+class JsonToJsonlConverter:
+    def __init__(self, file_reader, file_writer, json_parser, jsonl_serializer):
+        self.file_reader = file_reader
+        self.file_writer = file_writer
+        self.json_parser = json_parser
+        self.jsonl_serializer = jsonl_serializer
+
+    def convert(self, input_file_path, output_file_path):
+        content = self.file_reader.read(input_file_path)
+        data = self.json_parser.parse(content)
+        jsonl_content = self.jsonl_serializer.serialize(data)
+        self.file_writer.write(jsonl_content)
+
+
diff --git a/src/axolotl/datasets.py b/src/axolotl/datasets.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f805e92ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/axolotl/datasets.py
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+from typing import List
+
+import torch
+from datasets import IterableDataset
+from .prompt_tokenizers import PromptTokenizingStrategy
+
+
+# We want this to be a wrapper for an existing dataset that we have loaded
+# lets use the concept of middlewares to wrap each dataset, for example
+# ConstantLengthDataset(ShuffledDataset([TokenizedPromptDataset(alpaca_dataset)]))
+# let's check to ensure we don't truncate an item in the middle, we'll use
+# the collators later on to pad the datasets
+
+
+class TokenizedPromptDataset(IterableDataset):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        prompt_tokenizer: PromptTokenizingStrategy,
+        dataset: IterableDataset,
+    ):
+        self.prompt_tokenizer = prompt_tokenizer
+        self.dataset = dataset
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        iterator = iter(self.dataset)
+        yield self.prompt_tokenizer.tokenize_prompt(next(iterator))
+
+
+class ConstantLengthDataset(IterableDataset):
+    """
+    Iterable dataset that returns constant length chunks of tokens from stream of text files.
+        Args:
+            tokenizer (Tokenizer): The processor used for proccessing the data.
+            dataset (dataset.Dataset): Dataset with text files.
+            infinite (bool): If True the iterator is reset after dataset reaches end else stops.
+            seq_length (int): Length of token sequences to return.
+            chars_per_token (int): Number of characters per token used to estimate number of tokens in text buffer.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        tokenizer,
+        datasets,
+        infinite=False,
+        seq_length=2048,
+        num_of_sequences=1024,
+        chars_per_token=3.6,
+    ):
+        self.tokenizer = tokenizer
+        self.concat_token_id = tokenizer.eos_token_id if tokenizer.eos_token_id else args.eos_token_id
+        self.datasets: List[IterableDataset] = datasets
+        self.seq_length = seq_length
+        self.infinite = infinite
+        self.current_size = 0
+        self.max_buffer_size = seq_length * chars_per_token * num_of_sequences
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        iterator = iter(self.datasets)
+        more_examples = True
+        while more_examples:
+            buffer, buffer_len = [], 0
+            while True:
+                if buffer_len >= self.max_buffer_size:
+                    break
+                try:
+                    buffer.append(next(iterator))
+                    buffer_len += len(buffer[-1])
+                except StopIteration:
+                    if self.infinite:
+                        iterator = iter(self.datasets)
+                    else:
+                        more_examples = False
+                        break
+            tokenized_inputs = self.tokenizer(buffer, truncation=False)["input_ids"]
+            all_token_ids = []
+            for tokenized_input in tokenized_inputs:
+                all_token_ids.extend(tokenized_input + [self.concat_token_id])
+            for i in range(0, len(all_token_ids), self.seq_length):
+                input_ids = all_token_ids[i : i + self.seq_length]
+                if len(input_ids) == self.seq_length:
+                    self.current_size += 1
+                    yield {
+                        "input_ids": torch.LongTensor(input_ids),
+                        "labels": torch.LongTensor(input_ids),
+                        "attention_masks": torch.LongTensor(input_ids),
+                    }
diff --git a/src/axolotl/prompt_tokenizers.py b/src/axolotl/prompt_tokenizers.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1748597ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/axolotl/prompt_tokenizers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import abc
+
+from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizer
+
+IGNORE_INDEX = -100
+LLAMA_DEFAULT_PAD_TOKEN = "[PAD]"
+LLAMA_DEFAULT_EOS_TOKEN = "</s>"
+LLAMA_DEFAULT_BOS_TOKEN = "<s>"
+LLAMA_DEFAULT_UNK_TOKEN = "<unk>"
+
+
+class PromptTokenizingStrategy(abc.ABC):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        prompter,
+        tokenizer,
+        train_on_inputs: bool = False,
+        sequence_len: int = 2048,
+    ):
+        self.prompter = prompter
+        self.tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer = tokenizer
+        self.train_on_inputs = train_on_inputs
+        self.sequence_len = sequence_len
+
+    @abc.abstractmethod
+    def tokenize_prompt(self, prompt):
+        pass
+
+
+class AlpacaPromptTokenizingStrategy(PromptTokenizingStrategy):
+    def tokenize_prompt(self, prompt):
+        full_prompt = self._tokenize_full_prompt(prompt)
+        tokenized_full_prompt = self._tokenize(full_prompt)
+        if not self.train_on_inputs:
+            user_prompt = self.prompter.generate_prompt(
+                prompt["instruction"], prompt["input"]
+            )
+            tokenized_user_prompt = self._tokenize(user_prompt, add_eos_token=False)
+            user_prompt_len = len(tokenized_user_prompt["input_ids"])
+            # TODO this could be sped up using numpy array slicing
+            tokenized_full_prompt["labels"] = [-100] * user_prompt_len + tokenized_full_prompt["labels"][user_prompt_len:]
+
+        return tokenized_full_prompt
+
+    def _tokenize_full_prompt(self, prompt):
+        return self.prompter.generate_prompt(
+            prompt["instruction"],
+            prompt["input"],
+            prompt["output"],
+        )
+
+    def _tokenize(self, prompt, add_eos_token=True):
+        result = self.tokenizer(
+            prompt,
+            truncation=True,
+            max_length=self.sequence_len,
+            padding=False,
+            return_tensors=None,
+        )
+        if (
+            result["input_ids"][-1] != self.tokenizer.eos_token_id
+            and len(result["input_ids"]) < self.sequence_len
+            and add_eos_token
+        ):
+            result["input_ids"].append(self.tokenizer.eos_token_id)
+            result["attention_mask"].append(1)
+
+        result["labels"] = result["input_ids"].copy()
+        return result
+
+
+class GPTeacherPromptTokenizingStrategy(AlpacaPromptTokenizingStrategy):
+    def _tokenize_full_prompt(self, prompt):
+        return self.prompter.generate_prompt(
+            prompt["instruction"],
+            prompt["input"],
+            prompt["response"],
+        )
+
+
+class ShareGPTPromptTokenizingStrategy(PromptTokenizingStrategy):
+    def tokenize_prompt(self, prompt):
+        pass
diff --git a/src/axolotl/prompters.py b/src/axolotl/prompters.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..baa3d9e66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/axolotl/prompters.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+class AlpacaPrompter:
+    pass
+
+
+class ShareGPTPrompter:
+    pass
+
+
+class GPTeacherPrompter:
+    pass