auto-enable lora kernels where possible (#2589)

* auto-enable lora kernels where possible

* test

* revert change to example yaml

* naming

* remove print

* slight logic change

tests/e2e/patched/lora_kernels/test_lora_kernel_patching.py

@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 
 # pylint: disable=redefined-outer-name
 
+from pathlib import Path
+
 import pytest
 import torch
+import yaml
 from accelerate.state import PartialState
 from peft import PeftModelForCausalLM, get_peft_config
 from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, LlamaForCausalLM
@@ -11,6 +14,7 @@ from transformers.models.llama.configuration_llama import LlamaConfig
 from transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama import LlamaAttention
 from transformers.models.qwen3_moe.modeling_qwen3_moe import Qwen3MoeAttention
 
+from axolotl.cli.config import load_cfg
 from axolotl.kernels.lora import (
     apply_lora_mlp_geglu,
     apply_lora_mlp_swiglu,
@@ -421,3 +425,42 @@ def test_kernel_training_integration():
     # Verify correct activation function
     layer = model.model.model.layers[0]
     assert layer.mlp.forward.__func__ is apply_lora_mlp_swiglu
+
+
+def test_kernel_training_integration_auto_enable(temp_dir):
+    """Test model loading with auto-enabled kernel patches."""
+    # Create minimal config without explicitly setting kernel options
+    cfg = DictDefault(
+        {
+            "base_model": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M",
+            "tokenizer_config": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M",
+            "learning_rate": 0.000001,
+            "datasets": [
+                {
+                    "path": "mhenrichsen/alpaca_2k_test",
+                    "type": "alpaca",
+                }
+            ],
+            "micro_batch_size": 1,
+            "gradient_accumulation_steps": 1,
+            "adapter": "lora",
+            "lora_r": 8,
+            "lora_alpha": 16,
+            "lora_dropout": 0.0,
+            "lora_target_linear": True,
+            "sequence_len": 1024,
+        }
+    )
+
+    # Write cfg to yaml file
+    path = Path(temp_dir) / "config.yaml"
+    with open(path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as fout:
+        fout.write(yaml.dump(cfg.to_dict(), Dumper=yaml.Dumper))
+
+    # Load config
+    cfg = load_cfg(str(path))
+
+    # Verify kernel options were auto-enabled in the config
+    assert cfg.lora_mlp_kernel is True
+    assert cfg.lora_qkv_kernel is True
+    assert cfg.lora_o_kernel is True