transformers v5 upgrade (#3272)

* Prepare for transformers v5 upgrade

* fix hf cli

* update for hf hub changes

* fix tokenizer apply_chat_template args

* remap include_tokens_per_second

* fix tps

* handle migration for warmup

* use latest hf hub

* Fix scan -> ls

* fix import

* fix for renaming of mistral common tokenizer -> backend

* update for fixed tokenziation for llama

* Skip phi35 tests for now

* remove mistral patch fixed upstream in huggingface/transformers#41439

* use namespacing for patch

* don't rely on sdist for e2e tests for now

* run modal ci without waiting too

* Fix dep for ci

* fix imports

* Fix fp8 check

* fsdp2 fixes

* fix version handling

* update fsdp version tests for new v5 behavior

* Fail multigpu tests after 3 failures

* skip known v5 broken tests for now and cleanup

* bump deps

* unmark skipped test

* re-enable test_fsdp_qlora_prequant_packed test

* increase multigpu ci timeout

* skip broken gemma3 test

* reduce timout back to original 120min now that the hanging test is skipped

* fix for un-necessary collator for pretraining with bsz=1

* fix: safe_serialization deprecated in transformers v5 rc01 (#3318)

* torch_dtype deprecated

* load model in float32 for consistency with tests

* revert some test fixtures back

* use hf cache ls instead of scan

* don't strip fsdp_version

more fdsp_Version fixes for v5
fix version in fsdp_config
fix aliasing
fix fsdp_version check
check fsdp_version is 2 in both places

* Transformers v5 rc2 (#3347)

* bump dep

* use latest fbgemm, grab model config as part of fixture, un-skip test

* import AutoConfig

* don't need more problematic autoconfig when specifying config.json manually

* add fixtures for argilla ultrafeedback datasets

* download phi4-reasoning

* fix arg

* update tests for phi fast tokenizer changes

* use explicit model types for gemma3

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Co-authored-by: Wing Lian <wing@axolotl.ai>

* fix: AutoModelForVision2Seq -> AutoModelForImageTextToText

* chore: remove duplicate

* fix: attempt fix gemma3 text mode

* chore: lint

* ga release of v5

* need property setter for name_or_path for mistral tokenizer

* vllm not compatible with transformers v5

* setter for chat_template w mistral too

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Co-authored-by: NanoCode012 <nano@axolotl.ai>
Co-authored-by: salman <salman.mohammadi@outlook.com>

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -115,10 +115,10 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Pre-Download dataset fixture
         run: |
-          huggingface-cli download --repo-type=dataset axolotl-ai-internal/axolotl-oss-dataset-fixtures
+          hf download --repo-type=dataset axolotl-ai-internal/axolotl-oss-dataset-fixtures
 
       - name: Show HF cache
-        run: hf cache scan
+        run: hf cache ls
 
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ jobs:
           pytest -v --durations=10 tests/cli/ --cov=axolotl --cov-append --cov-report=xml
 
       - name: Show HF cache
-        run: hf cache scan
+        run: hf cache ls
 
       - name: Upload coverage to Codecov
         uses: codecov/codecov-action@v5
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ jobs:
           axolotl --help
 
       - name: Show HF cache
-        run: hf cache scan
+        run: hf cache ls
 
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
@@ -219,10 +219,10 @@ jobs:
           pytest -v --durations=10 tests/cli/
 
       - name: Show HF cache
-        run: hf cache scan
+        run: hf cache ls
 
   gate-skip-e2e:
-    needs: [pre-commit, pytest, pytest-sdist]
+    needs: [pre-commit]
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     outputs:
       skip: ${{ steps.compute.outputs.skip }}
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ jobs:
     # this job needs to be run on self-hosted GPU runners...
     runs-on: [self-hosted, modal]
     timeout-minutes: 120
-    needs: [pre-commit, pytest, pytest-sdist, gate-skip-e2e]
+    needs: [pre-commit, pytest]
 
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ jobs:
             python_version: "3.12"
             pytorch: 2.9.1
             num_gpus: 1
-            axolotl_extras: vllm
+            axolotl_extras:
             dockerfile: "Dockerfile-uv.jinja"
     steps:
       - name: Checkout