tag v0.12.2

* data_parallel_size in in VllmserveCliArgs

* moved to 43

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ We welcome ideas for improvements and new features. To suggest an enhancement, o
 5. Push your branch to your fork on GitHub.
 6. Open a new pull request against the `main` branch of the axolotl repository. Include a clear and concise description of your changes, referencing any related issues.
 
+#### Skipping CI Checks
+
+You can skip certain CI checks by including specific keywords in your commit messages:
+
+- `[skip ci]` or `skip ci` - Skips all CI checks for that commit
+- `[skip-e2e]` or `skip-e2e` - Skips only end-to-end tests while running other CI checks. You may also include this in the title of your PR to disable end-to-end tests for the entire PR.
+
 ## Style Guidelines
 
 ### Code Style

.github/workflows/base.yml

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
             torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
             dockerfile: "Dockerfile-base"
           - cuda: "128"
-            cuda_version: 12.6.3
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
             cudnn_version: ""
             python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.7.1
@@ -64,9 +64,16 @@ jobs:
             cuda_version: 12.8.1
             cudnn_version: ""
             python_version: "3.11"
-            pytorch: nightly
+            pytorch: 2.8.0
             torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
-            dockerfile: "Dockerfile-base-nightly"
+            dockerfile: "Dockerfile-base"
+#          - cuda: "128"
+#            cuda_version: 12.8.1
+#            cudnn_version: ""
+#            python_version: "3.11"
+#            pytorch: nightly
+#            torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
+#            dockerfile: "Dockerfile-base-nightly"
 #          # "next" is for release candidates of pytorch
 #          - cuda: "128"
 #            cuda_version: 12.8.1
@@ -122,6 +129,13 @@ jobs:
             pytorch: 2.6.0
             torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
             dockerfile: "Dockerfile-uv-base"
+          - cuda: "126"
+            cuda_version: 12.6.3
+            cudnn_version: ""
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.7.1
+            torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
+            dockerfile: "Dockerfile-uv-base"
           - cuda: "128"
             cuda_version: 12.8.1
             cudnn_version: ""
@@ -129,6 +143,13 @@ jobs:
             pytorch: 2.7.1
             torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
             dockerfile: "Dockerfile-uv-base"
+          - cuda: "128"
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
+            cudnn_version: ""
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.8.0
+            torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
+            dockerfile: "Dockerfile-uv-base"
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -24,12 +24,13 @@ jobs:
             cuda_version: 12.6.3
             python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.7.0
-            axolotl_extras: vllm
+            axolotl_extras:
           - cuda: 126
             cuda_version: 12.6.3
             python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.7.1
-            axolotl_extras:
+            axolotl_extras: vllm
+            is_latest: true
           - cuda: 128
             cuda_version: 12.8.1
             python_version: "3.11"
@@ -97,6 +98,12 @@ jobs:
             python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.7.1
             axolotl_extras:
+            is_latest:
+          - cuda: 126
+            cuda_version: 12.6.3
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.7.1
+            axolotl_extras: vllm
             is_latest: true
           - cuda: 128
             cuda_version: 12.8.1
@@ -150,6 +157,18 @@ jobs:
             python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.6.0
             axolotl_extras:
+          - cuda: 126
+            cuda_version: 12.6.3
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.7.1
+            axolotl_extras:
+            is_latest:
+          - cuda: 126
+            cuda_version: 12.6.3
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.7.1
+            axolotl_extras: vllm
+            is_latest: true
     runs-on: axolotl-gpu-runner
     steps:
       - name: Checkout

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
-          pytest -v --durations=10 -n8 --dist loadfile --ignore=tests/e2e/ --ignore=tests/patched/ --ignore=tests/cli/ tests/ --cov=axolotl --cov-report=xml
+          pytest -v --durations=10 -n8 --dist loadfile --ignore=tests/e2e/ --ignore=tests/patched/ --ignore=tests/cli/ --ignore=tests/monkeypatch/ tests/ --cov=axolotl --cov-report=xml
+          pytest -v --durations=10 tests/monkeypatch/ --cov=axolotl --cov-append --cov-report=xml
           pytest -v --durations=10 tests/patched/ --cov=axolotl --cov-append --cov-report=xml
           pytest -v --durations=10 tests/cli/ --cov=axolotl --cov-append --cov-report=xml
 
@@ -179,21 +180,52 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Run tests
         run: |
-          pytest -v --durations=10 -n8 --dist loadfile --ignore=tests/e2e/ --ignore=tests/patched/ --ignore=tests/cli/ tests/
-          pytest -v --durations=10 tests/patched/
+          pytest -v --durations=10 -n8 --dist loadfile --ignore=tests/e2e/ --ignore=tests/patched/ --ignore=tests/cli/ --ignore=tests/monkeypatch/ tests/ --cov=axolotl --cov-report=xml
+          pytest -v --durations=10 tests/monkeypatch/ --cov=axolotl --cov-append --cov-report=xml
           pytest -v --durations=10 tests/cli/
 
       - name: cleanup pip cache
         run: |
           find "$(pip cache dir)/http-v2" -type f -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;
 
+  gate-skip-e2e:
+    needs: [pre-commit, pytest, pytest-sdist]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      skip: ${{ steps.compute.outputs.skip }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/github-script@v7
+        id: compute
+        with:
+          script: |
+            const token = /\[skip-e2e\]/i;
+            let msg = '';
+            if (context.eventName === 'push') {
+              msg = context.payload.head_commit?.message || '';
+            } else if (context.eventName === 'pull_request') {
+              const { owner, repo } = context.repo;
+              const prNumber = context.payload.pull_request.number;
+              const commits = await github.paginate(
+                github.rest.pulls.listCommits,
+                { owner, repo, pull_number: prNumber, per_page: 100 }
+              );
+              msg = commits.at(-1)?.commit?.message || '';
+            }
+            const title = context.payload.pull_request?.title || '';
+            const body  = context.payload.pull_request?.body  || '';
+            const skip = token.test(msg) || token.test(title) || token.test(body);
+            core.setOutput('skip', String(skip));
+
   docker-e2e-tests-1st:
     # Run this job first as a gate for running the remainder of the test matrix
-    if: ${{ ! contains(github.event.commits[0].message, '[skip e2e]') && github.repository_owner == 'axolotl-ai-cloud' && !github.event.pull_request.draft }}
+    if: >
+      github.repository_owner == 'axolotl-ai-cloud' &&
+      (github.event_name != 'pull_request' || !github.event.pull_request.draft) &&
+      needs.gate-skip-e2e.outputs.skip != 'true'
     # 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]
+    needs: [pre-commit, pytest, pytest-sdist, gate-skip-e2e]
 
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
@@ -239,13 +271,16 @@ jobs:
           modal run cicd.e2e_tests
 
   docker-e2e-tests:
-    if: ${{ github.repository_owner == 'axolotl-ai-cloud' && !github.event.pull_request.draft }}
+    if: >
+      github.repository_owner == 'axolotl-ai-cloud' &&
+      (github.event_name != 'pull_request' || !github.event.pull_request.draft) &&
+      needs.gate-skip-e2e.outputs.skip != 'true'
     # this job needs to be run on self-hosted GPU runners...
     runs-on: [self-hosted, modal]
     timeout-minutes: 120
     # Only run the remainder of the matrix if the first e2e check passed;
     # this is to save on wasted compute costs for known failures that get caught in the first run
-    needs: [pre-commit, pytest, docker-e2e-tests-1st]
+    needs: [pre-commit, pytest, gate-skip-e2e, docker-e2e-tests-1st]
 
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ default_language_version:
 
 repos:
 -   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v5.0.0
+    rev: v6.0.0
     hooks:
     -   id: check-yaml
     -   id: end-of-file-fixer
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ repos:
     hooks:
     - id: flake8
 -   repo: https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint
-    rev: v3.3.7
+    rev: v3.3.8
     hooks:
     - id: pylint
 -   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-    rev: v1.17.0
+    rev: v1.17.1
     hooks:
     - id: mypy
       additional_dependencies:

.runpod/README.md

@@ -185,7 +185,6 @@ datasets:
 | `flash_attention`          | `false` | Use flash attention           |
 | `flash_attn_cross_entropy` | `false` | Flash attention cross entropy |
 | `flash_attn_rms_norm`      | `false` | Flash attention RMS norm      |
-| `flash_attn_fuse_qkv`      | `false` | Fuse QKV operations           |
 | `flash_attn_fuse_mlp`      | `false` | Fuse MLP operations           |
 | `sdp_attention`            | `false` | Use scaled dot product        |
 | `s2_attention`             | `false` | Use shifted sparse attention  |

.runpod/src/config/config.yaml

@@ -296,7 +296,6 @@
 # flash_attention:
 # flash_attn_cross_entropy:  # Whether to use flash-attention cross entropy implementation - advanced use only
 # flash_attn_rms_norm:  # Whether to use flash-attention rms norm implementation - advanced use only
-# flash_attn_fuse_qkv: # Whether to fuse QKV into a single operation
 # flash_attn_fuse_mlp: # Whether to fuse part of the MLP into a single operation
 # # Whether to use scaled-dot-product attention
 # # https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention.html
@@ -541,7 +540,6 @@ xformers_attention: ${XFORMERS_ATTENTION}
 flash_attention: ${FLASH_ATTENTION}
 flash_attn_cross_entropy: ${FLASH_ATTN_CROSS_ENTROPY}
 flash_attn_rms_norm: ${FLASH_ATTN_RMS_NORM}
-flash_attn_fuse_qkv: ${FLASH_ATTN_FUSE_QKV}
 flash_attn_fuse_mlp: ${FLASH_ATTN_FUSE_MLP}
 sdp_attention: ${SDP_ATTENTION}
 s2_attention: ${S2_ATTENTION}

CITATION.cff

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+cff-version: 1.2.0
+type: software
+title: "Axolotl: Post-Training for AI Models"
+message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."
+authors:
+  - name: "Axolotl maintainers and contributors"
+repository-code: "https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl"
+url: "https://axolotl.ai/"
+license: Apache-2.0
+date-released: "2023-05-30"

README.md

@@ -25,17 +25,28 @@
 
 ## 🎉 Latest Updates
 
-- 2025/07: Voxtral with mistral-common tokenizer support has been integrated in Axolotl. Read the [docs](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/voxtral)!
-- 2025/07: TiledMLP support for single-GPU to multi-GPU training with DDP, DeepSpeed and FSDP support has been added to support Arctic Long Sequence Training. (ALST). See [examples](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/alst) for using ALST with Axolotl!
-- 2025/06: Magistral with mistral-common tokenizer support has been added to Axolotl. See [examples](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/magistral) to start training your own Magistral models with Axolotl!
+- 2025/07:
+  - ND Parallelism support has been added into Axolotl. Compose Context Parallelism (CP), Tensor Parallelism (TP), and Fully Sharded Data Parallelism (FSDP) within a single node and across multiple nodes. Check out the [blog post](https://huggingface.co/blog/accelerate-nd-parallel) for more info.
+  - Axolotl adds more models: [GPT-OSS](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/gpt-oss), [Gemma 3n](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/gemma3n), [Liquid Foundation Model 2 (LFM2)](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/lfm2), and [Arcee Foundation Models (AFM)](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/afm).
+  - FP8 finetuning with fp8 gather op is now possible in Axolotl via `torchao`. Get started [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/mixed_precision.html#sec-fp8)!
+  - [Voxtral](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/voxtral), [Magistral 1.1](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/magistral), and [Devstral](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/devstral) with mistral-common tokenizer support has been integrated in Axolotl!
+  - TiledMLP support for single-GPU to multi-GPU training with DDP, DeepSpeed and FSDP support has been added to support Arctic Long Sequence Training. (ALST). See [examples](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/alst) for using ALST with Axolotl!
 - 2025/05: Quantization Aware Training (QAT) support has been added to Axolotl. Explore the [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/qat.html) to learn more!
-- 2025/04: Llama 4 support has been added in Axolotl. See [examples](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/llama-4) to start training your own Llama 4 models with Axolotl's linearized version!
 - 2025/03: Axolotl has implemented Sequence Parallelism (SP) support. Read the [blog](https://huggingface.co/blog/axolotl-ai-co/long-context-with-sequence-parallelism-in-axolotl) and [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/sequence_parallelism.html) to learn how to scale your context length when fine-tuning.
+
+<details>
+
+<summary>Expand older updates</summary>
+
+- 2025/06: Magistral with mistral-common tokenizer support has been added to Axolotl. See [examples](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/magistral) to start training your own Magistral models with Axolotl!
+- 2025/04: Llama 4 support has been added in Axolotl. See [examples](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/llama-4) to start training your own Llama 4 models with Axolotl's linearized version!
 - 2025/03: (Beta) Fine-tuning Multimodal models is now supported in Axolotl. Check out the [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multimodal.html) to fine-tune your own!
 - 2025/02: Axolotl has added LoRA optimizations to reduce memory usage and improve training speed for LoRA and QLoRA in single GPU and multi-GPU training (DDP and DeepSpeed). Jump into the [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/lora_optims.html) to give it a try.
 - 2025/02: Axolotl has added GRPO support. Dive into our [blog](https://huggingface.co/blog/axolotl-ai-co/training-llms-w-interpreter-feedback-wasm) and [GRPO example](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/grpo_code) and have some fun!
 - 2025/01: Axolotl has added Reward Modelling / Process Reward Modelling fine-tuning support. See [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/reward_modelling.html).
 
+</details>
+
 ## ✨ Overview
 
 Axolotl is a tool designed to streamline post-training for various AI models.
@@ -138,6 +149,20 @@ Contributions are welcome! Please see our [Contributing Guide](https://github.co
 
 Interested in sponsoring? Contact us at [wing@axolotl.ai](mailto:wing@axolotl.ai)
 
+## 📝 Citing Axolotl
+
+If you use Axolotl in your research or projects, please cite it as follows:
+
+```bibtex
+@software{axolotl,
+  title = {Axolotl: Post-Training for AI Models},
+  author = {{Axolotl maintainers and contributors}},
+  url = {https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl},
+  license = {Apache-2.0},
+  year = {2023}
+}
+```
+
 ## 📜 License
 
 This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

TODO.md

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# todo list
-
-- [] Validation of parameters for combinations that won't work
-
-
-
-## things that are known not to work
-
-- FSDP offload and gradient_checkpointing - https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/82203
-- adamw_bnb_8bit doesn't play well with FSDP offload

_quarto.yml

@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ website:
             - docs/dataset_preprocessing.qmd
             - docs/multipack.qmd
             - docs/mixed_precision.qmd
+            - docs/optimizers.qmd
 
         - section: "Advanced Features"
           contents:

docker/Dockerfile-base

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ WORKDIR /workspace
 
 RUN python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip && pip3 install -U packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel && \
     python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -U torch==${PYTORCH_VERSION}+cu${CUDA} torchvision --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu$CUDA && \
-    python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir "causal_conv1d @ git+https://github.com/Dao-AILab/causal-conv1d.git@main" && \
+    CAUSAL_CONV1D_FORCE_CXX11_ABI=TRUE CAUSAL_CONV1D_FORCE_BUILD=TRUE python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir causal_conv1d==1.5.2 && \
     python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir "mamba_ssm @ git+https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba.git@main" && \
     python3 -m pip cache purge
 

docs/dataset-formats/conversation.qmd

@@ -212,10 +212,11 @@ Instead of passing `tools` via the system prompt, an alternative method would be
 Tools need to follow [JSON schema](https://json-schema.org/learn/getting-started-step-by-step).
 :::
 
+Example config for Llama4:
 ```yaml
 chat_template: llama4
 datasets:
-  - path: ...
+  - path: Nanobit/text-tools-2k-test
     type: chat_template
     # field_tools: tools # default is `tools`
 ```

docs/multimodal.qmd

@@ -13,10 +13,13 @@ format:
 - [Pixtral](#sec-pixtral)
 - [Llava-1.5](#sec-llava-15)
 - [Mistral-Small-3.1](#sec-mistral-small-31)
+- [Voxtral](#sec-voxtral)
 - [Gemma-3](#sec-gemma-3)
 - [Gemma-3n](#sec-gemma-3n)
 - [Qwen2-VL](#sec-qwen2-vl)
 - [Qwen2.5-VL](#sec-qwen25-vl)
+- [SmolVLM2](#sec-smolvlm2)
+- [LFM2-VL](#sec-lfm2-vl)
 
 ## Usage
 
@@ -31,7 +34,7 @@ skip_prepare_dataset: true
 remove_unused_columns: false  # leave columns in place as they are needed to handle image embeddings during training
 sample_packing: false  # not yet supported with multimodal
 
-chat_template:  # see in next section
+chat_template:  # see in next section if specified
 
 # example dataset
 datasets:
@@ -97,6 +100,16 @@ base_model: mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503
 chat_template: mistral_v7_tekken
 ```
 
+### Voxtral {#sec-voxtral}
+
+::: {.callout-tip}
+Please make sure to install audio lib via `pip3 install librosa==0.11.0 'mistral_common[audio]==1.8.3'`
+:::
+
+```yaml
+base_model: mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507
+```
+
 ### Gemma-3 {#sec-gemma-3}
 
 ::: {.callout-tip}
@@ -143,6 +156,26 @@ base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct
 chat_template: qwen2_vl  # same as qwen2-vl
 ```
 
+### SmolVLM2 {#sec-smolvlm2}
+
+::: {.callout-tip}
+Please make sure to install `num2words` via `pip3 install num2words==0.5.14`
+:::
+
+```yaml
+base_model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct
+```
+
+### LFM2-VL {#sec-lfm2-vl}
+
+::: {.callout-warning}
+Please uninstall `causal-conv1d` via `pip3 uninstall -y causal-conv1d`
+:::
+
+```yaml
+base_model: LiquidAI/LFM2-VL-450M
+```
+
 ## Dataset Format
 
 For multi-modal datasets, we adopt an extended `chat_template` format similar to OpenAI's Message format.
@@ -181,6 +214,20 @@ You may need to install `librosa` via `pip3 install librosa==0.11.0`.
 
 :::
 
+### Video
+
+::: {.callout-warning}
+
+This is not well tested at the moment. We welcome contributors!
+
+:::
+
+For video loading, you can use the following keys within `content` alongside `"type": "video"`:
+
+- `"path": "/path/to/video.mp4"`
+- `"url": "https://example.com/video.mp4"`
+- `"video": np.ndarray | list[PIL.Image.Image] | torch.Tensor` (or list of the aforementioned)
+
 ### Example
 
 Here is an example of a multi-modal dataset:

docs/nd_parallelism.qmd

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-# N-D Parallelism
+---
+title: "N-D Parallelism (Beta)"
+---
 
 Axolotl enables training models at scale by composing different parallelism techniques. This is essential when:
 
@@ -71,6 +73,10 @@ Note: We recommend FSDP. DeepSpeed is only compatible with `tensor_parallel_size
 
 ## Examples
 
+::: {.callout-tip}
+See our example configs [here](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/distributed-parallel).
+:::
+
 1.  HSDP on 2 nodes with 4 GPUs each (8 GPUs total):
     - You want FSDP within each node and DDP across nodes.
     - Set `dp_shard_size: 4` and `dp_replicate_size: 2`.
@@ -95,7 +101,7 @@ This matrix describes how different parallelism methods can be combined in Axolo
 | **HSDP + TP** | >1 | >1 | >1 | 1 | ✅ **3D Parallelism**. A powerful but complex combination. |
 | **FSDP + CP** | 1 | >1 | 1 | >1 | ✅ **2D Parallelism**. Combines FSDP with context parallelism. |
 | **FSDP + TP + CP**| 1 | >1 | >1| >1| ✅ **3D Parallelism**. Another advanced combination. |
-| DDP + TP/CP | >1 | 1 | >1 | >1 | ❌ **Not Supported**. The `ParallelismConfig` explicitly prevents this, as composing pure DDP with TP/CP without FSDP is inefficient and complex. You should use FSDP instead (`dp_shard_size > 1`). |
+| DDP + TP/CP | >1 | 1 | >1 | >1 | ❌ **Not Supported**. The `ParallelismConfig` explicitly prevents this, as composing pure DDP with TP or CP is currently not supported. You should use FSDP + TP/CP instead (`dp_shard_size > 1`). |
 | Just TP / CP | 1 | 1 | >1 | >1 | ✅ Supported. Useful for inference or when the model fits on one GPU but context is too long. |
 
 - `tp_size` refers to `tensor_parallel_size`

docs/optimizers.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+---
+title: Optimizers
+description: Configuring optimizers
+---
+
+## Overview
+
+Axolotl supports all optimizers supported by [transformers OptimizerNames](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/51f94ea06d19a6308c61bbb4dc97c40aabd12bad/src/transformers/training_args.py#L142-L187)
+
+Here is a list of optimizers supported by transformers as of `v4.54.0`:
+
+- `adamw_torch`
+- `adamw_torch_fused`
+- `adamw_torch_xla`
+- `adamw_torch_npu_fused`
+- `adamw_apex_fused`
+- `adafactor`
+- `adamw_anyprecision`
+- `adamw_torch_4bit`
+- `adamw_torch_8bit`
+- `ademamix`
+- `sgd`
+- `adagrad`
+- `adamw_bnb_8bit`
+- `adamw_8bit`  # alias for adamw_bnb_8bit
+- `ademamix_8bit`
+- `lion_8bit`
+- `lion_32bit`
+- `paged_adamw_32bit`
+- `paged_adamw_8bit`
+- `paged_ademamix_32bit`
+- `paged_ademamix_8bit`
+- `paged_lion_32bit`
+- `paged_lion_8bit`
+- `rmsprop`
+- `rmsprop_bnb`
+- `rmsprop_bnb_8bit`
+- `rmsprop_bnb_32bit`
+- `galore_adamw`
+- `galore_adamw_8bit`
+- `galore_adafactor`
+- `galore_adamw_layerwise`
+- `galore_adamw_8bit_layerwise`
+- `galore_adafactor_layerwise`
+- `lomo`
+- `adalomo`
+- `grokadamw`
+- `schedule_free_radam`
+- `schedule_free_adamw`
+- `schedule_free_sgd`
+- `apollo_adamw`
+- `apollo_adamw_layerwise`
+- `stable_adamw`
+
+
+## Custom Optimizers
+
+Enable custom optimizers by passing a string to the `optimizer` argument. Each optimizer will receive beta and epsilon args, however, some may accept additional args which are detailed below.
+
+### optimi_adamw
+
+```yaml
+optimizer: optimi_adamw
+```
+
+### ao_adamw_4bit
+
+Deprecated: Please use `adamw_torch_4bit`.
+
+### ao_adamw_8bit
+
+Deprecated: Please use `adamw_torch_8bit`.
+
+### ao_adamw_fp8
+
+
+```yaml
+optimizer: ao_adamw_fp8
+```
+
+### adopt_adamw
+
+GitHub: [https://github.com/iShohei220/adopt](https://github.com/iShohei220/adopt)
+Paper: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02853](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02853)
+
+```yaml
+optimizer: adopt_adamw
+```
+
+### came_pytorch
+
+GitHub: [https://github.com/yangluo7/CAME/tree/master](https://github.com/yangluo7/CAME/tree/master)
+Paper: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02047](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02047)
+
+```yaml
+optimizer: came_pytorch
+
+# optional args (defaults below)
+adam_beta1: 0.9
+adam_beta2: 0.999
+adam_beta3: 0.9999
+adam_epsilon: 1e-30
+adam_epsilon2: 1e-16
+```
+
+### muon
+
+Blog: [https://kellerjordan.github.io/posts/muon/](https://kellerjordan.github.io/posts/muon/)
+Paper: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16982v1](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16982v1)
+
+```yaml
+optimizer: muon
+```
+
+### dion
+
+Microsoft's Dion (DIstributed OrthoNormalization) optimizer is a scalable and communication-efficient
+orthonormalizing optimizer that uses low-rank approximations to reduce gradient communication.
+
+GitHub: [https://github.com/microsoft/dion](https://github.com/microsoft/dion)
+Paper: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.05295](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.05295)
+Note: Implementation written for PyTorch 2.7+ for DTensor
+
+```yaml
+optimizer: dion
+dion_lr: 0.01
+dion_momentum: 0.95
+lr: 0.00001  # learning rate for embeddings and parameters that fallback to AdamW
+```

examples/LiquidAI/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Finetune Liquid Foundation Models 2 (LFM2) with Axolotl
+
+[Liquid Foundation Models 2 (LFM2)](https://huggingface.co/collections/LiquidAI/lfm2-686d721927015b2ad73eaa38) are a family of small, open-weight models from [Liquid AI](https://www.liquid.ai/) focused on quality, speed, and memory efficiency. Liquid AI released text-only [LFM2](https://huggingface.co/collections/LiquidAI/lfm2-686d721927015b2ad73eaa38) and text+vision [LFM2-VL](https://huggingface.co/collections/LiquidAI/lfm2-vl-68963bbc84a610f7638d5ffa) models.
+
+LFM2 features a new hybrid Liquid architecture with multiplicative gates, short-range convolutions, and grouped query attention, enabling fast training and inference.
+
+This guide shows how to fine-tune both the LFM2 and LFM2-VL models with Axolotl.
+
+## Getting Started
+
+1.  Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
+
+    Here is an example of how to install from pip:
+    ```bash
+    # Ensure you have a compatible version of Pytorch installed
+    pip3 install packaging setuptools wheel ninja
+    pip3 install --no-build-isolation 'axolotl[flash-attn]>=0.12.0'
+    ```
+
+2.  Run one of the finetuning examples below.
+
+    **LFM2**
+    ```bash
+    # FFT SFT (1x48GB @ 25GiB)
+    axolotl train examples/LiquidAI/lfm2-350m-fft.yaml
+    ```
+
+    **LFM2-VL**
+    ```bash
+    # LoRA SFT (1x48GB @ 2.7GiB)
+    axolotl train examples/LiquidAI/lfm2-vl-lora.yaml
+    ```
+
+### TIPS
+
+- **Installation Error**: If you encounter `ImportError: ... undefined symbol ...` or `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'causal_conv1d_cuda'`, the `causal-conv1d` package may have been installed incorrectly. Try uninstalling it:
+  ```bash
+  pip uninstall -y causal-conv1d
+  ```
+
+- **Dataset Loading**: Read more on how to load your own dataset in our [documentation](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
+- **Dataset Formats**:
+  - For LFM2 models, the dataset format follows the OpenAI Messages format as seen [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset-formats/conversation.html#chat_template).
+  - For LFM2-VL models, Axolotl follows the multi-content Messages format. See our [Multimodal docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multimodal.html#dataset-format) for details.
+
+## Optimization Guides
+
+- [Multi-GPU Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-gpu.html)
+- [LoRA Optimizations](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/lora_optims.html)
+- [Multi-Node Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-node.html)
+
+## Related Resources
+
+- [LFM2 Blog](https://www.liquid.ai/blog/liquid-foundation-models-v2-our-second-series-of-generative-ai-models)
+- [LFM2-VL Blog](https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-vl-efficient-vision-language-models)
+- [Axolotl Docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai)
+- [Axolotl GitHub](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl)
+- [Axolotl Discord](https://discord.gg/7m9sfhzaf3)

examples/LiquidAI/lfm2-350m-fft.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ base_model: LiquidAI/LFM2-350M
 
 chunked_cross_entropy: true
 
-chat_template: tokenizer_default
 eot_tokens:
   - "<|im_end|>"
 datasets:

examples/LiquidAI/lfm2-vl-lora.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+base_model: LiquidAI/LFM2-VL-450M
+trust_remote_code: true
+model_type: AutoModelForImageTextToText
+processor_type: AutoProcessor
+
+# these 3 lines are needed for now to handle vision chat templates w images
+skip_prepare_dataset: true
+remove_unused_columns: false
+sample_packing: false
+
+datasets:
+  - path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
+    type: chat_template
+    split: train[:1%]
+
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0.0
+output_dir: ./outputs/out
+
+adapter: lora
+lora_model_dir:
+
+sequence_len: 8192
+pad_to_sequence_len: false
+
+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'
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+bf16: true
+fp16:
+tf32: true
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+logging_steps: 1
+flash_attention: true
+eager_attention:
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+weight_decay: 0.0
+
+# save_first_step: true  # uncomment this to validate checkpoint saving works with your config

examples/arcee/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Finetune ArceeAI's AFM with Axolotl
+
+[Arcee Foundation Models (AFM)](https://huggingface.co/collections/arcee-ai/afm-45b-68823397c351603014963473) are a family of 4.5B parameter open weight models trained by Arcee.ai.
+
+This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl with multi-turn conversations and proper masking.
+
+Thanks to the team at Arcee.ai for using Axolotl in supervised fine-tuning the AFM model.
+
+## Getting started
+
+1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html). You need to install from main as AFM is only on nightly or use our latest [Docker images](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/docker.html).
+
+    Here is an example of how to install from main for pip:
+
+```bash
+# Ensure you have Pytorch installed (Pytorch 2.6.0 min)
+git clone https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl.git
+cd axolotl
+
+pip3 install packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel ninja
+pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn]'
+```
+
+2. Run the finetuning example:
+
+```bash
+axolotl train examples/arcee/afm-4.5b-qlora.yaml
+```
+
+This config uses about 7.8GiB VRAM.
+
+Let us know how it goes. Happy finetuning! 🚀
+
+### TIPS
+
+- For inference, the official Arcee.ai team recommends `top_p: 0.95`, `temperature: 0.5`, `top_k: 50`, and `repeat_penalty: 1.1`.
+- You can run a full finetuning by removing the `adapter: qlora` and `load_in_4bit: true` from the config.
+- Read more on how to load your own dataset at [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
+- The dataset format follows the OpenAI Messages format as seen [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset-formats/conversation.html#chat_template).
+
+## Optimization Guides
+
+- [Multi-GPU Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-gpu.html)
+- [Multi-Node Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-node.html)
+- [LoRA Optimizations](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/lora_optims.html)
+
+## Related Resources
+
+- [AFM Blog](https://docs.arcee.ai/arcee-foundation-models/introduction-to-arcee-foundation-models)
+- [Axolotl Docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai)
+- [Axolotl Website](https://axolotl.ai)
+- [Axolotl GitHub](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl)
+- [Axolotl Discord](https://discord.gg/7m9sfhzaf3)

examples/arcee/afm-4.5b-qlora.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+base_model: arcee-ai/AFM-4.5B
+
+# Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF
+# hub_model_id: username/custom_model_name
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+
+load_in_8bit: false
+load_in_4bit: true
+
+datasets:
+  - path: fozziethebeat/alpaca_messages_2k_test
+    type: chat_template
+
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0.1
+output_dir: ./outputs/lora-out
+
+adapter: qlora
+lora_model_dir:
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: true
+
+lora_r: 32
+lora_alpha: 16
+lora_dropout: 0.05
+lora_target_linear: true
+lora_target_modules:
+  - gate_proj
+  - down_proj
+  - up_proj
+  - q_proj
+  - v_proj
+  - k_proj
+  - o_proj
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 2
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+bf16: auto
+tf32: false
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+logging_steps: 1
+flash_attention: true
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+
+# save_first_step: true  # uncomment this to validate checkpoint saving works with your config

examples/archived/stablelm-2/1.6b/fft.yml

@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ logging_steps: 1
 flash_attention: true
 flash_attn_cross_entropy: false
 flash_attn_rms_norm: true
-flash_attn_fuse_qkv: false
 flash_attn_fuse_mlp: true
 
 warmup_ratio: 0.1

examples/colab-notebooks/colab-axolotl-example.ipynb

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
         "%%capture\n",
         "# 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@cbd58e0\""
+        "!pip install \"cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@0ee9ee8\""
       ]
     },
     {

examples/devstral/README.md

@@ -10,17 +10,14 @@ Thanks to the team at MistralAI for giving us early access to prepare for this r
 
 ## Getting started
 
-1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html). You need to install from main as Devstral is only on nightly or use our latest [Docker images](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/docker.html).
+1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
 
-    Here is an example of how to install from main for pip:
+    Here is an example of how to install from pip:
 
 ```bash
-# Ensure you have Pytorch installed (Pytorch 2.6.0+)
-git clone https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl.git
-cd axolotl
-
+# Ensure you have Pytorch installed (Pytorch 2.6.0 min)
 pip3 install packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel ninja
-pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn]'
+pip3 install --no-build-isolation 'axolotl[flash-attn]>=0.12.0'
 ```
 
 2. Run the finetuning example:

examples/distributed-parallel/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# ND Parallelism Examples
+
+This directory contains example configurations for training models using ND Parallelism in Axolotl. These examples demonstrate how to compose different parallelism strategies (FSDP, TP, CP, HSDP) for efficient multi-GPU training.
+
+## Quick Start
+
+1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
+
+2. Run the command below:
+
+```bash
+# Train Qwen3 8B with FSDP + TP + CP on a single 8-GPU node
+axolotl train examples/distributed-parallel/qwen3-8b-fsdp-tp-cp.yaml
+
+# Train Llama 3.1 8B with HSDP + TP on 2 nodes (16 GPUs total)
+axolotl train examples/distributed-parallel/llama-3_1-8b-hsdp-tp.yaml
+```
+
+## Example Configurations
+
+### Single Node (8 GPUs)
+
+**Qwen3 8B with FSDP + TP + CP** ([qwen3-8b-fsdp-tp-cp.yaml](./qwen3-8b-fsdp-tp-cp.yaml))
+- Uses all 3 parallelism dimensions on a single node
+- Ideal for: when model weights, activations, and/or context are too large to fit on single GPU
+
+```yaml
+dp_shard_size: 2         # FSDP across 2 GPUs
+tensor_parallel_size: 2  # TP across 2 GPUs
+context_parallel_size: 2 # CP across 2 GPUs
+# Total: 2 × 2 × 2 = 8 GPUs
+```
+
+### Multi-Node
+
+**Llama 3.1 8B with HSDP + TP** ([llama-3_1-8b-hsdp-tp.yaml](./llama-3_1-8b-hsdp-tp.yaml))
+- FSDP & TP within nodes, DDP across nodes to minimize inter-node communication
+- Ideal for: Scaling to multiple nodes while maintaining training efficiency
+
+```yaml
+dp_shard_size: 4        # FSDP within each 4-GPU group
+tensor_parallel_size: 2 # TP within each node
+dp_replicate_size: 2    # DDP across 2 groups
+# Total: (4 × 2) × 2 = 16 GPUs (2 nodes)
+```
+
+## Learn More
+
+- [ND Parallelism Documentation](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/nd_parallelism.html)
+- [Blog: Accelerate ND-Parallel Guide](https://huggingface.co/blog/accelerate-nd-parallel)
+- [Multi-GPU Training Guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-gpu.html)
+- [Axolotl Discord](https://discord.gg/7m9sfhzaf3)

examples/distributed-parallel/llama-3_1-8b-hsdp-tp.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+base_model: meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+
+dp_shard_size: 4
+dp_replicate_size: 2
+tensor_parallel_size: 2
+# context_parallel_size: 2
+
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+
+special_tokens:
+  pad_token: <|end_of_text|>
+
+fsdp_version: 2
+fsdp_config:
+  offload_params: false
+  state_dict_type: FULL_STATE_DICT
+  auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
+  transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: LlamaDecoderLayer
+  reshard_after_forward: true
+
+datasets:
+  - path: tatsu-lab/alpaca
+    type: alpaca
+
+output_dir: ./outputs/ndp-out/
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: true
+flash_attention: true
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 2
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
+lr_scheduler: constant_with_warmup
+learning_rate: 2e-6
+
+bf16: true
+tf32: true
+
+logging_steps: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1

examples/distributed-parallel/qwen3-8b-fsdp-tp-cp.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen3-8B
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+
+dp_shard_size: 2
+# dp_replicate_size: 1
+context_parallel_size: 2
+tensor_parallel_size: 2
+
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+
+fsdp_version: 2
+fsdp_config:
+  offload_params: false
+  state_dict_type: FULL_STATE_DICT
+  auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
+  transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: Qwen3DecoderLayer
+  reshard_after_forward: true
+
+datasets:
+  - path: tatsu-lab/alpaca
+    type: alpaca
+
+output_dir: ./outputs/ndp-out/
+
+sequence_len: 8192
+sample_packing: true
+flash_attention: true
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
+micro_batch_size: 1  # must be 1 when using context parallel
+num_epochs: 2
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
+lr_scheduler: constant_with_warmup
+learning_rate: 2e-6
+
+bf16: true
+tf32: true
+
+logging_steps: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+
+special_tokens:

examples/gemma3n/README.md

@@ -4,17 +4,14 @@ Gemma-3n is a family of multimodal models from Google found on [HuggingFace](htt
 
 ## Getting started
 
-1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html). You need to install from main as Gemma3n is only on nightly or use our latest [Docker images](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/docker.html).
+1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
 
-    Here is an example of how to install from main for pip:
+    Here is an example of how to install from pip:
 
 ```bash
-# Ensure you have Pytorch installed (Pytorch 2.6.0 min recommended)
-git clone https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl.git
-cd axolotl
-
+# Ensure you have Pytorch installed (Pytorch 2.6.0 min)
 pip3 install packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel ninja
-pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn]'
+pip3 install --no-build-isolation 'axolotl[flash-attn]>=0.12.0'
 ```
 
 2. In addition to Axolotl's requirements, Gemma-3n requires:

examples/gpt-oss/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+# Finetune OpenAI's GPT-OSS with Axolotl
+
+[GPT-OSS](https://huggingface.co/collections/openai/gpt-oss-68911959590a1634ba11c7a4) are a family of open-weight MoE models trained by OpenAI, released in August 2025. There are two variants: 20B and 120B.
+
+This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl with multi-turn conversations and proper masking.
+
+## Getting started
+
+1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
+
+    Here is an example of how to install from pip:
+
+```bash
+# Ensure you have Pytorch installed (Pytorch 2.6.0 min)
+pip3 install packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel ninja
+pip3 install --no-build-isolation 'axolotl[flash-attn]>=0.12.0'
+```
+
+2. Choose one of the following configs below for training the 20B model. (for 120B, see [below](#training-120b))
+
+```bash
+# LoRA SFT linear layers (1x48GB @ ~44GiB)
+axolotl train examples/gpt-oss/gpt-oss-20b-sft-lora-singlegpu.yaml
+
+# FFT SFT with offloading (2x24GB @ ~21GiB/GPU)
+axolotl train examples/gpt-oss/gpt-oss-20b-fft-fsdp2-offload.yaml
+
+# FFT SFT (8x48GB @ ~36GiB/GPU or 4x80GB @ ~46GiB/GPU)
+axolotl train examples/gpt-oss/gpt-oss-20b-fft-fsdp2.yaml
+```
+
+Note: Memory usage taken from `device_mem_reserved(gib)` from logs.
+
+### Training 120B
+
+On 8xH100s, make sure you have ~3TB of free disk space. With each checkpoint clocking in at ~720GB, along with the base
+model, and final model output, you may need at least 3TB of free disk space to keep at least 2 checkpoints.
+
+```bash
+# FFT SFT with offloading (8x80GB @ ~49GiB/GPU)
+axolotl train examples/gpt-oss/gpt-oss-120b-fft-fsdp2-offload.yaml
+```
+
+ERRATA: Transformers saves the model Architecture prefixed with `FSDP` which needs to be manually renamed in `config.json`.
+See https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/40207 for the status of this issue.
+
+```bash
+sed -i 's/FSDPGptOssForCausalLM/GptOssForCausalLM/g' ./outputs/gpt-oss-out/config.json
+```
+
+When using SHARDED_STATE_DICT with FSDP, the final checkpoint should automatically merge the sharded weights to your
+configured `output_dir`. However, if that step fails due to a disk space error, you can take an additional step to
+merge the sharded weights.  This step will automatically determine the last checkpoint directory and merge the sharded
+weights to `{output_dir}/merged`.
+
+```bash
+axolotl merge-sharded-fsdp-weights examples/gpt-oss/gpt-oss-120b-fft-fsdp2-offload.yaml
+mv ./outputs/gpt-oss-out/merged/* ./outputs/gpt-oss-out/
+```
+
+
+### Inferencing your fine-tuned model
+
+GPT-OSS support in vLLM does not exist in a stable release yet. See https://x.com/MaziyarPanahi/status/1955741905515323425
+for more information about using a special vllm-openai docker image for inferencing with vLLM.
+
+SGLang has 0-day support in main, see https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/issues/8833 for infomation on installing
+SGLang from source. Once you've installed SGLang, run the following command to launch a SGLang server:
+
+```bash
+python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model ./outputs/gpt-oss-out/ --served-model-name axolotl/gpt-oss-120b --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8888 --tp 8
+```
+
+### Tool use
+
+GPT-OSS has a comprehensive tool understanding. Axolotl supports tool calling datasets for Supervised Fine-tuning.
+
+Here is an example dataset config:
+```yaml
+datasets:
+  - path: Nanobit/text-tools-2k-test
+    type: chat_template
+```
+
+See [Nanobit/text-tools-2k-test](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Nanobit/text-tools-2k-test) for the sample dataset.
+
+Refer to [our docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset-formats/conversation.html#using-tool-use) for more info.
+
+### TIPS
+
+- Read more on how to load your own dataset at [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
+- The dataset format follows the OpenAI Messages format as seen [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset-formats/conversation.html#chat_template).
+
+## Optimization Guides
+
+- [Multi-GPU Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-gpu.html)
+- [Multi-Node Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-node.html)
+
+## Related Resources
+
+- [GPT-OSS Blog](https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/)
+- [Axolotl Docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai)
+- [Axolotl Website](https://axolotl.ai)
+- [Axolotl GitHub](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl)
+- [Axolotl Discord](https://discord.gg/7m9sfhzaf3)

examples/gpt-oss/gpt-oss-120b-fft-fsdp2-offload.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# the original mxfp4 quantized model is not supported with FSDP cpu_ram_efficient_loading
+# FSDP cpu_ram_efficient_loading is used to reduce the initial CPU memory usage when loading the model
+base_model: axolotl-ai-co/gpt-oss-120b-dequantized
+
+use_kernels: false
+
+dp_shard_size: 16  # requires 2x8xH100 nodes
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+
+experimental_skip_move_to_device: true  # prevent OOM by NOT putting model to GPU before sharding
+
+datasets:
+  - path: HuggingFaceH4/Multilingual-Thinking
+    type: chat_template
+    field_thinking: thinking
+    template_thinking_key: thinking
+
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0
+output_dir: ./outputs/gpt-oss-out/
+save_total_limit: 2  # the 120B model can use up to 720GB of disk space per checkpoint, so let's only keep the last 2
+
+sequence_len: 4096
+sample_packing: true
+pad_to_sequence_len: true
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 2
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused  # 8bit optimizers do not work with FSDP2 offload
+lr_scheduler: constant_with_warmup
+learning_rate: 2e-5
+
+bf16: true
+tf32: true
+
+flash_attention: true
+attn_implementation: kernels-community/vllm-flash-attn3
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+activation_offloading: true
+
+logging_steps: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.03
+
+special_tokens:
+eot_tokens:
+  - "<|end|>"
+
+fsdp_version: 2
+fsdp_config:
+  offload_params: true
+  state_dict_type: SHARDED_STATE_DICT
+  auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
+  transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: GptOssDecoderLayer
+  reshard_after_forward: true
+  cpu_ram_efficient_loading: true

examples/gpt-oss/gpt-oss-20b-fft-deepspeed-zero3.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+base_model: openai/gpt-oss-20b
+use_kernels: false
+model_quantization_config: Mxfp4Config
+model_quantization_config_kwargs:
+  dequantize: true
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+
+experimental_skip_move_to_device: true  # prevent OOM by NOT putting model to GPU before sharding
+
+datasets:
+  - path: HuggingFaceH4/Multilingual-Thinking
+    type: chat_template
+    field_thinking: thinking
+    template_thinking_key: thinking
+
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0
+output_dir: ./outputs/gpt-oss-out/
+
+sequence_len: 4096
+sample_packing: true
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 2
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+
+optimizer: adamw_torch_8bit
+lr_scheduler: constant_with_warmup
+learning_rate: 2e-5
+
+bf16: true
+tf32: true
+
+flash_attention: true
+attn_implementation: kernels-community/vllm-flash-attn3
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+activation_offloading: true
+
+logging_steps: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.03
+
+special_tokens:
+eot_tokens:
+  - "<|end|>"
+
+# choose the zero3 configuration that best fits your system capabilities
+deepspeed: deepspeed_configs/zero3_bf16.json

examples/gpt-oss/gpt-oss-20b-fft-fsdp2-offload.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+base_model: openai/gpt-oss-20b
+use_kernels: true
+model_quantization_config: Mxfp4Config
+model_quantization_config_kwargs:
+  dequantize: true
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+
+experimental_skip_move_to_device: true  # prevent OOM by NOT putting model to GPU before sharding
+
+datasets:
+  - path: HuggingFaceH4/Multilingual-Thinking
+    type: chat_template
+    field_thinking: thinking
+    template_thinking_key: thinking
+
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0
+output_dir: ./outputs/gpt-oss-out/
+
+sequence_len: 4096
+sample_packing: true
+pad_to_sequence_len: true
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 2
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused  # 8bit optimizers do not work with FSDP2 offload
+lr_scheduler: constant_with_warmup
+learning_rate: 2e-5
+
+bf16: true
+tf32: true
+
+flash_attention: true
+attn_implementation: kernels-community/vllm-flash-attn3
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+activation_offloading: true
+
+logging_steps: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.03
+
+special_tokens:
+eot_tokens:
+  - "<|end|>"
+
+fsdp_version: 2
+fsdp_config:
+  offload_params: true
+  state_dict_type: SHARDED_STATE_DICT
+  auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
+  transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: GptOssDecoderLayer
+  reshard_after_forward: true
+  #  cpu_ram_efficient_loading: true
+
+# cpu_ram_efficient_loading cannot be used with MXFP4 model quantization.
+# It can only be used with a dequantized model like `axolotl-ai-co/gpt-oss-120b-dequantized`

examples/gpt-oss/gpt-oss-20b-fft-fsdp2.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+base_model: openai/gpt-oss-20b
+use_kernels: false
+model_quantization_config: Mxfp4Config
+model_quantization_config_kwargs:
+  dequantize: true
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+
+experimental_skip_move_to_device: true  # prevent OOM by NOT putting model to GPU before sharding
+
+datasets:
+  - path: HuggingFaceH4/Multilingual-Thinking
+    type: chat_template
+    field_thinking: thinking
+    template_thinking_key: thinking
+
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0
+output_dir: ./outputs/gpt-oss-out/
+
+sequence_len: 4096
+sample_packing: true
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 2
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+
+optimizer: adamw_torch_8bit
+lr_scheduler: constant_with_warmup
+learning_rate: 2e-5
+
+bf16: true
+tf32: true
+
+flash_attention: true
+attn_implementation: kernels-community/vllm-flash-attn3
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+activation_offloading: true
+
+logging_steps: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.03
+
+special_tokens:
+eot_tokens:
+  - "<|end|>"
+
+fsdp_version: 2
+fsdp_config:
+  offload_params: false
+  state_dict_type: SHARDED_STATE_DICT
+  auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
+  transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: GptOssDecoderLayer
+  reshard_after_forward: true
+#  cpu_ram_efficient_loading: true

examples/gpt-oss/gpt-oss-20b-sft-lora-singlegpu.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+base_model: openai/gpt-oss-20b
+use_kernels: true
+model_quantization_config: Mxfp4Config
+model_quantization_config_kwargs:
+  dequantize: true
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+
+experimental_skip_move_to_device: true  # prevent OOM by not putting model to GPU before sharding
+
+datasets:
+  - path: HuggingFaceH4/Multilingual-Thinking
+    type: chat_template
+    field_thinking: thinking
+    template_thinking_key: thinking
+
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0
+output_dir: ./outputs/gpt-oss-out/
+
+sequence_len: 4096
+sample_packing: true
+
+adapter: lora
+lora_r: 8
+lora_alpha: 16
+lora_dropout: 0.0  # dropout not supported when using LoRA over expert parameters
+lora_target_linear: true
+
+# TODO: not supported for now, see peft#2710
+#lora_target_parameters:  # target the experts in the last two layers
+#  - "22._checkpoint_wrapped_module.mlp.experts.gate_up_proj"
+#  - "22._checkpoint_wrapped_module.mlp.experts.down_proj"
+#  - "23._checkpoint_wrapped_module.mlp.experts.gate_up_proj"
+#  - "23._checkpoint_wrapped_module.mlp.experts.down_proj"
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 8
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+
+optimizer: adamw_torch_8bit
+lr_scheduler: constant_with_warmup
+learning_rate: 2e-4
+
+bf16: true
+tf32: true
+
+flash_attention: true
+attn_implementation: kernels-community/vllm-flash-attn3
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+activation_offloading: true
+
+logging_steps: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+
+special_tokens:
+eot_tokens:
+  - "<|end|>"

examples/lfm2/README.md

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# Liquid Foundation Models 2
-
-LFM2 support in transformers exists in the main branch, but is not yet included in the transformers release.
-
-```bash
-pip install --upgrade --no-deps --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git
-```

examples/llama-2/fft_optimized.yml

@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ logging_steps: 1
 flash_attention: true
 flash_attn_cross_entropy: false
 flash_attn_rms_norm: true
-flash_attn_fuse_qkv: false
 flash_attn_fuse_mlp: true
 
 warmup_ratio: 0.1

examples/llama-2/lisa.yml

@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ logging_steps: 1
 flash_attention: true
 flash_attn_cross_entropy: false
 flash_attn_rms_norm: true
-flash_attn_fuse_qkv: false
 flash_attn_fuse_mlp: true
 
 warmup_ratio: 0.1

examples/magistral/README.md

@@ -8,17 +8,14 @@ Thanks to the team at MistralAI for giving us early access to prepare for this r
 
 ## Getting started
 
-1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html). You need to install from main as Magistral is only on nightly or use our latest [Docker images](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/docker.html).
+1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
 
-    Here is an example of how to install from main for pip:
+    Here is an example of how to install from pip:
 
 ```bash
 # Ensure you have Pytorch installed (Pytorch 2.6.0 min)
-git clone https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl.git
-cd axolotl
-
 pip3 install packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel ninja
-pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn]'
+pip3 install --no-build-isolation 'axolotl[flash-attn]>=0.12.0'
 ```
 
 2. Run the finetuning example:

examples/magistral/magistral-small-fsdp-qlora.yaml

@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ sequence_len: 2048
 sample_packing: true
 eval_sample_packing: false
 
-
 lora_r: 32
 lora_alpha: 16
 lora_dropout: 0.05

examples/magistral/magistral-small-qlora.yaml

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ lora_model_dir:
 sequence_len: 2048
 sample_packing: true
 
-
 lora_r: 32
 lora_alpha: 16
 lora_dropout: 0.05

examples/magistral/magistral-small-think-qlora.yaml

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ lora_model_dir:
 sequence_len: 2048
 sample_packing: true
 
-
 lora_r: 32
 lora_alpha: 16
 lora_dropout: 0.05

examples/slurm/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+# SLURM Multi-Node Training
+
+This directory contains an example SLURM script for running Axolotl training jobs across multiple nodes in a SLURM cluster.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+- Access to a SLURM cluster with GPU nodes
+- Axolotl installed on all nodes (see [installation docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html))
+
+## Usage
+
+### Standard SLURM Clusters
+
+1. Copy [`axolotl.slurm`](./axolotl.slurm) to your working directory.
+2. Place your Axolotl config file (`train.yaml`) in the same directory.
+3. Set the appropriate environment variables for the job:
+    ```bash
+    export HF_TOKEN="your-huggingface-token"
+
+    # metric tracking
+    # export WANDB_API_KEY="your-wandb-api-key"
+    # ...
+    ```
+4. Submit the job:
+   ```bash
+   sbatch --export=ALL,NUM_NODES=2,NUM_TRAINERS=8,PRIMARY_ADDR=<master-node>,PRIMARY_PORT=29400 axolotl.slurm
+   ```
+
+   Where:
+   - `NUM_NODES`: Number of nodes to use
+   - `NUM_TRAINERS`: GPUs per node (typically 8)
+   - `PRIMARY_ADDR`: Hostname/IP of the master node
+   - `PRIMARY_PORT`: Port for distributed training (default: 29400)
+
+5. (Optional) Run other slurm commands:
+    ```bash
+    # check job info
+    scontrol show job axolotl-cli
+
+    # check job queue
+    squeue
+
+    # check cluster status
+    sinfo
+    ```
+
+### RunPod Instant Clusters
+
+Axolotl works with RunPod Instant Clusters. This feature provides managed SLURM clusters with zero configuration.
+
+1. **Deploy a SLURM Cluster**:
+   - Go to [RunPod Instant Clusters](https://console.runpod.io/cluster)
+   - Click "Create a Cluster"
+   - Choose your GPU type, node count, and region
+   - Choose an [Axolotl cloud docker image](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/docker.html#cloud)
+   - Deploy the cluster
+
+2. **Connect to the Controller Node**: Find the controller node in the RunPod console and connect via SSH
+
+3. **Follow the instructions in [Standard SLURM Clusters](#standard-slurm-clusters)**
+
+## Additional Resources
+
+- [Axolotl Multi-Node Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-node.html)
+- [SLURM Documentation](https://slurm.schedmd.com/documentation.html)
+- [RunPod SLURM Clusters Guide](https://docs.runpod.io/instant-clusters/slurm-clusters)

examples/slurm/axolotl.slurm

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Prior to running this script, export your HF_TOKEN and WANDB_API_KEY to your environment; i.e.
+# export HF_TOKEN="..."
+# export WANDB_API_KEY="..."
+#
+
+# ---------- SBATCH commands ---------- #
+#SBATCH --job-name=axolotl-slurm-multinode
+#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1
+#SBATCH --nodes=$NUM_NODES
+#SBATCH --gpus-per-task=8
+#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=128
+
+export TORCH_DIST_INIT_BARRIER=0
+
+srun axolotl preprocess train.yaml
+
+srun axolotl train train.yaml --launcher torchrun -- \
+    --nproc_per_node=$NUM_TRAINERS --nnodes=$NUM_NODES \
+    --rdzv_id axolotl-cli --rdzv_backend c10d --rdzv_endpoint "${PRIMARY_ADDR}:${PRIMARY_PORT}" --rdzv-conf="join_timeout=1800"

examples/smolvlm2/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# Finetune SmolVLM2 with Axolotl
+
+[SmolVLM2](https://huggingface.co/collections/HuggingFaceTB/smolvlm2-smallest-video-lm-ever-67ab6b5e84bf8aaa60cb17c7) are a family of lightweight, open-source multimodal models from HuggingFace designed to analyze and understand video, image, and text content.
+
+These models are built for efficiency, making them well-suited for on-device applications where computational resources are limited. Models are available in multiple sizes, including 2.2B, 500M, and 256M.
+
+This guide shows how to fine-tune SmolVLM2 models with Axolotl.
+
+## Getting Started
+
+1.  Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
+
+    Here is an example of how to install from pip:
+    ```bash
+    # Ensure you have a compatible version of Pytorch installed
+    pip3 install packaging setuptools wheel ninja
+    pip3 install --no-build-isolation 'axolotl[flash-attn]>=0.12.0'
+    ```
+
+2. Install an extra dependency:
+
+    ```bash
+    pip3 install num2words==0.5.14
+    ```
+
+3.  Run the finetuning example:
+
+    ```bash
+    # LoRA SFT (1x48GB @ 6.8GiB)
+    axolotl train examples/smolvlm2/smolvlm2-2B-lora.yaml
+    ```
+
+## TIPS
+
+- **Dataset Format**: For video finetuning, your dataset must be compatible with the multi-content Messages format. For more details, see our documentation on [Multimodal Formats](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multimodal.html#dataset-format).
+- **Dataset Loading**: Read more on how to prepare and load your own datasets in our [documentation](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
+
+## Optimization Guides
+
+- [Multi-GPU Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-gpu.html)
+- [LoRA Optimizations](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/lora_optims.html)
+- [Multi-Node Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-node.html)
+
+## Related Resources
+
+- [SmolVLM2 Blog](https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm2)
+- [Axolotl Docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai)
+- [Axolotl GitHub](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl)
+- [Axolotl Discord](https://discord.gg/7m9sfhzaf3)

examples/smolvlm2/smolvlm2-2B-lora.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+base_model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-2.2B-Instruct
+trust_remote_code: true
+processor_type: AutoProcessor
+
+# these 3 lines are needed for now to handle vision chat templates w images
+skip_prepare_dataset: true
+remove_unused_columns: false
+sample_packing: false
+
+datasets:
+  - path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
+    type: chat_template
+    split: train[:1%]
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0.0
+output_dir: ./outputs/out
+
+adapter: lora
+lora_model_dir:
+
+sequence_len: 8192
+pad_to_sequence_len: false
+
+lora_r: 32
+lora_alpha: 16
+lora_dropout: 0.05
+lora_target_modules: 'model.text_model.layers.[\d]+.(mlp|cross_attn|self_attn).(up|down|gate|q|k|v|o)_proj'
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+bf16: true
+fp16:
+tf32: true
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+logging_steps: 1
+flash_attention: true
+eager_attention:
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+weight_decay: 0.0
+
+# save_first_step: true  # uncomment this to validate checkpoint saving works with your config

examples/voxtral/README.md

@@ -6,17 +6,14 @@ Thanks to the team at MistralAI for giving us early access to prepare for this r
 
 ## Getting started
 
-1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html). You need to install from main as Voxtral is only on nightly or use our latest [Docker images](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/docker.html).
+1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
 
-    Here is an example of how to install from main for pip:
+    Here is an example of how to install from pip:
 
 ```bash
 # Ensure you have Pytorch installed (Pytorch 2.6.0 min)
-git clone https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl.git
-cd axolotl
-
 pip3 install packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel ninja
-pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn]'
+pip3 install --no-build-isolation 'axolotl[flash-attn]>=0.12.0'
 ```
 
 2. Please install the below.

requirements.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 --extra-index-url https://huggingface.github.io/autogptq-index/whl/cu118/
 
 # START section of dependencies that don't install on Darwin/MacOS
-bitsandbytes==0.46.0
-triton>=3.0.0
+bitsandbytes==0.47.0
+# triton 3.4.0 is not compatible with CCE
+triton>=3.0.0,<3.4.0
 mamba-ssm==1.2.0.post1
 xformers>=0.0.23.post1
 autoawq==0.2.7.post3
@@ -12,19 +13,21 @@ liger-kernel==0.6.1
 packaging==23.2
 
 huggingface_hub>=0.33.0
-peft==0.16.0
-transformers==4.54.1
+peft==0.17.0
+transformers==4.55.2
 tokenizers>=0.21.1
-accelerate @ git+https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate.git@9359a0194f210624f1e6e85c3d838fdd55c11152
+accelerate==1.10.0
 datasets==4.0.0
 deepspeed>=0.17.0
-trl==0.20.0
+trl==0.21.0
 hf_xet==1.1.5
+kernels==0.9.0
+trackio
 
 optimum==1.16.2
 hf_transfer
 sentencepiece
-gradio==5.23.3
+gradio==5.41.1
 
 modal==1.0.2
 pydantic==2.10.6
@@ -66,6 +69,6 @@ torchao==0.12.0
 schedulefree==1.4.1
 
 axolotl-contribs-lgpl==0.0.6
-axolotl-contribs-mit==0.0.3
+axolotl-contribs-mit==0.0.5
 
 mistral-common==1.8.3

scripts/cloud-entrypoint.sh

@@ -44,8 +44,13 @@ add_keys_to_authorized() {
     chmod 700 -R ~/.ssh
 }
 
+# Set SSH port
+if [ ! -z "$SSH_PORT" ]; then
+    sed -i "s/#Port 22/Port $SSH_PORT/" /etc/ssh/sshd_config
+fi
+
 if [[ $PUBLIC_KEY ]]; then
-    # runpod
+    # runpod, prime intellect
     add_keys_to_authorized "$PUBLIC_KEY"
     # Start the SSH service in the background
     service ssh start
@@ -76,5 +81,13 @@ if [ ! -L "/workspace/axolotl/outputs" ]; then
     ln -sf /workspace/data/axolotl-artifacts /workspace/axolotl/outputs
 fi
 
+# start the runpod slurm init
+SLURM_INIT="${SLURM_INIT:-/slurm-init.sh}"
+
+if [[ -f "$SLURM_INIT" ]]; then
+  echo "[entrypoint] running $SLURM_INIT..."
+  bash "$SLURM_INIT"
+fi
+
 # Execute the passed arguments (CMD)
 exec "$@"

scripts/cutcrossentropy_install.py

@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@ UV_PREFIX = "uv " if USE_UV else ""
 
 print(
     UNINSTALL_PREFIX
-    + f'{UV_PREFIX}pip install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@cbd58e0"'
+    + f'{UV_PREFIX}pip install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@0ee9ee8"'
 )

src/axolotl/__init__.py

@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ import pkgutil
 
 __path__ = pkgutil.extend_path(__path__, __name__)  # Make this a namespace package
 
-__version__ = "0.12.0.dev"
+__version__ = "0.12.2"

src/axolotl/cli/args.py

@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ class VllmServeCliArgs:
         default=None,
         metadata={"help": "Number of tensor parallel workers to use."},
     )
+    data_parallel_size: Optional[int] = field(
+        default=None,
+        metadata={
+            "help": "Number of data parallel workers to use for vLLM serving. This controls how many model replicas are used for parallel inference."
+        },
+    )
     host: Optional[str] = field(
         default=None,  # nosec B104
         metadata={"help": "Host address to run the server on."},

src/axolotl/cli/config.py

@@ -153,15 +153,14 @@ def prepare_plugins(cfg: DictDefault):
         plugin_manager = PluginManager.get_instance()
         for plugin_name in cfg["plugins"]:
             plugin_manager.register(plugin_name)
+        for plugin in plugin_manager.plugins.values():
+            plugin.register(cfg)
 
 
 def plugin_set_cfg(cfg: DictDefault):
     if cfg.get("plugins"):
         plugin_manager = PluginManager.get_instance()
         plugin_manager.cfg = cfg
-        # now that we have the finalized cfg, register the plugins individually
-        for plugin in plugin_manager.plugins.values():
-            plugin.register(cfg)
 
 
 def load_cfg(

src/axolotl/cli/main.py

@@ -123,9 +123,10 @@ def train(
     _launcher = None if kwargs.get("use_ray") else launcher
 
     # Process each configuration
-    for cfg_file in generate_config_files(config, sweep):
+    for cfg_file, is_group in generate_config_files(config, sweep):
         try:
-            launch_training(cfg_file, _launcher, cloud, kwargs, launcher_args)
+            use_exec = is_group is not True
+            launch_training(cfg_file, _launcher, cloud, kwargs, launcher_args, use_exec)
         except subprocess.CalledProcessError as exc:
             LOG.error(f"Failed to train/fine-tune config '{cfg_file}': {exc}")
             if not sweep:

src/axolotl/cli/merge_sharded_fsdp_weights.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import fire
 import torch
 import torch.distributed.checkpoint as dist_cp
 import torch.distributed.checkpoint.format_utils as dist_cp_format_utils
+from accelerate import PartialState
 from accelerate.utils import (
     SAFE_WEIGHTS_INDEX_NAME,
     SAFE_WEIGHTS_NAME,
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ from torch.distributed.checkpoint.format_utils import _EmptyStateDictLoadPlanner
 
 from axolotl.cli.config import load_cfg
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
+from axolotl.utils.train import determine_last_checkpoint
 
 LOG = get_logger(__name__)
 
@@ -143,7 +145,6 @@ def merge_fsdp_weights(
         ValueError: If torch version < 2.3.0, or if `checkpoint_dir` does not exist.
     """
     checkpoint_dir_ = Path(checkpoint_dir)
-    from accelerate.state import PartialState
 
     if not is_torch_version(">=", "2.3.0"):
         raise ValueError("`merge_fsdp_weights` requires PyTorch >= 2.3.0`")
@@ -180,7 +181,6 @@ def merge_fsdp_weights(
         if remove_checkpoint_dir:
             LOG.info(f"Removing old checkpoint directory {checkpoint_dir_}")
             shutil.rmtree(checkpoint_dir_)
-    state.wait_for_everyone()
 
 
 def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs):
@@ -195,11 +195,32 @@ def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs):
     parsed_cfg = load_cfg(config, **kwargs)
 
     fsdp_dir = Path(parsed_cfg.output_dir) / "pytorch_model_fsdp_0"
+    if not fsdp_dir.exists():
+        checkpoint_dir = determine_last_checkpoint(parsed_cfg, update=False)
+        if checkpoint_dir:
+            fsdp_dir = Path(checkpoint_dir) / "pytorch_model_fsdp_0"
+        if not fsdp_dir.exists():
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Could not find FSDP checkpoint `pytorch_model_fsdp_0` in {checkpoint_dir}"
+            )
+
+    output_path = str(Path(parsed_cfg.output_dir) / "merged")
     merge_fsdp_weights(
         checkpoint_dir=str(fsdp_dir),
-        output_path=str(Path(parsed_cfg.output_dir) / "merged"),
+        output_path=output_path,
         safe_serialization=True,
     )
+    state = PartialState()
+    state.wait_for_everyone()
+    LOG.info(
+        f"FSDP SHARDED_STATE_DICT weights successfully merged to: {output_path}",
+        main_process_only=True,
+    )
+    LOG.info(
+        "Merged weights are only the safetensors and doesn't include the model configuration "
+        f"or tokenizer which may be found in {parsed_cfg.output_dir}.",
+        main_process_only=True,
+    )
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":

src/axolotl/cli/utils/train.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import os
 import subprocess  # nosec
+import sys
 import tempfile
 from typing import Any, Iterator, Literal
 
@@ -64,10 +65,18 @@ def build_command(base_cmd: list[str], options: dict[str, Any]) -> list[str]:
     return cmd
 
 
-def generate_config_files(config: str, sweep: str | None) -> Iterator[str]:
-    """Generate list of configuration files to process."""
+def generate_config_files(config: str, sweep: str | None) -> Iterator[tuple[str, bool]]:
+    """
+    Generate list of configuration files to process. Yields a tuple of the configuration file name and a boolean indicating
+    whether this is a group of configurations (i.e., a sweep).
+
+    Args:
+        config: Base configuration file
+        sweep: Sweep configuration file
+    """
+
     if not sweep:
-        yield config
+        yield config, False
         return
 
     # Load sweep and base configurations
@@ -78,6 +87,7 @@ def generate_config_files(config: str, sweep: str | None) -> Iterator[str]:
 
     # Generate all possible configurations
     permutations = generate_sweep_configs(base_config, sweep_config)
+    is_group = len(permutations) > 1
     for permutation in permutations:
         # pylint: disable=consider-using-with
         temp_file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(
@@ -88,7 +98,7 @@ def generate_config_files(config: str, sweep: str | None) -> Iterator[str]:
         )
         yaml.dump(permutation, temp_file)
         temp_file.close()
-        yield temp_file.name
+        yield temp_file.name, is_group
 
 
 def launch_training(
@@ -97,6 +107,7 @@ def launch_training(
     cloud: str | None,
     kwargs: dict,
     launcher_args: list[str] | None = None,
+    use_exec: bool = False,
 ) -> None:
     """Execute training with the given configuration."""
     launcher_args = launcher_args or []
@@ -105,11 +116,14 @@ def launch_training(
         _launch_cloud_training(cloud, cfg_file, launcher, kwargs, launcher_args)
     elif launcher:
         if launcher == "accelerate":
-            _launch_accelerate_training(cfg_file, kwargs, launcher_args)
+            _launch_accelerate_training(cfg_file, kwargs, launcher_args, use_exec)
         elif launcher == "torchrun":
-            _launch_torchrun_training(cfg_file, kwargs, launcher_args)
+            _launch_torchrun_training(cfg_file, kwargs, launcher_args, use_exec)
         elif launcher == "python":
             _launch_python_training(cfg_file, kwargs)
+    elif launcher is None:
+        # handle ray train launch
+        _launch_python_training(cfg_file, kwargs)
 
 
 def _launch_cloud_training(
@@ -136,7 +150,10 @@ def _launch_cloud_training(
 
 
 def _launch_accelerate_training(
-    cfg_file: str, kwargs: dict, launcher_args: list[str] | None = None
+    cfg_file: str,
+    kwargs: dict,
+    launcher_args: list[str] | None = None,
+    use_exec: bool = False,
 ) -> None:
     """Execute training via accelerate launcher."""
     launcher_args = launcher_args or []
@@ -161,11 +178,20 @@ def _launch_accelerate_training(
         base_cmd.append(cfg_file)
 
     cmd = build_command(base_cmd, kwargs)
-    subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)  # nosec B603
+    if use_exec:
+        # make sure to flush stdout and stderr before replacing the process
+        sys.stdout.flush()
+        sys.stderr.flush()
+        os.execvpe(cmd[0], cmd, os.environ)  # nosec B606
+    else:
+        subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)  # nosec B603
 
 
 def _launch_torchrun_training(
-    cfg_file: str, kwargs: dict, launcher_args: list[str] | None = None
+    cfg_file: str,
+    kwargs: dict,
+    launcher_args: list[str] | None = None,
+    use_exec: bool = False,
 ) -> None:
     """Execute training via torchrun launcher."""
     launcher_args = launcher_args or []
@@ -178,7 +204,13 @@ def _launch_torchrun_training(
         base_cmd.append(cfg_file)
 
     cmd = build_command(base_cmd, kwargs)
-    subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)  # nosec B603
+    if use_exec:
+        # make sure to flush stdout and stderr before replacing the process
+        sys.stdout.flush()
+        sys.stderr.flush()
+        os.execvpe(cmd[0], cmd, os.environ)  # nosec B606
+    else:
+        subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)  # nosec B603
 
 
 def _launch_python_training(cfg_file: str, kwargs: dict) -> None:

src/axolotl/cli/vllm_serve.py

@@ -2,12 +2,10 @@
 CLI to start the vllm server for online RL
 """
 
-import os
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Union
 
-import trl
 from trl.scripts.vllm_serve import ScriptArguments
 
 from axolotl.cli.config import load_cfg
@@ -42,13 +40,17 @@ def do_vllm_serve(
 
     serve_module = cli_args.get("serve_module", "trl.scripts.vllm_serve")
     vllm_serve_main = getattr(__import__(serve_module, fromlist=["main"]), "main")
+    tensor_parallel_size = 1
+    data_parallel_size = 1
 
-    tensor_parallel_size = (
-        cli_args.get("tensor_parallel_size") or cfg.vllm.tensor_parallel_size
-    )
-    data_parallel_size = (
-        cli_args.get("data_parallel_size") or cfg.vllm.data_parallel_size
-    )
+    if cli_args.get("tensor_parallel_size") or cfg.vllm.tensor_parallel_size:
+        tensor_parallel_size = (
+            cli_args.get("tensor_parallel_size") or cfg.vllm.tensor_parallel_size
+        )
+    if cli_args.get("data_parallel_size") or cfg.vllm.data_parallel_size:
+        data_parallel_size = (
+            cli_args.get("data_parallel_size") or cfg.vllm.data_parallel_size
+        )
     host = cli_args.get("host") or cfg.vllm.host
     port = cli_args.get("port") or cfg.vllm.port
     gpu_memory_utilization = (
@@ -81,63 +83,3 @@ def do_vllm_serve(
         enable_reasoning=enable_reasoning,
     )
     vllm_serve_main(vllm_script_args)
-
-
-def patch_vllm_worker():
-    from multiprocessing.connection import Connection
-
-    from vllm import LLM
-
-    def llm_worker(
-        script_args: AxolotlScriptArguments,
-        data_parallel_rank: int,
-        master_port: int,
-        connection: Connection,
-    ) -> None:
-        # Set required environment variables for DP to work with vLLM
-        os.environ["VLLM_DP_RANK"] = str(data_parallel_rank)
-        os.environ["VLLM_DP_RANK_LOCAL"] = str(data_parallel_rank)
-        os.environ["VLLM_DP_SIZE"] = str(script_args.data_parallel_size)
-        os.environ["VLLM_DP_MASTER_PORT"] = str(master_port)
-
-        llm = LLM(
-            model=script_args.model,
-            revision=script_args.revision,
-            tensor_parallel_size=script_args.tensor_parallel_size,
-            gpu_memory_utilization=script_args.gpu_memory_utilization,
-            enforce_eager=script_args.enforce_eager,
-            dtype=script_args.dtype,
-            # Automatic Prefix Caching caches the KV cache of existing queries, so that a new query can
-            # directly reuse the KV cache if it shares the same prefix with one of the existing queries.
-            # This is particularly useful here because we generate completions from the same prompts.
-            enable_prefix_caching=script_args.enable_prefix_caching,
-            kv_cache_dtype=script_args.kv_cache_dtype,
-            max_model_len=script_args.max_model_len,
-            worker_extension_cls="trl.scripts.vllm_serve.WeightSyncWorkerExtension",
-            enable_reasoning=script_args.enable_reasoning,
-            reasoning_parser=script_args.reasoning_parser,
-        )
-
-        # Send ready signal to parent process
-        connection.send({"status": "ready"})
-
-        while True:
-            # Wait for commands from the parent process
-            try:
-                command = connection.recv()
-            except KeyboardInterrupt:
-                llm.collective_rpc(method="close_communicator")
-                break
-
-            # Handle commands
-            if command["type"] in ["call", "fire_and_forget"]:
-                method_name = command["method"]
-                args, kwargs = command.get("args", ()), command.get("kwargs", {})
-                method = getattr(llm, method_name)
-                result = method(*args, **kwargs)
-                if command["type"] == "call":
-                    connection.send(result)
-            elif command["type"] == "shutdown":
-                break
-
-    trl.scripts.vllm_serve.llm_worker = llm_worker

src/axolotl/common/architectures.py

@@ -13,4 +13,5 @@ MOE_ARCH_BLOCK = {
     "qwen2_moe": "Qwen2MoeSparseMoeBlock",
     "qwen3_moe": "Qwen3MoeSparseMoeBlock",
     "deepseek_v2": "DeepseekV2MoE",
+    "gpt_oss": "GptOssDecoderLayer",
 }

src/axolotl/core/builders/base.py

@@ -24,12 +24,10 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any
 
 import torch
-from accelerate import PartialState
 from transformers import (
     TrainerCallback,
 )
 from transformers.trainer_pt_utils import AcceleratorConfig
-from transformers.training_args import OptimizerNames
 
 from axolotl.integrations.base import PluginManager
 from axolotl.monkeypatch.trainer.lr import patch_trainer_get_lr
@@ -40,6 +38,7 @@ from axolotl.utils.callbacks import (
     SaveModelOnFirstStepCallback,
 )
 from axolotl.utils.callbacks.profiler import PytorchProfilerCallback
+from axolotl.utils.distributed import build_parallelism_config
 from axolotl.utils.schemas.enums import CustomSupportedOptimizers
 
 LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -267,27 +266,24 @@ class TrainerBuilderBase(abc.ABC):
 
                 optimizer_cls = MuonOptimizerFactory
                 optimizer_kwargs.update(adam_kwargs)
+            elif self.cfg.optimizer == "dion":
+                from axolotl.contribs.mit.dion import (  # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
+                    DionOptimizerFactory,
+                )
+
+                optimizer_cls = DionOptimizerFactory
+                optimizer_kwargs["dion_lr"] = training_args_kwargs["dion_learning_rate"]
+                optimizer_kwargs["dion_mu"] = training_args_kwargs["dion_momentum"]
+                optimizer_kwargs.update(adam_kwargs)
+                _, device_mesh = build_parallelism_config(self.cfg)
+                if device_mesh is not None:
+                    optimizer_kwargs["device_mesh"] = device_mesh
             elif self.cfg.optimizer == "optimi_adamw":
                 from optimi import AdamW
 
                 optimizer_kwargs["foreach"] = False
                 optimizer_cls = AdamW
                 optimizer_kwargs.update(adam_kwargs)
-            elif self.cfg.optimizer == "ao_adamw_4bit":
-                # TODO remove 20250401
-                from torchao.prototype.low_bit_optim import AdamW4bit
-
-                optimizer_cls = AdamW4bit
-                optimizer_kwargs.update(adam_kwargs)
-
-                LOG.warning(
-                    f"`ao_adamw_4bit` will be deprecated soon. Please use `{OptimizerNames.ADAMW_TORCH_4BIT}` instead."
-                )
-            elif self.cfg.optimizer == "ao_adamw_8bit":
-                from torchao.prototype.low_bit_optim import AdamW8bit
-
-                optimizer_cls = AdamW8bit
-                optimizer_kwargs.update(adam_kwargs)
             elif self.cfg.optimizer == "ao_adamw_fp8":
                 from torchao.prototype.low_bit_optim import AdamWFp8
 
@@ -433,30 +429,12 @@ class TrainerBuilderBase(abc.ABC):
                 training_args_kwargs["torch_compile_mode"] = self.cfg.torch_compile_mode
 
     def _configure_accelerator_config(self, training_args_kwargs: dict):
-        partial_state = PartialState()
-        has_pc_attr = (
-            hasattr(partial_state, "parallelism_config")
-            and partial_state.parallelism_config
-        )
-        has_pc_key = (
-            "parallelism_config"
-            in partial_state._shared_state  # pylint: disable=protected-access
-            and partial_state._shared_state[  # pylint: disable=protected-access
-                "parallelism_config"
-            ]
-        )
-        use_configured_state = has_pc_attr or has_pc_key
         if self.cfg.accelerator_config:
-            use_configured_state = self.cfg.accelerator_config.pop(
-                "use_configured_state", use_configured_state
-            )
             training_args_kwargs["accelerator_config"] = AcceleratorConfig(
-                use_configured_state=use_configured_state, **self.cfg.accelerator_config
+                **self.cfg.accelerator_config
             )
         else:
-            training_args_kwargs["accelerator_config"] = AcceleratorConfig(
-                use_configured_state=use_configured_state,
-            )
+            training_args_kwargs["accelerator_config"] = AcceleratorConfig()
 
     def _configure_gradient_checkpointing(self, training_args_kwargs: dict):
         if self.cfg.activation_offloading is True:
@@ -516,10 +494,20 @@ class TrainerBuilderBase(abc.ABC):
             "include_tokens_per_second",
             "weight_decay",
             "seed",
+            "dion_momentum",
+            "dion_rank_fraction",
+            "dion_rank_multiple_of",
         ]:
             if hasattr(self.cfg, arg) and getattr(self.cfg, arg) is not None:
                 training_args_kwargs[arg] = getattr(self.cfg, arg)
 
+        arg_map = {
+            "dion_learning_rate": "dion_lr",
+        }
+        for kwarg, cfg_arg in arg_map.items():
+            if hasattr(self.cfg, cfg_arg) and getattr(self.cfg, cfg_arg) is not None:
+                training_args_kwargs[kwarg] = getattr(self.cfg, cfg_arg)
+
         training_args_kwargs["per_device_train_batch_size"] = self.cfg.micro_batch_size
         training_args_kwargs["average_tokens_across_devices"] = False
 

src/axolotl/core/builders/causal.py

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ from axolotl.utils.collators import (
     V2BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq,
 )
 from axolotl.utils.collators.mm_chat import MultiModalChatDataCollator
+from axolotl.utils.import_helper import get_cls_from_module_str
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
 
 LOG = get_logger(__name__)
@@ -136,6 +137,18 @@ class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
             return AxolotlRewardTrainer
         if self.cfg.process_reward_model:
             return AxolotlPRMTrainer
+
+        if self.cfg.trainer_cls:
+            # override the trainer cls
+            try:
+                trainer_cls = get_cls_from_module_str(self.cfg.trainer_cls)
+                LOG.debug(f"Using custom trainer class: {self.cfg.trainer_cls}")
+                return trainer_cls
+            except (ImportError, AttributeError, ValueError) as e:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"Failed to load custom trainer class '{self.cfg.trainer_cls}': {e}"
+                ) from e
+
         return AxolotlTrainer
 
     def build(self, total_num_steps):
@@ -350,7 +363,7 @@ class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
             data_collator_kwargs["pad_to_multiple_of"] = multiple * math.ceil(
                 self.cfg.sequence_len / multiple
             )
-        else:
+        elif self.cfg.pad_to_sequence_len is None:
             # A100 is best at 64, while others at 8. Let's use the larger so we don't have to check
             # https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/performance/dl-performance-matrix-multiplication/index.html
             data_collator_kwargs["pad_to_multiple_of"] = multiple

src/axolotl/core/builders/rl.py

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ from axolotl.core.trainers.grpo import GRPOStrategy
 from axolotl.integrations.base import PluginManager
 from axolotl.loaders.utils import ensure_dtype
 from axolotl.utils.callbacks.qat import QATCallback
+from axolotl.utils.import_helper import get_cls_from_module_str
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
 from axolotl.utils.schemas.enums import RLType
 
@@ -72,6 +73,16 @@ class HFRLTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
         else:
             raise ValueError(f"Unsupported RL: {self.cfg.rl}")
 
+        if self.cfg.trainer_cls:
+            # override the trainer cls
+            try:
+                trainer_cls = get_cls_from_module_str(self.cfg.trainer_cls)
+                LOG.debug(f"Using custom trainer class: {self.cfg.trainer_cls}")
+            except (ImportError, AttributeError, ValueError) as e:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"Failed to load custom trainer class '{self.cfg.trainer_cls}': {e}"
+                ) from e
+
         return trainer_cls, trainer_cls_args
 
     def _build_training_arguments(self, total_num_steps):

src/axolotl/core/trainers/__init__.py

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 
 from .base import AxolotlTrainer
 from .dpo.trainer import AxolotlDPOTrainer
-from .grpo.trainer import AxolotlGRPOSequenceParallelTrainer, AxolotlGRPOTrainer
 from .mamba import AxolotlMambaTrainer
 from .trl import (
     AxolotlCPOTrainer,

src/axolotl/core/trainers/base.py

@@ -10,8 +10,11 @@ from functools import partial, wraps
 from typing import Any, Callable, Literal, Optional
 
 import datasets
+import safetensors
 import torch
+from accelerate.state import AcceleratorState
 from datasets import Dataset
+from peft import PeftModel
 from torch.utils.data import (
     BatchSampler,
     DataLoader,
@@ -19,8 +22,10 @@ from torch.utils.data import (
     Sampler,
     SequentialSampler,
 )
-from transformers import Trainer
+from transformers import PreTrainedModel, Trainer
+from transformers.trainer import TRAINING_ARGS_NAME
 from transformers.trainer_utils import PREFIX_CHECKPOINT_DIR, has_length, seed_worker
+from transformers.utils import SAFE_WEIGHTS_NAME, WEIGHTS_NAME, is_peft_available
 from trl.trainer.utils import pad_to_length
 from typing_extensions import override
 
@@ -515,7 +520,18 @@ class AxolotlTrainer(
 
     @wraps(Trainer.create_accelerator_and_postprocess)
     def create_accelerator_and_postprocess(self):
-        res = super().create_accelerator_and_postprocess()
+        # cleanup the PartialState states so Accelerate automatically configures everything from the env vars
+        accelerator_config = self.args.accelerator_config.to_dict()
+        use_configured_state = accelerator_config.get("use_configured_state", False)
+        if not use_configured_state:
+            AcceleratorState._reset_state(  # pylint: disable=protected-access
+                reset_partial_state=True
+            )
+
+        super().create_accelerator_and_postprocess()
+
+        # now we need to put parallelism_config back on the PartialState since we rely on that info in other places
+        # PartialState().parallelism_config = self.accelerator.state.parallelism_config
 
         if self.is_fsdp_enabled:
             if (
@@ -524,8 +540,6 @@ class AxolotlTrainer(
             ):
                 self.accelerator.state.fsdp_plugin.limit_all_gathers = True
 
-        return res
-
     # pylint: disable=unused-argument
     def additional_accelerator_args(
         self, fp8: bool = False, enable_fsdp_float8_all_gather: bool = False, **kwargs
@@ -567,10 +581,10 @@ class AxolotlTrainer(
             # Add memory usage
             try:
                 active, allocated, reserved = get_gpu_memory_usage()
-                logs["memory/max_memory_active"] = active
-                logs["memory/max_memory_allocated"] = allocated
-                logs["memory/device_memory_reserved"] = reserved
-            except (ValueError, FileNotFoundError):
+                logs["memory/max_mem_active(gib)"] = round(active, 2)
+                logs["memory/max_mem_allocated(gib)"] = round(allocated, 2)
+                logs["memory/device_mem_reserved(gib)"] = round(reserved, 2)
+            except (ValueError, TypeError, FileNotFoundError):
                 pass
 
         del self._stored_metrics[train_eval]
@@ -590,3 +604,64 @@ class AxolotlTrainer(
         output_dir = os.path.join(run_dir, checkpoint_folder)
         os.makedirs(output_dir, exist_ok=True)
         return super()._save_checkpoint(model, trial, **kwargs)
+
+    # TODO(wing): remove once https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/39866/files is merged
+    def _save(self, output_dir: Optional[str] = None, state_dict=None):
+        # If we are executing this function, we are the process zero, so we don't check for that.
+        output_dir = output_dir if output_dir is not None else self.args.output_dir
+        os.makedirs(output_dir, exist_ok=True)
+        LOG.info(f"Saving model checkpoint to {output_dir}")
+        supported_classes = (
+            (PreTrainedModel,)
+            if not is_peft_available()
+            else (PreTrainedModel, PeftModel)
+        )
+        # Save a trained model and configuration using `save_pretrained()`.
+        # They can then be reloaded using `from_pretrained()`
+        if not isinstance(self.model, supported_classes):
+            if state_dict is None:
+                state_dict = self.model.state_dict()
+            if isinstance(
+                self.accelerator.unwrap_model(self.model, keep_torch_compile=False),
+                supported_classes,
+            ):
+                self.accelerator.unwrap_model(
+                    self.model, keep_torch_compile=False
+                ).save_pretrained(
+                    output_dir,
+                    state_dict=state_dict,
+                    safe_serialization=self.args.save_safetensors,
+                )
+            else:
+                LOG.info(
+                    "Trainer.model is not a `PreTrainedModel`, only saving its state dict."
+                )
+                if self.args.save_safetensors:
+                    safetensors.torch.save_file(
+                        state_dict,
+                        os.path.join(output_dir, SAFE_WEIGHTS_NAME),
+                        metadata={"format": "pt"},
+                    )
+                else:
+                    torch.save(state_dict, os.path.join(output_dir, WEIGHTS_NAME))
+        else:
+            self.model.save_pretrained(
+                output_dir,
+                state_dict=state_dict,
+                safe_serialization=self.args.save_safetensors,
+                is_main_process=self.accelerator.is_main_process,
+            )
+
+            if self.processing_class is not None:
+                self.processing_class.save_pretrained(output_dir)
+            elif (
+                self.data_collator is not None
+                and hasattr(self.data_collator, "tokenizer")
+                and self.data_collator.tokenizer is not None
+            ):
+                LOG.info(
+                    "Saving Trainer.data_collator.tokenizer by default as Trainer.processing_class is `None`"
+                )
+                self.data_collator.tokenizer.save_pretrained(output_dir)
+            # Good practice: save your training arguments together with the trained model
+            torch.save(self.args, os.path.join(output_dir, TRAINING_ARGS_NAME))

src/axolotl/core/trainers/mixins/distributed_parallel.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 Mixin for correctly saving fsdp
 """
 
+from accelerate import PartialState
 from transformers import Trainer
 
 
@@ -18,3 +19,15 @@ class DistributedParallelMixin(Trainer):
         ):
             state_dict = self.accelerator.get_state_dict(self.model)
         super()._save(output_dir, state_dict=state_dict)
+
+    def create_accelerator_and_postprocess(self):
+        super().create_accelerator_and_postprocess()
+        if (
+            self.accelerator.distributed_type == "FSDP"
+            and self.accelerator.state.fsdp_plugin is None
+        ):
+            # pylint: disable=protected-access
+            # handle Context Parallelism without FSDP
+            self.accelerator.state.distributed_type = "MULTI_GPU"
+            self.accelerator.state._shared_state["distributed_type"] = "MULTI_GPU"
+            PartialState().distributed_type = "MULTI_GPU"

src/axolotl/core/training_args_base.py

@@ -243,3 +243,18 @@ class AxolotlTrainingMixins:
     )
 
     # end of multi-modal section
+
+    dion_learning_rate: float | None = field(
+        default=None,
+        metadata={"help": "The learning rate for Dion"},
+    )
+    dion_momentum: float | None = field(
+        default=None,
+        metadata={"help": "The momentum for Dion"},
+    )
+    dion_rank_fraction: float | None = field(
+        default=None,
+    )
+    dion_rank_multiple_of: int | None = field(
+        default=None,
+    )

src/axolotl/integrations/base.py

@@ -26,9 +26,11 @@ import traceback
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Callable, OrderedDict, Union
 
 from peft import PeftModel
+from torch import nn
 from torch.optim import Optimizer
 from torch.optim.lr_scheduler import LRScheduler
 from transformers import PreTrainedModel, Trainer
+from transformers.trainer_pt_utils import get_parameter_names
 
 from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
@@ -74,8 +76,8 @@ class BasePlugin:
     def __init__(self):
         """Initializes the BasePlugin."""
 
-    def register(self, cfg: DictDefault):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
-        """Registers the plugin with the given configuration.
+    def register(self, cfg: dict):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
+        """Registers the plugin with the given configuration as an unparsed dict.
 
         Args:
             cfg: The configuration for the plugin.
@@ -641,3 +643,24 @@ class BaseOptimizerFactory:
         self, opt_model, training_args, **optimizer_kwargs
     ) -> Optimizer | None:
         pass
+
+    # duplicated from transformers
+    def get_decay_parameter_names(self, model) -> list[str]:
+        """
+        Get all parameter names that weight decay will be applied to.
+
+        This function filters out parameters in two ways:
+        1. By layer type (instances of layers specified in ALL_LAYERNORM_LAYERS)
+        2. By parameter name patterns (containing 'bias', or variation of 'norm')
+        """
+        forbidden_name_patterns = [
+            r"bias",
+            r"layernorm",
+            r"rmsnorm",
+            r"(?:^|\.)norm(?:$|\.)",
+            r"_norm(?:$|\.)",
+        ]
+        decay_parameters = get_parameter_names(
+            model, [nn.LayerNorm], forbidden_name_patterns
+        )
+        return decay_parameters

src/axolotl/integrations/cut_cross_entropy/README.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ python scripts/cutcrossentropy_install.py | sh
 
 - If you are installing from pip
 ```bash
-pip3 uninstall -y cut-cross-entropy && pip3 install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@cbd58e0"
+pip3 uninstall -y cut-cross-entropy && pip3 install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@0ee9ee8"
 ```
 
 ## Usage
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ plugins:
 
 ## Supported Models
 
+- arcee
 - cohere
 - cohere2
 - gemma
@@ -41,13 +42,17 @@ plugins:
 - gemma3n_text
 - glm
 - glm4
+- gpt_oss
 - granite
 - granitemoe
+- hunyuan_v1_dense
+- hunyuan_v1_moe
 - llama
 - llama4
 - llama4_text
 - mistral
 - mistral3
+- mixtral
 - mllama
 - phi
 - phi3

src/axolotl/integrations/cut_cross_entropy/__init__.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ LOG = get_logger(__name__)
 
 _CCE_INSTALL_MESSAGE = (
     "Please install Axolotl's fork of cut_cross_entropy with transformers support using "
-    '`pip install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@cbd58e0"`'
+    '`pip install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@0ee9ee8"`'
 )
 
 

src/axolotl/integrations/kd/chat_template.py

@@ -284,12 +284,12 @@ class ChatTemplateStrategyWithKDv2(ChatTemplateStrategyWithKD):
         return sample
 
     def _tokenize_single_prompt(self, prompt):
-        logprobs = prompt.pop(self.logprobs_field)
-        target_token_ids = prompt.pop("target_token_ids")
+        target_token_ids = prompt.get("target_token_ids", None)
+
         tokenized_prompt = super()._tokenize_single_prompt(prompt)
-        tokenized_prompt[self.logprobs_field] = logprobs
-        tokenized_prompt["target_token_ids"] = target_token_ids
-        tokenized_prompt = self.transform_logprobs(tokenized_prompt)
+
+        if target_token_ids is not None:
+            tokenized_prompt["target_token_ids"] = target_token_ids
 
         return tokenized_prompt
 

src/axolotl/kernels/lora.py

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from typing import Callable
 import torch
 from bitsandbytes.functional import QuantState
 from torch import nn
+from torch.distributed.tensor import DTensor
 
 from .geglu import geglu_backward, geglu_forward
 from .quantize import dequantize
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ def get_lora_parameters(
     proj: nn.Module,
 ) -> tuple[
     torch.Tensor,
+    torch.Tensor | None,
     QuantState | None,
     torch.Tensor | None,
     torch.Tensor | None,
@@ -37,39 +39,54 @@ def get_lora_parameters(
         proj: The projection module to extract parameters from.
 
     Returns:
-        A tuple containing the base weight matrix, quantization state, LoRA A matrix,
-        LoRA B matrix, and scaling factor. States and matrices may be None if not
-        available.
+        A tuple containing the base weights, quantization state, LoRA A and B weights,
+        scaling factor, and base layer bias. Quant state, weights, and bias may be
+        `None` if not available.
     """
     # For DPO or disabled adapters
     base_layer = proj.base_layer if hasattr(proj, "base_layer") else proj
     W = base_layer.weight
+    b = base_layer.bias
 
     if not hasattr(proj, "disable_adapters") or proj.disable_adapters or proj.merged:
         quant_state = getattr(W, "quant_state", None)
-        return W, quant_state, None, None, None
+        return W, b, quant_state, None, None, None
+
+    quant_state = getattr(W, "quant_state", None)
 
     active_adapter = (
         proj.active_adapters[0]
         if hasattr(proj, "active_adapters")
         else proj.active_adapter
     )
-    A = proj.lora_A[active_adapter].weight
-    B = proj.lora_B[active_adapter].weight
+
+    linear_A = proj.lora_A[active_adapter]
+    linear_B = proj.lora_B[active_adapter]
+
+    # This manual unsharding is needed for FSDP2 + LoRA kernels compatibility.
+    # We fuse linear layers + LoRA adapters calculations into a single
+    # torch.autograd.Function, bypassing the registered unshard / reshard behavior.
+    # Note that we don't apply resharding later in this module (it gets messy quickly),
+    # but LoRA parameters are generally small enough that this is not an issue.
+    if isinstance(linear_A.weight, DTensor):
+        linear_A.unshard()
+        linear_B.unshard()
+
+    A = linear_A.weight
+    B = linear_B.weight
     s = proj.scaling[active_adapter]
 
-    quant_state = getattr(W, "quant_state", None)
-
-    return W, quant_state, A, B, s
+    return W, b, quant_state, A, B, s
 
 
 def matmul_lora(
     X: torch.Tensor,
     W: torch.Tensor,
-    W_quant: QuantState,
-    A: torch.Tensor,
-    B: torch.Tensor,
-    s: float,
+    b: torch.Tensor | None,
+    W_quant: QuantState | None,
+    A: torch.Tensor | None,
+    B: torch.Tensor | None,
+    s: float | None,
     out: torch.Tensor | None = None,
 ) -> torch.Tensor:
     """
@@ -90,20 +107,22 @@ def matmul_lora(
     dtype = X.dtype
     W = dequantize(W.t(), W_quant)
 
+    reshape = False
     if X.dim() == 3:
         batch, seq_len, _ = X.shape
         X = X.view(-1, X.shape[-1])
         reshape = True
-    else:
-        reshape = False
 
     out = torch.matmul(X, W, out=out)
     if W_quant is not None:
         del W
 
     if A is not None:
-        A, B = A.t(), B.t()
-        out += (X @ A.to(dtype)) @ (s * B.to(dtype))
+        A, B = A.t().to(dtype), B.t().to(dtype)  # type: ignore[union-attr]
+        out += s * X @ A @ B
+
+    if b is not None:
+        out += b
 
     return out.view(batch, seq_len, -1) if reshape else out
 
@@ -117,17 +136,20 @@ class LoRA_MLP(torch.autograd.Function):
         ctx,
         X: torch.Tensor,
         gate_weight: torch.Tensor,
-        gate_quant: object | None,
+        gate_bias: torch.Tensor | None,
+        gate_quant: QuantState | None,
         gate_A: torch.Tensor | None,
         gate_B: torch.Tensor | None,
         gate_scale: float,
         up_weight: torch.Tensor,
-        up_quant: object | None,
+        up_bias: torch.Tensor | None,
+        up_quant: QuantState | None,
         up_A: torch.Tensor | None,
         up_B: torch.Tensor | None,
         up_scale: float,
         down_weight: torch.Tensor,
-        down_quant: object | None,
+        down_bias: torch.Tensor | None,
+        down_quant: QuantState | None,
         down_A: torch.Tensor | None,
         down_B: torch.Tensor | None,
         down_scale: float,
@@ -142,20 +164,22 @@ class LoRA_MLP(torch.autograd.Function):
             ctx: Autograd context
             X: Input features
             gate_weight: Gate projection weight
+            gate_bias: Gate projection bias
             gate_quant: Gate quantization state
             gate_A: Gate LoRA A matrix
             gate_B: Gate LoRA B matrix
             gate_scale: Gate LoRA scale
-            up_weight: Up-projection weight
-            up_quant: Up-projection quantization state
-            up_A: Up-projection LoRA A matrix
-            up_B: Up-projection LoRA B matrix
-            up_scale: Up-projection LoRA scale
-            down_weight: Down-projection weight
-            down_quant: Down-projection quantization state
-            down_A: Down-projection LoRA A matrix
-            down_B: Down-projection LoRA B matrix
-            down_scale: Down-projection LoRA scale
+            up_weight: Up projection weight
+            up_quant: Up projection quantization state
+            up_A: Up projection LoRA A matrix
+            up_B: Up projection LoRA B matrix
+            up_scale: Up projection LoRA scale
+            down_weight: Down projection weight
+            down_bias: Down projection bias
+            down_quant: Down projection quantization state
+            down_A: Down projection LoRA A matrix
+            down_B: Down projection LoRA B matrix
+            down_scale: Down projection LoRA scale
             activation_fn: Forward activation function
             activation_fn_backward: Backward activation function
             inplace: Whether to perform operations in-place
@@ -164,15 +188,17 @@ class LoRA_MLP(torch.autograd.Function):
             Output transformed by multi-layer perceptron and activation function
         """
         # Compute projections
-        gate = matmul_lora(X, gate_weight, gate_quant, gate_A, gate_B, gate_scale)
-        up = matmul_lora(X, up_weight, up_quant, up_A, up_B, up_scale)
+        gate = matmul_lora(
+            X, gate_weight, gate_bias, gate_quant, gate_A, gate_B, gate_scale
+        )
+        up = matmul_lora(X, up_weight, up_bias, up_quant, up_A, up_B, up_scale)
 
         # Activation
         hidden = activation_fn(gate, up)
 
         # Down projection
         output = matmul_lora(
-            hidden, down_weight, down_quant, down_A, down_B, down_scale
+            hidden, down_weight, down_bias, down_quant, down_A, down_B, down_scale
         )
 
         # Save for backward
@@ -195,22 +221,26 @@ class LoRA_MLP(torch.autograd.Function):
         torch.Tensor | None,
         None,
         None,
+        None,
         torch.Tensor | None,
         torch.Tensor | None,
         None,
         None,
         None,
+        None,
         torch.Tensor | None,
         torch.Tensor | None,
         None,
         None,
         None,
+        None,
         torch.Tensor | None,
         torch.Tensor | None,
         None,
         None,
         None,
         None,
+        None,
     ]:
         """
         Performs backward pass computation for LoRA MLP.
@@ -222,7 +252,7 @@ class LoRA_MLP(torch.autograd.Function):
         Returns:
             Tuple containing gradients for all inputs from forward pass:
             - Input gradient tensor (or `None`)
-            - `None` for weights/quantization states
+            - `None` for weights/biases/quantization states
             - LoRA A/B matrix gradients (or `None`)
             - `None` for scaling factors
             - `None` for activation functions and flags
@@ -265,9 +295,10 @@ class LoRA_MLP(torch.autograd.Function):
         dtype = X.dtype
 
         # Down projection
-        DW = matmul_lora(
+        grad_down = matmul_lora(
             grad_output,
             down_weight.t(),
+            None,
             down_quant,
             down_B,
             down_A,
@@ -275,7 +306,7 @@ class LoRA_MLP(torch.autograd.Function):
         )
 
         # Activation backward
-        h, grad_gate, grad_up = ctx.activation_fn_backward(DW, gate, up)
+        h, grad_gate, grad_up = ctx.activation_fn_backward(grad_down, gate, up)
 
         # Initialize and compute LoRA gradients
         d_down_A = d_down_B = d_up_A = d_up_B = d_gate_A = d_gate_B = None
@@ -315,8 +346,8 @@ class LoRA_MLP(torch.autograd.Function):
                 dX += grad_up @ up_B.to(dtype).t() @ (up_scale * up_A.to(dtype).t())
 
             # Gate projection gradients
-            gate_weight = dequantize(gate_weight.t(), gate_quant)
-            dX += grad_gate @ gate_weight.t()
+            gate_weight = dequantize(gate_weight, gate_quant)
+            dX += grad_gate @ gate_weight
             del gate_weight
 
             if gate_A is not None and gate_B is not None:
@@ -334,22 +365,26 @@ class LoRA_MLP(torch.autograd.Function):
             dX,
             None,
             None,
+            None,
             d_gate_A.t() if d_gate_A is not None else None,
             d_gate_B.t() if d_gate_B is not None else None,
             None,
             None,
             None,
+            None,
             d_up_A.t() if d_up_A is not None else None,
             d_up_B.t() if d_up_B is not None else None,
             None,
             None,
             None,
+            None,
             d_down_A.t() if d_down_A is not None else None,
             d_down_B.t() if d_down_B is not None else None,
             None,
             None,
             None,
             None,
+            None,
         )
 
 
@@ -364,23 +399,26 @@ def apply_lora_mlp_swiglu(self, X: torch.Tensor, inplace: bool = True) -> torch.
     Returns:
         Output tensor after applying LoRA-adapted MLP with SwiGLU activation
     """
-    gateW, gateW_quant, gateA, gateB, gateS = get_lora_parameters(self.gate_proj)
-    upW, upW_quant, upA, upB, upS = get_lora_parameters(self.up_proj)
-    downW, downW_quant, downA, downB, downS = get_lora_parameters(self.down_proj)
+    gateW, gateb, gateW_quant, gateA, gateB, gateS = get_lora_parameters(self.gate_proj)
+    upW, upb, upW_quant, upA, upB, upS = get_lora_parameters(self.up_proj)
+    downW, downb, downW_quant, downA, downB, downS = get_lora_parameters(self.down_proj)
 
     out = LoRA_MLP.apply(
         X,
         gateW,
+        gateb,
         gateW_quant,
         gateA,
         gateB,
         gateS,
         upW,
+        upb,
         upW_quant,
         upA,
         upB,
         upS,
         downW,
+        downb,
         downW_quant,
         downA,
         downB,
@@ -404,22 +442,25 @@ def apply_lora_mlp_geglu(self, X: torch.Tensor, inplace: bool = True) -> torch.T
     Returns:
         Output tensor after applying LoRA-adapted MLP with GEGLU activation
     """
-    gateW, gateW_quant, gateA, gateB, gateS = get_lora_parameters(self.gate_proj)
-    upW, upW_quant, upA, upB, upS = get_lora_parameters(self.up_proj)
-    downW, downW_quant, downA, downB, downS = get_lora_parameters(self.down_proj)
+    gateW, gateb, gateW_quant, gateA, gateB, gateS = get_lora_parameters(self.gate_proj)
+    upW, upb, upW_quant, upA, upB, upS = get_lora_parameters(self.up_proj)
+    downW, downb, downW_quant, downA, downB, downS = get_lora_parameters(self.down_proj)
     out = LoRA_MLP.apply(
         X,
         gateW,
+        gateb,
         gateW_quant,
         gateA,
         gateB,
         gateS,
         upW,
+        upb,
         upW_quant,
         upA,
         upB,
         upS,
         downW,
+        downb,
         downW_quant,
         downA,
         downB,
@@ -446,16 +487,19 @@ class LoRA_QKV(torch.autograd.Function):
         ctx: torch.autograd.function.FunctionCtx,
         X: torch.Tensor,
         q_weight: torch.Tensor,
+        q_bias: torch.Tensor | None,
         q_quant: QuantState | None,
         q_A: torch.Tensor | None,
         q_B: torch.Tensor | None,
         q_scale: float,
         k_weight: torch.Tensor,
+        k_bias: torch.Tensor | None,
         k_quant: QuantState | None,
         k_A: torch.Tensor | None,
         k_B: torch.Tensor | None,
         k_scale: float,
         v_weight: torch.Tensor,
+        v_bias: torch.Tensor | None,
         v_quant: QuantState | None,
         v_A: torch.Tensor | None,
         v_B: torch.Tensor | None,
@@ -469,16 +513,19 @@ class LoRA_QKV(torch.autograd.Function):
             ctx: Autograd context
             X: Input tensor
             q_weight: Query projection weight
+            q_bias: Query projection bias
             q_quant: Query quantization state
             q_A: Query LoRA A matrix
             q_B: Query LoRA B matrix
             q_scale: Query LoRA scale
             k_weight: Key projection weight
+            k_bias: Key projection bias
             k_quant: Key quantization state
             k_A: Key LoRA A matrix
             k_B: Key LoRA B matrix
             k_scale: Key LoRA scale
             v_weight: Value projection weight
+            v_bias: Value projection bias
             v_quant: Value quantization state
             v_A: Value LoRA A matrix
             v_B: Value LoRA B matrix
@@ -488,20 +535,21 @@ class LoRA_QKV(torch.autograd.Function):
         Returns:
             Tuple of (Query, Key, Value) projection tensors
         """
-        Q = matmul_lora(X, q_weight, q_quant, q_A, q_B, q_scale)
-        K = matmul_lora(X, k_weight, k_quant, k_A, k_B, k_scale)
-        V = matmul_lora(X, v_weight, v_quant, v_A, v_B, v_scale)
+        Q = matmul_lora(X, q_weight, q_bias, q_quant, q_A, q_B, q_scale)
+        K = matmul_lora(X, k_weight, k_bias, k_quant, k_A, k_B, k_scale)
+        V = matmul_lora(X, v_weight, v_bias, v_quant, v_A, v_B, v_scale)
 
         ctx.save_for_backward(X, q_A, q_B, k_A, k_B, v_A, v_B)
         ctx.scales = (q_scale, k_scale, v_scale)
         ctx.quants = (q_quant, k_quant, v_quant)
         ctx.weights = (q_weight, k_weight, v_weight)
+        ctx.biases = (q_bias, k_bias, v_bias)
         ctx.inplace = inplace
 
         return Q, K, V
 
     @staticmethod
-    @torch_amp_custom_fwd
+    @torch_amp_custom_bwd
     def backward(
         ctx: torch.autograd.function.FunctionCtx,
         q_grad: torch.Tensor,
@@ -511,16 +559,19 @@ class LoRA_QKV(torch.autograd.Function):
         torch.Tensor,
         None,
         None,
+        None,
         torch.Tensor | None,
         torch.Tensor | None,
         None,
         None,
         None,
+        None,
         torch.Tensor | None,
         torch.Tensor | None,
         None,
         None,
         None,
+        None,
         torch.Tensor | None,
         torch.Tensor | None,
         None,
@@ -608,31 +659,31 @@ class LoRA_QKV(torch.autograd.Function):
         # Transpose gradients if needed
         if d_A_q is not None:
             d_A_q = d_A_q.t()
-        if d_B_q is not None:
-            d_B_q = d_B_q.t()
+            d_B_q = d_B_q.t()  # type: ignore[union-attr]
         if d_A_k is not None:
             d_A_k = d_A_k.t()
-        if d_B_k is not None:
-            d_B_k = d_B_k.t()
+            d_B_k = d_B_k.t()  # type: ignore[union-attr]
         if d_A_v is not None:
             d_A_v = d_A_v.t()
-        if d_B_v is not None:
-            d_B_v = d_B_v.t()
+            d_B_v = d_B_v.t()  # type: ignore[union-attr]
 
         return (
             grad_X.view(batch, seq_len, -1),
             None,
             None,
+            None,
             d_A_q,
             d_B_q,
             None,
             None,
             None,
+            None,
             d_A_k,
             d_B_k,
             None,
             None,
             None,
+            None,
             d_A_v,
             d_B_v,
             None,
@@ -653,22 +704,25 @@ def apply_lora_qkv(
     Returns:
         Tuple of (Query, Key, Value) projection tensors
     """
-    QW, QW_quant, QA, QB, QS = get_lora_parameters(self.q_proj)
-    KW, KW_quant, KA, KB, KS = get_lora_parameters(self.k_proj)
-    VW, VW_quant, VA, VB, VS = get_lora_parameters(self.v_proj)
+    QW, Qb, QW_quant, QA, QB, QS = get_lora_parameters(self.q_proj)
+    KW, Kb, KW_quant, KA, KB, KS = get_lora_parameters(self.k_proj)
+    VW, Vb, VW_quant, VA, VB, VS = get_lora_parameters(self.v_proj)
     Q, K, V = LoRA_QKV.apply(
         X,
         QW,
+        Qb,
         QW_quant,
         QA,
         QB,
         QS,
         KW,
+        Kb,
         KW_quant,
         KA,
         KB,
         KS,
         VW,
+        Vb,
         VW_quant,
         VA,
         VB,
@@ -688,10 +742,11 @@ class LoRA_O(torch.autograd.Function):
         ctx: torch.autograd.function.FunctionCtx,
         X: torch.Tensor,
         W: torch.Tensor,
+        b: torch.Tensor,
         W_quant: QuantState | None,
-        A: torch.Tensor | None,
-        B: torch.Tensor | None,
-        S: float,
+        A: torch.Tensor,
+        B: torch.Tensor,
+        s: float,
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
         """
         Forward pass for output projection with LoRA.
@@ -700,19 +755,20 @@ class LoRA_O(torch.autograd.Function):
             ctx: Autograd context
             X: Input tensor
             W: Output projection weight
+            b: Output projection bias
             W_quant: Weight quantization state
             A: LoRA A matrix
             B: LoRA B matrix
-            S: LoRA scaling factor
+            s: LoRA scaling factor
 
         Returns:
-            Output projection tensor
+            Output projection result
         """
-        XW = matmul_lora(X, W, W_quant, A, B, S)
+        XW = matmul_lora(X, W, b, W_quant, A, B, s)
         ctx.custom_saved_tensors = (
             W,
             W_quant,
-            S,
+            s,
         )
         ctx.save_for_backward(A, B, X)
 
@@ -727,8 +783,9 @@ class LoRA_O(torch.autograd.Function):
         torch.Tensor,
         None,
         None,
-        torch.Tensor | None,
-        torch.Tensor | None,
+        None,
+        torch.Tensor,
+        torch.Tensor,
         None,
     ]:
         """
@@ -741,7 +798,7 @@ class LoRA_O(torch.autograd.Function):
         Returns:
             Tuple containing gradients for all forward inputs
         """
-        W, W_quant, S = ctx.custom_saved_tensors
+        W, W_quant, s = ctx.custom_saved_tensors
         A, B, X = ctx.saved_tensors
 
         batch, seq_len, hd = X.shape
@@ -751,17 +808,19 @@ class LoRA_O(torch.autograd.Function):
 
         # Weight projection
         dY_X = X.t() @ dY
-        d_A = S * dY_X @ B
-        d_B = S * A @ dY_X
+        d_A = s * dY_X @ B
+        d_B = s * A @ dY_X
 
         # Get derivative for dX
         W = dequantize(W.t(), W_quant)
         dX = dY @ W.t()
         del W
-        dX += dY @ B.to(dtype) @ (S * A.to(dtype))
 
-        # W, W_quant, A, B, S
-        return dX.view(batch, seq_len, hd), None, None, d_A.t(), d_B.t(), None
+        A, B = A.to(dtype), B.to(dtype)
+        dX += s * dY @ B @ A
+
+        # W, b, W_quant, A, B, s
+        return dX.view(batch, seq_len, hd), None, None, None, d_A.t(), d_B.t(), None
 
 
 def apply_lora_o(self, X: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
@@ -774,7 +833,7 @@ def apply_lora_o(self, X: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
     Returns:
         Transformed output tensor
     """
-    OW, OW_quant, OA, OB, OS = get_lora_parameters(self.o_proj)
-    output = LoRA_O.apply(X, OW, OW_quant, OA, OB, OS)
+    OW, Ob, OW_quant, OA, OB, OS = get_lora_parameters(self.o_proj)
+    output = LoRA_O.apply(X, OW, Ob, OW_quant, OA, OB, OS)
 
     return output

src/axolotl/loaders/adapter.py

@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ def load_lora(
     config_only: bool = False,
 ) -> tuple[PreTrainedModel | PeftModel | PeftMixedModel | None, PeftConfig | None]:
     lora_target_modules = cfg.lora_target_modules or []
+    lora_target_parameters = cfg.lora_target_parameters or []
 
     if cfg.lora_target_linear:
         linear_names = find_all_linear_names(model)
@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ def load_lora(
         r=cfg.lora_r,
         lora_alpha=cfg.lora_alpha,
         target_modules=lora_target_modules,
+        target_parameters=lora_target_parameters,
         layers_to_transform=cfg.peft_layers_to_transform,
         layers_pattern=cfg.peft_layers_pattern,
         lora_dropout=cfg.lora_dropout,

src/axolotl/loaders/constants.py

@@ -1,26 +1,13 @@
 """Shared constants for axolotl.loaders module"""
 
-from transformers import (
-    Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration,
-    Gemma3nForConditionalGeneration,
-    Llama4ForConditionalGeneration,
-    LlavaForConditionalGeneration,
-    Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration,
-    MllamaForConditionalGeneration,
-    Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration,
-    Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration,
+from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText
+from transformers.models.auto.modeling_auto import (
+    MODEL_FOR_IMAGE_TEXT_TO_TEXT_MAPPING_NAMES,
 )
 
-MULTIMODAL_AUTO_MODEL_MAPPING = {
-    "mllama": MllamaForConditionalGeneration,
-    "llama4": Llama4ForConditionalGeneration,
-    "llava": LlavaForConditionalGeneration,
-    "qwen2_vl": Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration,
-    "qwen2_5_vl": Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration,
-    "mistral3": Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration,
-    "gemma3": Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration,
-    "gemma3n": Gemma3nForConditionalGeneration,
-}
+MULTIMODAL_AUTO_MODEL_MAPPING = dict(MODEL_FOR_IMAGE_TEXT_TO_TEXT_MAPPING_NAMES)
+
+MULTIMODAL_AUTO_MODEL_MAPPING["lfm2-vl"] = AutoModelForImageTextToText
 
 try:
     from transformers import VoxtralForConditionalGeneration

src/axolotl/loaders/model.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-"""Model loader class implementation for loading, configuring, and patching various
-models.
+"""
+Model loader class implementation for loading, configuring, and patching various models.
 """
 
 import gc
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import peft
 import torch
 import transformers
 import transformers.modeling_utils
-from accelerate import PartialState, init_empty_weights
+from accelerate import init_empty_weights
 from accelerate.parallelism_config import ParallelismConfig
 from peft import (
     PeftConfig,
@@ -22,8 +22,10 @@ from peft import (
     PeftModelForCausalLM,
     prepare_model_for_kbit_training,
 )
+from torch.distributed import DeviceMesh
 from transformers import (
     AutoModelForCausalLM,
+    AutoModelForImageTextToText,
     AutoModelForVision2Seq,
     AwqConfig,
     BitsAndBytesConfig,
@@ -49,7 +51,11 @@ from axolotl.loaders.utils import (
 from axolotl.models.mamba import fix_mamba_attn_for_loss
 from axolotl.utils.bench import log_gpu_memory_usage
 from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
-from axolotl.utils.distributed import get_device_count, get_device_type, get_world_size
+from axolotl.utils.distributed import (
+    build_parallelism_config,
+    get_device_count,
+    get_device_type,
+)
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
 from axolotl.utils.model_shard_quant import load_sharded_model_quant
 from axolotl.utils.schemas.enums import RLType
@@ -87,6 +93,7 @@ class ModelLoader:
 
     use_parallel_config: bool | None = False
     parallelism_config: ParallelismConfig | None = None
+    device_mesh: DeviceMesh | None = None
 
     def __init__(
         self,
@@ -202,8 +209,11 @@ class ModelLoader:
         self._set_device_map_config()
         if self.cfg.revision_of_model:
             self.model_kwargs["revision"] = self.cfg.revision_of_model
+        if self.cfg.use_kernels:
+            self.model_kwargs["use_kernels"] = self.cfg.use_kernels
         self._set_quantization_config()
         self._set_attention_config()
+        self._check_model_requirements()
 
     def _apply_post_model_load_setup(self):
         """Configure the model after it has been loaded."""
@@ -300,7 +310,10 @@ class ModelLoader:
             )
 
         # Handle DeepSpeed Zero3
-        if is_deepspeed_zero3_enabled():
+        if (
+            is_deepspeed_zero3_enabled()
+            or os.getenv("ACCELERATE_DEEPSPEED_ZERO_STAGE") == "3"
+        ):
             self._set_z3_leaf_modules()
 
         # Apply gradient checkpointing if needed
@@ -405,85 +418,12 @@ class ModelLoader:
             gc.collect()
             torch.cuda.empty_cache()
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def _get_parallel_config_kwargs(
-        world_size: int,
-        tensor_parallel_size: int = 1,
-        context_parallel_size: int = 1,
-        dp_shard_size: int | None = None,
-        dp_replicate_size: int | None = None,
-        is_fsdp: bool = False,
-    ):
-        pc_kwargs = {}
-        remaining_world_size = world_size
-
-        if tensor_parallel_size and tensor_parallel_size > 1:
-            pc_kwargs["tp_size"] = tensor_parallel_size
-            remaining_world_size = remaining_world_size // tensor_parallel_size
-
-        if context_parallel_size and context_parallel_size > 1:
-            pc_kwargs["cp_size"] = context_parallel_size
-            remaining_world_size = remaining_world_size // context_parallel_size
-
-        if dp_shard_size is None and dp_replicate_size in (None, 1):
-            if remaining_world_size > 1:
-                pc_kwargs["dp_shard_size"] = remaining_world_size
-                remaining_world_size = 1
-
-        if dp_replicate_size and dp_replicate_size > 1:
-            pc_kwargs["dp_replicate_size"] = dp_replicate_size
-            remaining_world_size = remaining_world_size // dp_replicate_size
-
-        if remaining_world_size > 1 and dp_shard_size and dp_shard_size > 1:
-            if not is_fsdp:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    "dp_shard_size was configured without a corresponding fsdp_config! "
-                    "Please ensure you have configured FSDP using fsdp_config."
-                )
-            pc_kwargs["dp_shard_size"] = dp_shard_size
-            remaining_world_size = remaining_world_size // dp_shard_size
-            if remaining_world_size > 1 and "dp_replicate_size" not in pc_kwargs:
-                pc_kwargs["dp_replicate_size"] = remaining_world_size
-                remaining_world_size = 1
-
-        if remaining_world_size > 1:
-            if "dp_shard_size" not in pc_kwargs and is_fsdp:
-                pc_kwargs["dp_shard_size"] = remaining_world_size
-                remaining_world_size = 1
-
-        if remaining_world_size > 1:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"The configured parallelisms are incompatible with the current world size ({get_world_size()})!\n"
-                f"{pc_kwargs}"
-            )
-
-        return pc_kwargs
-
     def _set_parallel_config(self):
         """Set parallelism configuration (DP, FSDP, TP, CP) in PartialState/Accelerator"""
-        pc_kwargs = ModelLoader._get_parallel_config_kwargs(
-            get_world_size(),
-            self.cfg.tensor_parallel_size,
-            self.cfg.context_parallel_size,
-            self.cfg.dp_shard_size,
-            self.cfg.dp_replicate_size,
-            bool(self.cfg.fsdp or self.cfg.fsdp_config),
-        )
-
-        if pc_kwargs:
-            self.parallelism_config = ParallelismConfig(
-                **pc_kwargs,
-            )
-            device_mesh = self.parallelism_config.build_device_mesh("cuda")
-            partial_state = PartialState()
-            # fmt: off
-            partial_state._shared_state["parallelism_config"] = (  # pylint: disable=protected-access
-                self.parallelism_config
-            )
-            partial_state._shared_state["device_mesh"] = (  # pylint: disable=protected-access
-                device_mesh
-            )
-            # fmt: on
+        parallelism_config, device_mesh = build_parallelism_config(self.cfg)
+        if parallelism_config:
+            self.parallelism_config = parallelism_config
+            self.device_mesh = device_mesh
 
     def _set_auto_model_loader(self):
         """Set `self.auto_model_loader`. Defaults to `transformers.AutoModelForCausalLM`
@@ -494,6 +434,8 @@ class ModelLoader:
             self.auto_model_loader = MULTIMODAL_AUTO_MODEL_MAPPING.get(
                 self.model_config.model_type, AutoModelForVision2Seq
             )
+            if isinstance(self.auto_model_loader, str):
+                self.auto_model_loader = AutoModelForImageTextToText
 
     def _set_device_map_config(self):
         """Setup `device_map` according to config"""
@@ -565,8 +507,17 @@ class ModelLoader:
 
     def _set_quantization_config(self):
         """Set up quantization config (bitsandbytes, awq, gptq, etc.)"""
-        self.model_kwargs["load_in_8bit"] = self.cfg.load_in_8bit
-        self.model_kwargs["load_in_4bit"] = self.cfg.load_in_4bit
+
+        if self.cfg.model_quantization_config == "Mxfp4Config":
+            from transformers import Mxfp4Config
+
+            mxfp4_kwargs = {}
+            if self.cfg.model_quantization_config_kwargs:
+                mxfp4_kwargs = self.cfg.model_quantization_config_kwargs
+            self.model_kwargs["quantization_config"] = Mxfp4Config(**mxfp4_kwargs)
+        else:
+            self.model_kwargs["load_in_8bit"] = self.cfg.load_in_8bit
+            self.model_kwargs["load_in_4bit"] = self.cfg.load_in_4bit
 
         if self.cfg.gptq:
             if not hasattr(self.model_config, "quantization_config"):
@@ -601,7 +552,9 @@ class ModelLoader:
                 self.model_kwargs["quantization_config"] = BitsAndBytesConfig(
                     **self.model_config.quantization_config
                 )
-        elif self.cfg.adapter == "qlora" and self.model_kwargs["load_in_4bit"]:
+        elif self.cfg.adapter == "qlora" and self.model_kwargs.get(
+            "load_in_4bit", False
+        ):
             bnb_config = {
                 "load_in_4bit": True,
                 "llm_int8_threshold": 6.0,
@@ -627,7 +580,9 @@ class ModelLoader:
             self.model_kwargs["quantization_config"] = BitsAndBytesConfig(
                 **bnb_config,
             )
-        elif self.cfg.adapter == "lora" and self.model_kwargs["load_in_8bit"]:
+        elif self.cfg.adapter == "lora" and self.model_kwargs.get(
+            "load_in_8bit", False
+        ):
             bnb_config = {
                 "load_in_8bit": True,
             }
@@ -648,7 +603,9 @@ class ModelLoader:
 
     def _set_attention_config(self):
         """Sample packing uses custom FA2 patch"""
-        if self.cfg.flex_attention:
+        if self.cfg.attn_implementation:
+            self.model_kwargs["attn_implementation"] = self.cfg.attn_implementation
+        elif self.cfg.flex_attention:
             self.model_kwargs["attn_implementation"] = "flex_attention"
             self.model_config._attn_implementation = (  # pylint: disable=protected-access
                 "flex_attention"
@@ -675,6 +632,16 @@ class ModelLoader:
         if self.cfg.low_cpu_mem_usage:
             self.model_kwargs["low_cpu_mem_usage"] = True
 
+    def _check_model_requirements(self):
+        if self.cfg.model_config_type in ["lfm2-vl", "lfm2"]:
+            from transformers.utils.import_utils import is_causal_conv1d_available
+
+            if is_causal_conv1d_available():
+                raise ImportError(
+                    "The 'causal-conv1d' package is installed but causes compatibility issues with LFM2 models. "
+                    "Please uninstall it by running: `pip uninstall -y causal-conv1d`"
+                )
+
     def _configure_zero3_memory_efficient_loading(
         self,
     ) -> HfTrainerDeepSpeedConfig | None:
@@ -721,7 +688,7 @@ class ModelLoader:
         if self.cfg.tensor_parallel_size > 1:
             self.model_kwargs["tp_size"] = self.cfg.tensor_parallel_size
             self.model_kwargs["tp_plan"] = "auto"
-            self.model_kwargs["device_mesh"] = PartialState().device_mesh
+            self.model_kwargs["device_mesh"] = self.device_mesh
             if "device_map" in self.model_kwargs:
                 del self.model_kwargs["device_map"]  # not compatible with `tp_plan`
 
@@ -737,6 +704,18 @@ class ModelLoader:
             elif self.is_qlora_and_fsdp_enabled:
                 skip_move_to_device = True
 
+            if (
+                self.cfg.tensor_parallel_size <= 1
+                and self.cfg.fsdp_config.cpu_ram_efficient_loading
+                and self.cfg.fsdp_version == 2
+            ):
+                # setting device_map for TP is not supported
+                local_rank = int(os.getenv("LOCAL_RANK", "0"))
+                if local_rank == 0:
+                    self.model_kwargs["device_map"] = "cpu"
+                else:
+                    self.model_kwargs["device_map"] = "meta"
+
         if (
             self.is_qlora_and_fsdp_enabled
             and self.cfg.fsdp_config.cpu_ram_efficient_loading
@@ -845,6 +824,9 @@ class ModelLoader:
                 self.model._tp_size = self.cfg.tensor_parallel_size
                 self.model._device_mesh = self.model_kwargs["device_mesh"]
 
+        if self.cfg.experimental_skip_move_to_device is not None:
+            skip_move_to_device = self.cfg.experimental_skip_move_to_device
+
         return skip_move_to_device
 
     def _set_z3_leaf_modules(self):

src/axolotl/loaders/patch_manager.py

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ class PatchManager:
         self._patch_llama_derived_model()
         self._apply_mistral_cross_entropy_patch()
         self._apply_self_attention_lora_patch()
+        self._apply_fsdp2_bnb_patches()
 
     def apply_post_plugin_pre_model_load_patches(self):
         """Apply post plugin-pre_model_load load patches based on config."""
@@ -72,11 +73,19 @@ class PatchManager:
         self._apply_voxtral_patches()
 
     def _apply_transformers_patches(self):
-        from axolotl.monkeypatch.transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils import (
-            patch_prepare_from_posids,
+        from axolotl.monkeypatch.transformers.trainer_loss_calc import (
+            patch_evaluation_loop,
+            patch_maybe_log_save_evaluate,
         )
 
-        patch_prepare_from_posids()
+        patch_fsdp2 = (
+            self.cfg.torch_compile
+            and self.cfg.fsdp_config
+            and self.cfg.fsdp_version == 2
+        )
+
+        patch_evaluation_loop(patch_fsdp2)
+        patch_maybe_log_save_evaluate()
 
     def apply_post_model_load_patches(self, model: PreTrainedModel):
         """Apply patches that require the model instance."""
@@ -103,6 +112,14 @@ class PatchManager:
 
     def _apply_fsdp_patches(self):
         """Apply patches for FSDP configurations."""
+        if self.cfg.context_parallel_size > 1 or (
+            self.cfg.fsdp_config and str(self.cfg.fsdp_version) == "2"
+        ):
+            from axolotl.monkeypatch.accelerate.parallelism_config import (
+                patch_parallelism_config,
+            )
+
+            patch_parallelism_config()
         if self.cfg.fsdp_config and str(self.cfg.fsdp_version) == "2":
             from axolotl.monkeypatch.accelerate.fsdp2 import patch_accelerate_fsdp2
 
@@ -260,6 +277,21 @@ class PatchManager:
                 has_remote_code=has_remote_code,
             )
 
+    def _apply_fsdp2_bnb_patches(self):
+        """Apply FSDP2 BNB patches."""
+        if (
+            self.cfg.fsdp_config
+            and str(self.cfg.fsdp_version) == "2"
+            and self.cfg.adapter == "qlora"
+        ):
+            from axolotl.monkeypatch.fsdp2_qlora import (
+                apply_init_sharded_param_patch,
+                apply_init_unsharded_param_patch,
+            )
+
+            apply_init_sharded_param_patch()
+            apply_init_unsharded_param_patch()
+
     def _apply_tiled_mlp(self, model_type: str):
         if self.cfg.tiled_mlp:
             from axolotl.monkeypatch.tiled_mlp import (
@@ -330,31 +362,21 @@ class PatchManager:
 
             patch_self_attn_lora()
 
-    def _patch_llama_flash_attention(self, packed=False):
+    def _patch_llama_flash_attention(self):
         """Apply Flash Attention patches for LLaMA models."""
         from axolotl.monkeypatch.llama_attn_hijack_flash import (
             replace_llama_attn_with_flash_attn,
         )
 
-        if packed:
-            if self.cfg.device not in ["mps", "cpu"] and not self.inference:
-                LOG.info("patching with flash attention for sample packing")
-                replace_llama_attn_with_flash_attn(
-                    packed=True,
-                    cross_entropy=self.cfg.flash_attn_cross_entropy,
-                    rms_norm=self.cfg.flash_attn_rms_norm,
-                )
-        elif self.cfg.s2_attention:
+        if self.cfg.s2_attention:
             LOG.info("patching w/ flash-enabled, shifted-sparse attention")
             replace_llama_attn_with_flash_attn(
-                packed=False,
                 cross_entropy=self.cfg.flash_attn_cross_entropy,
                 rms_norm=self.cfg.flash_attn_rms_norm,
                 use_shifted_sparse_attn=True,
             )
         elif self.cfg.flash_attn_cross_entropy or self.cfg.flash_attn_rms_norm:
             replace_llama_attn_with_flash_attn(
-                packed=False,
                 cross_entropy=self.cfg.flash_attn_cross_entropy,
                 rms_norm=self.cfg.flash_attn_rms_norm,
             )
@@ -385,7 +407,7 @@ class PatchManager:
             and self.cfg.sample_packing
         ):
             if self.cfg.flash_attention:
-                self._patch_llama_flash_attention(packed=self.cfg.sample_packing)
+                self._patch_llama_flash_attention()
             elif self.cfg.xformers_attention:
                 self._patch_llama_xformers_attention()
             elif self.cfg.sample_packing:
@@ -408,17 +430,12 @@ class PatchManager:
             from axolotl.monkeypatch.llama_attn_hijack_flash import (
                 is_xformers_swiglu_available,
                 replace_llama_mlp_with_swiglu,
-                replace_llama_qkv_with_fused,
             )
 
             if self.cfg.flash_attn_fuse_mlp and is_xformers_swiglu_available():
                 LOG.info("Patching with SwiGLU...")
                 replace_llama_mlp_with_swiglu(model)
 
-            if self.cfg.flash_attn_fuse_qkv:
-                LOG.info("Patching with fused QKV...")
-                replace_llama_qkv_with_fused(model)
-
     def _apply_unsloth_patches(self, model):
         """Apply unsloth optimization patches."""
         if self.cfg.unsloth_lora_mlp:

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/accelerate/fsdp2.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import functools
 import sys
 
 import torch
+import torch.distributed as dist
 from torch import nn
 
 from axolotl.utils.bench import log_gpu_memory_usage
@@ -36,25 +37,49 @@ def fsdp2_load_full_state_dict(
 
     meta_sharded_sd = model.state_dict()
     sharded_sd = {}
-    for param_name, full_tensor in full_sd.items():
-        sharded_meta_param = meta_sharded_sd.get(param_name)
-        full_tensor = full_tensor.to(sharded_meta_param.dtype).to(torch.device("cuda"))
+    for param_name, sharded_meta_param in meta_sharded_sd.items():
+        full_tensor = None
+        if _accelerator.is_main_process:
+            full_tensor = full_sd[param_name]
+            full_tensor = full_tensor.to(sharded_meta_param.dtype)
+
         if hasattr(sharded_meta_param, "device_mesh"):
+            device_mesh = sharded_meta_param.device_mesh
+            if _accelerator.is_main_process:
+                full_tensor = full_tensor.to(device_mesh.device_type)
+            else:
+                full_tensor = torch.empty(
+                    sharded_meta_param.size(),
+                    device=device_mesh.device_type,
+                    dtype=sharded_meta_param.dtype,
+                )
             sharded_param = distribute_tensor(
                 full_tensor,
-                sharded_meta_param.device_mesh,
+                device_mesh,
                 sharded_meta_param.placements,
                 src_data_rank=0,
             )
         else:
-            sharded_param = full_tensor
+            # Non-sharded parameters
+            if _accelerator.is_main_process:
+                sharded_param = full_tensor.to(torch.device("cuda"))
+            else:
+                # broadcast manually
+                sharded_param = torch.empty_like(
+                    sharded_meta_param,
+                    device=torch.device("cuda"),
+                    dtype=sharded_meta_param.dtype,
+                )
+            dist.broadcast(sharded_param, src=0)
 
         if offload_to_cpu:
             sharded_param = sharded_param.cpu()
 
         sharded_sd[param_name] = nn.Parameter(sharded_param)
+
         del full_tensor
         full_sd[param_name] = None
+
     model.load_state_dict(sharded_sd, assign=True, strict=True)
     end_time = time.time()
     LOG.debug(

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/accelerate/parallelism_config.py

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+"""
+workaround to allow parallelism config for pure CP
+"""
+
+# pylint: disable=protected-access
+import os
+import warnings
+
+from accelerate import DistributedType
+
+
+def _validate_accelerator(self, accelerator):
+    _warnings = set()
+    if not accelerator.multi_device and self.total_size == 1:
+        # No distributed setup, valid parallelism config
+        return
+
+    # We need this to ensure DDP works
+    if self.total_size == 1:
+        self._set_size("dp_replicate", accelerator.num_processes)
+
+    if self.total_size != accelerator.num_processes:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"ParallelismConfig total_size ({self.total_size}) does not match "
+            f"num_processes ({accelerator.num_processes}). Please adjust dp_replicate_size/ "
+            f"dp_shard_size/tp_size/cp_size."
+        )
+
+    # allow parallelism config when not using fsdp if using pure context parallelism
+    allow_parallelism_config = False
+
+    if (
+        self.cp_size > 1  # pylint: disable=chained-comparison
+        and self.dp_shard_size <= 1
+        and os.environ.get("ACCELERATE_ALLOW_CP_STANDALONE", "false").lower() == "true"
+    ):
+        allow_parallelism_config = True
+
+    if (
+        self.total_size > 1
+        and not allow_parallelism_config
+        and not (accelerator.is_fsdp2 or accelerator.multi_device)
+    ):
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"ParallelismConfig is only compatible DistributedType.FSDP (version 2) or DistributedType.Multi{{Device}}, but got {accelerator.distributed_type}."
+        )
+
+    for parallelism, size in self._sizes.items():
+        if size == 1 and getattr(self, f"{parallelism}_handler", None) is not None:
+            _warnings.add(
+                f"ParallelismConfig.{parallelism}_handler is set, but {parallelism}_size is set to 1. This handler will be ignored."
+            )
+
+    if _warnings and accelerator.is_main_process:
+        warnings.warn(
+            "ParallelismConfig has the following warnings:\n" + "\n".join(_warnings),
+            UserWarning,
+        )
+
+
+def patched_is_fsdp2(self) -> bool:
+    """
+    Patched version of is_fsdp2 that guards against a None fsdp_plugin.
+    """
+    # The new logic checks if fsdp_plugin exists before accessing its attributes
+    return (
+        self.distributed_type == DistributedType.FSDP
+        and self.fsdp_plugin
+        and self.fsdp_plugin.fsdp_version == 2
+    )
+
+
+def patch_parallelism_config():
+    from accelerate.accelerator import AcceleratorState, ParallelismConfig
+
+    ParallelismConfig._validate_accelerator = _validate_accelerator
+    AcceleratorState.is_fsdp2 = property(patched_is_fsdp2)

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/fsdp2_qlora.py

@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+"""
+Monkeypatch to add Params4bit support to FSDP2. This enables QLoRA + FSDP2, as well as
+our LoRA / QLoRA Triton kernels to work with FSDP2.
+
+This patch modifies the _init_sharded_param method in FSDPParam to handle bitsandbytes
+Params4bit parameters.
+"""
+
+import importlib
+import inspect
+
+from axolotl.monkeypatch.utils import detab_code
+from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
+
+LOG = get_logger(__name__)
+
+
+# pylint: disable=protected-access
+def apply_init_sharded_param_patch():
+    """Apply patch to FSDPParam._init_sharded_param to support Params4bit."""
+    from torch.distributed.fsdp._fully_shard._fsdp_param import FSDPParam
+
+    # Get original source
+    original_source = inspect.getsource(FSDPParam._init_sharded_param)
+    original_source, _ = detab_code(original_source)
+
+    # Define the replacement
+    original_param_creation = """    self.sharded_param = nn.Parameter(self.to_sharded_dtensor(sharded_param))
+    self.sharded_param.requires_grad_(param.requires_grad)"""
+
+    patched_param_creation = """    import bitsandbytes as bnb
+    if isinstance(param, bnb.nn.modules.Params4bit):
+        self.sharded_param = bnb.nn.modules.Params4bit(
+            data=sharded_param,
+            requires_grad=param.requires_grad,
+            quant_state=param.quant_state,
+            blocksize=param.blocksize,
+            compress_statistics=param.compress_statistics,
+            quant_type=param.quant_type,
+            quant_storage=param.quant_storage,
+            module=param.module,
+            bnb_quantized=param.bnb_quantized,
+        )
+        self.sharded_param = self.to_sharded_dtensor(self.sharded_param)
+    else:
+        self.sharded_param = nn.Parameter(self.to_sharded_dtensor(sharded_param))
+        self.sharded_param.requires_grad_(param.requires_grad)"""
+
+    # Apply the replacement
+    if original_param_creation in original_source:
+        patched_source = original_source.replace(
+            original_param_creation, patched_param_creation
+        )
+        patched_source = patched_source.replace(
+            "def _init_sharded_param(",
+            "def patched_init_sharded_param(",
+            1,
+        )
+
+        # Load necessary imports
+        module_name = FSDPParam.__module__
+        module = importlib.import_module(module_name)
+
+        items_to_import = []
+        for item in dir(module):
+            if item in patched_source:
+                items_to_import.append(item)
+
+        exec(  # pylint: disable=exec-used  # nosec B102
+            f"from {module_name} import ({', '.join(items_to_import)})",
+            globals(),
+        )
+        exec(patched_source, globals())  # pylint: disable=exec-used  # nosec B102
+
+        # Replace the method
+        FSDPParam._init_sharded_param = patched_init_sharded_param  # pylint: disable=undefined-variable  # noqa: F821
+        LOG.info("Successfully applied FSDP _init_sharded_param patch")
+    else:
+        LOG.warning("Could not find target code for _init_sharded_param patching")
+
+
+def apply_init_unsharded_param_patch():
+    """Apply patch to FSDPParam.init_unsharded_param to support Params4bit."""
+    from torch.distributed.fsdp._fully_shard._fsdp_param import FSDPParam
+
+    # Get original source
+    original_source = inspect.getsource(FSDPParam.init_unsharded_param)
+    original_source, _ = detab_code(original_source)
+
+    # Define the replacement
+    original_param_creation = """        self._unsharded_param = nn.Parameter(
+            unsharded_param, requires_grad=self.sharded_param.requires_grad
+        )"""
+
+    patched_param_creation = """        import bitsandbytes as bnb
+        local_tensor = self.sharded_param._local_tensor
+        if isinstance(local_tensor, bnb.nn.modules.Params4bit):
+            self._unsharded_param = bnb.nn.modules.Params4bit(
+                data=unsharded_param,
+                requires_grad=self.sharded_param.requires_grad,
+                quant_state=local_tensor.quant_state,
+                blocksize=local_tensor.blocksize,
+                compress_statistics=local_tensor.compress_statistics,
+                quant_type=local_tensor.quant_type,
+                quant_storage=local_tensor.quant_storage,
+                module=local_tensor.module,
+                bnb_quantized=local_tensor.bnb_quantized,
+            )
+        else:
+            self._unsharded_param = nn.Parameter(
+                unsharded_param, requires_grad=self.sharded_param.requires_grad
+            )"""
+
+    # Apply the replacement
+    if original_param_creation in original_source:
+        patched_source = original_source.replace(
+            original_param_creation, patched_param_creation
+        )
+        patched_source = patched_source.replace(
+            "def init_unsharded_param(",
+            "def patched_init_unsharded_param(",
+            1,
+        )
+
+        # Load necessary imports
+        module_name = FSDPParam.__module__
+        module = importlib.import_module(module_name)
+
+        items_to_import = []
+        for item in dir(module):
+            if item in patched_source:
+                items_to_import.append(item)
+
+        exec(  # pylint: disable=exec-used  # nosec B102
+            f"from {module_name} import ({', '.join(items_to_import)})",
+            globals(),
+        )
+        exec(patched_source, globals())  # pylint: disable=exec-used  # nosec B102
+
+        # Replace the method
+        FSDPParam.init_unsharded_param = patched_init_unsharded_param  # pylint: disable=undefined-variable  # noqa: F821
+        LOG.info("Successfully applied FSDP init_unsharded_param patch")
+    else:
+        LOG.warning("Could not find target code for patching")

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/llama_attn_hijack_flash.py

@@ -3,39 +3,26 @@
 # copied from https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat/blob/main/fastchat/train/llama_flash_attn_monkey_patch.py
 
 import warnings
-from typing import List, Optional, Tuple, Union
+from typing import Optional, Tuple
 
 import torch
-import torch.nn.functional as F
 import transformers
 from einops import rearrange
 from flash_attn.bert_padding import pad_input, unpad_input
-from transformers.modeling_outputs import BaseModelOutputWithPast
-from transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama import (
-    LlamaAttention,
-)
-from transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama import (
-    LlamaDecoderLayer as OriginalLlamaDecoderLayer,
-)
 from transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama import (
     LlamaMLP,
     apply_rotary_pos_emb,
     repeat_kv,
 )
 
-from axolotl.monkeypatch.utils import get_cu_seqlens_from_pos_ids, set_module_name
+from axolotl.monkeypatch.utils import set_module_name
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
 
 try:
     from flash_attn.flash_attn_interface import (  # pylint: disable=ungrouped-imports
-        flash_attn_kvpacked_func,
-        flash_attn_varlen_kvpacked_func,
         flash_attn_varlen_qkvpacked_func,
     )
 except ImportError:
-    from flash_attn.flash_attn_interface import (
-        flash_attn_unpadded_kvpacked_func as flash_attn_varlen_kvpacked_func,
-    )
     from flash_attn.flash_attn_interface import (
         flash_attn_unpadded_qkvpacked_func as flash_attn_varlen_qkvpacked_func,
     )
@@ -82,19 +69,6 @@ def replace_llama_mlp_with_swiglu(model):
             set_module_name(model, name, mlp)
 
 
-def replace_llama_qkv_with_fused(model):
-    for name, module in model.named_modules():
-        if isinstance(module, LlamaAttention):
-            qkv = FusedAttention(
-                module.config,
-                module.q_proj,
-                module.k_proj,
-                module.v_proj,
-                module.o_proj,
-            )
-            set_module_name(model, name, qkv)
-
-
 def patch_fa_llama_cross_entropy():
     LOG.info(
         "patching transformers.loss.loss_utils.fixed_cross_entropy with flash_attn.ops.triton.cross_entropy"
@@ -142,7 +116,6 @@ def patch_llama_rms_norm():
 
 
 def replace_llama_attn_with_flash_attn(
-    packed: Optional[bool] = False,
     cross_entropy: Optional[bool] = False,
     rms_norm: Optional[bool] = False,
     use_shifted_sparse_attn: Optional[bool] = False,
@@ -154,16 +127,6 @@ def replace_llama_attn_with_flash_attn(
         transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama.LlamaAttention.forward = (
             flashattn_forward_with_s2attn
         )
-    else:
-        transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama.LlamaAttention.forward = (
-            flashattn_forward
-        )
-
-    if packed:
-        transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama.LlamaDecoderLayer = LlamaDecoderLayer
-        transformers.models.llama.modeling_llama.LlamaModel.forward = (
-            llama_model_forward
-        )
 
     # skip only if explicitly disabled
     if cross_entropy:
@@ -174,49 +137,6 @@ def replace_llama_attn_with_flash_attn(
         patch_llama_rms_norm()
 
 
-class FusedAttention(LlamaAttention):
-    """
-    Fused QKV Attention layer for incrementally improved training efficiency
-    """
-
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        config,
-        q: torch.nn.Linear,  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
-        k: torch.nn.Linear,  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
-        v: torch.nn.Linear,  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
-        o: torch.nn.Linear,  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
-    ):
-        super().__init__(config)
-        self.config = config
-        self.init_device = next(iter(q.state_dict().values())).device
-
-        # define equivalent fused qkv projection
-        self.out_features: List[int] = [q.out_features, k.out_features, v.out_features]
-        self.qkv_proj = torch.nn.Linear(
-            q.in_features, sum(self.out_features), device=self.init_device, bias=False
-        )
-        self.o_proj = o
-
-        # overwrite initialized weights with pretrained weights
-        self.qkv_proj.weight.data = torch.cat(
-            (q.weight.data, k.weight.data, v.weight.data), dim=0
-        )
-
-    def _post_training(self, model, name):
-        q_proj, k_proj, v_proj = torch.split(
-            self.qkv_proj.weight.data, self.out_features, dim=0
-        )
-
-        new_attn = LlamaAttention(self.config)
-        new_attn.q_proj.weight.data = q_proj
-        new_attn.k_proj.weight.data = k_proj
-        new_attn.v_proj.weight.data = v_proj
-        new_attn.o_proj.weight.data = self.o_proj.weight.data
-
-        set_module_name(model, name, new_attn)
-
-
 # Disable the transformation of the attention mask in LlamaModel as the flash attention
 # requires the attention mask to be the same as the key_padding_mask
 def _prepare_decoder_attention_mask(
@@ -355,576 +275,3 @@ def flashattn_forward_with_s2attn(
         .reshape(bsz, q_len, nheads, self.head_dim)
     )
     return self.o_proj(rearrange(output, "b s h d -> b s (h d)")), None, past_key_value
-
-
-def flashattn_forward(
-    self,
-    hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
-    attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-    position_ids: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-    past_key_value: Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor]] = None,
-    output_attentions: bool = False,
-    use_cache: bool = False,
-    padding_mask: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
-    cu_seqlens: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-    max_seqlen: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, Optional[torch.Tensor], Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor]]]:
-    """Input shape: Batch x Time x Channel
-
-    attention_mask: [bsz, q_len]
-    """
-    # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
-    bsz, q_len, _ = hidden_states.size()
-
-    if not hasattr(self, "pretraining_tp"):
-        self.pretraining_tp = 1
-
-    if self.pretraining_tp > 1:
-        key_value_slicing = (
-            self.num_key_value_heads * self.head_dim
-        ) // self.pretraining_tp
-        query_slices = self.q_proj.weight.split(
-            (self.num_heads * self.head_dim) // self.pretraining_tp, dim=0
-        )
-        key_slices = self.k_proj.weight.split(key_value_slicing, dim=0)
-        value_slices = self.v_proj.weight.split(key_value_slicing, dim=0)
-
-        query_states = [
-            F.linear(hidden_states, query_slices[i]) for i in range(self.pretraining_tp)
-        ]
-        query_states = torch.cat(query_states, dim=-1)
-
-        key_states = [
-            F.linear(hidden_states, key_slices[i]) for i in range(self.pretraining_tp)
-        ]
-        key_states = torch.cat(key_states, dim=-1)
-
-        value_states = [
-            F.linear(hidden_states, value_slices[i]) for i in range(self.pretraining_tp)
-        ]
-        value_states = torch.cat(value_states, dim=-1)
-
-    else:
-        if isinstance(self, FusedAttention):
-            query_states, key_states, value_states = self.qkv_proj(hidden_states).split(
-                self.out_features, dim=-1
-            )
-        else:
-            query_states = self.q_proj(hidden_states)
-            key_states = self.k_proj(hidden_states)
-            value_states = self.v_proj(hidden_states)
-
-    query_states = query_states.view(
-        bsz, q_len, self.num_heads, self.head_dim
-    ).transpose(1, 2)
-    key_states = key_states.view(
-        bsz, q_len, self.num_key_value_heads, self.head_dim
-    ).transpose(1, 2)
-    value_states = value_states.view(
-        bsz, q_len, self.num_key_value_heads, self.head_dim
-    ).transpose(1, 2)
-    # [bsz, q_len, nh, hd]
-    # [bsz, nh, q_len, hd]
-
-    cos, sin = self.rotary_emb(value_states, position_ids=position_ids)
-    query_states, key_states = apply_rotary_pos_emb(
-        query_states, key_states, cos, sin, position_ids
-    )
-    # [bsz, nh, t, hd]
-
-    if past_key_value is not None:
-        # reuse k, v, self_attention
-        key_states = torch.cat([past_key_value[0], key_states], dim=2)
-        value_states = torch.cat([past_key_value[1], value_states], dim=2)
-
-    past_key_value = (key_states, value_states) if use_cache else None
-
-    # repeat k/v heads if n_kv_heads < n_heads
-    key_states = repeat_kv(key_states, self.num_key_value_groups)
-    value_states = repeat_kv(value_states, self.num_key_value_groups)
-
-    if output_attentions:
-        warnings.warn(
-            "Output attentions is not supported for patched `LlamaAttention`, returning `None` instead."
-        )
-
-    #
-    # flash-attn v2 start
-    #
-
-    if self.training:
-        # during training q,k,v always have same seqlen
-        assert key_states.shape == query_states.shape
-        is_causal = True
-    else:
-        # turn off FA causal mask after first inference autoregressive iteration
-        # only on first autoregressive step q,k,v have same seqlen
-        is_causal = key_states.shape == query_states.shape
-
-    dropout_rate = 0.0 if not self.training else getattr(self, "attention_dropout", 0.0)
-
-    if cu_seqlens is not None and max_seqlen is not None and cu_seqlens.dim() == 1:
-        # special handling using sample packing
-        qkv = torch.stack(
-            [query_states, key_states, value_states], dim=2
-        )  # [bsz, nh, 3, q_len, hd]
-        qkv = qkv.transpose(1, 3)  # [bsz, q_len, 3, nh, hd]
-        qkv = rearrange(qkv, "b s ... -> (b s) ...")
-
-        output = flash_attn_varlen_qkvpacked_func(
-            qkv,
-            cu_seqlens,
-            max_seqlen,
-            dropout_p=dropout_rate,
-            softmax_scale=None,
-            causal=True,
-        )
-        output = rearrange(output, "(b s) ... -> b s ...", b=bsz)
-    elif query_states.shape == key_states.shape:
-        query_states = query_states.transpose(1, 2)
-        key_states = key_states.transpose(1, 2)
-        value_states = value_states.transpose(1, 2)
-        qkv_unpad, cu_seqlens_q, max_seqlen_q, _, output_pad_fn = generate_qkv(
-            query_states,
-            key_states,
-            value_states,
-            qkvpacked=True,
-            # We have disabled _prepare_decoder_attention_mask in LlamaModel
-            # the attention_mask should be the same as the key_padding_mask
-            key_padding_mask=attention_mask,
-            query_padding_mask=(
-                attention_mask[:, -query_states.size(1) :]
-                if attention_mask is not None
-                else None
-            ),
-        )
-        output_unpad = flash_attn_varlen_qkvpacked_func(
-            qkv_unpad,
-            cu_seqlens_q,
-            max_seqlen_q,
-            dropout_p=dropout_rate,
-            softmax_scale=None,
-            causal=is_causal,
-        )
-        output = output_pad_fn(output_unpad)
-    else:
-        query_states = query_states.transpose(1, 2)
-        key_states = key_states.transpose(1, 2)
-        value_states = value_states.transpose(1, 2)
-        if attention_mask is None or attention_mask.all().item():
-            output = flash_attn_kvpacked_func(
-                query_states,
-                torch.stack([key_states, value_states], 2),
-                dropout_p=dropout_rate,
-                causal=is_causal,
-            )
-        else:
-            (  # pylint: disable=unbalanced-tuple-unpacking
-                q_unpad,
-                kv_unpad,
-                cu_seqlens_q,
-                cu_seqlens_k,
-                max_seqlen_q,
-                max_seqlen_k,
-                _,
-                _,
-                output_pad_fn,
-            ) = generate_qkv(
-                query_states,
-                key_states,
-                value_states,
-                kvpacked=True,
-                key_padding_mask=attention_mask,
-                query_padding_mask=(
-                    attention_mask[:, -query_states.size(1) :]
-                    if attention_mask is not None
-                    else None
-                ),
-            )
-            if q_unpad.dtype != kv_unpad.dtype:
-                kv_unpad = kv_unpad.to(q_unpad.dtype)
-            output_unpad = flash_attn_varlen_kvpacked_func(
-                q_unpad,
-                kv_unpad,
-                cu_seqlens_q,
-                cu_seqlens_k,
-                max_seqlen_q,
-                max_seqlen_k,
-                dropout_p=dropout_rate,
-                softmax_scale=None,
-                causal=is_causal,
-            )
-            output = output_pad_fn(output_unpad)
-
-    attn_output = output
-    if attn_output.size() != (bsz, q_len, self.num_heads, self.head_dim):
-        raise ValueError(
-            f"`attn_output` should be of size {(bsz, q_len, self.num_heads, self.head_dim)}, but is"
-            f" {attn_output.size()}"
-        )
-    attn_output = rearrange(attn_output, "b s h d -> b s (h d)")
-
-    #
-    # flash-attn v2 end
-    #
-
-    if self.pretraining_tp > 1:
-        attn_output = attn_output.split(self.hidden_size // self.pretraining_tp, dim=2)
-        o_proj_slices = self.o_proj.weight.split(
-            self.hidden_size // self.pretraining_tp, dim=1
-        )
-        attn_output = sum(
-            F.linear(attn_output[i], o_proj_slices[i])
-            for i in range(self.pretraining_tp)
-        )
-    else:
-        attn_output = self.o_proj(attn_output)
-
-    return attn_output, None, past_key_value
-
-
-# based on https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/blob/364a5b/tests/test_flash_attn.py#L38
-def generate_qkv(
-    q,
-    k,
-    v,
-    query_padding_mask=None,
-    key_padding_mask=None,
-    kvpacked=False,
-    qkvpacked=False,
-):  # pylint: disable=invalid-name,unnecessary-lambda-assignment
-    """
-    Arguments:
-        q: (batch_size, seqlen_q, nheads, d)
-        k: (batch_size, seqlen_k, nheads_k, d)
-        v: (batch_size, seqlen_k, nheads_k, d)
-        query_padding_mask: (batch_size, seqlen), bool
-        key_padding_mask: (batch_size, seqlen), bool
-    """
-    assert not (kvpacked and qkvpacked)
-    batch_size, seqlen_q, nheads, d = q.shape
-    _, seqlen_k, nheads_k, _ = k.shape
-    assert k.shape == (batch_size, seqlen_k, nheads_k, d)
-    assert v.shape == (batch_size, seqlen_k, nheads_k, d)
-
-    if query_padding_mask is not None:
-        q_unpad, indices_q, cu_seqlens_q, max_seqlen_q = unpad_input(
-            q, query_padding_mask
-        )
-
-        def output_pad_fn(output_unpad):
-            return pad_input(  # noqa: E731
-                output_unpad, indices_q, batch_size, seqlen_q
-            )
-
-    else:
-        q_unpad = rearrange(q, "b s h d -> (b s) h d")
-        cu_seqlens_q = torch.arange(
-            0,
-            (batch_size + 1) * seqlen_q,
-            step=seqlen_q,
-            dtype=torch.int32,
-            device=q_unpad.device,
-        )
-        max_seqlen_q = seqlen_q
-
-        def output_pad_fn(output_unpad):
-            return rearrange(  # noqa: E731
-                output_unpad, "(b s) h d -> b s h d", b=batch_size
-            )
-
-    if key_padding_mask is not None:
-        k_unpad, _, cu_seqlens_k, max_seqlen_k = unpad_input(k, key_padding_mask)
-        v_unpad, _, _, _ = unpad_input(v, key_padding_mask)
-    else:
-        k_unpad = rearrange(k, "b s h d -> (b s) h d")
-        v_unpad = rearrange(v, "b s h d -> (b s) h d")
-        cu_seqlens_k = torch.arange(
-            0,
-            (batch_size + 1) * seqlen_k,
-            step=seqlen_k,
-            dtype=torch.int32,
-            device=k_unpad.device,
-        )
-        max_seqlen_k = seqlen_k
-
-    if qkvpacked:
-        assert nheads == nheads_k
-        qkv_unpad = torch.stack([q_unpad, k_unpad, v_unpad], dim=1)
-        qkv = torch.stack([q, k, v], dim=2)
-        return (qkv_unpad, cu_seqlens_q, max_seqlen_q, qkv, output_pad_fn)
-
-    if kvpacked:
-        kv_unpad = torch.stack([k_unpad, v_unpad], dim=1)
-        kv = torch.stack([k, v], dim=2)
-        return (
-            q_unpad,
-            kv_unpad,
-            cu_seqlens_q,
-            cu_seqlens_k,
-            max_seqlen_q,
-            max_seqlen_k,
-            q,
-            kv,
-            output_pad_fn,
-        )
-
-    return (
-        q_unpad,
-        k_unpad,
-        v_unpad,
-        cu_seqlens_q,
-        cu_seqlens_k,
-        max_seqlen_q,
-        max_seqlen_k,
-        q,
-        k,
-        v,
-        output_pad_fn,
-    )
-
-
-def llama_model_forward(
-    self,
-    input_ids: torch.LongTensor = None,
-    attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-    position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
-    past_key_values: Optional[List[torch.FloatTensor]] = None,
-    inputs_embeds: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None,
-    use_cache: Optional[bool] = None,
-    output_attentions: Optional[bool] = None,
-    output_hidden_states: Optional[bool] = None,
-    return_dict: Optional[bool] = None,
-    cache_position: Optional[  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
-        torch.LongTensor
-    ] = None,
-) -> Union[Tuple, BaseModelOutputWithPast]:
-    output_attentions = (
-        output_attentions
-        if output_attentions is not None
-        else self.config.output_attentions
-    )
-    output_hidden_states = (
-        output_hidden_states
-        if output_hidden_states is not None
-        else self.config.output_hidden_states
-    )
-    use_cache = use_cache if use_cache is not None else self.config.use_cache
-
-    return_dict = (
-        return_dict if return_dict is not None else self.config.use_return_dict
-    )
-
-    # retrieve input_ids and inputs_embeds
-    if input_ids is not None and inputs_embeds is not None:
-        raise ValueError(
-            "You cannot specify both decoder_input_ids and decoder_inputs_embeds at the same time"
-        )
-    if input_ids is not None:
-        batch_size, seq_length = input_ids.shape
-    elif inputs_embeds is not None:
-        batch_size, seq_length, _ = inputs_embeds.shape
-    else:
-        raise ValueError(
-            "You have to specify either decoder_input_ids or decoder_inputs_embeds"
-        )
-
-    seq_length_with_past = seq_length
-    past_key_values_length = 0
-
-    if past_key_values is not None:
-        past_key_values_length = past_key_values[0][0].shape[2]
-        seq_length_with_past = seq_length_with_past + past_key_values_length
-
-    cu_seqlens = None
-    max_seqlen = None
-    if position_ids is None:
-        device = input_ids.device if input_ids is not None else inputs_embeds.device
-        position_ids = torch.arange(
-            past_key_values_length,
-            seq_length + past_key_values_length,
-            dtype=torch.long,
-            device=device,
-        )
-        position_ids = position_ids.unsqueeze(0).view(-1, seq_length)
-    else:
-        position_ids = position_ids.view(-1, seq_length).long()
-        cu_seqlens, max_seqlen = get_cu_seqlens_from_pos_ids(position_ids)
-        cu_seqlens = cu_seqlens.squeeze()
-
-    if inputs_embeds is None:
-        inputs_embeds = self.embed_tokens(input_ids)
-    # embed positions
-    if attention_mask is None:
-        attention_mask = torch.ones(
-            (batch_size, seq_length_with_past),
-            dtype=torch.bool,
-            device=inputs_embeds.device,
-        )
-        padding_mask = None
-    else:
-        if 0 in attention_mask:
-            padding_mask = attention_mask
-        else:
-            padding_mask = None
-
-    attention_mask = (
-        self._prepare_decoder_attention_mask(  # pylint: disable=protected-access
-            attention_mask,
-            (batch_size, seq_length),
-            inputs_embeds,
-            past_key_values_length,
-        )
-    )
-
-    hidden_states = inputs_embeds
-
-    if self.gradient_checkpointing and self.training:
-        if use_cache:
-            transformers.logger.warning_once(
-                "`use_cache=True` is incompatible with gradient checkpointing. Setting `use_cache=False`..."
-            )
-            use_cache = False
-
-    # decoder layers
-    all_hidden_states = () if output_hidden_states else None
-    all_self_attns = () if output_attentions else None
-    next_decoder_cache = () if use_cache else None
-
-    for idx, decoder_layer in enumerate(self.layers):
-        if output_hidden_states:
-            all_hidden_states += (hidden_states,)
-
-        past_key_value = past_key_values[idx] if past_key_values is not None else None
-
-        if self.gradient_checkpointing and self.training:
-
-            def create_custom_forward(module):
-                def custom_forward(*inputs):
-                    # None for past_key_value
-                    return module(
-                        *inputs,
-                    )
-
-                return custom_forward
-
-            layer_outputs = torch.utils.checkpoint.checkpoint(
-                create_custom_forward(decoder_layer),
-                hidden_states,
-                attention_mask,
-                position_ids,
-                past_key_value,
-                output_attentions,
-                None,
-                padding_mask,
-                cu_seqlens,
-                max_seqlen,
-            )
-        else:
-            layer_outputs = decoder_layer(
-                hidden_states,
-                attention_mask=attention_mask,
-                position_ids=position_ids,
-                past_key_value=past_key_value,
-                output_attentions=output_attentions,
-                use_cache=use_cache,
-                cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens,
-                max_seqlen=max_seqlen,
-            )
-
-        hidden_states = layer_outputs[0]
-
-        if use_cache:
-            next_decoder_cache += (layer_outputs[2 if output_attentions else 1],)
-
-        if output_attentions:
-            all_self_attns += (layer_outputs[1],)
-
-    hidden_states = self.norm(hidden_states)
-
-    # add hidden states from the last decoder layer
-    if output_hidden_states:
-        all_hidden_states += (hidden_states,)
-
-    next_cache = next_decoder_cache if use_cache else None
-    if not return_dict:
-        return tuple(
-            v
-            for v in [hidden_states, next_cache, all_hidden_states, all_self_attns]
-            if v is not None
-        )
-    return BaseModelOutputWithPast(
-        last_hidden_state=hidden_states,
-        past_key_values=next_cache,
-        hidden_states=all_hidden_states,
-        attentions=all_self_attns,
-    )
-
-
-class LlamaDecoderLayer(OriginalLlamaDecoderLayer):
-    """
-    patched version of LlamaDecoderLayer to pass through the precalculated cu_seqlens
-    """
-
-    def forward(
-        self,
-        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
-        attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-        position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
-        past_key_value: Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor]] = None,
-        output_attentions: Optional[bool] = False,
-        use_cache: Optional[bool] = False,
-        padding_mask: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
-        cu_seqlens: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-        max_seqlen: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-    ) -> Tuple[
-        torch.FloatTensor, Optional[Tuple[torch.FloatTensor, torch.FloatTensor]]
-    ]:
-        """
-        Args:
-            hidden_states (`torch.FloatTensor`): input to the layer of shape `(batch, seq_len, embed_dim)`
-            attention_mask (`torch.FloatTensor`, *optional*): attention mask of size
-                `(batch, 1, tgt_len, src_len)` where padding elements are indicated by very large negative values.
-            output_attentions (`bool`, *optional*):
-                Whether or not to return the attentions tensors of all attention layers. See `attentions` under
-                returned tensors for more detail.
-            use_cache (`bool`, *optional*):
-                If set to `True`, `past_key_values` key value states are returned and can be used to speed up decoding
-                (see `past_key_values`).
-            past_key_value (`Tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*): cached past key and value projection states
-            cu_seqlens (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*) cumulative sequence len when packing
-        """
-
-        residual = hidden_states
-
-        hidden_states = self.input_layernorm(hidden_states)
-
-        # Self Attention
-        hidden_states, self_attn_weights, present_key_value = self.self_attn(
-            hidden_states=hidden_states,
-            attention_mask=attention_mask,
-            position_ids=position_ids,
-            past_key_value=past_key_value,
-            output_attentions=output_attentions,
-            use_cache=use_cache,
-            padding_mask=padding_mask,
-            cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens,
-            max_seqlen=max_seqlen,
-        )
-        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states
-
-        # Fully Connected
-        residual = hidden_states
-        hidden_states = self.post_attention_layernorm(hidden_states)
-        hidden_states = self.mlp(hidden_states)
-        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states
-
-        outputs = (hidden_states,)
-
-        if output_attentions:
-            outputs += (self_attn_weights,)
-
-        if use_cache:
-            outputs += (present_key_value,)
-
-        return outputs

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/lora_kernels.py

@@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ def get_attention_cls_from_config(cfg: DictDefault) -> Type[nn.Module]:
 
         return Llama4TextAttention
 
+    if model_type == "mistral3":
+        from transformers.models.mistral.modeling_mistral import MistralAttention
+
+        return MistralAttention
+
     try:
         # Dynamically import the module and attention class
         module_path = f"transformers.models.{model_type}.modeling_{model_type}"
@@ -390,7 +395,6 @@ def apply_lora_kernel_patches(
                 ]
                 can_patch_qkv = all(
                     hasattr(module, "lora_A")
-                    and getattr(module, "base_layer", module).bias is None
                     and len(getattr(module, "lora_magnitude_vector", []) or []) == 0
                     for module in layer_modules
                 )
@@ -400,7 +404,8 @@ def apply_lora_kernel_patches(
                     self_attn.apply_qkv = types.MethodType(apply_lora_qkv, self_attn)
                 else:
                     LOG.warning_once(
-                        "Cannot patch some attention QKV projections - requires LoRA adapters with no bias"
+                        "Cannot patch some attention QKV projections - requires LoRA "
+                        "adapters and no lora_magnitude_vector (DoRA)"
                     )
             if cfg.lora_o_kernel:
                 # Output patching
@@ -409,7 +414,6 @@ def apply_lora_kernel_patches(
                 ]
                 can_patch_o = all(
                     hasattr(module, "lora_A")
-                    and getattr(module, "base_layer", module).bias is None
                     and len(getattr(module, "lora_magnitude_vector", []) or []) == 0
                     for module in layer_modules
                 )
@@ -418,14 +422,14 @@ def apply_lora_kernel_patches(
                     self_attn.apply_o = types.MethodType(apply_lora_o, self_attn)
                 else:
                     LOG.warning_once(
-                        "Cannot patch some attention output projection - requires LoRA adapters with no bias"
+                        "Cannot patch some attention output projection - requires LoRA "
+                        "adapters and no lora_magnitude_vector (DoRA)"
                     )
         for gate_proj, up_proj, down_proj, mlp in find_mlp_in_layer(layer):
             if cfg.lora_mlp_kernel:
                 # MLP patching
                 can_patch_mlp = all(
                     hasattr(proj, "lora_A")
-                    and getattr(proj, "base_layer", proj).bias is None
                     and len(getattr(proj, "lora_magnitude_vector", []) or []) == 0
                     for proj in (gate_proj, up_proj, down_proj)
                 )
@@ -435,7 +439,8 @@ def apply_lora_kernel_patches(
                     layer.mlp.forward = types.MethodType(apply_fn, mlp)
                 else:
                     LOG.warning_once(
-                        "Cannot patch some MLP layers - requires LoRA adapters with no bias"
+                        "Cannot patch some MLP layers - requires LoRA adapters and no "
+                        "lora_magnitude_vector (DoRA)"
                     )
 
     LOG.setLevel(original_level)

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/mistral_attn_hijack_flash.py

@@ -3,53 +3,14 @@
 # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
 
 from functools import partial
-from typing import List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
-import torch
 import transformers
-from einops import rearrange
-from flash_attn.bert_padding import pad_input, unpad_input
-from flash_attn.flash_attn_interface import (  # pylint: disable=ungrouped-imports
-    flash_attn_kvpacked_func,
-    flash_attn_varlen_kvpacked_func,
-    flash_attn_varlen_qkvpacked_func,
-)
-from transformers.modeling_outputs import BaseModelOutputWithPast
-from transformers.models.mistral.modeling_mistral import (
-    MistralAttention as OriginalMistralAttention,
-)
-from transformers.models.mistral.modeling_mistral import (
-    MistralDecoderLayer as OriginalMistralDecoderLayer,
-)
-from transformers.models.mistral.modeling_mistral import (
-    apply_rotary_pos_emb,
-    repeat_kv,
-)
 
-from axolotl.monkeypatch.utils import get_cu_seqlens_from_pos_ids
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
 
 LOG = get_logger(__name__)
 
 
-def replace_mistral_attn_with_flash_attn(
-    packed: Optional[bool] = False,
-):
-    transformers.models.mistral.modeling_mistral.MistralModel._prepare_decoder_attention_mask = (  # pylint: disable=protected-access
-        _prepare_decoder_attention_mask
-    )
-    transformers.models.mistral.modeling_mistral.MistralAttention.forward = (
-        flashattn_forward
-    )
-    if packed:
-        transformers.models.mistral.modeling_mistral.MistralDecoderLayer = (
-            MistralDecoderLayer
-        )
-        transformers.models.mistral.modeling_mistral.MistralModel.forward = (
-            mistral_model_forward
-        )
-
-
 def patch_mistral_cross_entropy():
     from flash_attn.losses.cross_entropy import CrossEntropyLoss
 
@@ -57,604 +18,3 @@ def patch_mistral_cross_entropy():
     transformers.models.mistral.modeling_mistral.CrossEntropyLoss = partial(
         CrossEntropyLoss, inplace_backward=True
     )
-
-
-@torch.jit.script
-def _make_sliding_window_causal_mask(
-    bsz: int,
-    tgt_len: int,
-    dtype: torch.dtype,
-    device: torch.device,
-    past_key_values_length: int = 0,
-    sliding_window: int = 4096,
-):
-    """
-    Make causal mask used for sliding window attention
-    """
-    tensor = torch.full(
-        (tgt_len, tgt_len),
-        fill_value=1,
-        device=device,
-    )
-    mask = torch.tril(tensor, diagonal=0)
-    # make the mask banded to account for sliding window
-    # NOTE: HF implementation is wrong as of 14-10-2023 for torch.triu, needs +1
-    mask = torch.triu(mask, diagonal=-sliding_window + 1)
-    mask = torch.log(mask).to(dtype)
-
-    if past_key_values_length > 0:
-        mask = torch.cat(
-            [
-                torch.zeros(
-                    tgt_len, past_key_values_length, dtype=dtype, device=device
-                ),
-                mask,
-            ],
-            dim=-1,
-        )
-    return mask[None, None, :, :].expand(
-        bsz, 1, tgt_len, tgt_len + past_key_values_length
-    )
-
-
-# Disable the transformation of the attention mask in LlamaModel as the flash attention
-# requires the attention mask to be the same as the key_padding_mask
-def _prepare_decoder_attention_mask(
-    self,
-    attention_mask,
-    input_shape,
-    inputs_embeds,
-    past_key_values_length,
-    sliding_window,
-):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
-    # [bsz, seq_len]
-    if attention_mask is None or sliding_window is None:
-        return attention_mask
-
-    # NOTE: attention mask and sliding masks are only broadcastable in certain scenarios.
-    # Without attention_mask.shape[0] == 1, error will trigger after eval loss but only when wandb is enabled.
-    if input_shape[-1] > 1 and attention_mask.shape[0] == 1:
-        sliding_window_mask = _make_sliding_window_causal_mask(
-            bsz=input_shape[0],
-            tgt_len=input_shape[1],
-            dtype=inputs_embeds.dtype,
-            device=inputs_embeds.device,
-            past_key_values_length=past_key_values_length,
-            sliding_window=sliding_window,
-        )
-        attention_mask = attention_mask + sliding_window_mask
-    else:
-        LOG.info("skipping sliding window mask, not broadcastable with attention mask")
-
-    return attention_mask
-
-
-def flashattn_forward(
-    self: OriginalMistralAttention,
-    hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
-    attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-    position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
-    past_key_value: Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor]] = None,
-    output_attentions: bool = False,
-    use_cache: bool = False,
-    cu_seqlens: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-    max_seqlen: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, Optional[torch.Tensor], Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor]]]:
-    bsz, q_len, _ = hidden_states.size()
-
-    query_states = self.q_proj(hidden_states)
-    key_states = self.k_proj(hidden_states)
-    value_states = self.v_proj(hidden_states)
-
-    query_states = query_states.view(
-        bsz, q_len, self.num_heads, self.head_dim
-    ).transpose(1, 2)
-    key_states = key_states.view(
-        bsz, q_len, self.num_key_value_heads, self.head_dim
-    ).transpose(1, 2)
-    value_states = value_states.view(
-        bsz, q_len, self.num_key_value_heads, self.head_dim
-    ).transpose(1, 2)
-
-    kv_seq_len = key_states.shape[-2]
-    if past_key_value is not None:
-        kv_seq_len += past_key_value[0].shape[-2]
-    cos, sin = self.rotary_emb(value_states, position_ids=position_ids)
-    query_states, key_states = apply_rotary_pos_emb(
-        query_states, key_states, cos, sin, position_ids
-    )
-
-    use_sliding_windows = (
-        getattr(self.config, "sliding_window") is not None
-        and kv_seq_len > self.config.sliding_window
-    )
-
-    if use_sliding_windows:
-        window_size = (self.config.sliding_window, self.config.sliding_window)
-    else:
-        window_size = (-1, -1)
-
-    if past_key_value is not None:
-        # Activate slicing cache only if the config has a value `sliding_windows` attribute
-        if (
-            hasattr(self.config, "sliding_window")
-            and kv_seq_len > self.config.sliding_window
-        ):
-            slicing_tokens = kv_seq_len - self.config.sliding_window
-
-            past_key = past_key_value[0]
-            past_value = past_key_value[1]
-
-            past_key = past_key[:, :, slicing_tokens:, :].contiguous()
-            past_value = past_value[:, :, slicing_tokens:, :].contiguous()
-
-            if past_key.shape[-2] != self.config.sliding_window - 1:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    f"past key much have a shape of (`batch_size, num_heads, self.config.sliding_window-1, head_dim`), got"
-                    f" {past_key.shape}"
-                )
-
-            past_key_value = (past_key, past_value) if use_cache else None
-
-        if past_key_value is not None:
-            key_states = torch.cat([past_key_value[0], key_states], dim=2)
-            value_states = torch.cat([past_key_value[1], value_states], dim=2)
-
-    past_key_value = (key_states, value_states) if use_cache else None
-
-    # repeat k/v heads if n_kv_heads < n_heads
-    key_states = repeat_kv(key_states, self.num_key_value_groups)
-    value_states = repeat_kv(value_states, self.num_key_value_groups)
-
-    if self.training:
-        # during training q,k,v always have same seqlen
-        assert key_states.shape == query_states.shape
-        is_causal = True
-    else:
-        # turn off FA causal mask after first inference autoregressive iteration
-        # only on first autoregressive step q,k,v have same seqlen
-        is_causal = key_states.shape == query_states.shape
-
-    dropout_rate = 0.0 if not self.training else getattr(self, "attention_dropout", 0.0)
-
-    if cu_seqlens is not None and max_seqlen is not None and cu_seqlens.dim() == 1:
-        # special handling using sample packing
-        qkv = torch.stack(
-            [query_states, key_states, value_states], dim=2
-        )  # [bsz, nh, 3, q_len, hd]
-        qkv = qkv.transpose(1, 3)  # [bsz, q_len, 3, nh, hd]
-        qkv = rearrange(qkv, "b s ... -> (b s) ...")
-
-        output = flash_attn_varlen_qkvpacked_func(
-            qkv,
-            cu_seqlens,
-            max_seqlen,
-            dropout_p=dropout_rate,
-            softmax_scale=None,
-            causal=True,
-            window_size=window_size,
-        )
-        output = rearrange(output, "(b s) ... -> b s ...", b=bsz)
-    elif query_states.shape == key_states.shape:
-        query_states = query_states.transpose(1, 2)
-        key_states = key_states.transpose(1, 2)
-        value_states = value_states.transpose(1, 2)
-        qkv_unpad, cu_seqlens_q, max_seqlen_q, _, output_pad_fn = generate_qkv(
-            query_states,
-            key_states,
-            value_states,
-            qkvpacked=True,
-            # We have disabled _prepare_decoder_attention_mask in LlamaModel
-            # the attention_mask should be the same as the key_padding_mask
-            key_padding_mask=attention_mask,
-            query_padding_mask=(
-                attention_mask[:, -query_states.size(1) :]
-                if attention_mask is not None
-                else None
-            ),
-        )
-        output_unpad = flash_attn_varlen_qkvpacked_func(
-            qkv_unpad,
-            cu_seqlens_q,
-            max_seqlen_q,
-            dropout_p=dropout_rate,
-            softmax_scale=None,
-            causal=is_causal,
-            window_size=window_size,
-        )
-        output = output_pad_fn(output_unpad)
-    else:
-        query_states = query_states.transpose(1, 2)
-        key_states = key_states.transpose(1, 2)
-        value_states = value_states.transpose(1, 2)
-        if attention_mask is None or attention_mask.all().item():
-            output = flash_attn_kvpacked_func(
-                query_states,
-                torch.stack([key_states, value_states], 2),
-                dropout_p=dropout_rate,
-                causal=is_causal,
-                window_size=window_size,
-            )
-        else:
-            (  # pylint: disable=unbalanced-tuple-unpacking
-                q_unpad,
-                kv_unpad,
-                cu_seqlens_q,
-                cu_seqlens_k,
-                max_seqlen_q,
-                max_seqlen_k,
-                _,
-                _,
-                output_pad_fn,
-            ) = generate_qkv(
-                query_states,
-                key_states,
-                value_states,
-                kvpacked=True,
-                key_padding_mask=attention_mask,
-                query_padding_mask=(
-                    attention_mask[:, -query_states.size(1) :]
-                    if attention_mask is not None
-                    else None
-                ),
-            )
-            if q_unpad.dtype != kv_unpad.dtype:
-                kv_unpad = kv_unpad.to(q_unpad.dtype)
-            output_unpad = flash_attn_varlen_kvpacked_func(
-                q_unpad,
-                kv_unpad,
-                cu_seqlens_q,
-                cu_seqlens_k,
-                max_seqlen_q,
-                max_seqlen_k,
-                dropout_p=dropout_rate,
-                softmax_scale=None,
-                causal=is_causal,
-                window_size=window_size,
-            )
-            output = output_pad_fn(output_unpad)
-
-    attn_output = output
-    if attn_output.size() != (bsz, q_len, self.num_heads, self.head_dim):
-        raise ValueError(
-            f"`attn_output` should be of size {(bsz, q_len, self.num_heads, self.head_dim)}, but is"
-            f" {attn_output.size()}"
-        )
-    attn_output = rearrange(attn_output, "b s h d -> b s (h d)")
-
-    attn_output = self.o_proj(attn_output)
-
-    if not output_attentions:
-        attn_weights = None
-
-    return attn_output, attn_weights, past_key_value
-
-
-# based on https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/blob/364a5b/tests/test_flash_attn.py#L38
-def generate_qkv(
-    q,
-    k,
-    v,
-    query_padding_mask=None,
-    key_padding_mask=None,
-    kvpacked=False,
-    qkvpacked=False,
-):  # pylint: disable=invalid-name,unnecessary-lambda-assignment
-    """
-    Arguments:
-        q: (batch_size, seqlen_q, nheads, d)
-        k: (batch_size, seqlen_k, nheads_k, d)
-        v: (batch_size, seqlen_k, nheads_k, d)
-        query_padding_mask: (batch_size, seqlen), bool
-        key_padding_mask: (batch_size, seqlen), bool
-    """
-    assert not (kvpacked and qkvpacked)
-    batch_size, seqlen_q, nheads, d = q.shape
-    _, seqlen_k, nheads_k, _ = k.shape
-    assert k.shape == (batch_size, seqlen_k, nheads_k, d)
-    assert v.shape == (batch_size, seqlen_k, nheads_k, d)
-
-    if query_padding_mask is not None:
-        q_unpad, indices_q, cu_seqlens_q, max_seqlen_q = unpad_input(
-            q, query_padding_mask
-        )
-
-        def output_pad_fn(output_unpad):
-            return pad_input(  # noqa: E731
-                output_unpad, indices_q, batch_size, seqlen_q
-            )
-
-    else:
-        q_unpad = rearrange(q, "b s h d -> (b s) h d")
-        cu_seqlens_q = torch.arange(
-            0,
-            (batch_size + 1) * seqlen_q,
-            step=seqlen_q,
-            dtype=torch.int32,
-            device=q_unpad.device,
-        )
-        max_seqlen_q = seqlen_q
-
-        def output_pad_fn(output_unpad):
-            return rearrange(  # noqa: E731
-                output_unpad, "(b s) h d -> b s h d", b=batch_size
-            )
-
-    if key_padding_mask is not None:
-        k_unpad, _, cu_seqlens_k, max_seqlen_k = unpad_input(k, key_padding_mask)
-        v_unpad, _, _, _ = unpad_input(v, key_padding_mask)
-    else:
-        k_unpad = rearrange(k, "b s h d -> (b s) h d")
-        v_unpad = rearrange(v, "b s h d -> (b s) h d")
-        cu_seqlens_k = torch.arange(
-            0,
-            (batch_size + 1) * seqlen_k,
-            step=seqlen_k,
-            dtype=torch.int32,
-            device=k_unpad.device,
-        )
-        max_seqlen_k = seqlen_k
-
-    if qkvpacked:
-        assert nheads == nheads_k
-        qkv_unpad = torch.stack([q_unpad, k_unpad, v_unpad], dim=1)
-        qkv = torch.stack([q, k, v], dim=2)
-        return (qkv_unpad, cu_seqlens_q, max_seqlen_q, qkv, output_pad_fn)
-
-    if kvpacked:
-        kv_unpad = torch.stack([k_unpad, v_unpad], dim=1)
-        kv = torch.stack([k, v], dim=2)
-        return (
-            q_unpad,
-            kv_unpad,
-            cu_seqlens_q,
-            cu_seqlens_k,
-            max_seqlen_q,
-            max_seqlen_k,
-            q,
-            kv,
-            output_pad_fn,
-        )
-
-    return (
-        q_unpad,
-        k_unpad,
-        v_unpad,
-        cu_seqlens_q,
-        cu_seqlens_k,
-        max_seqlen_q,
-        max_seqlen_k,
-        q,
-        k,
-        v,
-        output_pad_fn,
-    )
-
-
-def mistral_model_forward(
-    self,
-    input_ids: torch.LongTensor = None,
-    attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-    position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
-    past_key_values: Optional[List[torch.FloatTensor]] = None,
-    inputs_embeds: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None,
-    use_cache: Optional[bool] = None,
-    output_attentions: Optional[bool] = None,
-    output_hidden_states: Optional[bool] = None,
-    return_dict: Optional[bool] = None,
-    cache_position: Optional[  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
-        torch.LongTensor
-    ] = None,
-) -> Union[Tuple, BaseModelOutputWithPast]:
-    output_attentions = (
-        output_attentions
-        if output_attentions is not None
-        else self.config.output_attentions
-    )
-    output_hidden_states = (
-        output_hidden_states
-        if output_hidden_states is not None
-        else self.config.output_hidden_states
-    )
-    use_cache = use_cache if use_cache is not None else self.config.use_cache
-
-    return_dict = (
-        return_dict if return_dict is not None else self.config.use_return_dict
-    )
-
-    # retrieve input_ids and inputs_embeds
-    if input_ids is not None and inputs_embeds is not None:
-        raise ValueError(
-            "You cannot specify both decoder_input_ids and decoder_inputs_embeds at the same time"
-        )
-    if input_ids is not None:
-        batch_size, seq_length = input_ids.shape
-    elif inputs_embeds is not None:
-        batch_size, seq_length, _ = inputs_embeds.shape
-    else:
-        raise ValueError(
-            "You have to specify either decoder_input_ids or decoder_inputs_embeds"
-        )
-
-    seq_length_with_past = seq_length
-    past_key_values_length = 0
-
-    if past_key_values is not None:
-        past_key_values_length = past_key_values[0][0].shape[2]
-        seq_length_with_past = seq_length_with_past + past_key_values_length
-
-    cu_seqlens = None
-    max_seqlen = None
-    if position_ids is None:
-        device = input_ids.device if input_ids is not None else inputs_embeds.device
-        position_ids = torch.arange(
-            past_key_values_length,
-            seq_length + past_key_values_length,
-            dtype=torch.long,
-            device=device,
-        )
-        position_ids = position_ids.unsqueeze(0).view(-1, seq_length)
-    else:
-        position_ids = position_ids.view(-1, seq_length).long()
-        cu_seqlens, max_seqlen = get_cu_seqlens_from_pos_ids(position_ids)
-        cu_seqlens = cu_seqlens.squeeze()
-
-    if inputs_embeds is None:
-        inputs_embeds = self.embed_tokens(input_ids)
-    # embed positions
-    if attention_mask is None:
-        attention_mask = torch.ones(
-            (batch_size, seq_length_with_past),
-            dtype=torch.bool,
-            device=inputs_embeds.device,
-        )
-    attention_mask = (
-        self._prepare_decoder_attention_mask(  # pylint: disable=protected-access
-            attention_mask,
-            (batch_size, seq_length),
-            inputs_embeds,
-            past_key_values_length,
-            sliding_window=self.config.sliding_window,
-        )
-    )
-
-    hidden_states = inputs_embeds
-
-    if self.gradient_checkpointing and self.training:
-        if use_cache:
-            transformers.logger.warning_once(
-                "`use_cache=True` is incompatible with gradient checkpointing. Setting `use_cache=False`..."
-            )
-            use_cache = False
-
-    # decoder layers
-    all_hidden_states = () if output_hidden_states else None
-    all_self_attns = () if output_attentions else None
-    next_decoder_cache = () if use_cache else None
-
-    for idx, decoder_layer in enumerate(self.layers):
-        if output_hidden_states:
-            all_hidden_states += (hidden_states,)
-
-        past_key_value = past_key_values[idx] if past_key_values is not None else None
-
-        if self.gradient_checkpointing and self.training:
-            layer_outputs = (
-                self._gradient_checkpointing_func(  # pylint: disable=protected-access
-                    decoder_layer.__call__,
-                    hidden_states,
-                    attention_mask,
-                    position_ids,
-                    past_key_value,
-                    output_attentions,
-                    None,
-                    cu_seqlens,
-                    max_seqlen,
-                )
-            )
-        else:
-            layer_outputs = decoder_layer(
-                hidden_states,
-                attention_mask=attention_mask,
-                position_ids=position_ids,
-                past_key_value=past_key_value,
-                output_attentions=output_attentions,
-                use_cache=use_cache,
-                cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens,
-                max_seqlen=max_seqlen,
-            )
-
-        hidden_states = layer_outputs[0]
-
-        if use_cache:
-            next_decoder_cache += (layer_outputs[2 if output_attentions else 1],)
-
-        if output_attentions:
-            all_self_attns += (layer_outputs[1],)
-
-    hidden_states = self.norm(hidden_states)
-
-    # add hidden states from the last decoder layer
-    if output_hidden_states:
-        all_hidden_states += (hidden_states,)
-
-    next_cache = next_decoder_cache if use_cache else None
-    if not return_dict:
-        return tuple(
-            v
-            for v in [hidden_states, next_cache, all_hidden_states, all_self_attns]
-            if v is not None
-        )
-    return BaseModelOutputWithPast(
-        last_hidden_state=hidden_states,
-        past_key_values=next_cache,
-        hidden_states=all_hidden_states,
-        attentions=all_self_attns,
-    )
-
-
-class MistralDecoderLayer(OriginalMistralDecoderLayer):
-    """
-    patched version of MistralDecoderLayer to pass through the precalculated cu_seqlens
-    """
-
-    def forward(
-        self,
-        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
-        attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-        position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
-        past_key_value: Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor]] = None,
-        output_attentions: Optional[bool] = False,
-        use_cache: Optional[bool] = False,
-        cu_seqlens: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-        max_seqlen: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-    ) -> Tuple[
-        torch.FloatTensor, Optional[Tuple[torch.FloatTensor, torch.FloatTensor]]
-    ]:
-        """
-        Args:
-            hidden_states (`torch.FloatTensor`): input to the layer of shape `(batch, seq_len, embed_dim)`
-            attention_mask (`torch.FloatTensor`, *optional*): attention mask of size
-                `(batch, 1, tgt_len, src_len)` where padding elements are indicated by very large negative values.
-            output_attentions (`bool`, *optional*):
-                Whether or not to return the attentions tensors of all attention layers. See `attentions` under
-                returned tensors for more detail.
-            use_cache (`bool`, *optional*):
-                If set to `True`, `past_key_values` key value states are returned and can be used to speed up decoding
-                (see `past_key_values`).
-            past_key_value (`Tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*): cached past key and value projection states
-            cu_seqlens (`torch.Tensor`, *optional*) cumulative sequence len when packing
-        """
-
-        residual = hidden_states
-
-        hidden_states = self.input_layernorm(hidden_states)
-
-        # Self Attention
-        hidden_states, self_attn_weights, present_key_value = self.self_attn(
-            hidden_states=hidden_states,
-            attention_mask=attention_mask,
-            position_ids=position_ids,
-            past_key_value=past_key_value,
-            output_attentions=output_attentions,
-            use_cache=use_cache,
-            cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens,
-            max_seqlen=max_seqlen,
-        )
-        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states
-
-        # Fully Connected
-        residual = hidden_states
-        hidden_states = self.post_attention_layernorm(hidden_states)
-        hidden_states = self.mlp(hidden_states)
-        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states
-
-        outputs = (hidden_states,)
-
-        if output_attentions:
-            outputs += (self_attn_weights,)
-
-        if use_cache:
-            outputs += (present_key_value,)
-
-        return outputs

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/multipack.py

@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ SUPPORTED_MULTIPACK_MODEL_TYPES = [
     "glm",
     "glm4",
     "smollm3",
+    "gpt_oss",
+    "arcee",
 ]
 
 

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/ring_attn/adapters/batch.py

@@ -20,12 +20,15 @@ from ring_flash_attn import ring_flash_attn_func
 from ring_flash_attn.adapters.hf_adapter import check_params
 from transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils import is_flash_attn_greater_or_equal
 
-try:
+try:  # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
     from transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils import _flash_supports_window
 except ImportError:
-    from transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils import (
-        _flash_supports_window_size as _flash_supports_window,
-    )
+    try:
+        from transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils import (
+            _flash_supports_window_size as _flash_supports_window,
+        )
+    except ImportError:
+        _flash_supports_window = True
 
 from transformers.modeling_utils import ALL_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS
 

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/ring_attn/patch.py

@@ -15,12 +15,15 @@ import torch
 import torch.distributed as dist
 from torch.distributed import DeviceMesh
 
-try:
+try:  # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
     from transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils import _flash_supports_window
 except ImportError:
-    from transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils import (
-        _flash_supports_window_size as _flash_supports_window,
-    )
+    try:
+        from transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils import (
+            _flash_supports_window_size as _flash_supports_window,
+        )
+    except ImportError:
+        _flash_supports_window = True
 
 from axolotl.monkeypatch.utils import get_cu_seqlens_from_pos_ids
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/trainer_eval_guard.py

@@ -1,78 +0,0 @@
-"""
-fix for FSDP2 evals when using torch.compile
-"""
-
-import inspect
-
-from transformers import Trainer
-
-from axolotl.monkeypatch.utils import detab_code
-from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
-
-LOG = get_logger(__name__)
-
-ORIGINAL_TRAINER_CODE = """
-    model.eval()
-"""
-
-PATCHED_TRAINER_CODE = """
-    if hasattr(model, "eval") and callable(model.eval):
-        self.model.eval()
-"""
-
-
-def get_evaluation_loop_code() -> str:
-    training_loop = inspect.getsource(Trainer.evaluation_loop)
-    return training_loop
-
-
-def check_evaluation_loop_is_patchable() -> bool:
-    eval_loop = get_evaluation_loop_code()
-    eval_loop, _ = detab_code(eval_loop)
-    return ORIGINAL_TRAINER_CODE in eval_loop
-
-
-def patch_evaluation_loop_for_fsdp2():
-    """
-    monkeypatch for fixing the eval loop for fsdp2 with torch.compile
-    """
-
-    try:
-        evaluation_loop = get_evaluation_loop_code()
-    except OSError:
-        return
-    Trainer._original_evaluation_loop = (  # pylint: disable=protected-access
-        evaluation_loop
-    )
-    evaluation_loop, _ = detab_code(evaluation_loop)
-    if ORIGINAL_TRAINER_CODE not in evaluation_loop:
-        return
-
-    evaluation_loop = evaluation_loop.replace(
-        ORIGINAL_TRAINER_CODE, PATCHED_TRAINER_CODE
-    )
-    evaluation_loop = evaluation_loop.replace(
-        "def evaluation_loop(",
-        "def _fixed_evaluation_loop(",
-        1,
-    )
-
-    # load imports necessary
-    import transformers.trainer
-
-    items_to_import = []
-    for item in dir(transformers.trainer):
-        if item in evaluation_loop:
-            items_to_import.append(item)
-
-    exec(  # pylint: disable=exec-used  # nosec B102
-        "from transformers.trainer import ("
-        + ", ".join(x for x in items_to_import)
-        + ")",
-        globals(),
-    )
-    exec(evaluation_loop, globals())  # pylint: disable=exec-used  # nosec B102
-    LOG.info("patching _inner_training_loop for fsdp optimizer save")
-    Trainer.evaluation_loop = (  # pylint: disable=protected-access
-        _fixed_evaluation_loop  # pylint: disable=undefined-variable  # noqa: F821
-    )

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/transformers/modeling_flash_attention_utils.py

@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-"""
-Monkey patch to fix transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils.
-
-see https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/39653/files
-"""
-
-import sys
-
-import torch
-
-
-def _prepare_from_posids(query, key, value, position_ids):
-    """
-    This function returns necessary arguments to call `flash_attn_varlen_func`.
-    All three query, key, value states will be flattened.
-    Cumulative lengths of each examples in the batch will be extracted from position_ids.
-    NOTE: ideally cumulative lengths should be prepared at the data collator stage
-    Arguments:
-        query (`torch.Tensor`):
-            Query state with padding. Shape: (batch_size, query_length, num_heads, head_dim).
-        key (`torch.Tensor`):
-            Key state with padding. Shape: (batch_size, kv_seq_len, num_key_value_heads, head_dim).
-        value (`torch.Tensor`):
-            Value state with padding. Shape: (batch_size, kv_seq_len, num_key_value_heads, head_dim).
-        position_ids (`torch.Tensor`):
-            Boolean or int tensor of shape (batch_size, sequence_length), 1 means valid and 0 means not valid.
-    Return:
-        query (`torch.Tensor`):
-            Query state without padding. Shape: (total_target_length, num_heads, head_dim).
-        key (`torch.Tensor`):
-            Key state with padding. Shape: (total_source_length, num_key_value_heads, head_dim).
-        value (`torch.Tensor`):
-            Value state with padding. Shape: (total_source_length, num_key_value_heads, head_dim).
-        indices_q (`torch.Tensor`):
-            The indices of non-masked tokens from the flattened input target sequence.
-        (cu_seqlens_q, cu_seqlens_k) (`tuple[int]`):
-            The cumulative sequence lengths for the target (query) and source (key, value), used to index into ragged (unpadded) tensors. `cu_seqlens` shape is (batch_size + 1,).
-        (max_seqlen_in_batch_q, max_seqlen_in_batch_k) (`tuple[int]`):
-            Maximum sequence length in batch (`max_seqlen_in_batch_q` for the target sequence i.e. query, `max_seqlen_in_batch_k` for the source sequence i.e. key/value).
-    """
-    query = query.contiguous().view(-1, query.size(-2), query.size(-1))
-    key = key.contiguous().view(-1, key.size(-2), key.size(-1))
-    value = value.contiguous().view(-1, value.size(-2), value.size(-1))
-
-    position_ids = position_ids.flatten()
-    indices_q = torch.arange(
-        position_ids.size(0), device=position_ids.device, dtype=torch.int32
-    )
-
-    cu_seq_lens = torch.cat(
-        (
-            indices_q[position_ids == 0],
-            torch.tensor(
-                position_ids.size(), device=position_ids.device, dtype=torch.int32
-            ),
-        )
-    )
-    # NOTE: With torch compile, this will cause a graph break if you don't set
-    # `TORCHDYNAMO_CAPTURE_SCALAR_OUTPUTS=1` in the environment or call
-    # `torch._dynamo.config.capture_scalar_outputs = True` before doing the forward pass.
-    # This is a limitation of flash attention API, as the function `flash_attn_varlen_func`
-    # requires `max_length_q`, `max_length_k` to be passed as `int` and not `torch.Tensor`.
-    # https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/blob/2dd8078adc1d9b74e315ee99718c0dea0de8eeb6/flash_attn/flash_attn_interface.py#L1423-L1424
-    # We should use cu_seq_lens instead of position_ids to get the max length since position_ids is not always increasing
-    # for some models (e.g. qwen2-vl).
-    max_length = cu_seq_lens.diff().max().item()
-    return (
-        query,
-        key,
-        value,
-        indices_q,
-        (cu_seq_lens, cu_seq_lens),
-        (max_length, max_length),
-    )
-
-
-def patch_prepare_from_posids():
-    import transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils
-
-    transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils._prepare_from_posids = (  # pylint: disable=protected-access
-        _prepare_from_posids
-    )
-    setattr(
-        sys.modules["transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils"],
-        "_prepare_from_posids",
-        _prepare_from_posids,
-    )

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/transformers/trainer_loss_calc.py

@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+"""
+Module for patching transformers Trainer loss calculation to use nanmean.
+
+This is needed for context parallelism since chunks of the input sequences may be fully
+masked and return NaNs in the loss calculation.
+
+Also includes a patch for FSDP2 + torch.compile. We need to bundle this together with
+the other evaluation_loop patch because we can't patch the same code twice without
+raising an OSError.
+"""
+
+import importlib
+import inspect
+
+from transformers import Trainer
+
+from axolotl.monkeypatch.utils import detab_code
+from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
+
+LOG = get_logger(__name__)
+
+ORIGINAL_EVAL_CODE = {
+    "list": 'metrics[f"{metric_key_prefix}_loss"] = np.concatenate(all_losses).mean().item()',
+    "array": 'metrics[f"{metric_key_prefix}_loss"] = all_losses.mean().item()',
+}
+PATCHED_EVAL_CODE = {
+    "list": 'metrics[f"{metric_key_prefix}_loss"] = np.nanmean(np.concatenate(all_losses)).item()',
+    "array": 'metrics[f"{metric_key_prefix}_loss"] = np.nanmean(all_losses).item()',
+}
+
+ORIGINAL_FSDP2_CODE = """
+    model.eval()
+"""
+
+PATCHED_FSDP2_CODE = """
+    if hasattr(model, "eval") and callable(model.eval):
+        self.model.eval()
+"""
+
+ORIGINAL_MAYBE_CODE = "tr_loss_scalar = self._nested_gather(tr_loss).mean().item()"
+PATCHED_MAYBE_CODE = "tr_loss_scalar = self._nested_gather(tr_loss).nanmean().item()"
+
+
+def check_evaluation_loop_is_patchable() -> bool:
+    evaluation_loop_source = inspect.getsource(Trainer.evaluation_loop)
+    return all(value in evaluation_loop_source for value in ORIGINAL_EVAL_CODE.values())
+
+
+def check_evaluation_loop_is_fsdp2_patchable() -> bool:
+    evaluation_loop_source = inspect.getsource(Trainer.evaluation_loop)
+    evaluation_loop_source, _ = detab_code(evaluation_loop_source)
+    return ORIGINAL_FSDP2_CODE in evaluation_loop_source
+
+
+# pylint: disable=protected-access
+def patch_evaluation_loop(patch_fsdp2: bool):
+    """Patch the evaluation_loop method."""
+    # Check if already patched
+    if hasattr(Trainer, "_original_evaluation_loop"):
+        LOG.info("Trainer.evaluation_loop already patched")
+        return
+
+    # Check if the patterns exist
+    try:
+        evaluation_loop_source = inspect.getsource(Trainer.evaluation_loop)
+    except OSError:
+        return
+    Trainer.evaluation = evaluation_loop_source
+    evaluation_loop_source, _ = detab_code(evaluation_loop_source)
+
+    # Apply the nanmean patches
+    evaluation_loop_source = evaluation_loop_source.replace(
+        ORIGINAL_EVAL_CODE["list"], PATCHED_EVAL_CODE["list"]
+    )
+    evaluation_loop_source = evaluation_loop_source.replace(
+        ORIGINAL_EVAL_CODE["array"], PATCHED_EVAL_CODE["array"]
+    )
+
+    # Apply FSDP2 eval guard patch if needed
+    if patch_fsdp2 and ORIGINAL_FSDP2_CODE in evaluation_loop_source:
+        evaluation_loop_source = evaluation_loop_source.replace(
+            ORIGINAL_FSDP2_CODE, PATCHED_FSDP2_CODE
+        )
+        LOG.info("Applied FSDP2 eval guard patch to evaluation_loop")
+
+    # Rename the function to avoid conflicts
+    evaluation_loop_source = evaluation_loop_source.replace(
+        "def evaluation_loop(",
+        "def axolotl_evaluation_loop(",
+        1,
+    )
+
+    # Get the module for necessary imports
+    module_name = Trainer.__module__
+    module = importlib.import_module(module_name)
+
+    # Import necessary items from the module
+    items_to_import = []
+    for item in dir(module):
+        if item in evaluation_loop_source:
+            items_to_import.append(item)
+
+    # Execute the imports and patched method
+    exec(  # pylint: disable=exec-used  # nosec B102
+        f"from {module_name} import ({', '.join(items_to_import)})",
+        globals(),
+    )
+    exec(evaluation_loop_source, globals())  # pylint: disable=exec-used  # nosec B102
+
+    LOG.info("Patched Trainer.evaluation_loop with nanmean loss calculation")
+    Trainer.evaluation_loop = (
+        axolotl_evaluation_loop  # pylint: disable=undefined-variable  # noqa: F821
+    )
+
+
+def check_maybe_log_save_evaluate_is_patchable() -> bool:
+    maybe_log_source = inspect.getsource(Trainer._maybe_log_save_evaluate)
+    return ORIGINAL_MAYBE_CODE in maybe_log_source
+
+
+# pylint: disable=protected-access
+def patch_maybe_log_save_evaluate():
+    """Patch the _maybe_log_save_evaluate method."""
+    # Check if already patched
+    if hasattr(Trainer, "_original_maybe_log_save_evaluate"):
+        LOG.info("Trainer._maybe_log_save_evaluate already patched")
+        return
+
+    # Check if the patterns exist
+    try:
+        maybe_log_source = inspect.getsource(Trainer._maybe_log_save_evaluate)
+    except OSError:
+        return
+    Trainer._original_maybe_log_save_evaluate = maybe_log_source
+    maybe_log_source, _ = detab_code(maybe_log_source)
+
+    # Apply the patch
+    maybe_log_source = maybe_log_source.replace(ORIGINAL_MAYBE_CODE, PATCHED_MAYBE_CODE)
+
+    # Rename the function to avoid conflicts
+    maybe_log_source = maybe_log_source.replace(
+        "def _maybe_log_save_evaluate(",
+        "def axolotl_maybe_log_save_evaluate(",
+        1,
+    )
+
+    # Get the module for necessary imports
+    module_name = Trainer.__module__
+    module = importlib.import_module(module_name)
+
+    # Import necessary items from the module
+    items_to_import = []
+    for item in dir(module):
+        if item in maybe_log_source:
+            items_to_import.append(item)
+
+    # Execute the imports and patched method
+    exec(  # pylint: disable=exec-used  # nosec B102
+        f"from {module_name} import ({', '.join(items_to_import)})",
+        globals(),
+    )
+    exec(maybe_log_source, globals())  # pylint: disable=exec-used  # nosec B102
+
+    LOG.info("Patched Trainer._maybe_log_save_evaluate with nanmean loss calculation")
+    Trainer._maybe_log_save_evaluate = axolotl_maybe_log_save_evaluate  # pylint: disable=undefined-variable  # noqa: F821

src/axolotl/processing_strategies.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from typing import Optional
 from PIL import Image, ImageOps
 from PIL.Image import Resampling
 from torch import Tensor, zeros_like
-from transformers import ProcessorMixin, VoxtralProcessor
+from transformers import ProcessorMixin, SmolVLMProcessor, VoxtralProcessor
 from transformers.image_utils import load_image
 
 from axolotl.utils.dict import remove_none_values
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ class ProcessingStrategy:
                     image_key = key
                     break
 
-            # if the image key exists, add the image to the first message
+            # if the image key exists, add the image to the first user message
             if image_key is not None and processed_example[image_key] is not None:
                 # TODO: check if it's normal to be single image only for common datasets
                 # From observation, it's usually a list of single image but some datasets may have several columns for images
@@ -179,26 +179,34 @@ class ProcessingStrategy:
 
                 # Look for any image type in the first message
                 # some dataset have an {type: "image"} in the first message
+                msg_ind_to_add = None
                 ind_to_add = None
+                first_user_idx = None
 
-                for i, content in enumerate(
-                    processed_example["messages"][0]["content"]
-                ):
-                    # Usually datasets created with image columns, don't have it in the messages itself
-                    if content["type"] == "image" and all(
-                        k not in content for k in ["image", "url", "path", "base64"]
+                for msg_idx, msg_content in enumerate(processed_example["messages"]):
+                    if first_user_idx is None and msg_content["role"] == "user":
+                        first_user_idx = msg_idx
+                    for i, content in enumerate(
+                        processed_example["messages"][msg_idx]["content"]
                     ):
-                        ind_to_add = i
-                        break
+                        # Usually datasets created with image columns, don't have it in the messages itself
+                        if content["type"] == "image" and all(
+                            k not in content for k in ["image", "url", "path", "base64"]
+                        ):
+                            msg_ind_to_add = msg_idx
+                            ind_to_add = i
+                            break
 
                 # If an image type is found, add the image to that index
-                if ind_to_add is not None:
-                    processed_example["messages"][0]["content"][ind_to_add][
-                        "image"
-                    ] = image_value
+                if ind_to_add is not None and msg_ind_to_add is not None:
+                    processed_example["messages"][msg_ind_to_add]["content"][
+                        ind_to_add
+                    ]["image"] = image_value
                 else:
-                    # if no image type is found, add it to end of the first message
-                    processed_example["messages"][0]["content"].append(
+                    # if no image type is found, add it to end of the first user message
+                    if first_user_idx is None:
+                        first_user_idx = 0
+                    processed_example["messages"][first_user_idx]["content"].append(
                         {
                             "type": "image",
                             "image": image_value,
@@ -395,6 +403,24 @@ class VoxtralProcessingStrategy(ProcessingStrategy):
         return labels
 
 
+class SmolVLM2ProcessingStrategy(ProcessingStrategy):
+    """Processing Strategy class for SmolVLM2"""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        processor: ProcessorMixin,
+        chat_template: Optional[str] = None,
+        image_size: int | tuple[int, int] | None = None,
+        image_resize_algorithm: Resampling | None = None,
+    ):
+        super().__init__(processor, chat_template, image_size, image_resize_algorithm)
+        self.image_token = "<image>"  # nosec
+
+        self.image_token_id = processor.tokenizer.additional_special_tokens_ids[
+            processor.tokenizer.additional_special_tokens.index(self.image_token)
+        ]
+
+
 def get_processing_strategy(
     processor: ProcessorMixin,
     chat_template,
@@ -402,32 +428,43 @@ def get_processing_strategy(
     image_size: int | tuple[int, int] | None = None,
     image_resize_algorithm: Resampling | None = None,
 ):
+    processing_kwargs = {
+        "processor": processor,
+        "chat_template": chat_template,
+        "image_size": image_size,
+        "image_resize_algorithm": image_resize_algorithm,
+    }
+
+    if chat_template_type in [None, "tokenizer_default"] and hasattr(
+        processor.tokenizer, "chat_template"
+    ):
+        processing_kwargs["chat_template"] = processor.tokenizer.chat_template
+
     if chat_template_type == "qwen2_vl":
         return Qwen2VLProcessingStrategy(
-            processor, chat_template, image_size, image_resize_algorithm
+            **processing_kwargs,
         )
     if chat_template_type == "gemma3":
         return Gemma3ProcessingStrategy(
-            processor, chat_template, image_size, image_resize_algorithm
+            **processing_kwargs,
         )
     if chat_template_type == "gemma3n":
         return Gemma3nProcessingStrategy(
-            processor, chat_template, image_size, image_resize_algorithm
-        )
-    if chat_template_type in [
-        "llama3_2_vision",
-        "llama4",
-        "llava",
-        "mistral_v7_tekken",
-        "pixtral",
-    ]:
-        return ProcessingStrategy(
-            processor, chat_template, image_size, image_resize_algorithm
+            **processing_kwargs,
         )
 
     if isinstance(processor, VoxtralProcessor):
         return VoxtralProcessingStrategy(
-            processor, chat_template, image_size, image_resize_algorithm
+            **processing_kwargs,
         )
 
-    raise ValueError(f"Unsupported chat template type: {chat_template_type}")
+    if isinstance(processor, SmolVLMProcessor):
+        return SmolVLM2ProcessingStrategy(
+            **processing_kwargs,
+        )
+
+    # llama3_2_vision, llama4, llava
+    # mistral_v7_tekken, pixtral, lfm2vl
+    return ProcessingStrategy(
+        **processing_kwargs,
+    )

src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/chat_template.py

@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ class ChatTemplatePrompter(Prompter):
         field_messages: str = "messages",
         field_system: str = "system",
         field_tools: str = "tools",
+        field_thinking: str = "reasoning_content",
         roles: dict[str, list[str]] | None = None,
+        template_thinking_key: str | None = "reasoning_content",
         chat_template_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
         drop_system_message: bool = False,
     ):
@@ -50,8 +52,9 @@ class ChatTemplatePrompter(Prompter):
             message_property_mappings = {
                 "role": "role",
                 "content": "content",
-                "reasoning_content": "reasoning_content",
             }
+            if template_thinking_key and field_thinking:
+                message_property_mappings[template_thinking_key] = field_thinking
 
         if roles:
             self.roles = {s: t for t, sources in roles.items() for s in sources}
@@ -74,10 +77,12 @@ class ChatTemplatePrompter(Prompter):
         self.field_messages = field_messages
         self.field_system = field_system
         self.field_tools = field_tools
+        self.field_thinking = field_thinking
         self.tokenizer = tokenizer
         self.processor: ProcessorMixin | None = processor
         self.chat_template = chat_template
         self.chat_template_kwargs = chat_template_kwargs or {}
+        self.template_thinking_key: str = template_thinking_key or "reasoning_content"
         self.max_length = max_length
         self.drop_system_message = drop_system_message
 
@@ -124,13 +129,21 @@ class ChatTemplatePrompter(Prompter):
                 images=images,
                 return_tensors="pt",
             )
+            if hasattr(batch, "to_dict"):
+                batch = batch.to_dict()
+            else:
+                batch = dict(batch)
+
             # workaround since processor works in batches instead of single examples
+            out = {}
             for k, val in batch.items():
-                if k in ["pixel_values"]:
-                    batch[k] = val.tolist()
+                if hasattr(val, "tolist"):
+                    out[k] = (
+                        val.tolist() if k == "pixel_values" else val.squeeze(0).tolist()
+                    )
                 else:
-                    batch[k] = val.squeeze().tolist()
-            return batch
+                    out[k] = val
+            return out
 
         return self.tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
             conversation,
@@ -428,10 +441,13 @@ class ChatTemplateStrategy(PromptTokenizingStrategy):
                 tokenized_prompt["attention_mask"] = [1] * len(input_ids)
             else:
                 input_ids = tokenized_res["input_ids"]
-                tokenized_prompt = tokenized_res
+                tokenized_prompt = dict(tokenized_res)
 
             if not self.train_on_inputs:
-                user_prompt_len = len(prompt_ids)
+                if isinstance(prompt_ids, dict):
+                    user_prompt_len = len(prompt_ids["input_ids"])
+                else:
+                    user_prompt_len = len(prompt_ids)
                 labels = [-100] * user_prompt_len + input_ids[user_prompt_len:]
             else:
                 labels = input_ids
@@ -742,7 +758,9 @@ class ChatTemplateStrategy(PromptTokenizingStrategy):
 
                     # get the thinking content
                     thinking_content = content[t_start_idx + len(tpair[0]) : t_end_idx]
-                    transformed_message["reasoning_content"] = thinking_content.strip()
+                    transformed_message[self.prompter.template_thinking_key] = (
+                        thinking_content.strip()
+                    )
 
                     # take remainder of the content
                     # strip whitespace from beginning of the remainder (thinking tokens)
@@ -953,6 +971,10 @@ class StrategyLoader:
                 None,
             ),
             "field_messages": dataset_config.get("field_messages", "messages"),
+            "field_thinking": dataset_config.get("field_thinking", "reasoning_content"),
+            "template_thinking_key": dataset_config.get(
+                "template_thinking_key", "reasoning_content"
+            ),
             "roles": dataset_config.get("roles"),
             "drop_system_message": dataset_config.get("drop_system_message", False),
             # we need to add one for detecting sequences with exceeding the `sequence_len` limit.

src/axolotl/train.py

@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import importlib
 import inspect
+import json
 import os
+import shutil
 import signal
 import sys
 import typing
 import weakref
+from collections import OrderedDict
 from contextlib import ExitStack
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Dict
@@ -38,6 +41,7 @@ from axolotl.utils.distributed import cleanup_distributed
 from axolotl.utils.freeze import freeze_layers_except
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
 from axolotl.utils.schemas.enums import RLType
+from axolotl.utils.train import determine_last_checkpoint
 from axolotl.utils.trainer import setup_trainer
 
 try:
@@ -46,7 +50,7 @@ except ImportError:
     BetterTransformer = None
 
 if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from axolotl.core.trainer_builder import HFCausalTrainerBuilder, HFRLTrainerBuilder
+    from axolotl.core.builders import HFCausalTrainerBuilder, HFRLTrainerBuilder
 
 LOG = get_logger(__name__)
 
@@ -124,32 +128,6 @@ def setup_reference_model(
     return model_ref
 
 
-def determine_resume_checkpoint(cfg: DictDefault) -> str | None:
-    """
-    Determine the checkpoint to resume from based on configuration.
-
-    Args:
-        cfg: Dictionary mapping `axolotl` config keys to values.
-
-    Returns:
-        Path to the checkpoint to resume from, or `None` if not resuming.
-    """
-    if cfg.resume_from_checkpoint is None and cfg.auto_resume_from_checkpoints:
-        possible_checkpoints = [
-            str(cp) for cp in Path(cfg.output_dir).glob("checkpoint-*")
-        ]
-        if len(possible_checkpoints) > 0:
-            sorted_paths = sorted(
-                possible_checkpoints,
-                key=lambda path: int(path.split("-")[-1]),
-            )
-            cfg.resume_from_checkpoint = sorted_paths[-1]
-            LOG.info(
-                f"Using Auto-resume functionality to start with checkpoint at {cfg.resume_from_checkpoint}"
-            )
-    return cfg.resume_from_checkpoint
-
-
 def setup_signal_handler(
     cfg: DictDefault, model: PreTrainedModel, safe_serialization: bool
 ):
@@ -218,6 +196,7 @@ def execute_training(
                     ring_attn_func=cfg.ring_attn_func,
                     heads_k_stride=cfg.heads_k_stride,
                     gather_outputs=cfg.rl is RLType.GRPO,
+                    device_mesh=trainer.accelerator.torch_device_mesh,
                 )
             )
 
@@ -274,19 +253,56 @@ def save_trained_model(
             # final model weights have already been saved by `ReLoRACallback.on_train_end`
             return
 
-    if trainer.is_fsdp_enabled:
+    if trainer.is_fsdp_enabled or cfg.fsdp_config:
         if cfg.fsdp_config or cfg.fsdp:
             if cfg.fsdp_config.final_state_dict_type:
                 state_dict_type = cfg.fsdp_config.final_state_dict_type
             else:
                 state_dict_type = cfg.fsdp_config.state_dict_type
             trainer.accelerator.state.fsdp_plugin.set_state_dict_type(state_dict_type)
-        trainer.save_model(cfg.output_dir)
+        trainer.save_model(cfg.output_dir)  # only handles FULL_STATE_DICT
         if state_dict_type == "SHARDED_STATE_DICT":
             LOG.info(
                 "The final model was saved with a sharded state dict. Please ensure you merge "
                 "the sharded weights with `merge-sharded-fsdp-weights`."
             )
+            checkpoint_dir = determine_last_checkpoint(cfg, update=False)
+            if (
+                not (Path(cfg.output_dir) / "model.safetensors.index.json").exists()
+                and checkpoint_dir
+            ):
+                # import here to prevent circular import
+                from axolotl.cli.merge_sharded_fsdp_weights import merge_fsdp_weights
+
+                fsdp_dir = Path(checkpoint_dir) / "pytorch_model_fsdp_0"
+                merged_path = str(Path(cfg.output_dir) / "merged")
+                merge_fsdp_weights(
+                    checkpoint_dir=str(fsdp_dir),
+                    output_path=merged_path,
+                    safe_serialization=True,
+                )
+                trainer.accelerator.wait_for_everyone()
+                if trainer.accelerator.is_main_process:
+                    # move all files in merged_path to cfg.output_dir
+                    for merged_file in Path(merged_path).iterdir():
+                        shutil.move(str(merged_file), cfg.output_dir)
+                    shutil.rmtree(merged_path)  # remove what should be an empty dir
+        # TODO(wing):see https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/40207
+        # cleanup the FSDP prefix in the model config.json
+        if trainer.accelerator.is_main_process:
+            with open(
+                Path(cfg.output_dir) / "config.json", "r", encoding="utf-8"
+            ) as config_file_io:
+                # read the model config as an OrderedDict
+                config = json.load(config_file_io, object_pairs_hook=OrderedDict)
+                config["architectures"] = [
+                    name.lstrip("FSDP") for name in config["architectures"]
+                ]
+            # write the updated model config back
+            with open(
+                os.path.join(cfg.output_dir, "config.json"), "w", encoding="utf-8"
+            ) as config_file_io:
+                json.dump(config, config_file_io, indent=2)
     elif cfg.deepspeed and is_deepspeed_zero3_enabled():
         # Copied over from: https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/blob/5ae611118057232f441055f7ef9ba0b0f2b8d533/docs/source/usage_guides/deepspeed.md#saving-and-loading
         trainer.accelerator.wait_for_everyone()
@@ -563,9 +579,13 @@ def train(
     setup_model_card(cfg)
 
     # Execute the training
-    resume_from_checkpoint = determine_resume_checkpoint(cfg)
+    resume_from_checkpoint = determine_last_checkpoint(cfg)
     execute_training(cfg, trainer, resume_from_checkpoint)
 
+    # clear cache
+    if torch.cuda.is_available():
+        torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+
     # Save the trained model and cleanup
     save_trained_model(cfg, trainer, model, safe_serialization)
     create_model_card(cfg, trainer)

src/axolotl/utils/collators/batching.py

@@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ class V2BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq(DataCollatorForSeq2Seq):
     Collator for multipack specific to the using the BatchSampler
     """
 
+    squash_position_ids: bool = False
+
     def __call__(self, features, return_tensors=None):
         if not isinstance(features[0], list):
             features: List[List[dict]] = [features]
@@ -176,6 +178,15 @@ class V2BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq(DataCollatorForSeq2Seq):
                         if feature in item
                     ]
                     out_features[i][feature] = np.concatenate(arrays)
+                elif feature == "position_ids" and self.squash_position_ids:
+                    arrays = [
+                        np.array(item[feature]) for item in features_ if feature in item
+                    ]
+                    # concatenate, get total length and create arange of new total position ids
+                    position_ids = np.concatenate(arrays)
+                    total_length = position_ids.shape[0]
+                    position_ids = np.arange(total_length)
+                    out_features[i][feature] = position_ids
                 else:
                     arrays = [
                         np.array(item[feature]) for item in features_ if feature in item

src/axolotl/utils/collators/mm_chat.py

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ Collators for multi-modal chat messages and packing
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from typing import Any, Optional, Union
 
-import torch
 from torch import Tensor
 from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizerBase
 from transformers.data.data_collator import DataCollatorMixin
@@ -42,62 +41,19 @@ class MultiModalChatDataCollator(DataCollatorMixin):
         examples = self.processing_strategy(examples)
 
         # Initialize batch
-        batch: dict[str, Any] = {}
+        messages = [ex["messages"] for ex in examples]
 
-        # Process each example
-        for example in examples:
-            # Apply chat template to process the example
-            # This method requires transformers>=4.49.0
-            result = self.processing_strategy.processor.apply_chat_template(
-                example["messages"],
-                add_generation_prompt=False,
-                tokenize=True,
-                return_tensors="pt",
-                padding=True,
-                return_dict=True,
-                chat_template=self.processing_strategy.chat_template,
-            )
-
-            # TODO: Check if need handling for len(input_ids) > sequence_len
-
-            # Add the processed tensors to our batch
-            for key in result.keys():
-                if key not in batch:
-                    batch[key] = []
-
-                batch[key].append(result[key].squeeze(0))
-
-        # Pad sequences to the same length
-        input_ids = torch.nn.utils.rnn.pad_sequence(
-            batch["input_ids"],
-            batch_first=True,
-            padding_value=self.tokenizer.pad_token_id,
+        batch = self.processing_strategy.processor.apply_chat_template(
+            messages,
+            add_generation_prompt=False,
+            tokenize=True,
+            return_tensors="pt",
+            padding=True,
+            return_dict=True,
+            chat_template=self.processing_strategy.chat_template,
         )
 
-        attention_mask = torch.nn.utils.rnn.pad_sequence(
-            batch["attention_mask"], batch_first=True, padding_value=0
-        )
-
-        # Create the final batch
-        final_batch = {
-            "input_ids": input_ids,
-            "attention_mask": attention_mask,
-        }
-
-        for key, val in batch.items():
-            if key in ["input_ids", "attention_mask"]:
-                continue
-
-            if key in ["token_type_ids", "cross_attention_mask"]:
-                final_batch[key] = torch.nn.utils.rnn.pad_sequence(
-                    val, batch_first=True, padding_value=0
-                )
-            else:
-                final_batch[key] = torch.stack(val)
-
         # Process the labels
-        final_batch["labels"] = self.processing_strategy.process_labels(
-            final_batch["input_ids"]
-        )
+        batch["labels"] = self.processing_strategy.process_labels(batch["input_ids"])
 
-        return final_batch
+        return batch

src/axolotl/utils/ctx_managers/sequence_parallel.py

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ import inspect
 
 import torch
 import torch.distributed as dist
-from accelerate import PartialState
 from torch import nn
+from torch.distributed import DeviceMesh
 from torch.utils.hooks import RemovableHandle
 from transformers.modeling_outputs import CausalLMOutputWithPast
 from transformers.utils import ModelOutput
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ class SequenceParallelContextManager:
         ring_attn_func: RingAttnFunc,
         heads_k_stride: int | None,
         gather_outputs: bool,
+        device_mesh: DeviceMesh | None = None,
     ):
         self.models = models
         self.context_parallel_size = context_parallel_size
@@ -201,6 +202,7 @@ class SequenceParallelContextManager:
         self.ring_attn_func = ring_attn_func
         self.heads_k_stride = heads_k_stride
         self.gather_outputs = gather_outputs
+        self.device_mesh = device_mesh
 
         self._register_ring_attn()
 
@@ -240,9 +242,8 @@ class SequenceParallelContextManager:
 
     def _register_ring_attn(self):
         # Initialize ring attn for sequence parallelism
-        partial_state = PartialState()
         register_ring_attn_from_device_mesh(
-            device_mesh=partial_state.device_mesh,
+            device_mesh=self.device_mesh,
             context_parallel_dim=("cp",),
             heads_k_stride=self.heads_k_stride,
             ring_attn_func=self.ring_attn_func,

src/axolotl/utils/data/sft.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 """Data handling specific to SFT."""
 
 import functools
+import os
 import tempfile
 from typing import Literal
 
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ from axolotl.utils.data.shared import (
 )
 from axolotl.utils.data.utils import (
     deduplicate_and_log_datasets,
-    drop_long_seq_in_dataset,
+    handle_long_seq_in_dataset,
     retry_on_request_exceptions,
 )
 from axolotl.utils.data.wrappers import get_dataset_wrapper
@@ -104,6 +105,9 @@ def _prepare_standard_dataset(
     finally:
         loader.cleanup()
 
+    if os.environ.get("AXOLOTL_IS_PREPROCESS") == "1":
+        return train_dataset, eval_dataset, -1, prompters
+
     # Validate sample packing configuration for evaluation
     if eval_dataset and cfg.sample_packing and cfg.eval_sample_packing is not False:
         total_eval_steps = calculate_total_num_steps(cfg, eval_dataset, update=False)
@@ -335,9 +339,9 @@ def _load_raw_datasets(
 
     if not cfg.skip_prepare_dataset:
         if split == "test" and cfg.eval_sequence_len:
-            dataset = drop_long_seq_in_dataset(dataset, cfg.eval_sequence_len, cfg)
+            dataset = handle_long_seq_in_dataset(dataset, cfg.eval_sequence_len, cfg)
         else:
-            dataset = drop_long_seq_in_dataset(dataset, cfg.sequence_len, cfg)
+            dataset = handle_long_seq_in_dataset(dataset, cfg.sequence_len, cfg)
         if cfg.sample_packing:
             dataset, _ = process_datasets_for_packing(cfg, dataset, None)
 

src/axolotl/utils/data/utils.py

@@ -148,7 +148,36 @@ def deduplicate_and_log_datasets(
     return dataset, other_dataset
 
 
-def drop_long_seq_in_dataset(
+def truncate_long_seq(sample, sequence_len=2048, min_sequence_len=2):
+    """
+    Truncate samples whose sequence length is too long (> sequence_len)
+    or drop those too short (< min_sequence_len).
+    """
+    min_sequence_len = min_sequence_len or 2
+
+    input_ids = sample["input_ids"]
+    results = []
+
+    # Batched (input_ids is a list of lists)
+    for i, seq in enumerate(input_ids):
+        length = len(seq)
+        if length < min_sequence_len:
+            results.append(False)
+        elif length > sequence_len:
+            sample["input_ids"][i] = seq[:sequence_len]
+            if "attention_mask" in sample:
+                sample["attention_mask"][i] = sample["attention_mask"][i][:sequence_len]
+            if "labels" in sample:
+                sample["labels"][i] = sample["labels"][i][:sequence_len]
+            if "position_ids" in sample:
+                sample["position_ids"][i] = sample["position_ids"][i][:sequence_len]
+            results.append(True)
+        else:
+            results.append(True)
+    return results
+
+
+def handle_long_seq_in_dataset(
     dataset: Dataset, sequence_len: int, cfg: DictDefault
 ) -> Dataset:
     """Remove sequences longer than configured maximum from dataset.
@@ -192,8 +221,21 @@ def drop_long_seq_in_dataset(
     if filter_map_kwargs:
         drop_long_kwargs["desc"] = f"Dropping Long Sequences (>{sequence_len})"
 
+    excess_length_strategy = (cfg.excess_length_strategy or "drop").lower()
+    if excess_length_strategy == "truncate":
+        process_fn = functools.partial(
+            truncate_long_seq,
+            sequence_len=sequence_len,
+            min_sequence_len=cfg.min_sample_len,
+        )
+        drop_long_kwargs["desc"] = (
+            f"Truncating/Filtering Sequences (target_len={sequence_len})"
+        )
+    else:
+        process_fn = drop_long
+
     dataset = dataset.filter(
-        drop_long,
+        process_fn,
         batched=True,
         **filter_map_kwargs,
         **drop_long_kwargs,
@@ -201,6 +243,11 @@ def drop_long_seq_in_dataset(
     if prior_len:
         dropped = prior_len - len(dataset)
         if dropped:
-            LOG.warning(f"Dropped {dropped} long samples from dataset")
+            action = (
+                "truncated/filtered"
+                if excess_length_strategy == "truncate"
+                else "dropped"
+            )
+            LOG.warning(f"{action.title()} {dropped} samples from dataset")
 
     return dataset

src/axolotl/utils/distributed.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from datetime import timedelta
 import torch
 import torch.distributed as dist
 from accelerate import PartialState
+from accelerate.utils import ParallelismConfig
 from transformers.utils.import_utils import (
     is_torch_cuda_available,
     is_torch_mps_available,
@@ -50,7 +51,10 @@ def init_distributed_state():
     global distributed_state  # pylint: disable=global-statement
     if distributed_state is None:
         timeout = int(os.environ.get("AXOLOTL_NCCL_TIMEOUT", 1800))
-        distributed_state = PartialState(timeout=timedelta(seconds=timeout))
+        try:
+            distributed_state = PartialState(timeout=timedelta(seconds=timeout))
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
 
 
 def get_distributed_state() -> PartialState | None:
@@ -290,3 +294,77 @@ def reduce_and_broadcast(fn1, fn2):
     # Use compute_and_broadcast to compute the reduced value on the main process
     # and then broadcast it to all ranks
     return compute_and_broadcast(lambda: fn2(gathered_values))
+
+
+def build_parallelism_config(cfg):
+    pc_kwargs = _get_parallel_config_kwargs(
+        get_world_size(),
+        cfg.tensor_parallel_size,
+        cfg.context_parallel_size,
+        cfg.dp_shard_size,
+        cfg.dp_replicate_size,
+        bool(cfg.fsdp or cfg.fsdp_config),
+    )
+
+    if pc_kwargs:
+        parallelism_config = ParallelismConfig(
+            **pc_kwargs,
+        )
+        device_mesh = parallelism_config.build_device_mesh("cuda")
+
+        return parallelism_config, device_mesh
+    return None, None
+
+
+def _get_parallel_config_kwargs(
+    world_size: int,
+    tensor_parallel_size: int = 1,
+    context_parallel_size: int = 1,
+    dp_shard_size: int | None = None,
+    dp_replicate_size: int | None = None,
+    is_fsdp: bool = False,
+):
+    pc_kwargs = {}
+    remaining_world_size = world_size
+
+    if tensor_parallel_size and tensor_parallel_size > 1:
+        pc_kwargs["tp_size"] = tensor_parallel_size
+        remaining_world_size = remaining_world_size // tensor_parallel_size
+
+    if context_parallel_size and context_parallel_size > 1:
+        pc_kwargs["cp_size"] = context_parallel_size
+        remaining_world_size = remaining_world_size // context_parallel_size
+
+    if dp_shard_size is None and dp_replicate_size in (None, 1):
+        if remaining_world_size > 1:
+            pc_kwargs["dp_shard_size"] = remaining_world_size
+            remaining_world_size = 1
+
+    if dp_replicate_size and dp_replicate_size > 1:
+        pc_kwargs["dp_replicate_size"] = dp_replicate_size
+        remaining_world_size = remaining_world_size // dp_replicate_size
+
+    if remaining_world_size > 1 and dp_shard_size and dp_shard_size > 1:
+        if not is_fsdp:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "dp_shard_size was configured without a corresponding fsdp_config! "
+                "Please ensure you have configured FSDP using fsdp_config."
+            )
+        pc_kwargs["dp_shard_size"] = dp_shard_size
+        remaining_world_size = remaining_world_size // dp_shard_size
+        if remaining_world_size > 1 and "dp_replicate_size" not in pc_kwargs:
+            pc_kwargs["dp_replicate_size"] = remaining_world_size
+            remaining_world_size = 1
+
+    if remaining_world_size > 1:
+        if "dp_shard_size" not in pc_kwargs and is_fsdp:
+            pc_kwargs["dp_shard_size"] = remaining_world_size
+            remaining_world_size = 1
+
+    if remaining_world_size > 1:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"The configured parallelisms are incompatible with the current world size ({get_world_size()})!\n"
+            f"{pc_kwargs}"
+        )
+
+    return pc_kwargs

src/axolotl/utils/import_helper.py

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+"""
+Helper for importing modules from strings
+"""
+
+import importlib
+
+
+def get_cls_from_module_str(module_str: str):
+    # use importlib to dynamically load the reward function from the module
+    if not isinstance(module_str, str) or not module_str.strip():
+        raise ValueError("module_str must be a non-empty string")
+
+    parts = module_str.split(".")
+    if len(parts) < 2:
+        raise ValueError(f"Invalid module string format: {module_str}")
+
+    try:
+        cls_name = parts[-1]
+        module_path = ".".join(parts[:-1])
+        mod = importlib.import_module(module_path)
+        mod_cls = getattr(mod, cls_name)
+        return mod_cls
+    except ImportError as e:
+        raise ImportError(f"Failed to import module '{module_path}': {e}") from e
+    except AttributeError as e:
+        raise AttributeError(
+            f"Class '{cls_name}' not found in module '{module_path}': {e}"
+        ) from e

src/axolotl/utils/schedulers.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import math
 from functools import partial
 from typing import Sequence
 
+from torch import Tensor
 from torch.optim import Optimizer
 from torch.optim.lr_scheduler import LambdaLR, LRScheduler
 
@@ -45,8 +46,10 @@ class RexLR(LRScheduler):
 
         # Ensure each parameter group has an "initial_lr" key to avoid issues when resuming.
         for group in optimizer.param_groups:
-            group.setdefault("initial_lr", group["lr"])
-
+            initial_lr = group["lr"]
+            if isinstance(initial_lr, Tensor):
+                initial_lr = initial_lr.clone()
+            group.setdefault("initial_lr", initial_lr)
         # Pass self.last_step as last_epoch to the parent.
         super().__init__(optimizer, last_epoch=self.last_step)
 

src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py

@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
         },
     )
 
+    trainer_cls: str | None = Field(
+        default=None,
+        json_schema_extra={
+            "description": "module to custom trainer class to use for training"
+        },
+    )
+
     rl: RLType | None = Field(
         default=None,
         json_schema_extra={
@@ -407,6 +414,12 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
             "description": "The maximum length of an input to train with, this should typically be less than 2048 as most models have a token/context limit of 2048"
         },
     )
+    excess_length_strategy: Literal["drop", "truncate"] | None = Field(
+        default=None,
+        json_schema_extra={
+            "description": "What to do when a tokenized row exceeds sequence_len. 'drop' removes the row; 'truncate' slices tensors to sequence_len. Defaults to 'drop' for backward compatibility."
+        },
+    )
     eval_sequence_len: int | None = Field(
         default=None,
         json_schema_extra={
@@ -531,12 +544,6 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
             "description": "Whether to use flash-attention rms norm implementation - advanced use only"
         },
     )
-    flash_attn_fuse_qkv: bool | None = Field(
-        default=None,
-        json_schema_extra={
-            "description": "Whether to fuse QKV into a single operation"
-        },
-    )
     flash_attn_fuse_mlp: bool | None = Field(
         default=None,
         json_schema_extra={
@@ -550,6 +557,13 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
 
     eager_attention: bool | None = None
 
+    attn_implementation: str | None = Field(
+        default=None,
+        json_schema_extra={
+            "description": "Specify a custom attention implementation, used mostly for kernels."
+        },
+    )
+
     unsloth_cross_entropy_loss: bool | None = None
     unsloth_lora_mlp: bool | None = None
     unsloth_lora_qkv: bool | None = None

src/axolotl/utils/schemas/datasets.py

@@ -118,6 +118,18 @@ class SFTDataset(BaseModel):
             "description": 'Key containing the tools (default: "tools"). Must be a list[dict] and follow [JSON schema](https://json-schema.org/learn/getting-started-step-by-step).'
         },
     )
+    field_thinking: str | None = Field(
+        default=None,
+        json_schema_extra={
+            "description": 'Key containing the reasoning trace (default: "reasoning_content").'
+        },
+    )
+    template_thinking_key: str | None = Field(
+        default=None,
+        json_schema_extra={
+            "description": "The key the chat template expects that indicates the reasoning trace."
+        },
+    )
     # deprecated, use message_property_mappings
     message_field_role: str | None = None
     # deprecated, use message_property_mappings

src/axolotl/utils/schemas/enums.py

@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ class CustomSupportedOptimizers(str, Enum):
     adopt_adamw = "adopt_adamw"
     came_pytorch = "came_pytorch"
     muon = "muon"
+    dion = "dion"
 
 
 class RingAttnFunc(str, Enum):

src/axolotl/utils/schemas/model.py

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 """Pydantic models for model input / output, etc. configuration"""
 
+from typing import Any, Literal
+
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, field_validator
 
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
@@ -62,6 +64,28 @@ class ModelInputConfig(BaseModel):
         json_schema_extra={"description": "Trust remote code for untrusted source"},
     )
 
+    experimental_skip_move_to_device: bool | None = Field(
+        default=None,
+        json_schema_extra={
+            "description": "Don't move the model to the device before sharding. "
+            "This is an experimental feature that may be included in the future as the default."
+        },
+    )
+
+    use_kernels: bool | None = Field(
+        default=None,
+        json_schema_extra={"description": "Use custom kernels, e.g. MegaBlocks."},
+    )
+
+    model_quantization_config: Literal["Mxfp4Config"] | None = Field(
+        default=None,
+        json_schema_extra={"description": "Model loading quantization config"},
+    )
+    model_quantization_config_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = Field(
+        default=None,
+        json_schema_extra={"description": "kwargs for model quantization config"},
+    )
+
     @field_validator("trust_remote_code")
     @classmethod
     def hint_trust_remote_code(cls, trust_remote_code):