config fix -___-

.github/workflows/base.yml

@@ -40,12 +40,6 @@ jobs:
             python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.6.0
             torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
-          - 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"
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -67,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: docker/build-push-action@v4
         with:
           context: .
-          file: ${{ matrix.pytorch == 'nightly' && './docker/Dockerfile-base-nightly' || './docker/Dockerfile-base' }}
+          file: ./docker/Dockerfile-base
           push: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
           tags: ${{ steps.metadata.outputs.tags }}-base-py${{ matrix.python_version }}-cu${{ matrix.cuda }}-${{ matrix.pytorch }}${{ matrix.axolotl_extras != '' && '-' || '' }}${{ matrix.axolotl_extras }}
           labels: ${{ steps.metadata.outputs.labels }}

.github/workflows/pypi.yml

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
-          pip3 install wheel packaging==23.2
+          pip3 install wheel packaging
           pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e .
           pip3 install -r requirements-dev.txt -r requirements-tests.txt
 

.github/workflows/tests-nightly.yml

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: upgrade pip
         run: |
           pip3 install --upgrade pip
-          pip3 install --upgrade packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel
+          pip3 install --upgrade packaging setuptools wheel
 
       - name: Install PyTorch
         run: |
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           pip3 install --upgrade pip
-          pip3 install --upgrade packaging==23.2
+          pip3 install --upgrade packaging
           pip3 install --no-build-isolation -U -e .
           python scripts/unsloth_install.py | sh
           python scripts/cutcrossentropy_install.py | sh

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: upgrade pip
         run: |
           pip3 install --upgrade pip
-          pip3 install --upgrade packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel
+          pip3 install --upgrade packaging setuptools wheel
 
       - name: Install PyTorch
         run: |
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: upgrade pip
         run: |
           pip3 install --upgrade pip
-          pip3 install --upgrade packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 setuptools_scm build wheel
+          pip3 install --upgrade packaging setuptools setuptools_scm build wheel
 
       - name: Install PyTorch
         run: |

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ repos:
     rev: 6.1.0
     hooks:
     - id: flake8
--   repo: https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint
+-   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint
-    rev: c8c96d20cde3552a79858c7456bb1483bf83d633
+    rev: v3.3.0
     hooks:
     - id: pylint
 -   repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy

README.md

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Features:
 ### Installation
 
 ```bash
-pip3 install -U packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel ninja
+pip3 install -U packaging setuptools wheel ninja
 pip3 install --no-build-isolation axolotl[flash-attn,deepspeed]
 
 # Download example axolotl configs, deepspeed configs

cicd/Dockerfile.jinja

@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ RUN if [ "$NIGHTLY_BUILD" = "true" ] ; then \
         sed -i 's#^datasets.*#datasets @ git+https://github.com/huggingface/datasets.git@main#' requirements.txt; \
     fi
 
-RUN pip install packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0
 RUN if [ "$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS" != "" ] ; then \
         pip install --no-build-isolation -e .[deepspeed,flash-attn,optimizers,ray,$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS] $AXOLOTL_ARGS; \
     else \

docker/Dockerfile-base

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ ENV PATH="/root/miniconda3/envs/py${PYTHON_VERSION}/bin:${PATH}"
 
 WORKDIR /workspace
 
-RUN python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip && pip3 install -U packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel && \
+RUN python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip && pip3 install packaging && \
     python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -U torch==${PYTORCH_VERSION}+cu${CUDA} --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" && \
     python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir "mamba_ssm @ git+https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba.git@main"

docker/Dockerfile-base-nightly

@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-ARG CUDA_VERSION="12.8.1"
-ARG CUDNN_VERSION="8"
-ARG UBUNTU_VERSION="22.04"
-ARG MAX_JOBS=4
-
-FROM nvidia/cuda:$CUDA_VERSION-cudnn$CUDNN_VERSION-devel-ubuntu$UBUNTU_VERSION AS base-builder
-
-ENV PATH="/root/miniconda3/bin:${PATH}"
-
-ARG PYTHON_VERSION="3.11"
-ARG PYTORCH_VERSION="nightly"
-ARG CUDA="128"
-ARG TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST="7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 9.0+PTX"
-
-ENV PYTHON_VERSION=$PYTHON_VERSION
-ENV TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST=$TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST
-
-RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y wget git build-essential ninja-build git-lfs libaio-dev pkg-config && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
-    && wget \
-    https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh \
-    && mkdir /root/.conda \
-    && bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -b \
-    && rm -f Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh \
-    && conda create -n "py${PYTHON_VERSION}" python="${PYTHON_VERSION}"
-
-ENV PATH="/root/miniconda3/envs/py${PYTHON_VERSION}/bin:${PATH}"
-
-WORKDIR /workspace
-
-RUN python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip && pip3 install packaging && \
-    python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -U torch --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu$CUDA && \
-    python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir "causal_conv1d @ git+https://github.com/Dao-AILab/causal-conv1d.git@main" && \
-    python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir "mamba_ssm @ git+https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba.git@main"
-
-RUN git lfs install --skip-repo && \
-    pip3 install awscli && \
-    # The base image ships with `pydantic==1.8.2` which is not working
-    pip3 install -U --no-cache-dir pydantic==1.10.10

examples/llama-3/qlora-1b-kto.yaml

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ tf32: true
 
 gradient_checkpointing: true
 gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
-  use_reentrant: true
+  use_reentrant: false
 early_stopping_patience:
 resume_from_checkpoint:
 local_rank:

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=64", "wheel", "setuptools_scm>=8", "packaging==23.2"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=64", "wheel", "setuptools_scm>=8"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ dynamic = ["version", "dependencies", "optional-dependencies"]
 description = "LLM Trainer"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
-# license = "Apache-2.0"
 
 [project.scripts]
 axolotl = "axolotl.cli.main:main"

requirements.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --extra-index-url https://huggingface.github.io/autogptq-index/whl/cu118/
 
 # START section of dependencies that don't install on Darwin/MacOS
-bitsandbytes==0.45.3
+bitsandbytes==0.45.2
 triton>=3.0.0
 mamba-ssm==1.2.0.post1
 flash-attn==2.7.4.post1
@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ liger-kernel==0.5.3
 
 packaging==23.2
 
-peft==0.15.0
+peft==0.14.0
 transformers==4.49.0
-tokenizers>=0.21.1
+tokenizers>=0.21.0
-accelerate==1.5.2
+accelerate==1.3.0
-datasets==3.4.1
+datasets==3.2.0
-deepspeed==0.16.4
+deepspeed==0.16.1
 trl==0.15.1
 
 optimum==1.16.2

scripts/cutcrossentropy_install.py

@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ if v < V("2.4.0"):
 
 cce_spec = importlib.util.find_spec("cut_cross_entropy")
 
-uninstall_prefix = ""
+UNINSTALL_PREFIX = ""
 if cce_spec:
     if not importlib.util.find_spec("cut_cross_entropy.transformers"):
-        uninstall_prefix = "pip uninstall -y cut-cross-entropy && "
+        UNINSTALL_PREFIX = "pip uninstall -y cut-cross-entropy && "
 
 print(
-    uninstall_prefix
+    UNINSTALL_PREFIX
     + 'pip install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/apple/ml-cross-entropy.git@24fbe4b5dab9a6c250a014573613c1890190536c"'
 )

setup.py

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ setup(
             "flash-attn==2.7.4.post1",
         ],
         "deepspeed": [
-            "deepspeed==0.16.4",
+            "deepspeed==0.16.1",
             "deepspeed-kernels",
         ],
         "mamba-ssm": [

src/axolotl/utils/config/models/input/v0_4_1/__init__.py

@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ class HyperparametersConfig(BaseModel):
     weight_decay: Optional[float] = 0.0
     optimizer: Optional[
         Union[OptimizerNames, CustomSupportedOptimizers]
-    ] = OptimizerNames.ADAMW_TORCH_FUSED
+    ] = OptimizerNames.ADAMW_HF
     optim_args: Optional[Union[str, Dict[str, Any]]] = Field(
         default=None,
         json_schema_extra={"description": "Optional arguments to supply to optimizer."},
@@ -1679,6 +1679,30 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
 
         return data
 
+    @model_validator(mode="before")
+    @classmethod
+    def check_rl_config_gradient_checkpointing(cls, data):
+        # TODO: SalmanMohammadi
+        # Distributed RL with QLoRA + gradient checkpointing
+        # and use_reentrant = True is broken upstream in TRL
+        # pylint: disable=too-many-boolean-expressions
+        if (
+            data.get("rl")
+            and data.get("gradient_checkpointing")
+            and data.get("gradient_checkpointing_kwargs")
+            and data.get("gradient_checkpointing_kwargs").get("use_reentrant")
+            and data.get("load_in_4bit")
+            and data.get("adapter") == "qlora"
+            and data.get("capabilities")
+            and data.get("capabilities").get("n_gpu", 1) > 1
+        ):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "The `use_reentrant: True` implementation of gradient checkpointing "
+                "is not supported for distributed RL training with QLoRA. Please set "
+                "`use_reentrant: False` in `gradient_checkpointing_kwargs`."
+            )
+        return data
+
     @model_validator(mode="before")
     @classmethod
     def check_kto_config(cls, data):
@@ -1689,15 +1713,6 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
             if data.get("remove_unused_columns") is not False:
                 raise ValueError("Set `remove_unused_columns: False` when using kto")
 
-            if data.get("gradient_checkpointing") and not (
-                data.get("gradient_checkpointing_kwargs")
-                and isinstance(data.get("gradient_checkpointing_kwargs"), dict)
-                and data["gradient_checkpointing_kwargs"].get("use_reentrant")
-            ):
-                raise ValueError(
-                    "Set `gradient_checkpointing_kwargs: {use_reentrant: true}` for when kto is enabled"
-                )
-
         return data
 
 

src/axolotl/utils/data/sft.py

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import functools
 import logging
-import os
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
@@ -345,7 +344,6 @@ def load_tokenized_prepared_datasets(
                 )
                 ds_from_iter.save_to_disk(str(prepared_ds_path))
             else:
-                os.makedirs(prepared_ds_path, exist_ok=True)
                 dataset.save_to_disk(str(prepared_ds_path))
             if cfg.push_dataset_to_hub:
                 LOG.info(

tests/conftest.py

@@ -108,12 +108,6 @@ def download_arcee_ai_distilabel_intel_orca_dpo_pairs_dataset():
     )
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(scope="session", autouse=True)
-def download_tiny_shakespeare_dataset():
-    # download the dataset
-    snapshot_download_w_retry("Trelis/tiny-shakespeare", repo_type="dataset")
-
-
 @pytest.fixture
 def temp_dir():
     # Create a temporary directory

tests/e2e/solo/test_relora_llama.py

@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ class TestReLoraLlama(unittest.TestCase):
                 "lora_alpha": 16,
                 "lora_dropout": 0.05,
                 "lora_target_modules": ["q_proj", "v_proj"],
-                "relora_steps": 50,
+                "relora_steps": 100,
-                "relora_warmup_steps": 10,
+                "relora_warmup_steps": 20,
                 "relora_anneal_steps": 10,
                 "relora_prune_ratio": 0.9,
                 "relora_cpu_offload": True,
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ class TestReLoraLlama(unittest.TestCase):
                         "message_field_content": "value",
                     },
                 ],
-                "warmup_steps": 10,
+                "warmup_steps": 20,
                 "num_epochs": 2,
-                "max_steps": 105,  # at least 2x relora_steps
+                "max_steps": 205,  # at least 2x relora_steps
                 "micro_batch_size": 2,
                 "gradient_accumulation_steps": 1,
                 "output_dir": temp_dir,

tests/test_datasets.py

@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ import tempfile
 import unittest
 from pathlib import Path
 
-from conftest import snapshot_download_w_retry
 from constants import (
     ALPACA_MESSAGES_CONFIG_OG,
     ALPACA_MESSAGES_CONFIG_REVISION,
     SPECIAL_TOKENS,
 )
 from datasets import Dataset
+from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer
 
 from axolotl.utils.data import load_tokenized_prepared_datasets
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ class TestDatasetPreparation(unittest.TestCase):
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp_dir:
             tmp_ds_path = Path(tmp_dir) / "mhenrichsen/alpaca_2k_test"
             tmp_ds_path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-            snapshot_download_w_retry(
+            snapshot_download(
                 repo_id="mhenrichsen/alpaca_2k_test",
                 repo_type="dataset",
                 local_dir=tmp_ds_path,
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class TestDatasetPreparation(unittest.TestCase):
             # how to load it.
             cfg = DictDefault(
                 {
-                    "tokenizer_config": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M",
+                    "tokenizer_config": "huggyllama/llama-7b",
                     "sequence_len": 1024,
                     "datasets": [
                         {
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ class TestDatasetPreparation(unittest.TestCase):
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp_dir:
             tmp_ds_path = Path(tmp_dir) / "mhenrichsen/alpaca_2k_test"
             tmp_ds_path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-            snapshot_download_w_retry(
+            snapshot_download(
                 repo_id="mhenrichsen/alpaca_2k_test",
                 repo_type="dataset",
                 local_dir=tmp_ds_path,
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ class TestDatasetPreparation(unittest.TestCase):
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp_dir:
             tmp_ds_path = Path(tmp_dir) / "mhenrichsen/alpaca_2k_test"
             tmp_ds_path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-            snapshot_download_w_retry(
+            snapshot_download(
                 repo_id="mhenrichsen/alpaca_2k_test",
                 repo_type="dataset",
                 local_dir=tmp_ds_path,