tag for v0.15.0 release (#3470)

* install flash-linear-attention

* handle prequant weights for fsdp2 and ensure loss is not zero

* fix type for cu_seqlen, uninstall causal_conv1d

* chore: lint

* uv pip uninstall doesn't need confirmation

.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ You can skip certain CI checks by including specific keywords in your commit mes
 
 axolotl uses [{codestyle}]({URLofCodestyle}) as its code style guide. Please ensure that your code follows these guidelines.
 
+Use the pre-commit linter to ensure that your code is formatted consistently.
+```bash
+pre-commit run --all-files
+```
+
 ### Commit Messages
 
 Write clear and concise commit messages that briefly describe the changes made in each commit. Use the imperative mood and start with a capitalized verb, e.g., "Add new feature" or "Fix bug in function".

.github/workflows/base.yml

@@ -51,14 +51,30 @@ jobs:
             torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
             dockerfile: "Dockerfile-base"
             platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
-          - cuda: "129"
-            cuda_version: 12.9.1
+          - cuda: "128"
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
             cudnn_version: ""
-            python_version: "3.12"
-            pytorch: 2.9.1
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
             torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
             dockerfile: "Dockerfile-base"
             platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+          - cuda: "128"
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
+            cudnn_version: ""
+            python_version: "3.12"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
+            torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
+            dockerfile: "Dockerfile-base"
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+#          - cuda: "129"
+#            cuda_version: 12.9.1
+#            cudnn_version: ""
+#            python_version: "3.12"
+#            pytorch: 2.9.1
+#            torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
+#            dockerfile: "Dockerfile-base"
+#            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
           - cuda: "130"
             cuda_version: 13.0.0
             cudnn_version: ""
@@ -75,6 +91,14 @@ jobs:
             torch_cuda_arch_list: "9.0+PTX"
             dockerfile: "Dockerfile-base"
             platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+          - cuda: "130"
+            cuda_version: 13.0.0
+            cudnn_version: ""
+            python_version: "3.12"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
+            torch_cuda_arch_list: "9.0+PTX"
+            dockerfile: "Dockerfile-base"
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
 #          - cuda: "128"
 #            cuda_version: 12.8.1
 #            cudnn_version: ""
@@ -157,14 +181,30 @@ jobs:
             torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
             dockerfile: "Dockerfile-uv-base"
             platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
-          - cuda: "129"
-            cuda_version: 12.9.1
+          - cuda: "128"
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
             cudnn_version: ""
-            python_version: "3.12"
-            pytorch: 2.9.1
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
             torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
             dockerfile: "Dockerfile-uv-base"
             platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+          - cuda: "128"
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
+            cudnn_version: ""
+            python_version: "3.12"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
+            torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
+            dockerfile: "Dockerfile-uv-base"
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+#          - cuda: "129"
+#            cuda_version: 12.9.1
+#            cudnn_version: ""
+#            python_version: "3.12"
+#            pytorch: 2.9.1
+#            torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
+#            dockerfile: "Dockerfile-uv-base"
+#            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
           - cuda: "130"
             cuda_version: 13.0.0
             cudnn_version: ""
@@ -181,6 +221,14 @@ jobs:
             torch_cuda_arch_list: "9.0+PTX"
             dockerfile: "Dockerfile-uv-base"
             platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+          - cuda: "130"
+            cuda_version: 13.0.0
+            cudnn_version: ""
+            python_version: "3.12"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
+            torch_cuda_arch_list: "9.0+PTX"
+            dockerfile: "Dockerfile-uv-base"
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -34,16 +34,28 @@ jobs:
             axolotl_extras:
             platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
             is_latest: true
-          - cuda: 129
-            cuda_version: 12.9.1
+          - cuda: 128
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
             python_version: "3.12"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
+            axolotl_extras:
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+#          - cuda: 129
+#            cuda_version: 12.9.1
+#            python_version: "3.12"
+#            pytorch: 2.9.1
+#            axolotl_extras:
+#            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+          - cuda: 130
+            cuda_version: 13.0.0
+            python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.9.1
             axolotl_extras:
             platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
           - cuda: 130
             cuda_version: 13.0.0
-            python_version: "3.11"
-            pytorch: 2.9.1
+            python_version: "3.12"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
             axolotl_extras:
             platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
     runs-on: axolotl-gpu-runner
@@ -86,6 +98,77 @@ jobs:
             ${{ (matrix.is_latest) && format('{0}-latest', steps.metadata.outputs.tags) || '' }}
           labels: ${{ steps.metadata.outputs.labels }}
 
+  build-axolotl-uv:
+    if: ${{ ! contains(github.event.commits[0].message, '[skip docker]') && github.repository_owner == 'axolotl-ai-cloud' }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - cuda: 128
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.9.1
+            axolotl_extras:
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+            is_latest: true
+          - cuda: 128
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
+            python_version: "3.12"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
+            axolotl_extras:
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+          - cuda: 130
+            cuda_version: 13.0.0
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.9.1
+            axolotl_extras:
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+          - cuda: 130
+            cuda_version: 13.0.0
+            python_version: "3.12"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
+            axolotl_extras:
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+    runs-on: axolotl-gpu-runner
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Docker metadata
+        id: metadata
+        uses: docker/metadata-action@v5
+        with:
+          images: |
+            axolotlai/axolotl-uv
+          tags: |
+            type=ref,event=branch
+            type=pep440,pattern={{version}}
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
+      - name: Login to Docker Hub
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
+        with:
+          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
+      # guidance for testing before pushing: https://docs.docker.com/build/ci/github-actions/test-before-push/
+      - name: Build and export to Docker
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
+        with:
+          context: .
+          platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
+          build-args: |
+            BASE_TAG=${{ github.ref_type == 'tag' && 'main' || github.ref_name }}-base-py${{ matrix.python_version }}-cu${{ matrix.cuda }}-${{ matrix.pytorch }}
+            CUDA=${{ matrix.cuda }}
+            PYTORCH_VERSION=${{ matrix.pytorch }}
+            AXOLOTL_ARGS=${{ matrix.axolotl_args }}
+            AXOLOTL_EXTRAS=${{ matrix.axolotl_extras}}
+          file: ./docker/Dockerfile-uv
+          push: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
+          tags: |
+            ${{ steps.metadata.outputs.tags }}-py${{ matrix.python_version }}-cu${{ matrix.cuda }}-${{ matrix.pytorch }}${{ matrix.axolotl_extras != '' && '-' || '' }}${{ matrix.axolotl_extras }}
+            ${{ steps.metadata.outputs.tags }}-py${{ matrix.python_version }}-cu${{ matrix.cuda }}-${{ matrix.pytorch }}
+            ${{ (matrix.is_latest) && format('{0}-latest', steps.metadata.outputs.tags) || '' }}
+          labels: ${{ steps.metadata.outputs.labels }}
+
   build-axolotl-cloud:
     needs: build-axolotl
     if: ${{ ! contains(github.event.commits[0].message, '[skip docker]') && github.repository_owner == 'axolotl-ai-cloud' }}
@@ -112,16 +195,28 @@ jobs:
             axolotl_extras:
             is_latest: true
             platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
-          - cuda: 129
-            cuda_version: 12.9.1
+          - cuda: 128
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
             python_version: "3.12"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
+            axolotl_extras:
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+#          - cuda: 129
+#            cuda_version: 12.9.1
+#            python_version: "3.12"
+#            pytorch: 2.9.1
+#            axolotl_extras:
+#            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+          - cuda: 130
+            cuda_version: 13.0.0
+            python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.9.1
             axolotl_extras:
             platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
           - cuda: 130
             cuda_version: 13.0.0
-            python_version: "3.11"
-            pytorch: 2.9.1
+            python_version: "3.12"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
             axolotl_extras:
             platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
     runs-on: axolotl-gpu-runner
@@ -159,6 +254,73 @@ jobs:
              ${{ (matrix.is_latest) && format('{0}-latest', steps.metadata.outputs.tags) || '' }}
           labels: ${{ steps.metadata.outputs.labels }}
 
+  build-axolotl-cloud-uv:
+    needs: build-axolotl-uv
+    if: ${{ ! contains(github.event.commits[0].message, '[skip docker]') && github.repository_owner == 'axolotl-ai-cloud' }}
+    # this job needs to be run on self-hosted GPU runners...
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - cuda: 128
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.9.1
+            axolotl_extras:
+            is_latest: true
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+          - cuda: 128
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
+            python_version: "3.12"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
+            axolotl_extras:
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+          - cuda: 130
+            cuda_version: 13.0.0
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.9.1
+            axolotl_extras:
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+          - cuda: 130
+            cuda_version: 13.0.0
+            python_version: "3.12"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
+            axolotl_extras:
+            platforms: "linux/amd64,linux/arm64"
+    runs-on: axolotl-gpu-runner
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Docker metadata
+        id: metadata
+        uses: docker/metadata-action@v5
+        with:
+          images: |
+            axolotlai/axolotl-cloud-uv
+          tags: |
+            type=ref,event=branch
+            type=pep440,pattern={{version}}
+      - name: Login to Docker Hub
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
+        with:
+          username: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_USERNAME }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.DOCKERHUB_TOKEN }}
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
+      - name: Build
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@v5
+        with:
+          context: .
+          platforms: ${{ matrix.platforms }}
+          build-args: |
+            BASE_TAG=${{ github.ref_type == 'tag' && 'main' || github.ref_name }}-py${{ matrix.python_version }}-cu${{ matrix.cuda }}-${{ matrix.pytorch }}${{ matrix.axolotl_extras != '' && '-' || '' }}${{ matrix.axolotl_extras }}
+            CUDA=${{ matrix.cuda }}
+          file: ./docker/Dockerfile-cloud-uv
+          push: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
+          tags: |
+             ${{ steps.metadata.outputs.tags }}-py${{ matrix.python_version }}-cu${{ matrix.cuda }}-${{ matrix.pytorch }}${{ matrix.axolotl_extras != '' && '-' || '' }}${{ matrix.axolotl_extras }}
+             ${{ (matrix.is_latest) && format('{0}-latest', steps.metadata.outputs.tags) || '' }}
+          labels: ${{ steps.metadata.outputs.labels }}
+
   build-axolotl-cloud-no-tmux:
     needs: build-axolotl
     if: ${{ ! contains(github.event.commits[0].message, '[skip docker]') && github.repository_owner == 'axolotl-ai-cloud' }}

.github/workflows/multi-gpu-e2e.yml

@@ -35,12 +35,6 @@ jobs:
             pytorch: 2.8.0
             axolotl_extras: fbgemm-gpu
             num_gpus: 2
-          - cuda: 128
-            cuda_version: 12.8.1
-            python_version: "3.11"
-            pytorch: 2.9.1
-            axolotl_extras: "fbgemm-gpu"
-            num_gpus: 2
           - cuda: 129
             cuda_version: 12.9.1
             python_version: "3.12"
@@ -55,6 +49,13 @@ jobs:
             axolotl_extras:
 #            axolotl_extras: fbgemm-gpu
             num_gpus: 2
+          - cuda: 128
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
+            axolotl_extras: "fbgemm-gpu"
+            num_gpus: 2
+            dockerfile: "Dockerfile-uv.jinja"
     runs-on: [self-hosted, modal]
     timeout-minutes: 120
     steps:

.github/workflows/tests-nightly.yml

@@ -18,15 +18,27 @@ jobs:
         env:
           SKIP: no-commit-to-branch
 
+  prime-cdn-s3-cache:
+    name: Prefetch S3 once to prime the CDN cache
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: ${{ !github.event.pull_request.draft }}
+    timeout-minutes: 10
+    steps:
+      - name: Restore Cache from S3
+        id: hf-cache-restore-s3
+        run: |
+          curl -L https://axolotl-ci.b-cdn.net/hf-cache.tar.zst > /dev/null
+
   pytest:
     name: PyTest
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: [prime-cdn-s3-cache]
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       max-parallel: 2
       matrix:
-        python_version: ["3.11"]
-        pytorch_version: ["2.8.0", "2.9.0", "2.9.1"]
+        python_version: ["3.12"]  # TODO include py3.14 once https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-common/pull/194 is merged
+        pytorch_version: ["2.8.0", "2.9.1", "2.10.0"]
     timeout-minutes: 20
 
     steps:
@@ -37,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
         id: hf-cache-restore-s3
         run: |
           mkdir -p /home/runner/.cache/huggingface/hub
-          curl -L https://d1dttdx32dkk5p.cloudfront.net/hf-cache.tar.zst | tar -xf - -C /home/runner/.cache/huggingface/hub/  --use-compress-program unzstd
+          curl -L https://axolotl-ci.b-cdn.net/hf-cache.tar.zst | tar -xf - -C /home/runner/.cache/huggingface/hub/  --use-compress-program unzstd
 
       - name: Setup Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
@@ -102,16 +114,23 @@ jobs:
           - cuda: 128
             cuda_version: 12.8.1
             python_version: "3.11"
-            pytorch: 2.8.0
+            pytorch: 2.9.1
             num_gpus: 1
             axolotl_extras:
             nightly_build: "true"
           - cuda: 128
             cuda_version: 12.8.1
             python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
+            num_gpus: 1
+            axolotl_extras:
+          - cuda: 130
+            cuda_version: 13.0.0
+            python_version: "3.12"
             pytorch: 2.9.1
             num_gpus: 1
             axolotl_extras:
+            dockerfile: "Dockerfile-uv.jinja"
             nightly_build: "true"
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
@@ -132,6 +151,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "AXOLOTL_EXTRAS=${{ matrix.axolotl_extras}}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "CUDA=${{ matrix.cuda }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "N_GPUS=${{ matrix.num_gpus }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "E2E_DOCKERFILE=${{ matrix.dockerfile || 'Dockerfile.jinja'}}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "NIGHTLY_BUILD=${{ matrix.nightly_build }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "CODECOV_TOKEN=${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
       - name: Run tests job on Modal

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -46,21 +46,32 @@ jobs:
         env:
           SKIP: no-commit-to-branch
 
+  prime-cdn-s3-cache:
+    name: Prefetch S3 once to prime the CDN cache
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    if: ${{ !github.event.pull_request.draft }}
+    timeout-minutes: 10
+    steps:
+      - name: Restore Cache from S3
+        id: hf-cache-restore-s3
+        run: |
+          curl -L https://axolotl-ci.b-cdn.net/hf-cache.tar.zst > /dev/null
+
   pytest:
     name: PyTest
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     if: ${{ !github.event.pull_request.draft }}
-#    needs: [preload-cache]
+    needs: [prime-cdn-s3-cache]
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python_version: ["3.11", "3.12"]
-        pytorch_version: ["2.8.0", "2.9.0", "2.9.1"]
-        exclude:
-          - python_version: "3.12"
-            pytorch_version: "2.8.0"
-          - python_version: "3.12"
-            pytorch_version: "2.9.0"
+        python_version: ["3.12"]  # TODO include py3.14 once https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-common/pull/194 is merged
+        pytorch_version: ["2.8.0", "2.9.1", "2.10.0"]
+#        exclude:
+#          - python_version: "3.14"
+#            pytorch_version: "2.8.0"
+#          - python_version: "3.14"
+#            pytorch_version: "2.9.1"
     timeout-minutes: 20
 
     steps:
@@ -75,7 +86,7 @@ jobs:
         id: hf-cache-restore-s3
         run: |
           mkdir -p ~/.cache/huggingface/hub
-          curl -L https://d1dttdx32dkk5p.cloudfront.net/hf-cache.tar.zst | tar -xpf - -C ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/  --use-compress-program unzstd --strip-components=1
+          curl -L https://axolotl-ci.b-cdn.net/hf-cache.tar.zst | tar -xpf - -C ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/  --use-compress-program unzstd --strip-components=1
           ls -ltr ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/
 
       - name: Setup Python
@@ -146,17 +157,18 @@ jobs:
     name: PyTest from Source Dist
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     if: ${{ !github.event.pull_request.draft }}
+    needs: [prime-cdn-s3-cache]
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python_version: ["3.11", "3.12"]
-        pytorch_version: ["2.8.0", "2.9.0", "2.9.1"]
-        exclude:
-          - python_version: "3.12"
-            pytorch_version: "2.8.0"
-          - python_version: "3.12"
-            pytorch_version: "2.9.0"
-    timeout-minutes: 20
+        python_version: ["3.12"]  # TODO include py3.14 once https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-common/pull/194 is merged
+        pytorch_version: ["2.8.0", "2.9.1", "2.10.0"]
+#        exclude:
+#          - python_version: "3.14"
+#            pytorch_version: "2.8.0"
+#          - python_version: "3.14"
+#            pytorch_version: "2.9.1"
+    timeout-minutes: 30
 
     steps:
       - name: cleanup node
@@ -170,7 +182,7 @@ jobs:
         id: hf-cache-restore-s3
         run: |
           mkdir -p ~/.cache/huggingface/hub
-          curl -L https://d1dttdx32dkk5p.cloudfront.net/hf-cache.tar.zst | tar -xpf - -C ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/  --use-compress-program unzstd --strip-components=1
+          curl -L https://axolotl-ci.b-cdn.net/hf-cache.tar.zst | tar -xpf - -C ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/  --use-compress-program unzstd --strip-components=1
           ls -ltr ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/
 
       - name: Setup Python
@@ -264,8 +276,8 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
-          - cuda: 129
-            cuda_version: 12.9.1
+          - cuda: 130
+            cuda_version: 13.0.0
             python_version: "3.12"
             pytorch: 2.9.1
             num_gpus: 1
@@ -326,6 +338,12 @@ jobs:
             pytorch: 2.9.1
             num_gpus: 1
             axolotl_extras:
+          - cuda: 128
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.10.0
+            num_gpus: 1
+            axolotl_extras:
           - cuda: 130
             cuda_version: 13.0.0
             python_version: "3.11"
@@ -369,9 +387,9 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
-          - cuda: 129
-            cuda_version: 12.9.1
-            python_version: "3.12"
+          - cuda: 128
+            cuda_version: 12.8.1
+            python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.9.1
             num_gpus: 1
             axolotl_extras:

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ repos:
     -   id: no-commit-to-branch
         args: ['--branch', 'main']
 -   repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: v0.14.10
+    rev: v0.15.4
     hooks:
     -   id: ruff
         args: [--fix]
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ repos:
             'pydantic>=2.5.3',
         ]
 -   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit
-    rev: 1.9.2
+    rev: 1.9.4
     hooks:
     -   id: bandit
         args: [

.runpod/README.md

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ datasets:
 | --------------------------------- | -------------------------- | ----------------------------------- |
 | `dataset_prepared_path`           | `"data/last_run_prepared"` | Path for prepared dataset           |
 | `push_dataset_to_hub`             | `""`                       | Push dataset to HF hub              |
-| `dataset_processes`               | `4`                        | Number of preprocessing processes   |
+| `dataset_num_proc`                | `4`                        | Number of preprocessing processes   |
 | `dataset_keep_in_memory`          | `false`                    | Keep dataset in memory              |
 | `shuffle_merged_datasets`         | `true`                     | Shuffle merged datasets             |
 | `shuffle_before_merging_datasets` | `false`                    | Shuffle each dataset before merging |

.runpod/src/config/config.yaml

@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
 #     type: # linear | dynamic
 #     factor: # float
 
-
 # # Whether you are training a 4-bit GPTQ quantized model
 # gptq: true
 # gptq_groupsize: 128 # group size
@@ -107,7 +106,7 @@
 # push_dataset_to_hub: # repo path
 # # The maximum number of processes to use while preprocessing your input dataset. This defaults to `os.cpu_count()`
 # # if not set.
-# dataset_processes: # defaults to os.cpu_count() if not set
+# dataset_num_proc: # defaults to os.cpu_count() if not set
 # # push checkpoints to hub
 # hub_model_id: # repo path to push finetuned model
 # # how to push checkpoints to hub
@@ -349,8 +348,6 @@
 # # Allow overwrite yml config using from cli
 # strict:
 
-
-
 base_model: ${BASE_MODEL}
 base_model_ignore_patterns: ${BASE_MODEL_IGNORE_PATTERNS}
 base_model_config: ${BASE_MODEL_CONFIG}
@@ -409,7 +406,7 @@ chat_template_jinja: ${CHAT_TEMPLATE_JINJA}
 default_system_message: ${DEFAULT_SYSTEM_MESSAGE}
 dataset_prepared_path: ${DATASET_PREPARED_PATH}
 push_dataset_to_hub: ${PUSH_DATASET_TO_HUB}
-dataset_processes: ${DATASET_PROCESSES}
+dataset_num_proc: ${DATASET_NUM_PROC}
 dataset_keep_in_memory: ${DATASET_KEEP_IN_MEMORY}
 hub_model_id: ${HUB_MODEL_ID}
 hub_strategy: ${HUB_STRATEGY}

README.md

@@ -29,8 +29,23 @@
 
 ## 🎉 Latest Updates
 
-- 2025/12: Axolotl now includes support for [Kimi-Linear](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/kimi-linear.html), [Plano-Orchestrator](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/plano.html), [MiMo](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/mimo.html), [InternVL 3.5](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/internvl3_5.html), [Olmo3](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/olmo3.html), [Trinity](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/trinity.html), and [Ministral3](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/ministral3.html).
+- 2026/03:
+  - New model support has been added in Axolotl for [Qwen3.5, Qwen3.5 MoE](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/qwen3.5), [GLM-4.7-Flash](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/glm47-flash), [GLM-4.6V](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/glm46v), and [GLM-4.5-Air](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/glm45).
+  - [MoE expert quantization](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/expert_quantization.html) support (via `quantize_moe_experts: true`) greatly reduces VRAM when training MoE models (FSDP2 compat).
+- 2026/02:
+  - [ScatterMoE LoRA](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/pull/3410) support. LoRA fine-tuning directly on MoE expert weights using custom Triton kernels.
+  - Axolotl now has support for [SageAttention](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/pull/2823) and [GDPO](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/pull/3353) (Generalized DPO).
+- 2026/01:
+  - New integration for [EAFT](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/pull/3366) (Entropy-Aware Focal Training), weights loss by entropy of the top-k logit distribution, and [Scalable Softmax](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/pull/3338), improves long context in attention.
+- 2025/12:
+  - Axolotl now includes support for [Kimi-Linear](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/kimi-linear.html), [Plano-Orchestrator](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/plano.html), [MiMo](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/mimo.html), [InternVL 3.5](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/internvl3_5.html), [Olmo3](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/olmo3.html), [Trinity](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/trinity.html), and [Ministral3](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/ministral3.html).
+  - [Distributed Muon Optimizer](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/pull/3264) support has been added for FSDP2 pretraining.
 - 2025/10: New model support has been added in Axolotl for: [Qwen3 Next](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/qwen3-next.html), [Qwen2.5-vl, Qwen3-vl](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/qwen2_5-vl), [Qwen3, Qwen3MoE](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/qwen3.html), [Granite 4](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/granite4.html), [HunYuan](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/hunyuan.html), [Magistral 2509](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/magistral/vision.html), [Apertus](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/apertus.html), and [Seed-OSS](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/seed-oss.html).
+
+<details>
+
+<summary>Expand older updates</summary>
+
 - 2025/09: Axolotl now has text diffusion training. Read more [here](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/src/axolotl/integrations/diffusion).
 - 2025/08: QAT has been updated to include NVFP4 support. See [PR](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/pull/3107).
 - 2025/07:
@@ -39,15 +54,10 @@
   - 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://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/voxtral.html), [Magistral 1.1](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/magistral.html), and [Devstral](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/devstral.html) 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!
-
-<details>
-
-<summary>Expand older updates</summary>
-
-- 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.
 - 2025/06: Magistral with mistral-common tokenizer support has been added to Axolotl. See [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/magistral.html) to start training your own Magistral models 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 [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/models/llama-4.html) 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.
 - 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!
@@ -62,10 +72,10 @@ Axolotl is a free and open-source tool designed to streamline post-training and
 Features:
 
 - **Multiple Model Support**: Train various models like GPT-OSS, LLaMA, Mistral, Mixtral, Pythia, and many more models available on the Hugging Face Hub.
-- **Multimodal Training**: Fine-tune vision-language models (VLMs) including LLaMA-Vision, Qwen2-VL, Pixtral, LLaVA, SmolVLM2, and audio models like Voxtral with image, video, and audio support.
-- **Training Methods**: Full fine-tuning, LoRA, QLoRA, GPTQ, QAT, Preference Tuning (DPO, IPO, KTO, ORPO), RL (GRPO), and Reward Modelling (RM) / Process Reward Modelling (PRM).
+- **Multimodal Training**: Fine-tune vision-language models (VLMs) including LLaMA-Vision, Qwen2-VL, Pixtral, LLaVA, SmolVLM2, GLM-4.6V, InternVL 3.5, Gemma 3n, and audio models like Voxtral with image, video, and audio support.
+- **Training Methods**: Full fine-tuning, LoRA, QLoRA, GPTQ, QAT, Preference Tuning (DPO, IPO, KTO, ORPO), RL (GRPO, GDPO), and Reward Modelling (RM) / Process Reward Modelling (PRM).
 - **Easy Configuration**: Re-use a single YAML configuration file across the full fine-tuning pipeline: dataset preprocessing, training, evaluation, quantization, and inference.
-- **Performance Optimizations**: [Multipacking](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multipack.html), [Flash Attention](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention), [Xformers](https://github.com/facebookresearch/xformers), [Flex Attention](https://pytorch.org/blog/flexattention/), [Liger Kernel](https://github.com/linkedin/Liger-Kernel), [Cut Cross Entropy](https://github.com/apple/ml-cross-entropy/tree/main), [Sequence Parallelism (SP)](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/sequence_parallelism.html), [LoRA optimizations](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/lora_optims.html), [Multi-GPU training (FSDP1, FSDP2, DeepSpeed)](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-gpu.html), [Multi-node training (Torchrun, Ray)](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-node.html), and many more!
+- **Performance Optimizations**: [Multipacking](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multipack.html), [Flash Attention](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention), [Xformers](https://github.com/facebookresearch/xformers), [Flex Attention](https://pytorch.org/blog/flexattention/), [SageAttention](https://github.com/thu-ml/SageAttention), [Liger Kernel](https://github.com/linkedin/Liger-Kernel), [Cut Cross Entropy](https://github.com/apple/ml-cross-entropy/tree/main), [ScatterMoE](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#kernels-integration), [Sequence Parallelism (SP)](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/sequence_parallelism.html), [LoRA optimizations](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/lora_optims.html), [Multi-GPU training (FSDP1, FSDP2, DeepSpeed)](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-gpu.html), [Multi-node training (Torchrun, Ray)](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-node.html), and many more!
 - **Flexible Dataset Handling**: Load from local, HuggingFace, and cloud (S3, Azure, GCP, OCI) datasets.
 - **Cloud Ready**: We ship [Docker images](https://hub.docker.com/u/axolotlai) and also [PyPI packages](https://pypi.org/project/axolotl/) for use on cloud platforms and local hardware.
 

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.15.0.dev0
+0.15.0

_quarto.yml

@@ -251,7 +251,6 @@ website:
                 - docs/models/olmo3.qmd
                 - docs/models/trinity.qmd
                 - docs/models/arcee.qmd
-                - docs/models/mistral.qmd
                 - section: "Ministral3"
                   contents:
                     - docs/models/ministral3.qmd
@@ -266,6 +265,7 @@ website:
                 - docs/models/mistral-small.qmd
                 - docs/models/voxtral.qmd
                 - docs/models/devstral.qmd
+                - docs/models/mistral.qmd
                 - docs/models/llama-4.qmd
                 - docs/models/llama-2.qmd
                 - docs/models/qwen3-next.qmd
@@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ website:
             - docs/multipack.qmd
             - docs/mixed_precision.qmd
             - docs/optimizers.qmd
+            - docs/attention.qmd
 
         - section: "Advanced Features"
           contents:
@@ -330,6 +331,7 @@ website:
             - docs/sequence_parallelism.qmd
             - docs/gradient_checkpointing.qmd
             - docs/nd_parallelism.qmd
+            - docs/expert_quantization.qmd
 
         - section: "Troubleshooting"
           contents:

cicd/Dockerfile-uv.jinja

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ RUN if [ "$NIGHTLY_BUILD" = "true" ] ; then \
 
 RUN uv pip install packaging==26.0 setuptools==75.8.0
 RUN uv pip install torchvision
+RUN uv pip uninstall causal_conv1d
 RUN if [ "$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS" != "" ] ; then \
         uv pip install --no-build-isolation -e .[deepspeed,flash-attn,ring-flash-attn,optimizers,ray,$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS] $AXOLOTL_ARGS; \
     else \

cicd/Dockerfile.jinja

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ RUN if [ "$NIGHTLY_BUILD" = "true" ] ; then \
     fi
 
 RUN pip install packaging==26.0 setuptools==75.8.0 psutil
+RUN pip uninstall -y causal_conv1d
 RUN if [ "$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS" != "" ] ; then \
         pip install --no-build-isolation -e .[deepspeed,flash-attn,ring-flash-attn,optimizers,ray,$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS] $AXOLOTL_ARGS; \
     else \

cicd/cicd.sh

@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ set -e
 
 python -c "import torch; assert '$PYTORCH_VERSION' in torch.__version__"
 
+# curl -L https://axolotl-ci.b-cdn.net/hf-cache.tar.zst | tar -xpf - -C "${HF_HOME}/hub/"  --use-compress-program unzstd --strip-components=1
+hf download "NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3-8B"
+hf download "NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct"
+hf download "microsoft/Phi-4-reasoning"
+hf download "microsoft/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct"
+
 # Run unit tests with initial coverage report
 pytest -v --durations=10 -n8 \
   --ignore=tests/e2e/ \

docker/Dockerfile

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ RUN git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl.git
 WORKDIR /workspace/axolotl
 
 # If AXOLOTL_EXTRAS is set, append it in brackets; don't install deepspeed with arm64
+RUN pip uninstall -y causal_conv1d
 RUN if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "arm64" ]; then \
         BASE_EXTRAS="flash-attn,ring-flash-attn,optimizers,ray"; \
     else \

docker/Dockerfile-base

@@ -59,34 +59,18 @@ RUN git lfs install --skip-repo && \
     pip3 install -U --no-cache-dir pydantic==1.10.10 && \
     pip3 cache purge
 
-RUN case "$PYTORCH_VERSION" in \
-        2.9.[0-9]*) \
-            if [ "$CUDA" = "128" ]; then \
-                if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "amd64" ]; then \
-                    WHL_FILE="flash_attn-2.8.3+cu128torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_x86_64.whl"; \
-                    WHL_VERSION="v0.5.4"; \
-                elif [ "$TARGETARCH" = "arm64" ]; then \
-                    WHL_FILE="flash_attn-2.8.3+cu128torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl"; \
-                    WHL_VERSION="v0.6.4"; \
-                else \
-                    echo "Unsupported architecture: $TARGETARCH"; exit 1; \
-                fi; \
-                wget -nv https://github.com/mjun0812/flash-attention-prebuild-wheels/releases/download/${WHL_VERSION}/${WHL_FILE}; \
-                pip3 install --no-cache-dir ${WHL_FILE}; \
-                rm ${WHL_FILE}; \
-            elif [ "$CUDA" = "130" ]; then \
-                if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "amd64" ]; then \
-                    WHL_FILE="flash_attn-2.8.3+cu130torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_x86_64.whl"; \
-                    WHL_VERSION="v0.5.4"; \
-                elif [ "$TARGETARCH" = "arm64" ]; then \
-                    WHL_FILE="flash_attn-2.8.3+cu130torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl"; \
-                    WHL_VERSION="v0.6.4"; \
-                else \
-                    echo "Unsupported architecture: $TARGETARCH"; exit 1; \
-                fi; \
-                wget -nv https://github.com/mjun0812/flash-attention-prebuild-wheels/releases/download/${WHL_VERSION}/${WHL_FILE}; \
-                pip3 install --no-cache-dir ${WHL_FILE}; \
-                rm ${WHL_FILE}; \
-            fi \
-            ;; \
-    esac
+# Map Python version (e.g., 3.12 -> cp312)
+RUN PYTHON_CP="cp$(echo $PYTHON_VERSION | tr -d '.')" && \
+    # Map PyTorch version (e.g., 2.9.1 -> torch2.9, 2.10.0 -> torch2.10)
+    TORCH_TAG="torch$(echo $PYTORCH_VERSION | grep -oP '^\d+\.\d+')" && \
+    # Map architecture
+    case "$TARGETARCH" in \
+        amd64) ARCH_TAG="x86_64" ;; \
+        arm64) ARCH_TAG="aarch64" ;; \
+        *) echo "Unsupported architecture: $TARGETARCH"; exit 1 ;; \
+    esac && \
+    WHL_VERSION="v0.7.16" && \
+    WHL_FILE="flash_attn-2.8.3+cu${CUDA}${TORCH_TAG}-${PYTHON_CP}-${PYTHON_CP}-linux_${ARCH_TAG}.whl" && \
+    wget -nv "https://github.com/mjun0812/flash-attention-prebuild-wheels/releases/download/${WHL_VERSION}/${WHL_FILE}" && \
+    pip3 install --no-cache-dir "${WHL_FILE}" && \
+    rm "${WHL_FILE}"

docker/Dockerfile-cloud-uv

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+ARG BASE_TAG=main
+FROM axolotlai/axolotl-uv:$BASE_TAG
+
+ENV HF_DATASETS_CACHE="/workspace/data/huggingface-cache/datasets"
+ENV HF_HUB_CACHE="/workspace/data/huggingface-cache/hub"
+ENV HF_HOME="/workspace/data/huggingface-cache/hub"
+ENV HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER="1"
+
+EXPOSE 8888
+EXPOSE 22
+
+COPY scripts/cloud-entrypoint.sh /root/cloud-entrypoint.sh
+COPY scripts/motd /etc/motd
+
+RUN uv pip install jupyterlab notebook ipywidgets && \
+    jupyter lab clean
+RUN apt update && \
+    apt install --yes --no-install-recommends openssh-server tmux iproute2 nvtop && \
+    rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && \
+    mkdir -p ~/.ssh && \
+    chmod 700 ~/.ssh && \
+    printf "\n[[ -z \"\$TMUX\"  ]] && { tmux attach-session -t ssh_tmux || tmux new-session -s ssh_tmux; exit; }\n" >> ~/.bashrc && \
+    printf "[ ! -z \"\$TERM\" -a -r /etc/motd ] && cat /etc/motd\n" >> ~/.bashrc && \
+    chmod +x /workspace/axolotl/scripts/cloud-entrypoint.sh && \
+    chmod +x /root/cloud-entrypoint.sh && \
+    echo 'set-option -g history-limit 5000' >> ~/.tmux.conf
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/root/cloud-entrypoint.sh"]
+CMD ["sleep", "infinity"]

docker/Dockerfile-uv

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+ARG BASE_TAG=main-base
+FROM axolotlai/axolotl-base-uv:$BASE_TAG
+
+ARG TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST="7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6+PTX"
+ARG AXOLOTL_EXTRAS=""
+ARG AXOLOTL_ARGS=""
+ARG CUDA="118"
+ARG PYTORCH_VERSION="2.1.2"
+ARG TARGETARCH
+
+ENV PYTORCH_VERSION=$PYTORCH_VERSION
+
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --allow-change-held-packages vim curl nano libnccl2 libnccl-dev rsync s3fs && \
+    rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+WORKDIR /workspace
+
+RUN git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl.git
+
+WORKDIR /workspace/axolotl
+
+# If AXOLOTL_EXTRAS is set, append it in brackets; don't install deepspeed with arm64
+RUN uv pip uninstall causal_conv1d
+RUN if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "arm64" ]; then \
+        BASE_EXTRAS="flash-attn,ring-flash-attn,optimizers,ray"; \
+    else \
+        BASE_EXTRAS="deepspeed,flash-attn,ring-flash-attn,optimizers,ray"; \
+    fi && \
+    if [ "$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS" != "" ]; then \
+        uv pip install --no-build-isolation -e .[$BASE_EXTRAS,$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS] $AXOLOTL_ARGS; \
+    else \
+        uv pip install --no-build-isolation -e .[$BASE_EXTRAS] $AXOLOTL_ARGS; \
+    fi && \
+    python scripts/unsloth_install.py --uv | sh && \
+    python scripts/cutcrossentropy_install.py --uv | sh && \
+    uv pip install pytest && \
+    uv cache clean
+
+# fix so that git fetch/pull from remote works with shallow clone
+RUN git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" && \
+    git config --get remote.origin.fetch && \
+    git config --global credential.helper store
+
+COPY .axolotl-complete.bash /root/.axolotl-complete.bash
+RUN chmod +x /root/.axolotl-complete.bash && \
+    echo 'source /root/.axolotl-complete.bash' >> ~/.bashrc

docker/Dockerfile-uv-base

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 
 FROM nvidia/cuda:$CUDA_VERSION-cudnn$CUDNN_VERSION-devel-ubuntu$UBUNTU_VERSION AS base-builder
 
+ARG TARGETARCH
 ARG PYTHON_VERSION="3.11"
 ARG PYTORCH_VERSION="2.6.0"
 ARG CUDA="126"
@@ -39,28 +40,18 @@ RUN if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "amd64" ]; then \
         uv pip install "mamba_ssm @ git+https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba.git@main"; \
     fi
 
-RUN case "$PYTORCH_VERSION" in \
-        2.9.[0-9]*) \
-            if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "amd64" ]; then \
-                if [ "$CUDA" = "128" ]; then \
-                    wget -nv https://github.com/mjun0812/flash-attention-prebuild-wheels/releases/download/v0.5.4/flash_attn-2.8.3+cu128torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_x86_64.whl; \
-                    uv pip install --no-cache-dir flash_attn-2.8.3+cu128torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_x86_64.whl; \
-                    rm flash_attn-2.8.3+cu128torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_x86_64.whl; \
-                elif [ "$CUDA" = "130" ]; then \
-                    wget -nv https://github.com/mjun0812/flash-attention-prebuild-wheels/releases/download/v0.5.4/flash_attn-2.8.3+cu130torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_x86_64.whl; \
-                    uv pip install --no-cache-dir flash_attn-2.8.3+cu130torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_x86_64.whl; \
-                    rm flash_attn-2.8.3+cu130torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_x86_64.whl; \
-                fi \
-            elif [ "$TARGETARCH" = "arm64" ]; then \
-                if [ "$CUDA" = "128" ]; then \
-                    wget -nv https://github.com/mjun0812/flash-attention-prebuild-wheels/releases/download/v0.6.4/flash_attn-2.8.3+cu128torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl; \
-                    uv pip install --no-cache-dir flash_attn-2.8.3+cu128torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl; \
-                    rm flash_attn-2.8.3+cu128torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl; \
-                elif [ "$CUDA" = "130" ]; then \
-                    wget -nv https://github.com/mjun0812/flash-attention-prebuild-wheels/releases/download/v0.6.4/flash_attn-2.8.3+cu130torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl; \
-                    uv pip install --no-cache-dir flash_attn-2.8.3+cu130torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl; \
-                    rm flash_attn-2.8.3+cu130torch2.9-cp311-cp311-linux_aarch64.whl; \
-                fi \
-            fi \
-            ;; \
-    esac
+# Map Python version (e.g., 3.12 -> cp312)
+RUN PYTHON_CP="cp$(echo $PYTHON_VERSION | tr -d '.')" && \
+    # Map PyTorch version (e.g., 2.9.1 -> torch2.9, 2.10.0 -> torch2.10)
+    TORCH_TAG="torch$(echo $PYTORCH_VERSION | grep -oP '^\d+\.\d+')" && \
+    # Map architecture
+    case "$TARGETARCH" in \
+        amd64) ARCH_TAG="x86_64" ;; \
+        arm64) ARCH_TAG="aarch64" ;; \
+        *) echo "Unsupported architecture: $TARGETARCH"; exit 1 ;; \
+    esac && \
+    WHL_VERSION="v0.7.16" && \
+    WHL_FILE="flash_attn-2.8.3+cu${CUDA}${TORCH_TAG}-${PYTHON_CP}-${PYTHON_CP}-linux_${ARCH_TAG}.whl" && \
+    wget -nv "https://github.com/mjun0812/flash-attention-prebuild-wheels/releases/download/${WHL_VERSION}/${WHL_FILE}" && \
+    uv pip install --no-cache-dir "${WHL_FILE}" && \
+    rm "${WHL_FILE}"

docs/attention.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+---
+title: Attention
+description: Supported attention modules in Axolotl
+---
+
+## SDP Attention
+
+This is the default built-in attention in PyTorch.
+
+```yaml
+sdp_attention: true
+```
+
+For more details: [PyTorch docs](https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention.html)
+
+## Flash Attention 2
+
+Uses efficient kernels to compute attention.
+
+```yaml
+flash_attention: true
+```
+
+For more details: [Flash Attention](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/)
+
+### Nvidia
+
+Requirements: Ampere, Ada, or Hopper GPUs
+
+Note: For Turing GPUs or lower, please use other attention methods.
+
+```bash
+pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation
+```
+
+::: {.callout-tip}
+
+If you get `undefined symbol` while training, ensure you installed PyTorch prior to Axolotl. Alternatively, try reinstall or downgrade a version.
+
+:::
+
+#### Flash Attention 3
+
+Requirements: Hopper only and CUDA 12.8 (recommended)
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention.git
+cd flash-attention/hopper
+
+python setup.py install
+```
+
+### AMD
+
+Requirements: ROCm 6.0 and above.
+
+See [Flash Attention AMD docs](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#amd-rocm-support).
+
+## Flex Attention
+
+A flexible PyTorch API for attention used in combination with `torch.compile`.
+
+```yaml
+flex_attention: true
+
+# recommended
+torch_compile: true
+```
+
+::: {.callout-note}
+
+We recommend using latest stable version of PyTorch for best performance.
+
+:::
+
+For more details: [PyTorch docs](https://pytorch.org/blog/flexattention/)
+
+## SageAttention
+
+Attention kernels with QK Int8 and PV FP16 accumulator.
+
+```yaml
+sage_attention: true
+```
+
+Requirements: Ampere, Ada, or Hopper GPUs
+
+```bash
+pip install sageattention==2.2.0 --no-build-isolation
+```
+
+::: {.callout-warning}
+
+Only LoRA/QLoRA recommended at the moment. We found loss drop to 0 for full finetuning. See [GitHub Issue](https://github.com/thu-ml/SageAttention/issues/198).
+
+:::
+
+For more details: [Sage Attention](https://github.com/thu-ml/SageAttention)
+
+::: {.callout-note}
+
+We do not support SageAttention 3 at the moment. If you are interested on adding this or improving SageAttention implementation, please make an Issue.
+
+:::
+
+
+## xFormers
+
+```yaml
+xformers_attention: true
+```
+
+::: {.callout-tip}
+
+We recommend using with Turing GPUs or below (such as on Colab).
+
+:::
+
+For more details: [xFormers](https://github.com/facebookresearch/xformers)
+
+## Shifted Sparse Attention
+
+::: {.callout-warning}
+
+We plan to deprecate this! If you use this feature, we recommend switching to methods above.
+
+:::
+
+Requirements: LLaMA model architecture
+
+```yaml
+flash_attention: true
+s2_attention: true
+```
+
+::: {.callout-tip}
+
+No sample packing support!
+
+:::

docs/cli.qmd

@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ axolotl lm-eval config.yml
 Configuration options:
 
 ```yaml
+lm_eval_model: # model to evaluate (local or hf path)
+
 # List of tasks to evaluate
 lm_eval_tasks:
   - arc_challenge
@@ -218,7 +220,7 @@ lm_eval_batch_size: # Batch size for evaluation
 output_dir: # Directory to save evaluation results
 ```
 
-See [LM Eval Harness](https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness) for more details.
+See [LM Eval Harness integration docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#language-model-evaluation-harness-lm-eval) for full configuration details.
 
 ### delinearize-llama4
 

docs/expert_quantization.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+---
+title: "MoE Expert Quantization"
+description: "Reduce VRAM usage when training MoE model adapters by quantizing expert weights on load"
+---
+
+Transformers v5 changed MoE expert layers from `nn.Linear` to fused `nn.Parameter` (3D+ tensors).
+This means `bitsandbytes` can no longer quantize them during model loading, resulting in all expert
+weights being loaded in full bf16 precision and causing massive VRAM usage.
+
+`quantize_moe_experts` solves this by quantizing expert weights during model loading.
+It intercepts the weight loading process, quantizes each expert tensor on the fly, and
+immediately frees the original bf16 tensor from VRAM. This dramatically reduces peak memory.
+For example, GLM-4.7-Flash QLoRA drops from ~127GiB to ~23GiB reserved memory.
+
+## Usage
+
+Enable expert quantization in your Axolotl config:
+
+```yaml
+quantize_moe_experts: true
+```
+
+This works with both 4-bit (QLoRA) and 8-bit (LoRA) quantization.
+
+### Expert LoRA targeting
+
+You can optionally apply LoRA adapters directly to expert weights using `lora_target_parameters`:
+
+```yaml
+lora_target_parameters:
+  - mlp.experts.gate_up_proj
+  - mlp.experts.down_proj
+  # - mlp.gate.weight  # router
+```
+
+::: {.callout-note}
+`lora_dropout` must be `0` when using `lora_target_parameters`.
+:::
+
+## Requirements
+
+- Requires (`adapter: lora` and `load_in_8bit: true`) or (`adapter: qlora` and `load_in_4bit: true`)
+- CUDA GPUs only (not tested with ROCm or other backends)
+- FSDP2 compatible for distributed training
+
+## Limitations
+
+- `lora_target_linear` is not compatible with `quantize_moe_experts`. See [Expert LoRA targeting](#expert-lora-targeting) instead.
+- `cpu_ram_efficient_loading` hangs / takes long time with FSDP2 + QLoRA.
+- Total model parameter count may display incorrectly (trainable param count is correct).
+- FSDP LoRA (8-bit) may have a large initial VRAM spike at the first 1-2 steps, which then drops. QLoRA does not exhibit this.
+- FSDP2 may use more VRAM per GPU than single GPU training due to not all layers being properly sharded across ranks.
+- Model loading takes longer due to on-demand quantization, even on consecutive runs.
+- DeepSpeed has not been tested.
+
+## Implementation details
+
+The quantization is applied by patching transformers to intercept weight loading.
+When a 3D+ CUDA tensor with "expert" in its name is detected:
+
+- **4-bit mode:** Uses bitsandbytes NF4 parametrization (configurable via `bnb_4bit_quant_type`).
+- **8-bit mode:** Uses a custom row-wise int8 parametrization with bitsandbytes dequantization.
+
+The original bf16 tensor is freed immediately after quantization. Multiple sub-patches are applied to
+transformers, PEFT and accelerate FSDP2 to support these parametrized expert modules.
+
+For full implementation details, see [PR #3439](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/pull/3439).

docs/lora_optims.qmd

@@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ lora_o_kernel: true
 Currently, LoRA kernels are not supported for RLHF training, only SFT.
 :::
 
+::: {.callout-warning}
+LoRA kernels do not support remote modeling code.
+:::
+
 ## Requirements
 
 - One or more NVIDIA or AMD GPUs (in order to use the Triton kernels)

docs/multimodal.qmd

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ format:
 - [Gemma-3n](#sec-gemma-3n)
 - [Qwen2-VL](#sec-qwen2-vl)
 - [Qwen2.5-VL](#sec-qwen25-vl)
+- [GLM-4.6V](#sec-glm-4-6v)
 - [SmolVLM2](#sec-smolvlm2)
 - [LFM2-VL](#sec-lfm2-vl)
 - [Intern-VL](#sec-intern-vl)
@@ -183,6 +184,18 @@ base_model: Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
 chat_template: qwen2_vl  # same as qwen2-vl
 ```
 
+### GLM-4.6V {#sec-glm-4-6v}
+
+Both GLM-4.6V (106B MoE) and GLM-4.6V-Flash (9B) are supported.
+
+```yaml
+# GLM-4.6V (106B MoE version)
+base_model: zai-org/GLM-4.6V
+
+# OR GLM-4.6V-Flash (9B version)
+base_model: zai-org/GLM-4.6V-Flash
+```
+
 ### SmolVLM2 {#sec-smolvlm2}
 
 ::: {.callout-tip}

docs/optimizations.qmd

@@ -66,6 +66,15 @@ Provides efficient Triton kernels to improve training speed and reduce memory us
 
 - **Learn more:** [Custom Integrations - Liger Kernels](custom_integrations.qmd#liger-kernels)
 
+### Expert Kernels
+
+Optimized kernel implementations for Mixture of Experts (MoE) model training.
+
+- **ScatterMoE**: Triton-based MoE kernels with fused LoRA support.
+- **SonicMoE**: CUTLASS-based MoE kernels for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs.
+
+- **Learn more:** [Custom Integrations - Kernels Integration](custom_integrations.qmd#kernels-integration)
+
 ## Long Context Models
 
 Techniques to train models on sequences longer than their original context window.
@@ -131,3 +140,10 @@ Simulates quantization effects during training, helping the model adapt and pote
 Allows you to finetune LoRA adapters on top of a model that has already been quantized using the GPTQ method.
 
 - **Example:** [GPTQ LoRA Example](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/blob/main/examples/llama-2/gptq-lora.yml)
+
+### MoE Expert Quantization
+
+Quantizes MoE expert weights on load to reduce VRAM when training MoE models with adapters. Required for Transformers v5+ MoE models where experts use fused `nn.Parameter` tensors.
+
+- **Config:** `quantize_moe_experts: true`
+- **Learn more:** [MoE Expert Quantization](expert_quantization.qmd)

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@f4b5712\""
+    "!pip install \"cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@e8ad129\""
    ]
   },
   {

examples/glm45/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# Finetune Z.ai's GLM-4.5-Air with Axolotl
+
+[GLM-4.5-Air](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air) is a MoE model by Z.ai.
+
+This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl.
+
+## Getting started
+
+1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
+
+2. Install [Cut Cross Entropy](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#cut-cross-entropy) to reduce training VRAM usage.
+
+3. Run the finetuning example:
+
+```bash
+# QLoRA (1x80GB @ ~63.4GiB/GPU)
+axolotl train examples/glm45/glm-45-air-qlora.yaml
+```
+
+### Dataset
+
+In addition to the standard OpenAI Messages format, GLM-4.5 supports an extra parameter for thinking in the assistant section.
+
+```json
+{
+    "role": "assistant",
+    "reasoning_content": "...",  // or have </think>...</think> in `content`
+    "content": "..."
+}
+```
+
+Make sure you set the below extra attributes if needed:
+
+```yaml
+datasets:
+  - path: ...
+    type: chat_template
+    message_property_mappings:
+      role: role
+      content: content
+
+    #   tool_calls: tool_calls  # uncomment if using tools
+    #   reasoning_content: reasoning_content  # uncomment if have reasoning
+
+# Uncomment if training on tool role (you would rarely if ever need this)
+# eot_tokens:
+#   - <|observation|>
+```
+
+### Tips
+
+- The role name for tools in this template is `tool`.
+- You will see this Axolotl WARNING — this is expected as the template does not use EOS:
+  ```
+  EOS token '<|endoftext|>' not found in chat_template. Please check if your template/EOS token is correct.
+  ```
+- You can run a full finetuning by removing `adapter: qlora`, `load_in_4bit: true`, and `quantize_moe_experts: true` from the config.
+- **LoRA kernels**: Incompatible with this model. Must be explicitly disabled (`lora_*_kernel: false`).
+- Read more on how to load your own dataset at [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
+
+## Optimization Guides
+
+Please check the [Optimizations doc](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/optimizations.html).
+
+## Related Resources
+
+- [GLM-4.5-Air on HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air)
+- [GLM-4.5 Blog](https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.5)
+- [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/glm45/glm-45-air-qlora.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+base_model: zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air
+
+# 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
+
+quantize_moe_experts: true # important
+
+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: 16
+lora_alpha: 8
+lora_dropout: 0
+lora_target_modules:
+  - q_proj
+  - v_proj
+  - k_proj
+  - o_proj
+
+# lora_target_parameters:
+#   - mlp.experts.gate_up_proj
+#   - mlp.experts.down_proj
+
+lora_mlp_kernel: false
+lora_qkv_kernel: false
+lora_o_kernel: false
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 2
+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/glm46v/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# Finetune GLM-4.6V with Axolotl
+
+GLM-4.6V is a family of vision-language models from ZhipuAI found on [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.6V). This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl for vision-language tasks.
+
+
+
+## Getting started
+
+1. Install Axolotl from source following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html#sec-edge-build).
+
+2. Install [Cut Cross Entropy](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#cut-cross-entropy) to reduce training VRAM usage.
+
+
+3. Run the fine-tuning:
+
+    glm-4-6v-flash(9B)
+    ```bash
+    axolotl train examples/glm46v/glm-4-6v-flash-qlora.yaml
+    ```
+
+Let us know how it goes. Happy finetuning! 🚀
+
+## Tips
+
+- Vision datasets should follow the format described in the [multimodal docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multimodal.html#dataset-format)
+- 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 in the [dataset loading docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
+
+## Supported Models
+
+- **GLM-4.6V**: Full vision-language model (`zai-org/GLM-4.6V`)
+- **GLM-4.6V-Flash**: Faster variant (`zai-org/GLM-4.6V-Flash`)
+
+## Optimization Guides
+
+Please check the [Optimizations doc](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/optimizations.html).
+
+## Related Resources
+
+- [ZhipuAI GLM-4.6V](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.6V)
+- [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/glm46v/glm-4-6v-flash-ddp.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+base_model: zai-org/GLM-4.6V-Flash
+trust_remote_code: true
+
+processor_type: AutoProcessor
+load_in_4bit: true
+
+# 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
+ddp_find_unused_parameters: true
+
+output_dir: ./outputs/glm-4-6v-flash-qlora
+datasets:
+  - path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
+    type: chat_template
+    split: train[:1%]
+
+adapter: qlora
+lora_r: 16
+lora_alpha: 32
+lora_dropout: 0.05
+lora_target_modules:
+  - gate_proj
+  - down_proj
+  - up_proj
+  - q_proj
+  - v_proj
+  - k_proj
+  - o_proj
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_8bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+bf16: auto
+tf32: false
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
+  use_reentrant: false
+logging_steps: 1
+sdp_attention: true
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch: 0
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+weight_decay: 0.0

examples/glm46v/glm-4-6v-flash-qlora.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+base_model: zai-org/GLM-4.6V-Flash
+trust_remote_code: true
+
+processor_type: AutoProcessor
+load_in_4bit: true
+
+# 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
+
+output_dir: ./outputs/glm-4-6v-flash-qlora
+datasets:
+  - path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
+    type: chat_template
+    split: train[:1%]
+
+adapter: qlora
+lora_r: 16
+lora_alpha: 32
+lora_dropout: 0.05
+lora_target_modules:
+  - gate_proj
+  - down_proj
+  - up_proj
+  - q_proj
+  - v_proj
+  - k_proj
+  - o_proj
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_8bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+bf16: auto
+tf32: false
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+logging_steps: 1
+sdp_attention: true
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch: 0
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+weight_decay: 0.0

examples/glm47-flash/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# Finetune Z.ai's GLM-4.7-Flash with Axolotl
+
+[GLM-4.7-Flash](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash) is a 30B-A3B MoE model by Z.ai.
+
+This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl.
+
+## Getting started
+
+1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
+
+2. Install [Cut Cross Entropy](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#cut-cross-entropy) to reduce training VRAM usage.
+
+3. Run the finetuning example:
+
+```bash
+# QLoRA
+# - no target experts (1x48GB @ ~24GiB/GPU)
+# - target experts (1x48GB @ ~34GiB/GPU)
+axolotl train examples/glm47-flash/qlora.yaml
+
+# QLoRA FSDP2 no target experts (2x48GB @ ~29GiB/GPU)
+axolotl train examples/glm47-flash/qlora_fsdp.yaml
+```
+
+```bash
+# LoRA
+# - no target experts (1x48GB @ ~35GiB/GPU)
+# - target experts (1x48GB @ OOM. Projected ~45-50GiB/GPU)
+axolotl train examples/glm47-flash/lora.yaml
+
+# LoRA FSDP2 no target experts (2x48GB @ ~43GiB/GPU)
+axolotl train examples/glm47-flash/lora_fsdp.yaml
+```
+
+### MoE Expert Quantization & Expert LoRA
+
+This model quantize expert weights on load. To learn about expert quantization, expert LoRA targeting, and related limitations, see the [MoE Expert Quantization](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/expert_quantization.html) docs.
+
+## Limitations
+
+- **lora_target_linear**: Incompatible for this model.
+- **LoRA kernels**: Incompatible with this model due to non-standard attention projections (DSA). Must be explicitly disabled (`lora_*_kernel: false`).
+
+
+### TIPS
+
+- For inference, the official Z.ai team recommends these default settings (most tasks):
+  - `temperature: 1.0`
+  - `top_p: 0.95`
+  - `max_new_tokens: 131072`
+- You can run a full finetuning by removing `adapter: qlora`, `load_in_4bit: true`, and `quantize_moe_experts: true` from the config. This is heavy, so we have not tested this.
+- Read more on how to load your own dataset at [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
+
+## Optimization Guides
+
+Please check the [Optimizations doc](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/optimizations.html).
+
+## Related Resources
+
+- [GLM-4.7-Flash on HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash)
+- [GLM-4.7 Blog](https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.7)
+- [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/glm47-flash/lora.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+base_model: zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+
+load_in_8bit: true
+quantize_moe_experts: 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/glm4.7-flash-lora-8bit-out
+
+adapter: lora
+lora_model_dir:
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: true
+
+lora_r: 32
+lora_alpha: 16
+lora_dropout: 0
+lora_target_modules:
+  - q_proj
+  - v_proj
+  - k_proj
+  - o_proj
+
+# Uncomment to also target MoE expert weights:
+# lora_target_parameters:
+#   - mlp.experts.gate_up_proj
+#   - mlp.experts.down_proj
+
+# LoRA kernels incompatible with DSA attention
+lora_mlp_kernel: false
+lora_qkv_kernel: false
+lora_o_kernel: false
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 2
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_torch_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

examples/glm47-flash/lora_fsdp.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+base_model: zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+
+load_in_8bit: true
+quantize_moe_experts: 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/glm4.7-flash-lora-8bit-fsdp-out
+
+adapter: lora
+lora_model_dir:
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: true
+
+lora_r: 32
+lora_alpha: 16
+lora_dropout: 0
+lora_target_modules:
+  - q_proj
+  - v_proj
+  - k_proj
+  - o_proj
+
+# Uncomment to also target MoE expert weights:
+# lora_target_parameters:
+#   - mlp.experts.gate_up_proj
+#   - mlp.experts.down_proj
+
+# LoRA kernels incompatible with DSA attention
+lora_mlp_kernel: false
+lora_qkv_kernel: false
+lora_o_kernel: false
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 2
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_torch_8bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+bf16: auto
+tf32: false
+
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+logging_steps: 1
+flash_attention: true
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+
+fsdp_config:
+  fsdp_version: 2
+  offload_params: false
+  cpu_ram_efficient_loading: false
+  auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
+  transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: Glm4MoeLiteDecoderLayer
+  state_dict_type: FULL_STATE_DICT
+  sharding_strategy: FULL_SHARD
+  reshard_after_forward: true
+  activation_checkpointing: true

examples/glm47-flash/qlora.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+base_model: zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+
+load_in_4bit: true
+quantize_moe_experts: 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/glm4.7-flash-qlora-out
+
+adapter: qlora
+lora_model_dir:
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: true
+
+lora_r: 32
+lora_alpha: 16
+lora_dropout: 0
+lora_target_modules:
+  - q_proj
+  - v_proj
+  - k_proj
+  - o_proj
+
+# Uncomment to also target MoE expert weights:
+# lora_target_parameters:
+#   - mlp.experts.gate_up_proj
+#   - mlp.experts.down_proj
+
+# LoRA kernels incompatible with DSA attention
+lora_mlp_kernel: false
+lora_qkv_kernel: false
+lora_o_kernel: false
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 2
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_torch_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

examples/glm47-flash/qlora_fsdp.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+base_model: zai-org/GLM-4.7-Flash
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+
+load_in_4bit: true
+quantize_moe_experts: 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/glm4.7-flash-qlora-fsdp-out
+
+adapter: qlora
+lora_model_dir:
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: true
+
+lora_r: 32
+lora_alpha: 16
+lora_dropout: 0
+lora_target_modules:
+  - q_proj
+  - v_proj
+  - k_proj
+  - o_proj
+
+# Uncomment to also target MoE expert weights:
+# lora_target_parameters:
+#   - mlp.experts.gate_up_proj
+#   - mlp.experts.down_proj
+
+# LoRA kernels incompatible with DSA attention
+lora_mlp_kernel: false
+lora_qkv_kernel: false
+lora_o_kernel: false
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 2
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_torch_8bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+bf16: auto
+tf32: false
+
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+logging_steps: 1
+flash_attention: true
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+
+fsdp_config:
+  fsdp_version: 2
+  offload_params: false
+  cpu_ram_efficient_loading: false
+  auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
+  transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: Glm4MoeLiteDecoderLayer
+  state_dict_type: FULL_STATE_DICT
+  sharding_strategy: FULL_SHARD
+  reshard_after_forward: true
+  activation_checkpointing: true

examples/llama-3/3b-qat-mxfp4.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+base_model: meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B
+# Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF
+# hub_model_id: username/custom_model_name
+
+load_in_8bit: false
+load_in_4bit: false
+strict: false
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.liger.LigerPlugin
+
+liger_rope: true
+liger_rms_norm: true
+liger_glu_activation: true
+liger_layer_norm: true
+liger_fused_linear_cross_entropy: true
+
+datasets:
+  - path: yahma/alpaca-cleaned
+    type: alpaca
+    split: train[:95%]
+
+output_dir: ./outputs/qat_out/
+dataset_prepared_path: ./outputs/dataset_prepared
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+flash_attention: true
+
+qat:
+  activation_dtype: mxfp4
+  weight_dtype: mxfp4
+  group_size: 32
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+activation_offloading: true
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_torch_8bit
+
+cosine_constant_lr_ratio: 0
+cosine_min_lr_ratio: 1.0
+learning_rate: 2e-5
+save_only_model: true
+bf16: true
+
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+logging_steps: 1
+
+evals_per_epoch: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+weight_decay: 0.0
+
+special_tokens:
+  pad_token: <|finetune_right_pad_id|>
+
+# save_first_step: true  # uncomment this to validate checkpoint saving works with your config

examples/qwen3-next/README.md

@@ -6,30 +6,13 @@ This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl with multi-turn conversations
 
 ## Getting started
 
-1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html). You need to install from main as Qwen3-Next 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:
-
-```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==26.0 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel ninja
-pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn]'
-
-# Install CCE https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#cut-cross-entropy
-python scripts/cutcrossentropy_install.py | sh
-```
-
-2. Install Qwen3-Next transformers commit
-```bash
-pip3 uninstall -y transformers && pip3 install "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@b9282355bea846b54ed850a066901496b19da654"
-```
+2. Install [Cut Cross Entropy](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#cut-cross-entropy) to reduce training VRAM usage.
 
 3. Install FLA for improved performance
 ```bash
-pip3 uninstall -y causal-conv1d && pip3 install flash-linear-attention==0.3.2
+pip3 uninstall -y causal-conv1d && pip3 install flash-linear-attention==0.4.1
 ```
 
 4. Run the finetuning example:
@@ -38,7 +21,7 @@ pip3 uninstall -y causal-conv1d && pip3 install flash-linear-attention==0.3.2
 axolotl train examples/qwen3-next/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-qlora.yaml
 ```
 
-This config uses about 45.62 GiB VRAM.
+This config uses about ~47 GiB (no target experts) and ~71GiB (target experts) VRAM.
 
 Let us know how it goes. Happy finetuning! 🚀
 

examples/qwen3-next/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-qlora.yaml

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ plugins:
 load_in_8bit: false
 load_in_4bit: true
 
+quantize_moe_experts: true
+
 datasets:
   - path: fozziethebeat/alpaca_messages_2k_test
     type: chat_template
@@ -25,7 +27,7 @@ sample_packing: true
 
 lora_r: 16
 lora_alpha: 8
-lora_dropout: 0.05
+lora_dropout: 0
 lora_target_modules:
   - linear_attn.in_proj_ba
   - linear_attn.in_proj_qkvz
@@ -34,12 +36,19 @@ lora_target_modules:
   - shared_expert.down_proj
   - shared_expert.gate_proj
   - shared_expert_gate
-  - mlp.gate
   - q_proj
   - v_proj
   - k_proj
   - o_proj
 
+# lora_target_parameters:
+#   - mlp.experts.gate_up_proj
+#   - mlp.experts.down_proj
+
+lora_mlp_kernel: false
+lora_qkv_kernel: false
+lora_o_kernel: false
+
 wandb_project:
 wandb_entity:
 wandb_watch:

examples/qwen3.5/122b-a10b-moe-qlora.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+strict: false
+
+chat_template: qwen3_5
+datasets:
+  - path: mlabonne/FineTome-100k
+    type: chat_template
+    split: train[:20%]
+    field_messages: conversations
+    message_property_mappings:
+      role: from
+      content: value
+val_set_size: 0.0
+output_dir: ./outputs/out
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: true
+
+load_in_4bit: true
+quantize_moe_experts: true
+adapter: qlora
+lora_r: 16
+lora_alpha: 32
+lora_dropout: 0
+lora_target_modules:
+  - q_proj
+  - k_proj
+  - v_proj
+  - o_proj
+
+#lora_target_parameters:
+#   - mlp.experts.gate_up_proj
+#   - mlp.experts.down_proj
+
+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_4bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+bf16: auto
+tf32: true
+
+
+lora_mlp_kernel: false
+lora_qkv_kernel: false
+lora_o_kernel: false
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
+  use_reentrant: false
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+logging_steps: 1
+flash_attention: true
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch: 4
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+weight_decay: 0.0
+special_tokens:

examples/qwen3.5/27b-qlora.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B
+# Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF
+# hub_model_id: username/custom_model_name
+# Note: Qwen3.5 is an early-fusion VLM (image+text). This config fine-tunes
+# the text-only path. For multimodal (image+text) fine-tuning, add image
+# columns to your dataset following axolotl's multimodal dataset format.
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+strict: false
+
+chat_template: qwen3_5
+datasets:
+  - path: mlabonne/FineTome-100k
+    type: chat_template
+    split: train[:20%]
+    field_messages: conversations
+    message_property_mappings:
+      role: from
+      content: value
+val_set_size: 0.0
+output_dir: ./outputs/out
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: true
+
+load_in_4bit: true
+adapter: qlora
+lora_r: 16
+lora_alpha: 32
+lora_target_modules:
+  - q_proj
+  - k_proj
+  - v_proj
+  - o_proj
+  - down_proj
+  - up_proj
+  # Uncomment below to also target the linear attention projections.
+  # These use separate in_proj_qkv / in_proj_z / out_proj (Qwen3.5-specific).
+  # - linear_attn.in_proj_qkv
+  # - linear_attn.in_proj_z
+  # - linear_attn.out_proj
+
+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_4bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+bf16: auto
+tf32: true
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
+  use_reentrant: false
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+logging_steps: 1
+flash_attention: true
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch: 4
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+weight_decay: 0.0
+special_tokens:

examples/qwen3.5/35b-a3b-moe-qlora.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+strict: false
+
+chat_template: qwen3_5
+datasets:
+  - path: mlabonne/FineTome-100k
+    type: chat_template
+    split: train[:20%]
+    field_messages: conversations
+    message_property_mappings:
+      role: from
+      content: value
+val_set_size: 0.0
+output_dir: ./outputs/out
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: true
+
+load_in_4bit: true
+quantize_moe_experts: true
+adapter: qlora
+lora_r: 16
+lora_alpha: 32
+lora_dropout: 0
+lora_target_modules:
+  - q_proj
+  - k_proj
+  - v_proj
+  - o_proj
+
+#lora_target_parameters:
+#   - mlp.experts.gate_up_proj
+#   - mlp.experts.down_proj
+
+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_4bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+bf16: auto
+tf32: true
+
+lora_mlp_kernel: false
+lora_qkv_kernel: false
+lora_o_kernel: false
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
+  use_reentrant: false
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+logging_steps: 1
+flash_attention: true
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch: 4
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+weight_decay: 0.0
+special_tokens:

examples/qwen3.5/7b-lora-vision.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-7B
+processor_type: AutoProcessor
+
+# Qwen3.5-7B and above are early-fusion VLMs (Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration).
+# Vision and text tokens are processed together by the same transformer layers.
+# Note: Qwen3.5-2B is a text-only model — the smallest VLM is Qwen3.5-7B.
+
+# These 3 lines are required for vision/multimodal training
+skip_prepare_dataset: true
+remove_unused_columns: false
+sample_packing: false
+
+chat_template: qwen3_5
+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
+# Targets the language model attention and MLP layers.
+# Qwen3.5 is early-fusion: all layers (including those seeing vision tokens) share
+# the same transformer stack, so standard attention targets work for both modalities.
+lora_target_modules:
+  - q_proj
+  - k_proj
+  - v_proj
+  - o_proj
+  - down_proj
+  - up_proj
+  # Uncomment to also target the linear attention (GatedDeltaNet) projections:
+  # - linear_attn.in_proj_qkv
+  # - linear_attn.in_proj_z
+  # - linear_attn.out_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
+tf32: true
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
+  use_reentrant: false
+logging_steps: 1
+flash_attention: true
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+weight_decay: 0.0

examples/qwen3.5/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Finetune Qwen3.5 with Axolotl
+
+[Qwen3.5](https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen35-68452f3bc6e4b7cfb4e1c803) is a hybrid architecture model series combining Gated DeltaNet linear attention with standard Transformer attention. Models from 7B onwards are early-fusion vision-language models (`Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration`), meaning vision and text tokens are processed through the same transformer stack. The 2B variant is text-only.
+
+Available configs:
+
+| Config | Model | Type |
+|---|---|---|
+| `27b-qlora.yaml` | Qwen3.5-27B | Dense VLM, text-only path |
+| `35b-a3b-moe-qlora.yaml` | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | MoE, text-only path |
+| `122b-a10b-moe-qlora.yaml` | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | MoE, text-only path |
+| `7b-lora-vision.yaml` | Qwen3.5-7B | Vision+text (multimodal) |
+
+## Getting started
+
+1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
+
+2. Install [Cut Cross Entropy](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#cut-cross-entropy) to reduce training VRAM usage.
+
+3. Install FLA for sample packing support with the Gated DeltaNet linear attention layers:
+```bash
+pip3 uninstall -y causal-conv1d && pip3 install flash-linear-attention==0.4.1
+```
+> FLA is required when `sample_packing: true`. Without it, training raises a `RuntimeError` on packed sequences. Vision configs use `sample_packing: false` so FLA is optional there.
+
+4. Run a finetuning example:
+
+```bash
+# Dense 27B text-only (QLoRA, ~47 GiB VRAM with sample packing)
+axolotl train examples/qwen3.5/27b-qlora.yaml
+
+# MoE 35B-A3B text-only (QLoRA)
+axolotl train examples/qwen3.5/35b-a3b-moe-qlora.yaml
+
+# MoE 122B-A10B text-only (QLoRA)
+axolotl train examples/qwen3.5/122b-a10b-moe-qlora.yaml
+
+# 7B vision+text (LoRA, multimodal dataset)
+axolotl train examples/qwen3.5/7b-lora-vision.yaml
+```
+
+### TIPS
+
+- For inference, you can experiment with `temperature: 0.7`, `top_p: 0.8`, `top_k: 20`, and `min_p: 0`.
+- You can run a full finetuning by removing `adapter: qlora` and `load_in_4bit: true`. See [Multi-GPU](#optimization-guides) below.
+- Read more on loading 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).
+- For **multimodal** finetuning, set `processor_type: AutoProcessor`, `skip_prepare_dataset: true`, and `remove_unused_columns: false` as shown in `7b-lora-vision.yaml`.
+- The Gated DeltaNet linear attention layers (`linear_attn.*`) can optionally be added to `lora_target_modules` — they are commented out by default.
+
+## Optimization Guides
+
+- [Optimizations Guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/optimizations.html)
+
+## Related Resources
+
+- [Qwen3.5 Blog](https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3.5/)
+- [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/trinity/README.md

@@ -8,13 +8,15 @@ This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl with multi-turn conversations
 
 1. Install Axolotl following the main from the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html#sec-edge-build).
 
-2. Run the finetuning example:
+2. Install [Cut Cross Entropy](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#cut-cross-entropy) to reduce training VRAM usage.
+
+3. Run the finetuning example:
 
     ```bash
     axolotl train examples/trinity/trinity-nano-preview-qlora.yaml
     ```
 
-This config uses about 24.9 GiB VRAM.
+This config uses about 24.9 GiB VRAM (w/o CCE).
 
 Let us know how it goes. Happy finetuning! 🚀
 
@@ -29,10 +31,6 @@ Let us know how it goes. Happy finetuning! 🚀
 
 Please check the [Optimizations doc](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/optimizations.html).
 
-## Limitations
-
-**Cut Cross Entropy (CCE)**: Currently not supported. We plan to include CCE support for Trinity in the near future.
-
 ## Related Resources
 
 - [Trinity Blog](https://www.arcee.ai/blog/the-trinity-manifesto)

examples/trinity/trinity-nano-preview-qlora.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 base_model: arcee-ai/Trinity-Nano-Preview
-trust_remote_code: true
 revision_of_model: 2ee94b0
 
 # Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF

requirements.txt

@@ -2,25 +2,28 @@
 
 # START section of dependencies that don't install on Darwin/MacOS
 bitsandbytes==0.49.1
-triton>=3.0.0
+triton>=3.4.0
 mamba-ssm==1.2.0.post1
 xformers>=0.0.23.post1
-liger-kernel==0.6.4
+liger-kernel==0.7.0
 # END section
 
 packaging==26.0
 huggingface_hub>=1.1.7
 peft>=0.18.1
 tokenizers>=0.22.1
-transformers==5.0.0
-accelerate==1.12.0
+transformers==5.3.0
+accelerate==1.13.0
 datasets==4.5.0
-deepspeed>=0.18.3
-trl==0.27.1
-hf_xet==1.2.0
-kernels==0.11.5
+deepspeed>=0.18.6,<0.19.0
+trl==0.29.0
+hf_xet==1.3.2
+kernels==0.12.2
 
-trackio>=0.13.0
+fla-core==0.4.1
+flash-linear-attention==0.4.1
+
+trackio>=0.16.1
 typing-extensions>=4.15.0
 
 optimum==1.16.2
@@ -63,7 +66,7 @@ langdetect==1.0.9
 immutabledict==4.2.0
 antlr4-python3-runtime==4.13.2
 
-torchao==0.13.0
+torchao==0.16.0
 openenv-core==0.1.0
 schedulefree==1.4.1
 

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@f4b5712"'
+    + f'{UV_PREFIX}pip install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@e8ad129"'
 )

setup.py

@@ -26,6 +26,18 @@ def parse_requirements(extras_require_map):
     try:
         xformers_version = [req for req in _install_requires if "xformers" in req][0]
         install_xformers = platform.machine() != "aarch64"
+        if platform.machine() == "aarch64":
+            # skip on ARM64
+            skip_packages = [
+                "torchao",
+                "fla-core",
+                "flash-linear-attention",
+            ]
+            _install_requires = [
+                req
+                for req in _install_requires
+                if re.split(r"[>=<]", req)[0].strip() not in skip_packages
+            ]
         if "Darwin" in platform.system():
             # skip packages not compatible with OSX
             skip_packages = [

src/axolotl/cli/__init__.py

@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ from axolotl.logging_config import configure_logging
 
 os.environ.setdefault("TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM", "false")
 os.environ.setdefault("HF_XET_HIGH_PERFORMANCE", "1")
+os.environ.setdefault("TRL_EXPERIMENTAL_SILENCE", "1")
 
 configure_logging()

src/axolotl/cli/config.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import os
 import tempfile
 from pathlib import Path
 from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
-from typing import Union
+from typing import Any, Optional, Union
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 import requests
@@ -32,6 +32,63 @@ from axolotl.utils.wandb_ import setup_wandb_env_vars
 
 LOG = get_logger(__name__)
 
+
+def _coerce_value(value: Any, existing: Optional[Any] = None) -> Any:
+    """Coerce a string CLI value to its most likely Python type.
+
+    If an existing value is present in the config, its type is used to guide
+    casting.  Otherwise, YAML-style inference is applied: booleans, ints,
+    floats, and None literals are recognised automatically.
+
+    Args:
+        value: The raw value (typically a string from the CLI).
+        existing: An optional existing config value whose type guides coercion.
+
+    Returns:
+        The value cast to the inferred or expected type.
+    """
+    if not isinstance(value, str):
+        return value
+
+    # If the config already has a typed value, cast to match
+    if existing is not None:
+        if isinstance(existing, bool):
+            return value.lower() in ("true", "1", "yes")
+        if isinstance(existing, int):
+            try:
+                return int(value)
+            except (ValueError, TypeError):
+                return value
+        if isinstance(existing, float):
+            try:
+                return float(value)
+            except (ValueError, TypeError):
+                return value
+        # For other types (str, list, dict, etc.), return as-is
+        return value
+
+    # No existing value -- use YAML-style inference
+    lower = value.lower()
+    if lower in ("true", "yes"):
+        return True
+    if lower in ("false", "no"):
+        return False
+    if lower in ("null", "none", "~"):
+        return None
+
+    # Try int then float
+    try:
+        return int(value)
+    except ValueError:
+        pass
+    try:
+        return float(value)
+    except ValueError:
+        pass
+
+    return value
+
+
 API_KEY_FIELDS = {"comet_api_key"}
 
 TELEMETRY_MANAGER = TelemetryManager.get_instance()
@@ -208,13 +265,37 @@ def load_cfg(
     # If there are any options passed in the cli, if it is something that seems valid
     # from the yaml, then overwrite the value
     cfg_keys = cfg.keys()
+
+    # Separate nested (dot-notation) kwargs from flat kwargs
+    nested_kwargs: dict[str, dict[str, Any]] = {}
+    flat_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {}
     for key, value in kwargs.items():
+        if "__" in key:
+            parent, child = key.split("__", 1)
+            nested_kwargs.setdefault(parent, {})[child] = value
+        else:
+            flat_kwargs[key] = value
+
+    # Apply flat kwargs
+    for key, value in flat_kwargs.items():
         # If not strict, allow writing to cfg even if it's not in the yml already
         if key in cfg_keys or not cfg.strict:
-            if isinstance(cfg[key], bool):
-                cfg[key] = bool(value)
-            else:
-                cfg[key] = value
+            cfg[key] = _coerce_value(value, cfg.get(key))
+
+    # Apply nested kwargs (e.g., trl__beta -> cfg.trl.beta)
+    for parent, children in nested_kwargs.items():
+        if parent not in cfg_keys and cfg.strict:
+            continue
+        if cfg[parent] is None:
+            cfg[parent] = {}
+        if not isinstance(cfg[parent], dict):
+            LOG.warning(
+                "Overwriting non-dict value for '%s' with nested CLI overrides", parent
+            )
+            cfg[parent] = {}
+        for child_key, child_value in children.items():
+            existing_child = cfg[parent].get(child_key)
+            cfg[parent][child_key] = _coerce_value(child_value, existing_child)
 
     try:
         device_props = torch.cuda.get_device_properties("cuda")

src/axolotl/cli/merge_lora.py

@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs) -> None:
         merge_lora=True,
         load_in_8bit=False,
         load_in_4bit=False,
+        quantize_moe_experts=False,
         flash_attention=False,
         context_parallel_size=None,
         deepspeed=None,

src/axolotl/cli/utils/args.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import dataclasses
 from functools import wraps
-from types import NoneType
+from types import NoneType, UnionType
 from typing import Any, Callable, Type, Union, get_args, get_origin
 
 import click
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ def _strip_optional_type(field_type: type | str | None):
         If the input type is `Union[T, None]` or `Optional[T]`, returns `T`. Otherwise
             returns the input type unchanged.
     """
-    if get_origin(field_type) is Union and type(None) in get_args(field_type):
+    is_union = get_origin(field_type) is Union or isinstance(field_type, UnionType)
+    if is_union and type(None) in get_args(field_type):
         field_type = next(
             t for t in get_args(field_type) if not isinstance(t, NoneType)
         )
@@ -87,10 +88,70 @@ def add_options_from_dataclass(config_class: Type[Any]) -> Callable:
     return decorator
 
 
+def _is_pydantic_model(field_type: type) -> bool:
+    """Check if a type is a Pydantic BaseModel subclass."""
+    try:
+        return isinstance(field_type, type) and issubclass(field_type, BaseModel)
+    except TypeError:
+        return False
+
+
+def _get_field_description(field) -> str | None:
+    """Get description from a Pydantic field, checking both .description and json_schema_extra."""
+    if field.description:
+        return field.description
+    if field.json_schema_extra and isinstance(field.json_schema_extra, dict):
+        return field.json_schema_extra.get("description")
+    return None
+
+
+def _add_nested_model_options(
+    function: Callable, parent_name: str, model_class: Type[BaseModel]
+) -> Callable:
+    """
+    Add Click options for all fields of a nested Pydantic model using dot-notation.
+
+    Note: Only single-level nesting is supported (e.g., ``--trl.beta``).
+    Deeper nesting (e.g., ``--trl.scheduler.warmup``) is not handled.
+
+    Args:
+        function: Click command function to add options to.
+        parent_name: Parent field name (e.g., "trl").
+        model_class: Nested Pydantic model class.
+
+    Returns:
+        Function with added Click options.
+    """
+    for sub_name, sub_field in reversed(model_class.model_fields.items()):
+        sub_type = _strip_optional_type(sub_field.annotation)
+        # Use dot notation: --parent.sub_field
+        cli_name = f"{parent_name}.{sub_name}".replace("_", "-")
+        # The kwarg name uses double-underscore as separator
+        param_name = f"{parent_name}__{sub_name}"
+        description = _get_field_description(sub_field)
+
+        if sub_type is bool:
+            option_name = f"--{cli_name}/--no-{cli_name}"
+            function = click.option(
+                option_name, param_name, default=None, help=description
+            )(function)
+        else:
+            option_name = f"--{cli_name}"
+            click_type = {str: str, int: int, float: float}.get(sub_type)
+            function = click.option(
+                option_name, param_name, default=None, type=click_type, help=description
+            )(function)
+
+    return function
+
+
 def add_options_from_config(config_class: Type[BaseModel]) -> Callable:
     """
     Create Click options from the fields of a Pydantic model.
 
+    For fields whose type is itself a Pydantic BaseModel, dot-notation CLI options are
+    generated for each sub-field (e.g., ``--trl.beta=0.1``).
+
     Args:
         config_class: PyDantic model with fields to parse from the CLI
 
@@ -103,6 +164,11 @@ def add_options_from_config(config_class: Type[BaseModel]) -> Callable:
         for name, field in reversed(config_class.model_fields.items()):
             field_type = _strip_optional_type(field.annotation)
 
+            # Handle nested Pydantic models with dot-notation options
+            if _is_pydantic_model(field_type):
+                function = _add_nested_model_options(function, name, field_type)
+                continue
+
             if field_type is bool:
                 field_name = name.replace("_", "-")
                 option_name = f"--{field_name}/--no-{field_name}"

src/axolotl/common/architectures.py

@@ -12,10 +12,14 @@ MOE_ARCH_BLOCK = {
     "mixtral": "MixtralSparseMoeBlock",
     "qwen2_moe": "Qwen2MoeSparseMoeBlock",
     "qwen3_moe": "Qwen3MoeSparseMoeBlock",
+    "qwen3_5_moe": "Qwen3_5MoeSparseMoeBlock",
     "qwen3_vl_moe": "Qwen3VLMoeTextSparseMoeBlock",
     "deepseek_v2": "DeepseekV2MoE",
     "deepseek_v3": "DeepseekV3MoE",
     "gpt_oss": "GptOssDecoderLayer",
     "lfm2_moe": "Lfm2MoeSparseMoeBlock",
     "afmoe": "AfmoeMoE",
+    "glm4_moe": "Glm4MoeDecoderLayer",
+    "glm4_moe_lite": "Glm4MoeLiteDecoderLayer",
+    "glm_moe_dsa": "GlmMoeDsaDecoderLayer",
 }

src/axolotl/core/builders/base.py

@@ -409,6 +409,9 @@ class TrainerBuilderBase(abc.ABC):
             if self.cfg.hub_strategy:
                 training_args_kwargs["hub_strategy"] = self.cfg.hub_strategy
 
+            if self.cfg.hub_revision:
+                training_args_kwargs["hub_revision"] = self.cfg.hub_revision
+
     def _configure_save_and_eval_strategy(self, training_args_kwargs: dict):
         # save_strategy and save_steps
         if self.cfg.save_steps:

src/axolotl/core/builders/causal.py

@@ -122,6 +122,12 @@ class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
             ColabCallback = colab_inference_post_train_callback(trainer)
             callbacks.append(ColabCallback(self.cfg))
 
+        if getattr(self.cfg, "generate_samples", False):
+            from axolotl.utils.callbacks.generation import SFTGenerationCallback
+
+            callbacks.append(SFTGenerationCallback(trainer))
+            LOG.info("SFT sample generation enabled")
+
         callbacks.extend(super().get_post_trainer_create_callbacks(trainer=trainer))
         return callbacks
 
@@ -246,7 +252,8 @@ class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
             ddp_find_unused_parameters
         )
 
-        training_arguments_kwargs["group_by_length"] = self.cfg.group_by_length
+        if self.cfg.group_by_length:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["train_sampling_strategy"] = "group_by_length"
         training_arguments_kwargs["curriculum_sampling"] = self.cfg.curriculum_sampling
 
         training_arguments_kwargs["sample_packing"] = bool(self.cfg.sample_packing)

src/axolotl/core/builders/rl.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ from axolotl.core.trainers import (
 )
 from axolotl.core.trainers.dpo import DPOStrategy
 from axolotl.core.trainers.dpo.args import AxolotlDPOConfig
-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
@@ -53,6 +52,8 @@ class HFRLTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
         trainer_cls_args = [self.model]
 
         if self.cfg.rl in {RLType.GRPO, RLType.GDPO}:
+            from axolotl.core.trainers.grpo import GRPOStrategy
+
             trainer_cls = GRPOStrategy.get_trainer_class(
                 sequence_parallel=self.cfg.context_parallel_size > 1
             )
@@ -119,11 +120,6 @@ class HFRLTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
         if self.cfg.use_wandb:
             training_args_kwargs["run_name"] = self.cfg.wandb_name
 
-        if self.cfg.max_prompt_len:
-            training_args_kwargs["max_prompt_length"] = self.cfg.max_prompt_len
-        else:
-            training_args_kwargs["max_prompt_length"] = self.cfg.sequence_len
-
         training_args_cls = None
         blocklist_args_kwargs = []
         if self.cfg.rl is RLType.SIMPO:
@@ -133,21 +129,17 @@ class HFRLTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
             if self.cfg.cpo_alpha is not None:
                 training_args_kwargs["cpo_alpha"] = self.cfg.cpo_alpha
 
-            # Handle when max_prompt_length == max_length from defaults
-            # CPOTrainer requires strictly less than
-            if (
-                training_args_kwargs["max_prompt_length"]
-                == training_args_kwargs["max_length"]
-            ):
-                training_args_kwargs["max_prompt_length"] -= 1
+            blocklist_args_kwargs.append("max_prompt_length")
 
         elif self.cfg.rl is RLType.ORPO:
             training_args_cls = AxolotlORPOConfig
 
+            blocklist_args_kwargs.append("max_prompt_length")
+
         elif self.cfg.rl is RLType.KTO:
             training_args_cls = AxolotlKTOConfig
             # KTOConfig in TRL >= 0.27.0 no longer accepts max_prompt_length
-            blocklist_args_kwargs = ["max_prompt_length"]
+            blocklist_args_kwargs.append("max_prompt_length")
 
             training_args_kwargs["desirable_weight"] = (
                 self.cfg.kto_desirable_weight or 1.0
@@ -157,6 +149,8 @@ class HFRLTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
             )
 
         elif self.cfg.rl in {RLType.GRPO, RLType.GDPO}:
+            from axolotl.core.trainers.grpo import GRPOStrategy
+
             training_args_cls = GRPOStrategy.get_training_args_class()
             training_args_kwargs.update(GRPOStrategy.set_training_args_kwargs(self.cfg))
             blocklist_args_kwargs = GRPOStrategy.get_blocklist_args_kwargs()

src/axolotl/core/trainers/base.py

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ 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, is_peft_available
-from trl.trainer.utils import pad_to_length
+from trl.experimental.utils import pad_to_length
 from typing_extensions import override
 
 from axolotl.core.trainers.mixins import (
@@ -719,6 +719,20 @@ class AxolotlTrainer(
         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}")
+
+        # fix for Context Parallel save: CP eval invalidates tensor storage
+        # pointers, so clone to CPU to get fresh valid storage for safetensors
+        if (
+            state_dict is not None
+            and self.axolotl_cfg
+            and self.axolotl_cfg.context_parallel_size
+            and self.axolotl_cfg.context_parallel_size > 1
+        ):
+            state_dict = {
+                k: v.detach().cpu() if isinstance(v, torch.Tensor) else v
+                for k, v in state_dict.items()
+            }
+
         supported_classes = (
             (PreTrainedModel,)
             if not is_peft_available()
@@ -729,6 +743,7 @@ class AxolotlTrainer(
         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,
@@ -738,6 +753,7 @@ class AxolotlTrainer(
                 ).save_pretrained(
                     output_dir,
                     state_dict=state_dict,
+                    is_main_process=self.accelerator.is_main_process,
                 )
             else:
                 LOG.info(
@@ -765,11 +781,7 @@ class AxolotlTrainer(
             LOG.info(
                 "Saving Trainer.data_collator.tokenizer by default as Trainer.processing_class is `None`"
             )
-            save_jinja_files = True
-            if self.axolotl_cfg:
-                save_jinja_files = self.axolotl_cfg.tokenizer_save_jinja_files
-            self.data_collator.tokenizer.save_pretrained(
-                output_dir, save_jinja_files=save_jinja_files
-            )
+            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/dpo/__init__.py

@@ -25,17 +25,13 @@ class DPOStrategy:
         # Label smoothing is not compatible with IPO
         if cfg.rl is RLType.DPO and cfg.dpo_label_smoothing:
             training_args_kwargs["label_smoothing"] = cfg.dpo_label_smoothing
-        training_args_kwargs["max_completion_length"] = None
         training_args_kwargs["max_length"] = cfg.sequence_len
-        training_args_kwargs["generate_during_eval"] = cfg.dpo_generate_during_eval
         if cfg.dpo_use_weighting is not None:
             training_args_kwargs["use_weighting"] = cfg.dpo_use_weighting
         if cfg.dpo_padding_free is not None:
             training_args_kwargs["padding_free"] = cfg.dpo_padding_free
         if cfg.dpo_norm_loss is not None:
             training_args_kwargs["dpo_norm_loss"] = cfg.dpo_norm_loss
-        if cfg.dpo_use_logits_to_keep is not None:
-            training_args_kwargs["use_logits_to_keep"] = cfg.dpo_use_logits_to_keep
         if cfg.dpo_use_liger_kernel is not None:
             training_args_kwargs["use_liger_kernel"] = cfg.dpo_use_liger_kernel
         return training_args_kwargs

src/axolotl/core/trainers/dpo/trainer.py

@@ -57,16 +57,18 @@ class AxolotlDPOTrainer(
     def tokenize_row(
         features,
         processing_class,
-        max_prompt_length,
-        max_completion_length,
-        add_special_tokens,
+        max_prompt_length: int | None = None,
+        max_completion_length: int | None = None,
+        add_special_tokens: bool = True,
+        is_chat: bool = False,
     ) -> Dict:
         res = DPOTrainer.tokenize_row(
             features,
             processing_class,
-            max_prompt_length,
-            max_completion_length,
-            add_special_tokens,
+            max_prompt_length=max_prompt_length,
+            max_completion_length=max_completion_length,
+            add_special_tokens=add_special_tokens,
+            is_chat=is_chat,
         )
         # fix when the tokenizer doesn't have a bos_token_id, e.g. Qwen
         if processing_class.bos_token is None and res["prompt_input_ids"][0] is None:
@@ -101,10 +103,10 @@ class AxolotlDPOTrainer(
     ) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
         if self.args.dpo_norm_loss:
             # fmt: off
-            loss_type: str = self.loss_type  # type: ignore[has-type]
+            loss_type: list[str] = self.loss_type  # type: ignore[has-type]
             # fmt: on
             # concatenated_forward handles avg token logprob for ipo case already
-            self.loss_type = "ipo"
+            self.loss_type = ["ipo"]
             res = super().concatenated_forward(model, batch, is_ref_model=is_ref_model)
             self.loss_type = loss_type
             return res

src/axolotl/core/trainers/grpo/__init__.py

@@ -126,9 +126,6 @@ class GRPOStrategy:
         if trl.use_liger_loss is not None:
             grpo_args_kwargs["use_liger_loss"] = trl.use_liger_loss
 
-        if trl.rollout_func:
-            grpo_args_kwargs["rollout_func"] = cls.get_rollout_func(trl.rollout_func)
-
         if trl.multi_objective_aggregation is not None:
             grpo_args_kwargs["multi_objective_aggregation"] = (
                 trl.multi_objective_aggregation
@@ -154,6 +151,8 @@ class GRPOStrategy:
             trainer_kwargs["reward_processing_classes"] = (
                 cfg.trl.reward_processing_classes
             )
+        if cfg.trl and cfg.trl.rollout_func:
+            trainer_kwargs["rollout_func"] = cls.get_rollout_func(cfg.trl.rollout_func)
 
         return trainer_kwargs
 
@@ -164,7 +163,12 @@ class GRPOStrategy:
 
     @classmethod
     def get_blocklist_args_kwargs(cls) -> list[str]:
-        return ["dataset_num_proc", "max_length", "include_tokens_per_second"]
+        return [
+            "dataset_num_proc",
+            "max_length",
+            "include_tokens_per_second",
+            "max_prompt_length",
+        ]
 
     @classmethod
     def get_reward_func(cls, reward_func_fqn: str) -> RewardFunc:

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

@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ class OptimizerMixin(Trainer):
 
         return optimizer_grouped_parameters
 
-    def create_optimizer(self):
+    def create_optimizer(self, model=None):
         if (
             self.args.loraplus_lr_ratio is None
             and self.args.embedding_lr_scale is None
@@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ class OptimizerMixin(Trainer):
             and self.args.lr_groups is None
             and self.optimizer_cls_and_kwargs is None
         ):
-            return super().create_optimizer()
+            return super().create_optimizer(model=model)
 
-        opt_model = self.model_wrapped if is_sagemaker_mp_enabled() else self.model
+        opt_model = self.model if model is None else model
 
         if (
             not self.optimizer

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

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class SchedulerMixin(Trainer):
     args = None  # type: "AxolotlTrainingArguments"  # type: ignore[name-defined]
 
     def create_scheduler(
-        self, num_training_steps: int, optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer = None
+        self, num_training_steps: int, optimizer: None | torch.optim.Optimizer = None
     ) -> LRScheduler:
         """
         Set up the scheduler. The optimizer of the trainer must have been set up either before this method is called or
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ class SchedulerMixin(Trainer):
             and self.args.cosine_min_lr_ratio is not None
         )
 
+        if optimizer is None:
+            if self.optimizer is None:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "Optimizer must be set before calling create_scheduler or passed as an argument."
+                )
+            optimizer = self.optimizer
+
         # fmt: off
         if self.lr_scheduler is None:  # type: ignore
             # fmt: on

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@f4b5712"
+pip3 uninstall -y cut-cross-entropy && pip3 install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@e8ad129"
 ```
 
 ## Usage
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ plugins:
 
 ## Supported Models
 
+- afmoe
 - apertus
 - arcee
 - cohere
@@ -51,11 +52,12 @@ plugins:
 - glm4v
 - glm4v_moe
 - glm_image
+- glm_moe_dsa
 - gpt_oss
 - granite
 - granitemoe
-- granitemoeshared
 - granitemoehybrid
+- granitemoeshared
 - hunyuan_v1_dense
 - hunyuan_v1_moe
 - internvl
@@ -76,20 +78,26 @@ plugins:
 - olmo
 - olmo2
 - olmo3
+- olmoe
 - phi
 - phi3
 - phi4_multimodal
 - qwen2
-- qwen2_vl
-- qwen2_moe
 - qwen2_5_vl
+- qwen2_moe
+- qwen2_vl
 - qwen3
+- qwen3_5
+- qwen3_5_text
+- qwen3_5_moe
+- qwen3_5_moe_text
 - qwen3_moe
+- qwen3_next
 - qwen3_vl
 - qwen3_vl_moe
-- qwen3_next
-- smollm3
 - seed_oss
+- smollm3
+- step3p5
 - voxtral
 
 ## Citation

src/axolotl/integrations/cut_cross_entropy/__init__.py

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ 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@f4b5712"`'
+    '`pip install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@e8ad129"`'
 )
 
 
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ class CutCrossEntropyPlugin(BasePlugin):
 
     def patch_llama_like(
         self,
-        model_type: str,
+        model_type_to_patch: str,
     ) -> None:
         """
         Generic patch for model architectures with causal lm similar to llama
@@ -112,7 +112,10 @@ class CutCrossEntropyPlugin(BasePlugin):
         from cut_cross_entropy.transformers.patch import PATCH_FNS
 
         def patch_generic(
-            maybe_model, patch_options, model_type: str, remote_model_id: str | None
+            maybe_model,
+            patch_options,
+            remote_model_id: str | None,
+            model_type: str,
         ):
             import cut_cross_entropy.transformers.llama
             from cut_cross_entropy.transformers.llama import cce_forward
@@ -136,11 +139,13 @@ class CutCrossEntropyPlugin(BasePlugin):
                     f"Error: {str(e)}"
                 ) from e
 
-        if model_type not in PATCH_FNS:
+        if model_type_to_patch not in PATCH_FNS:
             LOG.warning_once(
-                "Setting up generic cce patch for model type: %s", model_type
+                "Setting up generic cce patch for model type: %s", model_type_to_patch
             )
             LOG.warning_once(
-                f"Generic Cut Cross Entropy + {model_type} support is experimental and may not work as expected."
+                f"Generic Cut Cross Entropy + {model_type_to_patch} support is experimental and may not work as expected."
+            )
+            PATCH_FNS[model_type_to_patch] = partial(
+                patch_generic, model_type=model_type_to_patch
             )
-            PATCH_FNS[model_type] = partial(patch_generic, model_type=model_type)

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+# Kernels Integration
+
+MoE (Mixture of Experts) kernels speed up training for MoE layers and reduce VRAM costs. In transformers v5, `batched_mm` and `grouped_mm` were integrated as built-in options via the `experts_implementation` config kwarg:
+
+```python
+class ExpertsInterface(GeneralInterface):
+    _global_mapping = {
+        "batched_mm": batched_mm_experts_forward,
+        "grouped_mm": grouped_mm_experts_forward,
+    }
+```
+
+In our custom integration, we add support for **ScatterMoE** and **SonicMoE**, which are more efficient and faster than `grouped_mm`.
+
+## Usage
+
+Add the following to your axolotl YAML config:
+
+```yaml
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.kernels.KernelsPlugin
+
+use_kernels: true
+
+# Choose one (mutually exclusive):
+use_scattermoe: true
+# OR
+use_sonicmoe: true
+```
+
+**Important:** Setting `experts_implementation` is incompatible with custom kernel options.
+
+### SonicMoE installation
+
+**Prerequisites:**
+- NVIDIA Hopper (H100, H200) or Blackwell (B200, GB200) GPU
+- CUDA 12.9+ (13.0+ for B300)
+- PyTorch 2.7+ (2.9.1 recommended)
+- For B300: Triton 3.6.0
+
+```bash
+pip install --ignore-requires-python --no-deps "sonic-moe @ git+https://github.com/Dao-AILab/sonic-moe.git@116e2df0a41874f77fa0ad269ce7df3f0cfcb956" && pip install nvidia-cutlass-dsl==4.4.0 quack-kernels==0.2.5
+```
+
+See the [SonicMoE installation guide](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/sonic-moe?tab=readme-ov-file#-installation) for the latest prerequisite details.
+
+**Note:** Blackwell support is in upstream beta. On Blackwell GPUs, Axolotl automatically sets `USE_QUACK_GEMM=1` to enable the Blackwell kernels.
+
+## How It Works
+
+The `KernelsPlugin` runs before model loading and:
+
+### ScatterMoE
+1. Registers the ScatterMoE kernel from the local `libs/scattermoe_lora` package (includes fused LoRA support via Triton kernels).
+2. Patches the model's `SparseMoeBlock` forward method with the optimized ScatterMoE implementation.
+
+### SonicMoE
+1. Resolves the model's MoE block class(es) from `constants.py`.
+2. Patches the forward method with SonicMoE's optimized kernels and registers a weight converter for the interleaved gate/up projection format.
+3. Supports both softmax->topk and sigmoid->topk routing strategies.
+
+Both paths use the shared `resolve_moe_block_classes` utility in `constants.py` for model-type-to-class resolution.
+
+#### Supported Models
+
+See `constants.py` for the full list of supported model types (Qwen2-MoE, Qwen3-MoE, OLMoE, Mixtral, DeepSeek-V3, GLM-MoE, MiniMax, etc.).
+
+## Limitations
+
+ScatterMoE uses a softmax -> topk routing, so results may be different for some model architectures as baseline (GPT-OSS, etc). Incompatible with `GLM_MOE_DSA` (GLM 5) and `GLM4_MOE_LITE` (GLM 4.7 Flash) at the moment.
+
+SonicMoE supports both softmax->topk and sigmoid->topk routing, covering a wider range of architectures.
+
+ScatterMoE does not work for GLM4.7 Flash (glm4_moe_lite) atm.
+
+## Note on MegaBlocks
+
+We tested [MegaBlocks](https://huggingface.co/kernels-community/megablocks) but were unable to ensure numerical accuracy, so we did not integrate it. It was also incompatible with many newer model architectures in transformers.

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/args.py

@@ -6,7 +6,18 @@ LOG = get_logger(__name__)
 
 
 class KernelsArgs(BaseModel):
-    use_scattermoe: bool | None = True
+    use_scattermoe: bool | None = None
+    use_sonicmoe: bool | None = None
+
+    @model_validator(mode="before")
+    @classmethod
+    def check_mutually_exclusive(cls, data):
+        if data.get("use_scattermoe") and data.get("use_sonicmoe"):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Cannot use both ScatterMoE and SonicMoE simultaneously. "
+                "Please set only one of `use_scattermoe` or `use_sonicmoe` to true."
+            )
+        return data
 
     @model_validator(mode="before")
     @classmethod
@@ -33,3 +44,16 @@ class KernelsArgs(BaseModel):
             data["experts_implementation"] = "eager"
 
         return data
+
+    @model_validator(mode="before")
+    @classmethod
+    def disable_mlp_kernel(cls, data):
+        if data.get("use_scattermoe") is True or data.get("use_sonicmoe") is True:
+            if data.get("lora_mlp_kernel") is True:
+                LOG.warning(
+                    "Disabling lora_mlp_kernel when using custom MoE kernels due to compatibility issues."
+                )
+                data["lora_mlp_kernel"] = False
+            data["mlp_kernel"] = False
+
+        return data

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/constants.py

@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+"""
+Supported MoE block mappings for kernel integrations.
+
+Maps model_type to the SparseMoeBlock class name(s) in transformers.
+Used by both ScatterMoE and SonicMoE kernel paths.
+
+Values can be a single class name (str) or a list of class names for models
+with multiple MoE block types (e.g. qwen3_omni_moe has Thinker + Talker).
+"""
+
+import importlib
+
+SPARSE_MOE_BLOCK = {
+    # softmax -> topk routing
+    "qwen2_moe": "Qwen2MoeSparseMoeBlock",
+    "qwen3_moe": "Qwen3MoeSparseMoeBlock",
+    "qwen3_5_moe": "Qwen3_5MoeSparseMoeBlock",
+    "qwen3_next": "Qwen3NextSparseMoeBlock",
+    "qwen3_vl_moe": "Qwen3VLMoeTextSparseMoeBlock",
+    # qwen3_omni_moe: Thinker (standard) + Talker (shared experts + shared_expert_gate)
+    "qwen3_omni_moe": [
+        "Qwen3OmniMoeThinkerTextSparseMoeBlock",
+        "Qwen3OmniMoeTalkerTextSparseMoeBlock",
+    ],
+    "olmoe": "OlmoeSparseMoeBlock",
+    "mixtral": "MixtralSparseMoeBlock",
+    "minimax": "MiniMaxSparseMoeBlock",
+    # sigmoid -> topk routing (with group-based expert selection)
+    "glm_moe_dsa": "GlmMoeDsaMoE",
+    "deepseek_v3": "DeepseekV3MoE",
+    "glm4_moe": "Glm4MoeMoE",
+    "glm4_moe_lite": "Glm4MoeLiteMoE",
+    "glm4v_moe": "Glm4vMoeTextMoE",
+    # sigmoid -> topk routing (no group selection)
+    "minimax_m2": "MiniMaxM2SparseMoeBlock",
+    # Models below need custom routing (not yet implemented):
+    # "ernie4_5_moe": "Ernie4_5_MoeSparseMoeBlock",  # softmax->topk, e_score_correction_bias between softmax and topk
+    # "deepseek_v2": "DeepseekV2Moe",  # softmax->topk, group_limited_greedy, different attr names (num_group)
+    # "hunyuan_v1_moe": "HunYuanMoEV1Moe",  # softmax->topk, gate.wg (not gate.weight), scatter routing
+    # "gpt_oss": "GptOssMLP",  # topk->softmax, transposed layout [E,H,2*I], custom GLU, expert biases
+}
+
+
+def resolve_moe_block_classes(model_type: str):
+    """Resolve all MoE block classes from transformers for the given model type.
+
+    Returns a list of classes (one for most models, multiple for models with
+    distinct MoE block types like qwen3_omni_moe).
+    """
+    entry = SPARSE_MOE_BLOCK.get(model_type)
+    if entry is None:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Unsupported MoE model type '{model_type}'. "
+            f"Supported types: {list(SPARSE_MOE_BLOCK.keys())}"
+        )
+
+    cls_names = entry if isinstance(entry, list) else [entry]
+    module_path = f"transformers.models.{model_type}.modeling_{model_type}"
+    module = importlib.import_module(module_path)
+
+    classes = []
+    for cls_name in cls_names:
+        moe_cls = getattr(module, cls_name, None)
+        if moe_cls is None:
+            raise ValueError(f"Could not find class '{cls_name}' in '{module_path}'")
+        classes.append(moe_cls)
+
+    return classes

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/libs/scattermoe_lora/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# Copyright (c) Axolotl AI
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+
+from . import layers
+from .lora_ops import ParallelExperts
+from .parallel_experts import flatten_sort_count, parallel_linear
+from .parallel_linear_lora import ScatterMoELoRA, parallel_linear_lora
+
+__all__ = [
+    "layers",
+    "ParallelExperts",
+    "flatten_sort_count",
+    "parallel_linear",
+    "ScatterMoELoRA",
+    "parallel_linear_lora",
+    "lora_ops",
+]

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/libs/scattermoe_lora/kernels/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# Original work Copyright (c) Shawn Tan and ScatterMoE Contributors
+# Adapted from https://github.com/shawntan/scattermoe
+# See https://github.com/shawntan/scattermoe/blob/main/LICENSE
+#
+# Modifications and LoRA adaptation Copyright (c) Axolotl AI
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+
+from . import lora_ops, ops
+
+__all__ = ["ops", "lora_ops"]

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/libs/scattermoe_lora/kernels/ops.py

@@ -0,0 +1,645 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# Adapted from https://github.com/shawntan/scattermoe
+# Copyright (c) Shawn Tan and ScatterMoE Contributors
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# See https://github.com/shawntan/scattermoe/blob/main/LICENSE
+
+from typing import Optional
+
+import torch
+import triton
+import triton.language as tl
+
+BLOCK_M = 128
+ALLOW_TF32 = True
+
+
+@triton.jit
+def _compute_expert_block(
+    E_idx,
+    E_mask,
+    M_in_idx,
+    N_block,
+    N_mask,
+    X_ptr,
+    stride_xm,
+    stride_xk,
+    W_ptr,
+    stride_we,
+    stride_wk,
+    stride_wn,
+    K,
+    acc,
+    no_k_mask,
+    BLOCK_K,
+    allow_tf32=True,
+):
+    K_block = tl.arange(0, BLOCK_K)
+    X_blk_ptrs = X_ptr + M_in_idx[:, None] * stride_xm + K_block[None, :] * stride_xk
+    W_blk_ptrs = (
+        W_ptr
+        + K_block[:, None] * stride_wk
+        + N_block[None, :] * stride_wn
+        + E_idx * stride_we
+    )
+    iters = tl.cdiv(K, BLOCK_K)
+
+    for K_block_id in range(iters):
+        if no_k_mask:
+            x = tl.load(X_blk_ptrs, mask=E_mask[:, None])
+            w = tl.load(W_blk_ptrs, mask=N_mask[None, :])
+        else:
+            K_mask = (K_block_id * BLOCK_K + K_block) < K
+            x = tl.load(X_blk_ptrs, mask=E_mask[:, None] & K_mask[None, :])
+            w = tl.load(W_blk_ptrs, mask=K_mask[:, None] & N_mask[None, :])
+
+        X_blk_ptrs += BLOCK_K * stride_xk
+        W_blk_ptrs += BLOCK_K * stride_wk
+        acc = tl.dot(x, w, acc, allow_tf32=allow_tf32)
+    return acc
+
+
+def _scatter2scatter_configs():
+    return [
+        triton.Config({"BLOCK_N": 128, "BLOCK_K": 32}, num_stages=4, num_warps=4),
+    ]
+
+
+@triton.autotune(
+    configs=_scatter2scatter_configs(),
+    key=["M", "N", "K"],
+)
+@triton.heuristics(
+    {
+        "NO_K_MASK": lambda args: (args["K"] % args["BLOCK_K"]) == 0,
+        "NO_N_MASK": lambda args: (args["N"] % args["BLOCK_N"]) == 0,
+    }
+)
+@triton.jit
+def _scatter2scatter(
+    X_ptr,
+    stride_xm: tl.constexpr,
+    stride_xk: tl.constexpr,
+    W_ptr,
+    stride_we,
+    stride_wk: tl.constexpr,
+    stride_wn: tl.constexpr,
+    Y_ptr,
+    stride_ym: tl.constexpr,
+    stride_yn: tl.constexpr,
+    B_ptr,
+    stride_be: tl.constexpr,
+    stride_bn: tl.constexpr,
+    grouped_idx_ptr,
+    expert_idxs_ptr,
+    # block_start_idx_ptr,
+    FAN_OUT: tl.constexpr,
+    M,
+    K: tl.constexpr,
+    N: tl.constexpr,
+    E: tl.constexpr,
+    BLOCK_M: tl.constexpr,
+    BLOCK_N: tl.constexpr,
+    BLOCK_K: tl.constexpr,
+    ACC_TYPE: tl.constexpr,
+    # OUT_M,
+    allow_tf32: tl.constexpr,
+    x_grouped: tl.constexpr,
+    y_grouped: tl.constexpr,
+    NO_K_MASK: tl.constexpr,
+    NO_N_MASK: tl.constexpr,
+):
+    pid = tl.program_id(axis=0)
+
+    N_BLOCK_COUNT = tl.cdiv(N, BLOCK_N)
+    M_block_id = pid // N_BLOCK_COUNT
+    N_block_id = pid % N_BLOCK_COUNT
+
+    M_block = M_block_id * BLOCK_M + tl.arange(0, BLOCK_M)
+    N_block = N_block_id * BLOCK_N + tl.arange(0, BLOCK_N)
+    N_mask = N_block < N
+    M_boundary_mask = M_block < (FAN_OUT * M)
+    E_idxs = tl.load(expert_idxs_ptr + M_block, mask=M_boundary_mask, other=E)
+
+    no_k_mask = K % BLOCK_K == 0
+
+    acc = tl.zeros((BLOCK_M, BLOCK_N), dtype=ACC_TYPE)
+    E_first_idx = tl.min(E_idxs)
+    E_last_idx = tl.minimum(tl.max(E_idxs), E - 1)
+    M_idx = tl.load(grouped_idx_ptr + M_block, mask=M_boundary_mask).to(tl.int32)
+    for E_idx in range(E_first_idx, E_last_idx + 1):
+        E_mask = E_idxs == E_idx
+        E_M_idx = M_idx
+        if x_grouped:
+            M_in_idx = M_block
+        else:
+            M_in_idx = E_M_idx // FAN_OUT
+        acc = _compute_expert_block(
+            E_idx,
+            E_mask,
+            M_in_idx,
+            N_block,
+            N_mask,
+            X_ptr,
+            stride_xm,
+            stride_xk,
+            W_ptr,
+            stride_we,
+            stride_wk,
+            stride_wn,
+            K,
+            acc,
+            no_k_mask,
+            BLOCK_K,
+            allow_tf32=allow_tf32,
+        )
+
+    if B_ptr is not None:
+        B_blk_ptrs = B_ptr + E_idxs[:, None] * stride_be + N_block[None, :] * stride_bn
+        acc += tl.load(B_blk_ptrs, mask=M_boundary_mask[:, None] & N_mask[None, :])
+
+    if y_grouped:
+        M_out_idx = M_block
+    else:
+        M_out_idx = M_idx
+    Y_blk_ptrs = Y_ptr + (M_out_idx[:, None] * stride_ym + N_block[None, :] * stride_yn)
+    tl.store(Y_blk_ptrs, acc, mask=M_boundary_mask[:, None] & N_mask[None, :])
+
+
+def scatter2scatter(
+    X,
+    W,
+    sorted_expert_idxs,
+    sorted_scattered_idxs,
+    k,
+    b=None,
+    x_grouped=False,
+    y_grouped=False,
+    out=None,
+):
+    assert sorted_scattered_idxs.size(0) == sorted_expert_idxs.size(0)
+    assert sorted_scattered_idxs.size(0) == X.size(0) * k
+    # Pre-kernel setup
+    y_dim = W.size(-1)
+    L_scattered = sorted_expert_idxs.size(0)
+    if out is None:
+        output = torch.empty((L_scattered, y_dim), device=X.device, dtype=X.dtype)
+    else:
+        assert out.size(0) == L_scattered and out.size(1) == y_dim
+        output = out
+
+    scatter2scatter_compileable(
+        output,
+        W,
+        X,
+        k,
+        sorted_expert_idxs,
+        sorted_scattered_idxs,
+        b,
+        x_grouped,
+        y_grouped,
+    )
+    return output
+
+
+@torch.library.custom_op("scattermoe::scatter2scatter", mutates_args={"output"})
+def scatter2scatter_compileable(
+    output: torch.Tensor,
+    W: torch.Tensor,
+    X: torch.Tensor,
+    k: int,
+    sorted_expert_idxs: torch.Tensor,
+    sorted_scattered_idxs: torch.Tensor,
+    b: Optional[torch.Tensor],
+    x_grouped: bool,
+    y_grouped: bool,
+) -> None:
+    def grid(META):
+        grid_num = (
+            triton.cdiv(sorted_expert_idxs.size(0), META["BLOCK_M"])
+            * triton.cdiv(META["N"], META["BLOCK_N"]),
+        )
+        return grid_num
+
+    if b is None:
+        b = None
+        stride_be = stride_bn = 0
+    else:
+        stride_be, stride_bn = b.stride()
+
+    _scatter2scatter[grid](
+        # X_ptr, stride_xm, stride_xk,
+        X,
+        X.stride(0),
+        X.stride(1),
+        # W_ptr, stride_we, stride_wk, stride_wn,
+        W,
+        W.stride(0),
+        W.stride(1),
+        W.stride(2),
+        # Y_ptr, stride_ym, stride_yn,
+        output,
+        output.stride(0),
+        output.stride(1),
+        # B_ptr, stride_be, stride_bn
+        b,
+        stride_be,
+        stride_bn,
+        grouped_idx_ptr=sorted_scattered_idxs,
+        expert_idxs_ptr=sorted_expert_idxs,
+        # block_start_idx_ptr=padded_block_idxs,
+        FAN_OUT=k,
+        M=X.size(0),
+        K=X.size(1),
+        N=output.size(1),
+        E=W.size(0),
+        BLOCK_M=BLOCK_M,
+        ACC_TYPE=tl.float32,
+        allow_tf32=ALLOW_TF32,
+        x_grouped=x_grouped,
+        y_grouped=y_grouped,
+    )
+
+
+def _config_XtY():
+    return [
+        triton.Config(
+            {"BLOCK_N": 128, "BLOCK_K": 128, "BLOCK_M": 32}, num_stages=4, num_warps=4
+        ),
+    ]
+
+
+def group_bwd_W(DY, X, expert_offsets, E, has_bias=False):
+    DWt = torch.zeros((E, DY.size(-1), X.size(-1)), device=DY.device, dtype=DY.dtype)
+    DW = DWt.permute(0, 2, 1)
+    if has_bias:
+        Db = torch.zeros((E, DY.size(-1)), device=DY.device, dtype=DY.dtype)
+    else:
+        Db = None
+    groupXtY_compileable(E, DW, Db, DY, X, expert_offsets)
+    return DW, Db
+
+
+@torch.library.custom_op("scattermoe::groupXtY", mutates_args={"DW", "Db"})
+def groupXtY_compileable(
+    E: int,
+    DW: torch.Tensor,
+    Db: Optional[torch.Tensor],
+    DY: torch.Tensor,
+    X: torch.Tensor,
+    expert_offsets: torch.Tensor,
+) -> None:
+    def grid(META):
+        grid = (
+            E * triton.cdiv(META["K"], META["BLOCK_K"]),
+            triton.cdiv(META["N"], META["BLOCK_N"]),
+        )
+        return grid
+
+    if Db is None:
+        stride_dbe = 0
+        stride_dbn = 0
+    else:
+        stride_dbe, stride_dbn = Db.stride()
+
+    _groupXtY[grid](
+        # DY_ptr, stride_dym, stride_dyk,
+        DY,
+        DY.stride(0),
+        DY.stride(1),
+        # X_ptr, stride_xm, stride_xn,
+        X,
+        X.stride(0),
+        X.stride(1),
+        # DW_ptr, stride_dwe, stride_dwk, stride_dwn,
+        DW,
+        DW.stride(0),
+        DW.stride(1),
+        DW.stride(2),
+        # Db_ptr, stride_dwe, stride_dbn,
+        Db,
+        stride_dbe,
+        stride_dbn,
+        # expert_offsets_ptr,
+        expert_offsets,
+        # K: tl.constexpr, N: tl.constexpr,
+        M=DY.size(0),
+        N=DY.size(-1),
+        K=X.size(-1),
+        # ACC_TYPE: tl.constexpr,
+        ACC_TYPE=tl.float32,
+        allow_tf32=ALLOW_TF32,
+    )
+
+
+@triton.autotune(
+    configs=_config_XtY(),
+    key=["M", "N", "K"],
+)
+@triton.heuristics(
+    {
+        "NO_K_MASK": lambda args: (args["K"] % args["BLOCK_K"]) == 0,
+        "NO_N_MASK": lambda args: (args["N"] % args["BLOCK_N"]) == 0,
+    }
+)
+@triton.jit
+def _groupXtY(
+    DY_ptr,
+    stride_dym,
+    stride_dyk,
+    X_ptr,
+    stride_xm,
+    stride_xn,
+    DW_ptr,
+    stride_dwe,
+    stride_dwk,
+    stride_dwn,
+    Db_ptr,
+    stride_dbe,
+    stride_dbn,
+    expert_offsets_ptr,
+    M,
+    K: tl.constexpr,
+    N: tl.constexpr,
+    BLOCK_M: tl.constexpr,
+    BLOCK_N: tl.constexpr,
+    BLOCK_K: tl.constexpr,
+    ACC_TYPE: tl.constexpr,
+    allow_tf32: tl.constexpr,
+    NO_K_MASK: tl.constexpr,
+    NO_N_MASK: tl.constexpr,
+):
+    pid0 = tl.program_id(axis=0)
+    pid1 = tl.program_id(axis=1)
+    num0 = tl.num_programs(0)
+    num1 = tl.num_programs(1)
+    # pid1, pid0 = tl.swizzle2d(pid1, pid0, num1, num0, 128)
+    pid0, pid1 = tl.swizzle2d(pid0, pid1, num0, num1, 4)
+
+    K_BLOCK_COUNT = tl.cdiv(K, BLOCK_K)
+    E_idx = pid0 // K_BLOCK_COUNT
+    K_block_id = pid0 % K_BLOCK_COUNT
+    N_block_id = pid1
+
+    if E_idx == 0:
+        start_idx = 0
+    else:
+        start_idx = tl.load(expert_offsets_ptr + E_idx - 1).to(tl.int32)
+    end_idx = tl.load(expert_offsets_ptr + E_idx).to(tl.int32)
+
+    if end_idx > start_idx:
+        M_block = tl.max_contiguous(start_idx + tl.arange(0, BLOCK_M), BLOCK_M)
+
+        K_block = K_block_id * BLOCK_K + tl.arange(0, BLOCK_K)
+        K_mask = K_block < K
+        K_block = tl.max_contiguous(tl.multiple_of(K_block % K, BLOCK_K), BLOCK_K)
+
+        N_block = N_block_id * BLOCK_N + tl.arange(0, BLOCK_N)
+        N_mask = N_block < N
+        N_block = tl.max_contiguous(tl.multiple_of(N_block % N, BLOCK_N), BLOCK_N)
+
+        M_idxs = M_block
+        xt_blk_ptrs = X_ptr + K_block[:, None] * stride_xn + M_idxs[None, :] * stride_xm
+        dy_blk_ptrs = (
+            DY_ptr + M_idxs[:, None] * stride_dym + N_block[None, :] * stride_dyk
+        )
+        if (Db_ptr is not None) and (K_block_id == 0):
+            _xty_and_bias(
+                E_idx,
+                start_idx,
+                end_idx,
+                M_block,
+                K_block,
+                K_mask,
+                N_block,
+                N_mask,
+                dy_blk_ptrs,
+                stride_dym,
+                xt_blk_ptrs,
+                stride_xm,
+                DW_ptr,
+                stride_dwe,
+                stride_dwk,
+                stride_dwn,
+                Db_ptr,
+                stride_dbe,
+                stride_dbn,
+                BLOCK_M,
+                BLOCK_N,
+                BLOCK_K,
+                ACC_TYPE,
+                allow_tf32,
+                NO_K_MASK,
+                NO_N_MASK,
+                compute_bias=True,
+            )
+        else:
+            _xty_and_bias(
+                E_idx,
+                start_idx,
+                end_idx,
+                M_block,
+                K_block,
+                K_mask,
+                N_block,
+                N_mask,
+                dy_blk_ptrs,
+                stride_dym,
+                xt_blk_ptrs,
+                stride_xm,
+                DW_ptr,
+                stride_dwe,
+                stride_dwk,
+                stride_dwn,
+                Db_ptr,
+                stride_dbe,
+                stride_dbn,
+                BLOCK_M,
+                BLOCK_N,
+                BLOCK_K,
+                ACC_TYPE,
+                allow_tf32,
+                NO_K_MASK,
+                NO_N_MASK,
+                compute_bias=False,
+            )
+
+
+@triton.jit
+def _xty_and_bias(
+    E_idx,
+    start_idx,
+    end_idx,
+    M_block,
+    K_block,
+    K_mask,
+    N_block,
+    N_mask,
+    dy_blk_ptrs,
+    stride_dym,
+    xt_blk_ptrs,
+    stride_xm,
+    DW_ptr,
+    stride_dwe,
+    stride_dwk,
+    stride_dwn,
+    Db_ptr,
+    stride_dbe,
+    stride_dbn,
+    BLOCK_M,
+    BLOCK_N,
+    BLOCK_K,
+    ACC_TYPE,
+    allow_tf32,
+    NO_K_MASK,
+    NO_N_MASK,
+    compute_bias: tl.constexpr,
+):
+    if compute_bias:
+        db_acc = tl.zeros((BLOCK_N,), dtype=ACC_TYPE)
+    else:
+        db_acc = None
+
+    acc = tl.zeros((BLOCK_K, BLOCK_N), dtype=ACC_TYPE)
+    iters = tl.cdiv(end_idx - start_idx, BLOCK_M)
+    for i in range(0, iters):
+        M_mask = (i * BLOCK_M + M_block) < end_idx
+        if NO_K_MASK:
+            xt = tl.load(xt_blk_ptrs, mask=M_mask[None, :])
+        else:
+            xt = tl.load(xt_blk_ptrs, mask=K_mask[:, None] & M_mask[None, :])
+        if NO_N_MASK:
+            dy = tl.load(dy_blk_ptrs, mask=M_mask[:, None])
+        else:
+            dy = tl.load(dy_blk_ptrs, mask=M_mask[:, None] & N_mask[None, :])
+
+        acc += tl.dot(xt, dy, out_dtype=ACC_TYPE, allow_tf32=allow_tf32)
+
+        xt_blk_ptrs += BLOCK_M * stride_xm
+        dy_blk_ptrs += BLOCK_M * stride_dym
+
+        if compute_bias:
+            db_acc += tl.sum(dy, axis=0)
+
+    DW_blk_ptrs = (
+        DW_ptr
+        + E_idx * stride_dwe
+        + K_block[:, None] * stride_dwk
+        + N_block[None, :] * stride_dwn
+    )
+    acc = acc.to(DW_blk_ptrs.dtype.element_ty)
+    tl.store(DW_blk_ptrs, acc, mask=K_mask[:, None] & N_mask[None, :])
+    if compute_bias:
+        Db_blk_ptrs = Db_ptr + E_idx * stride_dbe + N_block * stride_dbn
+        tl.store(Db_blk_ptrs, db_acc, mask=N_mask)
+
+
+def _config_grouping():
+    return [
+        triton.Config({"BLOCK_N": 256, "BLOCK_K": 128}, num_stages=4, num_warps=4),
+        # triton.Config({'BLOCK_N': 128, 'BLOCK_K': 64}, num_stages=4, num_warps=4),
+        # triton.Config({'BLOCK_N': 64, 'BLOCK_K': 32}, num_stages=4, num_warps=4),
+    ]
+
+
+def group(A, sorted_expert_idxs, coeff=None, fan_out=1, out=None):
+    N = sorted_expert_idxs.size(0)
+    K = A.size(1)
+    assert A.size(0) * fan_out == N
+    if out is not None:
+        Y = out
+    else:
+        Y = torch.empty((N, K), dtype=A.dtype, device=A.device)
+    group_compileable(A, K, N, Y, coeff, coeff is not None, fan_out, sorted_expert_idxs)
+    return Y
+
+
+@torch.library.custom_op("scattermoe::group", mutates_args={"Y"})
+def group_compileable(
+    A: torch.Tensor,
+    K: int,
+    N: int,
+    Y: torch.Tensor,
+    coeff: Optional[torch.Tensor],
+    has_coeff: bool,
+    fan_out: int,
+    sorted_expert_idxs: torch.Tensor,
+) -> None:
+    def grid(META):
+        grid_num = (triton.cdiv(META["N"], META["BLOCK_N"]),)
+        return grid_num
+
+    _group[grid](
+        # A_ptr, stride_an, stride_ai,
+        A,
+        A.stride(0),
+        A.stride(1),
+        has_coeff,
+        coeff,
+        fan_out,
+        # Y_ptr, stride_yn, stride_yk,
+        Y,
+        Y.stride(0),
+        Y.stride(1),
+        # grouped_idx_ptr,
+        sorted_expert_idxs,
+        # N: tl.constexpr, K: tl.constexpr,
+        N,
+        K,
+    )
+
+
+@triton.autotune(configs=_config_grouping(), key=["K"])
+@triton.heuristics({"NO_K_MASK": lambda args: (args["K"] % args["BLOCK_K"]) == 0})
+@triton.jit
+def _group(
+    src_ptr,
+    stride_sn,
+    stride_sk,
+    has_coeff: tl.constexpr,
+    coeff_ptr,
+    FAN_OUT: tl.constexpr,
+    tgt_ptr,
+    stride_tn,
+    stride_ti,
+    grouped_idx_ptr,
+    N,
+    K: tl.constexpr,
+    BLOCK_N: tl.constexpr,
+    BLOCK_K: tl.constexpr,
+    NO_K_MASK: tl.constexpr,
+):
+    pid = tl.program_id(axis=0)
+
+    N_block_id = pid
+    N_blk = N_block_id * BLOCK_N + tl.arange(0, BLOCK_N)
+    N_mask = N_blk < N
+    N_blk = tl.max_contiguous(tl.multiple_of(N_blk % N, BLOCK_N), BLOCK_N)
+    N_idx = tl.load(grouped_idx_ptr + N_blk, mask=N_mask, other=0)
+
+    K_blk = tl.arange(0, BLOCK_K)
+    src_blk_ptrs = (
+        src_ptr + (N_idx // FAN_OUT)[:, None] * stride_sn + K_blk[None, :] * stride_sk
+    )
+    tgt_blk_ptrs = tgt_ptr + N_blk[:, None] * stride_tn + K_blk[None, :] * stride_ti
+
+    if has_coeff:
+        c = tl.load(coeff_ptr + N_idx, mask=N_mask)[:, None]
+
+    iters = tl.cdiv(K, BLOCK_K)
+    for i in range(0, iters):
+        if NO_K_MASK or i < iters - 1:
+            block = tl.load(src_blk_ptrs, mask=N_mask[:, None])
+            if has_coeff:
+                block *= c
+            tl.store(tgt_blk_ptrs, block, mask=N_mask[:, None])
+
+        else:
+            K_mask = (i * BLOCK_K + K_blk) < K
+            mask = N_mask[:, None] & K_mask[None, :]
+            block = tl.load(src_blk_ptrs, mask=mask)
+            if has_coeff:
+                block *= c
+            tl.store(tgt_blk_ptrs, block, mask=mask)
+        src_blk_ptrs += BLOCK_K * stride_sk
+        tgt_blk_ptrs += BLOCK_K * stride_ti

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/libs/scattermoe_lora/kernels/single.py

@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# Adapted from https://github.com/shawntan/scattermoe
+# Copyright (c) Shawn Tan and ScatterMoE Contributors
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# See https://github.com/shawntan/scattermoe/blob/main/LICENSE
+
+import torch
+import triton
+import triton.language as tl
+
+
+@triton.jit
+def _single2scatter(
+    X_ptr,
+    stride_xm,
+    stride_xk,
+    W_ptr,
+    stride_we,
+    stride_wk,
+    stride_wn,
+    Y_ptr,
+    stride_ym,
+    stride_yn,
+    expert_idxs_ptr,
+    FAN_OUT: tl.constexpr,
+    K: tl.constexpr,
+    N: tl.constexpr,
+    E: tl.constexpr,
+    BLOCK_N: tl.constexpr,
+    BLOCK_K: tl.constexpr,
+    ACC_TYPE: tl.constexpr,
+):
+    pid0 = tl.program_id(axis=0)
+    pid1 = tl.program_id(axis=1)
+
+    N_block_id = pid0
+    if FAN_OUT == 1:
+        in_idx = pid1
+    else:
+        in_idx = 0
+    out_idx = pid1
+
+    K_block = tl.arange(0, BLOCK_K)
+    N_block = tl.max_contiguous(
+        tl.multiple_of((N_block_id * BLOCK_N + tl.arange(0, BLOCK_N)) % N, BLOCK_N),
+        BLOCK_N,
+    )
+    E_idx = tl.load(expert_idxs_ptr + pid1)
+    X_blk_ptrs = X_ptr + in_idx * stride_xm + K_block[:, None] * stride_xk
+    W_blk_ptrs = (
+        W_ptr
+        + E_idx * stride_we
+        + K_block[:, None] * stride_wk
+        + N_block[None, :] * stride_wn
+    )
+    N_mask = N_block < N
+    acc = tl.zeros((1, BLOCK_N), dtype=ACC_TYPE)
+    for _K_block_id in range(0, tl.cdiv(K, BLOCK_K)):
+        K_mask = K_block < K
+        x = tl.load(X_blk_ptrs, mask=K_mask[:, None], other=0.0)
+        w = tl.load(W_blk_ptrs, mask=K_mask[:, None] & N_mask[None, :], other=0.0)
+        acc += tl.sum(x * w, axis=0)[None, :]
+        X_blk_ptrs += BLOCK_K * stride_xk
+        W_blk_ptrs += BLOCK_K * stride_wk
+        K_block += BLOCK_K
+    Y_blk_ptrs = Y_ptr + out_idx * stride_ym + N_block[None, :] * stride_yn
+    tl.store(Y_blk_ptrs, acc, mask=N_mask[None, :])
+
+
+def single2scatter(X, W, expert_idxs):
+    E, xdim, ydim = W.size()
+    k = expert_idxs.size(1)
+    assert X.size(0) == k or X.size(0) == 1
+    Y = torch.empty((k, ydim), device=X.device, dtype=X.dtype)
+    BLOCK_N = 128
+    BLOCK_K = 128
+    grid = triton.cdiv(ydim, BLOCK_N), k
+    _single2scatter[grid](
+        X,
+        X.stride(0),
+        X.stride(1),
+        W,
+        W.stride(0),
+        W.stride(1),
+        W.stride(2),
+        Y,
+        Y.stride(0),
+        Y.stride(1),
+        expert_idxs,
+        FAN_OUT=Y.size(0) // X.size(0),
+        K=xdim,
+        N=ydim,
+        E=E,
+        BLOCK_N=BLOCK_N,
+        BLOCK_K=BLOCK_K,
+        ACC_TYPE=tl.float32,
+    )
+    return Y

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/libs/scattermoe_lora/layers.py

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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# Original work Copyright (c) Shawn Tan and ScatterMoE Contributors
+# Adapted from https://github.com/shawntan/scattermoe
+# See https://github.com/shawntan/scattermoe/blob/main/LICENSE
+#
+# Modifications and LoRA adaptation Copyright (c) Axolotl AI
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+
+"""
+ScatterMoE layer replacements for HuggingFace MoE architectures.
+
+Provides drop-in forward replacements that use ScatterMoE kernels for
+acceleration. When used via the HF ``kernels`` library
+(``replace_kernel_forward_from_hub``), these classes replace the forward
+method of the original MoE block.
+
+LoRA support
+------------
+When peft wraps parameters via ``target_parameters``, the ``self.experts``
+submodule becomes a chain of ``ParamWrapper`` objects and the ``self.gate``
+router may also become a ``ParamWrapper``.  The ``HFScatterMoEGatedMLP``
+forward detects this and automatically:
+
+1. Unwraps ``self.gate`` to the base router, applying gate LoRA delta
+2. Unwraps ``self.experts`` to the base ``OlmoeExperts`` module
+3. Extracts LoRA A/B weights and scaling from each wrapper
+4. Converts B layout from peft rank-major to scattermoe expert-major
+5. Routes to ``parallel_linear_lora`` for fused LoRA computation
+6. Passes through ``self.shared_expert`` / ``self.shared_expert_gate``
+   (peft wraps their linear layers with standard LoRA, no special handling)
+"""
+
+import torch
+from torch import nn
+from torch.nn import functional as F
+
+from .parallel_experts import flatten_sort_count, parallel_linear
+from .parallel_linear_lora import get_lora_params_from_wrapper, parallel_linear_lora
+
+# =============================================================================
+# LoRA layout conversion utilities (peft <-> scattermoe)
+# =============================================================================
+
+
+def peft_lora_B_to_scattermoe(peft_B, num_experts, rank):
+    """Convert peft rank-major lora_B ``[out, E*r]`` to scattermoe
+    expert-major ``[N, r*E]``.
+
+    peft reshapes B to ``[out, r, E]`` (rank-major).
+    scattermoe slices B as ``[:, e*r:(e+1)*r]`` (expert-major).
+    """
+    N = peft_B.shape[0]
+    return (
+        peft_B.reshape(N, rank, num_experts)
+        .permute(0, 2, 1)
+        .contiguous()
+        .reshape(N, num_experts * rank)
+    )
+
+
+def peft_lora_to_scattermoe(peft_A, peft_B, num_experts, rank):
+    """Convert peft LoRA weights to scattermoe layout (with A<->B swap).
+
+    peft operates on the parameter in its native storage layout ``[E, dim1, dim2]``
+    where ``in_features=dim1, out_features=dim2``.  ScatterMoE transposes the
+    parameter (``W = param.transpose(2, 1)``) giving ``[E, dim2, dim1]`` with
+    ``K=dim2, N=dim1``.  Because of this transposition, peft's A and B roles
+    are swapped relative to scattermoe's convention.
+
+    peft gives:
+        lora_A ``[r*E, dim1]``, lora_B ``[dim2, r*E]``
+
+    scattermoe needs:
+        lora_A ``[r*E, K=dim2]``, lora_B ``[N=dim1, r*E]``
+
+    This function swaps A<->B and converts B from rank-major to expert-major.
+    Uses vectorized tensor operations (no Python loop over experts).
+
+    Works for **both** gate_up_proj and down_proj since the transposition
+    issue is the same for any parameter.
+    """
+    peft_B_em = peft_lora_B_to_scattermoe(peft_B, num_experts, rank)
+
+    dim1 = peft_A.shape[1]  # peft in_features -> scattermoe N
+    dim2 = peft_B_em.shape[0]  # peft out_features -> scattermoe K
+
+    # smoe_A: per expert, transpose B_e [dim2, r] -> [r, dim2]
+    # [dim2, E*r] -> [dim2, E, r] -> [E, r, dim2] -> [E*r, dim2]
+    smoe_A = (
+        peft_B_em.reshape(dim2, num_experts, rank)
+        .permute(1, 2, 0)
+        .contiguous()
+        .reshape(rank * num_experts, dim2)
+    )
+
+    # smoe_B: per expert, transpose A_e [r, dim1] -> [dim1, r]
+    # [E*r, dim1] -> [E, r, dim1] -> [dim1, E, r] -> [dim1, E*r]
+    smoe_B = (
+        peft_A.reshape(num_experts, rank, dim1)
+        .permute(2, 0, 1)
+        .contiguous()
+        .reshape(dim1, num_experts * rank)
+    )
+
+    return smoe_A, smoe_B
+
+
+def peft_down_proj_lora_to_scattermoe(peft_A, peft_B, num_experts, rank):
+    """Deprecated alias for :func:`peft_lora_to_scattermoe`."""
+    return peft_lora_to_scattermoe(peft_A, peft_B, num_experts, rank)
+
+
+# =============================================================================
+# ParamWrapper unwrapping
+# =============================================================================
+
+
+def _unwrap_gate_lora(gate_module):
+    """Unwrap peft ``ParamWrapper`` on the router gate.
+
+    When peft targets ``gate.weight``, ``self.gate`` becomes::
+
+        ParamWrapper(weight)
+          -> base_layer: OlmoeTopKRouter (the real module)
+
+    This function detects the wrapping and returns the base router, its
+    weight tensor, and an optional LoRA delta tensor.
+
+    Returns:
+        (base_gate, gate_weight, gate_lora_delta_or_None)
+
+        ``base_gate`` is the original router module (with ``.top_k``,
+        ``.num_experts``, ``.norm_topk_prob``).
+        ``gate_weight`` is the base router weight (may be a DTensor under FSDP).
+        ``gate_lora_delta_or_None`` is the LoRA delta tensor if LoRA is active,
+        else ``None``.  Kept separate to avoid mixing DTensor + Tensor in an add.
+    """
+    if hasattr(gate_module, "base_layer") and hasattr(gate_module, "lora_A"):
+        base_gate = gate_module.base_layer
+        lora_A, lora_B, scaling = get_lora_params_from_wrapper(gate_module)
+        if lora_A is not None:
+            # gate weight: [num_experts, hidden_size]
+            # lora_A: [r, hidden_size], lora_B: [num_experts, r]
+            # delta = scaling * B @ A = [num_experts, hidden_size]
+            delta = scaling * (lora_B @ lora_A)
+            return base_gate, base_gate.weight, delta
+        else:
+            return base_gate, base_gate.weight, None
+    else:
+        # No wrapping — gate is the original module
+        return gate_module, gate_module.weight, None
+
+
+def _convert_smoe_lora(lora_A, lora_B, num_experts, rank, scaling):
+    """Convert peft LoRA weights to scattermoe layout."""
+    smoe_A, smoe_B = peft_lora_to_scattermoe(lora_A, lora_B, num_experts, rank)
+    return (smoe_A, smoe_B, scaling)
+
+
+def _unwrap_experts_lora(experts_module):
+    """Walk a peft ``ParamWrapper`` chain on ``self.experts``.
+
+    When peft targets ``experts.gate_up_proj`` and ``experts.down_proj`` via
+    ``target_parameters``, ``self.experts`` becomes a nested chain::
+
+        ParamWrapper(down_proj)
+          -> base_layer: ParamWrapper(gate_up_proj)
+              -> base_layer: OlmoeExperts (the real module)
+
+    This function walks the chain, collects LoRA params keyed by
+    ``parameter_name``, and returns the base experts module.
+
+    Returns:
+        (base_experts, gup_lora, down_lora)
+
+        Each ``*_lora`` is either ``(smoe_A, smoe_B, scaling)`` or ``None``.
+        A/B are already in scattermoe layout.
+    """
+    # Collect ParamWrapper layers by their parameter_name
+    wrappers = {}
+    module = experts_module
+    while hasattr(module, "base_layer") and hasattr(module, "lora_A"):
+        param_name = getattr(module, "parameter_name", None)
+        if param_name is not None:
+            wrappers[param_name] = module
+        module = module.base_layer
+
+    base_experts = module
+
+    if not wrappers:
+        return base_experts, None, None
+
+    # Determine num_experts from base module
+    num_experts = getattr(base_experts, "num_experts", None)
+    if num_experts is None:
+        # Fallback: infer from parameter shape
+        gup = getattr(base_experts, "gate_up_proj", None)
+        if gup is not None:
+            num_experts = gup.shape[0]
+
+    # Extract gate_up_proj LoRA (needs A<->B swap due to transposition)
+    gup_lora = None
+    gup_wrapper = wrappers.get("gate_up_proj")
+    if gup_wrapper is not None:
+        lora_A, lora_B, scaling = get_lora_params_from_wrapper(gup_wrapper)
+        if lora_A is not None:
+            rank = lora_A.shape[0] // num_experts
+            gup_lora = _convert_smoe_lora(lora_A, lora_B, num_experts, rank, scaling)
+
+    # Extract down_proj LoRA (needs A<->B swap due to transposition)
+    down_lora = None
+    down_wrapper = wrappers.get("down_proj")
+    if down_wrapper is not None:
+        lora_A, lora_B, scaling = get_lora_params_from_wrapper(down_wrapper)
+        if lora_A is not None:
+            rank = lora_A.shape[0] // num_experts
+            down_lora = _convert_smoe_lora(lora_A, lora_B, num_experts, rank, scaling)
+
+    return base_experts, gup_lora, down_lora
+
+
+# =============================================================================
+# Layer classes
+# =============================================================================
+
+
+class ScatterMoEGatedMLP(nn.Module):
+    def forward(self, layer_input):
+        """
+        Forward pass of the mixture of experts layer.
+
+        Args:
+            layer_input (Tensor):
+                Input tensor.
+
+        Returns:
+            Tensor:
+                Output tensor.
+        """
+        bsz, length, emb_size = layer_input.size()
+        layer_input = layer_input.reshape(-1, emb_size)
+        # compute the top_k routing decision
+        router_logits = self.router.layer(layer_input)
+        routing_weights = F.softmax(router_logits, dim=1, dtype=torch.float)
+        routing_weights, selected_experts = torch.topk(
+            routing_weights, self.router.top_k, dim=-1
+        )
+        routing_weights /= routing_weights.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+        routing_weights = routing_weights.to(layer_input.dtype)
+        sorted_expert_idxs, sorted_scattered_idxs, expert_offsets = flatten_sort_count(
+            selected_experts, num_experts=self.router.num_experts
+        )
+
+        # compute experts
+        gates, h = parallel_linear(
+            layer_input,
+            self.input_linear.weight.transpose(2, 1),
+            self.router.top_k,
+            sorted_expert_idxs,
+            sorted_scattered_idxs,
+            expert_offsets,
+            grouped_in=False,
+            grouped_out=True,
+        ).chunk(2, dim=-1)
+        h = self.activation(gates) * h
+        layer_output = parallel_linear(
+            h,
+            self.output_linear.weight.transpose(2, 1),
+            1,
+            sorted_expert_idxs,
+            sorted_scattered_idxs,
+            expert_offsets,
+            grouped_in=True,
+            grouped_out=False,
+            gates=routing_weights,
+        )
+        layer_output = layer_output.view(bsz, length, emb_size)
+        return layer_output
+
+
+class HFScatterMoEGatedMLP(nn.Module):
+    """
+    ScatterMoE-accelerated forward pass for HF MoEs (OLMoE / Qwen2MoE).
+
+    Used as a kernel layer via the HF ``kernels`` library.  The ``forward``
+    method replaces the original ``OlmoeSparseMoeBlock.forward``.
+
+    Supports both full-parameter training and LoRA fine-tuning:
+
+    * **Full-param**: uses ``parallel_linear`` (base ScatterMoE kernel)
+    * **LoRA**: detects peft ``ParamWrapper`` on ``self.experts``, extracts
+      adapter weights, and uses ``parallel_linear_lora`` (fused kernel)
+    """
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def forward(self: nn.Module, layer_input: torch.Tensor):
+        """
+        Forward pass using ScatterMoE kernels.
+
+        Args:
+            self: The MoeSparseMoeBlock module containing:
+                - self.gate: Router (or peft ParamWrapper wrapping it)
+                - self.experts: Experts module (or peft ParamWrapper chain)
+                - self.shared_expert: Optional shared expert (e.g. Qwen2MoE)
+                - self.shared_expert_gate: Optional shared expert gate
+            layer_input: Input tensor [batch_size, seq_len, hidden_size]
+
+        Returns:
+            Tensor: [batch_size, seq_len, hidden_size]
+        """
+        batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_dim = layer_input.shape
+        hidden_states_flat = layer_input.view(-1, hidden_dim)
+
+        # ====================================================================
+        # Shared Expert (if present, e.g. Qwen2MoE)
+        # ====================================================================
+        # peft wraps individual linear layers inside shared_expert with
+        # standard LoRA — calling forward() handles this transparently.
+        if hasattr(self, "shared_expert") and self.shared_expert is not None:
+            shared_expert_output = self.shared_expert(hidden_states_flat)
+            # shared_expert_gate may also be peft-wrapped (standard LoRA
+            # on nn.Linear), its forward() applies LoRA automatically.
+            shared_expert_gate_output = F.sigmoid(
+                self.shared_expert_gate(hidden_states_flat)
+            )
+            shared_expert_output = shared_expert_output * shared_expert_gate_output
+        else:
+            shared_expert_output = None
+
+        # ====================================================================
+        # Router Computation (with optional gate LoRA)
+        # ====================================================================
+        base_gate, gate_weight, gate_lora_delta = _unwrap_gate_lora(self.gate)
+        router_logits = F.linear(hidden_states_flat, gate_weight)
+        if gate_lora_delta is not None:
+            router_logits = router_logits + F.linear(
+                hidden_states_flat, gate_lora_delta
+            )
+        routing_weights = F.softmax(router_logits, dim=1, dtype=torch.float)
+
+        top_k = base_gate.top_k
+        num_experts = base_gate.num_experts
+        routing_weights, selected_experts = torch.topk(routing_weights, top_k, dim=-1)
+
+        if base_gate.norm_topk_prob:
+            routing_weights /= routing_weights.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+        routing_weights = routing_weights.to(hidden_states_flat.dtype)
+
+        sorted_expert_idxs, sorted_scattered_idxs, expert_offsets = flatten_sort_count(
+            selected_experts, num_experts=num_experts
+        )
+
+        # ====================================================================
+        # Detect LoRA (peft ParamWrapper) and extract adapter weights
+        # ====================================================================
+        experts, gup_lora, down_lora = _unwrap_experts_lora(self.experts)
+
+        # ====================================================================
+        # Gate + Up projection
+        # ====================================================================
+        gate_up_W = experts.gate_up_proj.transpose(2, 1)  # [E, hidden, 2*inter]
+
+        if gup_lora is not None:
+            gup_A, gup_B, gup_scaling = gup_lora
+            gup = parallel_linear_lora(
+                hidden_states_flat,
+                gate_up_W,
+                top_k,
+                sorted_expert_idxs,
+                sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                expert_offsets,
+                lora_A=gup_A,
+                lora_B=gup_B,
+                scaling=gup_scaling,
+                grouped_in=False,
+                grouped_out=True,
+                use_fused_dX=True,
+                use_fused_gather=True,
+            )
+        else:
+            gup = parallel_linear(
+                hidden_states_flat,
+                gate_up_W,
+                top_k,
+                sorted_expert_idxs,
+                sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                expert_offsets,
+                grouped_in=False,
+                grouped_out=True,
+            )
+
+        gates, h = gup.chunk(2, dim=-1)
+        h = experts.act_fn(gates) * h
+
+        # ====================================================================
+        # Down projection
+        # ====================================================================
+        down_W = experts.down_proj.transpose(2, 1)  # [E, inter, hidden]
+
+        if down_lora is not None:
+            down_A, down_B, down_scaling = down_lora
+            expert_output = parallel_linear_lora(
+                h,
+                down_W,
+                1,
+                sorted_expert_idxs,
+                sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                expert_offsets,
+                lora_A=down_A,
+                lora_B=down_B,
+                scaling=down_scaling,
+                gates=routing_weights,
+                grouped_in=True,
+                grouped_out=False,
+                use_fused_dX=True,
+                use_fused_gather=True,
+            )
+        else:
+            expert_output = parallel_linear(
+                h,
+                down_W,
+                1,
+                sorted_expert_idxs,
+                sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                expert_offsets,
+                grouped_in=True,
+                grouped_out=False,
+                gates=routing_weights,
+            )
+
+        # ====================================================================
+        # Combine with shared expert and reshape
+        # ====================================================================
+        if shared_expert_output is not None:
+            expert_output = expert_output + shared_expert_output
+
+        expert_output = expert_output.view(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_dim)
+        return expert_output

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/libs/scattermoe_lora/lora_ops.py

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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# Copyright (c) Axolotl AI
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+
+"""
+ParallelExperts module with LoRA support.
+
+Provides a drop-in replacement for ScatterMoE's ParallelExperts that
+uses the fused LoRA kernel when adapter weights are attached.
+"""
+
+from typing import Optional
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+from .parallel_linear_lora import parallel_linear_lora
+
+
+class ParallelExperts(nn.Module):
+    """
+    Parallel Experts with fused LoRA support.
+
+    Drop-in replacement for the original ParallelExperts. When LoRA parameters
+    are attached via set_lora(), the forward pass uses a fused kernel:
+        Y = X @ W + scaling * (X @ A^T) @ B^T
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        num_experts: int,
+        input_size: int,
+        output_size: int,
+        bias: bool = False,
+    ) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(num_experts, output_size, input_size))
+        if bias:
+            self.bias = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(num_experts, output_size))
+        else:
+            self.bias = None
+        self.num_experts = num_experts
+        self.input_size = input_size
+        self.output_size = output_size
+        self._lora_A: torch.Tensor | None = None
+        self._lora_B: torch.Tensor | None = None
+        self._lora_scaling: float | None = None
+        self.reset_parameters()
+
+    def reset_parameters(self) -> None:
+        nn.init.normal_(self.weight, std=0.02)
+        if self.bias is not None:
+            nn.init.zeros_(self.bias)
+
+    def extra_repr(self) -> str:
+        return (
+            f"num_experts={self.num_experts}, "
+            f"input_size={self.input_size}, "
+            f"output_size={self.output_size}"
+        )
+
+    def set_lora(self, lora_A: torch.Tensor, lora_B: torch.Tensor, scaling: float):
+        """Attach LoRA parameters for fused computation."""
+        self._lora_A = lora_A
+        self._lora_B = lora_B
+        self._lora_scaling = scaling
+
+    def clear_lora(self):
+        """Remove LoRA parameters."""
+        self._lora_A = None
+        self._lora_B = None
+        self._lora_scaling = None
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        inputs: torch.Tensor,
+        k: int,
+        sorted_expert_idxs: torch.Tensor,
+        sorted_scattered_idxs: torch.Tensor,
+        expert_offsets: torch.Tensor,
+        gates: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        grouped_in: bool = False,
+        grouped_out: bool = False,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return parallel_linear_lora(
+            inputs,
+            self.weight.permute(0, 2, 1),  # [E, input, output]
+            k,
+            sorted_expert_idxs,
+            sorted_scattered_idxs,
+            expert_offsets,
+            lora_A=self._lora_A,
+            lora_B=self._lora_B,
+            scaling=self._lora_scaling if self._lora_scaling is not None else 1.0,
+            expert_biases=self.bias,
+            gates=gates,
+            grouped_in=grouped_in,
+            grouped_out=grouped_out,
+        )

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/libs/scattermoe_lora/parallel_experts.py

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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# Adapted from https://github.com/shawntan/scattermoe
+# Copyright (c) Shawn Tan and ScatterMoE Contributors
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# See https://github.com/shawntan/scattermoe/blob/main/LICENSE
+
+from typing import Optional
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+from . import kernels
+
+
+@torch.library.custom_op("scattermoe::bincount", mutates_args={})
+def compileable_bincount(x: torch.Tensor, minlength: int) -> torch.Tensor:
+    return x.bincount(minlength=minlength)
+
+
+@compileable_bincount.register_fake
+def _(x: torch.Tensor, minlength: int) -> torch.Tensor:
+    return torch.empty(minlength, dtype=torch.long, device=x.device)
+
+
+@torch.compile
+def flatten_sort_count(expert_idxs: torch.Tensor, num_experts: int):
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        flattened_expert_idxs = expert_idxs.flatten()
+        sorted_expert_idxs, sorted_scattered_idxs = torch.sort(flattened_expert_idxs)
+        expert_counts = compileable_bincount(
+            flattened_expert_idxs, minlength=num_experts
+        )
+        expert_offsets = expert_counts.cumsum(-1)
+        return sorted_expert_idxs, sorted_scattered_idxs, expert_offsets
+
+
+class ParallelLinear(torch.autograd.Function):
+    @staticmethod
+    def forward(
+        ctx,
+        x: torch.Tensor,
+        expert_weights: torch.Tensor,
+        k: int,
+        sorted_expert_idxs: torch.Tensor,
+        sorted_scattered_idxs: torch.Tensor,
+        expert_offsets: torch.Tensor,
+        expert_biases: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        gates: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        grouped_in: bool = False,
+        grouped_out: bool = False,
+    ):
+        with torch.device(x.device):
+            output = kernels.ops.scatter2scatter(
+                X=x,
+                W=expert_weights,
+                b=expert_biases,
+                k=k,
+                sorted_expert_idxs=sorted_expert_idxs,
+                sorted_scattered_idxs=sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                x_grouped=grouped_in,
+                y_grouped=grouped_out,
+            )
+            if gates is not None:
+                output_expanded = output.view(
+                    gates.size(0), gates.size(1), output.size(-1)
+                )
+                output = (gates.unsqueeze(1) @ output_expanded).squeeze(1)
+            else:
+                output_expanded = None
+
+            ctx.save_for_backward(
+                x,
+                expert_weights,
+                expert_biases,
+                sorted_expert_idxs,
+                sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                expert_offsets,
+                gates,
+                output_expanded,
+            )
+            ctx.grouped_in = grouped_in
+            ctx.grouped_out = grouped_out
+            ctx.k = k
+        return output
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def backward(ctx, grad_out: torch.Tensor):
+        with torch.device(grad_out.device):
+            (
+                x,
+                expert_weights,
+                expert_biases,
+                sorted_expert_idxs,
+                sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                expert_offsets,
+                gates,
+                output_expanded,
+            ) = ctx.saved_tensors
+            k = ctx.k
+            grouped_in = ctx.grouped_in
+            grouped_out = ctx.grouped_out
+
+            if gates is not None:
+                # calculate gates gradient
+                # d_gates = torch.bmm(output_expanded, grad_out[:, :, None]).squeeze(-1)
+                d_gates = (output_expanded @ grad_out.unsqueeze(-1)).squeeze(-1)
+                gates_flat = gates.flatten()
+                gate_fan = gates.size(1)
+                grouped_grad_out = output_expanded.flatten(
+                    0, 1
+                )  # reuse expanded buffer later
+            else:
+                d_gates = None
+                gates_flat = None
+                gate_fan = 1
+                grouped_grad_out = None
+
+            if grouped_out:
+                grouped_grad_out = grad_out
+            else:
+                grouped_grad_out = kernels.ops.group(
+                    grad_out,
+                    sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                    fan_out=gate_fan,
+                    coeff=gates_flat,
+                    out=grouped_grad_out,
+                )
+            if grouped_in:
+                grouped_x = x
+                d_expanded_input = None
+            else:
+                grouped_x = kernels.ops.group(x, sorted_scattered_idxs, fan_out=k)
+                d_expanded_input = grouped_x
+
+            d_weights, d_biases = kernels.ops.group_bwd_W(
+                DY=grouped_grad_out,
+                X=grouped_x,
+                expert_offsets=expert_offsets,
+                E=expert_weights.size(0),
+                has_bias=expert_biases is not None,
+            )
+
+            d_expanded_input = kernels.ops.scatter2scatter(
+                X=grouped_grad_out,
+                x_grouped=True,
+                W=expert_weights.permute(0, 2, 1),
+                sorted_expert_idxs=sorted_expert_idxs,
+                sorted_scattered_idxs=sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                k=1,
+                y_grouped=grouped_in,
+                out=d_expanded_input,  # Reuse grouped_x buffer
+            )
+
+            if k == 1:
+                d_input = d_expanded_input
+            else:
+                d_input = d_expanded_input.view(
+                    x.size(0), k, d_expanded_input.size(-1)
+                ).sum(-2)
+        return (
+            # x, expert_weights,
+            d_input,
+            d_weights,
+            # k, sorted_expert_idxs, sorted_scattered_idxs, expert_offsets,
+            None,
+            None,
+            None,
+            None,
+            # bias, gates
+            d_biases,
+            d_gates,
+            # grouped_in, grouped_out,
+            None,
+            None,
+        )
+
+
+def parallel_linear(
+    inputs,
+    expert_weights,
+    k,
+    sorted_expert_idxs,
+    sorted_scattered_idxs,
+    expert_offsets,
+    expert_biases=None,
+    gates=None,
+    grouped_in=False,
+    grouped_out=False,
+):
+    results = ParallelLinear.apply(
+        inputs,
+        expert_weights,
+        k,
+        sorted_expert_idxs,
+        sorted_scattered_idxs,
+        expert_offsets,
+        expert_biases,
+        gates,
+        grouped_in,
+        grouped_out,
+    )
+    return results
+
+
+class ParallelExperts(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, num_experts, input_size, output_size, bias=False) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(num_experts, output_size, input_size))
+
+        if bias:
+            self.bias = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(num_experts, output_size))
+        else:
+            self.bias = None
+
+        self.num_experts = num_experts
+        self.input_size = input_size
+        self.output_size = output_size
+        self.reset_parameters()
+
+    def extra_repr(self):
+        return "num_experts={}, input_size={}, output_size={}".format(
+            self.num_experts, self.input_size, self.output_size
+        )
+
+    def reset_parameters(self) -> None:
+        nn.init.normal_(self.weight, std=0.02)
+        if self.bias is not None:
+            nn.init.zeros_(self.bias)
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        inputs,
+        k,
+        sorted_expert_idxs,
+        sorted_scattered_idxs,
+        expert_offsets,
+        gates=None,
+        grouped_in=False,
+        grouped_out=False,
+    ):
+        results = parallel_linear(
+            inputs,
+            self.weight.permute(0, 2, 1),
+            k,
+            sorted_expert_idxs,
+            sorted_scattered_idxs,
+            expert_offsets,
+            expert_biases=self.bias,
+            gates=gates,
+            grouped_in=grouped_in,
+            grouped_out=grouped_out,
+        )
+        return results

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/libs/scattermoe_lora/parallel_linear_lora.py

@@ -0,0 +1,480 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# Copyright (c) Axolotl AI
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+
+"""
+ScatterMoE + LoRA Autograd Function
+====================================
+
+Provides the autograd function and Python interface for fused ScatterMoE + LoRA.
+
+Key design for LoRA training:
+  - Expert weights W are FROZEN (no gradient computed for W).
+  - Only LoRA adapter weights (A, B) receive gradients.
+  - The input gradient dX is still computed (needed for upstream layers).
+  - This avoids the expensive group_bwd_W computation entirely.
+
+Forward:
+  Y = X @ W + scaling * (X @ A^T) @ B^T
+
+Backward (W frozen):
+  dX = dY @ W^T + scaling * (dY @ B) @ A          (via scatter2scatter for base, separate for LoRA)
+  dA = scaling * (dY @ B)^T @ X                     (per-expert, on grouped data)
+  dB = scaling * dY^T @ (X @ A^T)                   (per-expert, on grouped data)
+"""
+
+from typing import Optional
+
+import torch
+
+from .kernels import ops as base_ops
+from .kernels.lora_ops import (
+    group_bwd_lora,
+    group_bwd_lora_fused,
+    scatter2scatter_lora,
+    scatter2scatter_lora_dX,
+)
+
+
+class ScatterMoELoRA(torch.autograd.Function):
+    """
+    Autograd function for fused ScatterMoE + LoRA with frozen expert weights.
+
+    This function is optimized for the LoRA fine-tuning scenario where:
+    - Expert weights W are frozen (requires_grad=False)
+    - Only LoRA A and B matrices receive gradients
+    - Input gradients are computed for upstream layer backprop
+    """
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def forward(
+        ctx,
+        x: torch.Tensor,
+        expert_weights: torch.Tensor,
+        k: int,
+        sorted_expert_idxs: torch.Tensor,
+        sorted_scattered_idxs: torch.Tensor,
+        expert_offsets: torch.Tensor,
+        lora_A: torch.Tensor,
+        lora_B: torch.Tensor,
+        scaling: float,
+        expert_biases: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        gates: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        grouped_in: bool = False,
+        grouped_out: bool = False,
+        use_fused_dX: bool = False,
+        use_fused_gather: bool = False,
+    ):
+        with torch.device(x.device):
+            # Fused forward: Y = X @ W + scaling * (X @ A^T) @ B^T
+            output = scatter2scatter_lora(
+                X=x,
+                W=expert_weights,
+                sorted_expert_idxs=sorted_expert_idxs,
+                sorted_scattered_idxs=sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                k=k,
+                lora_A=lora_A,
+                lora_B=lora_B,
+                scaling=scaling,
+                b=expert_biases,
+                x_grouped=grouped_in,
+                y_grouped=grouped_out,
+            )
+
+            # Handle gating (weighted combination of top-k expert outputs)
+            if gates is not None:
+                output_expanded = output.view(
+                    gates.size(0), gates.size(1), output.size(-1)
+                )
+                output = (gates.unsqueeze(1) @ output_expanded).squeeze(1)
+            else:
+                output_expanded = None
+
+            ctx.save_for_backward(
+                x,
+                lora_A,
+                lora_B,
+                sorted_expert_idxs,
+                sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                expert_offsets,
+                gates,
+                output_expanded,
+            )
+            # Store frozen weights as plain Python attributes instead of
+            # save_for_backward.  This avoids:
+            # 1. Version-check conflicts with FSDP unshard/reshard
+            # 2. Pinning all-gathered parameters via saved_tensors hooks
+            # 3. Interfering with activation offloading pack/unpack hooks
+            # Safe because expert_weights are frozen (requires_grad=False).
+            ctx.expert_weights = expert_weights
+            ctx.expert_biases = expert_biases
+            ctx.grouped_in = grouped_in
+            ctx.grouped_out = grouped_out
+            ctx.k = k
+            ctx.scaling = scaling
+            ctx.use_fused_dX = use_fused_dX
+            ctx.use_fused_gather = use_fused_gather
+
+        return output
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def backward(ctx, grad_out: torch.Tensor):
+        with torch.device(grad_out.device):
+            (
+                x,
+                lora_A,
+                lora_B,
+                sorted_expert_idxs,
+                sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                expert_offsets,
+                gates,
+                output_expanded,
+            ) = ctx.saved_tensors
+            expert_weights = ctx.expert_weights
+
+            k = ctx.k
+            scaling = ctx.scaling
+            grouped_in = ctx.grouped_in
+            grouped_out = ctx.grouped_out
+            E = expert_weights.size(0)
+
+            # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+            # Gate gradients (if using top-k gating with routing weights)
+            # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+            if gates is not None:
+                # d_gates[t, j] = output_expanded[t, j, :] . grad_out[t, :]
+                d_gates = (output_expanded @ grad_out.unsqueeze(-1)).squeeze(-1)
+                gates_flat = gates.flatten()
+                gate_fan = gates.size(1)
+                # Reuse output_expanded buffer for grouped_grad_out
+                grouped_grad_out = output_expanded.flatten(0, 1)
+            else:
+                d_gates = None
+                gates_flat = None
+                gate_fan = 1
+                grouped_grad_out = None
+
+            # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+            # LoRA gradients (dA, dB) and setup for dX
+            # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+            # Fused gather uses sorted_scattered_idxs for indirect X access
+            # in the Triton kernel, avoiding the group(x) allocation.
+            #
+            # can_fuse_gather: X is ungrouped and not too large for scatter loads
+            #   - When gates is None and grouped_out=False: both DY and X ungrouped
+            #   - When grouped_out=True (gate_up_proj): DY already grouped, X ungrouped
+            #     -> use dy_grouped=True in the fused kernel
+            M_total = sorted_scattered_idxs.size(0)
+            K_dim = x.size(-1)
+            N_dim = expert_weights.size(-1)
+            fuse_gather_workload = M_total * max(K_dim, N_dim)
+            _FUSE_GATHER_THRESHOLD = 2**24  # ~16M elements
+
+            can_fuse_gather = (
+                ctx.use_fused_gather
+                and not grouped_in  # X must be ungrouped for scatter access
+                and gates is None  # gate coeff requires multiplicative gather
+                and fuse_gather_workload < _FUSE_GATHER_THRESHOLD
+            )
+
+            if can_fuse_gather:
+                # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+                # Fused path: skip group(x) entirely
+                # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+                d_expanded_input = None
+
+                d_lora_A, d_lora_B = group_bwd_lora_fused(
+                    DY=grad_out,
+                    X=x,
+                    lora_A=lora_A,
+                    lora_B=lora_B,
+                    expert_offsets=expert_offsets,
+                    sorted_scattered_idxs=sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                    E=E,
+                    k=k,
+                    scaling=scaling,
+                    dy_grouped=grouped_out,
+                )
+
+                # Prepare grouped_grad_out for the dX path (needed by both
+                # the fused dX kernel when grouped_out=True, and the non-fused path)
+                if grouped_out:
+                    grouped_grad_out = grad_out
+                elif not ctx.use_fused_dX:
+                    grouped_grad_out = base_ops.group(
+                        grad_out,
+                        sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                        fan_out=gate_fan,
+                        coeff=gates_flat,
+                        out=grouped_grad_out,
+                    )
+            else:
+                # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+                # Original path: explicit group() calls
+                # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+                if grouped_out:
+                    grouped_grad_out = grad_out
+                else:
+                    grouped_grad_out = base_ops.group(
+                        grad_out,
+                        sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                        fan_out=gate_fan,
+                        coeff=gates_flat,
+                        out=grouped_grad_out,
+                    )
+
+                if grouped_in:
+                    grouped_x = x
+                    d_expanded_input = None
+                else:
+                    grouped_x = base_ops.group(x, sorted_scattered_idxs, fan_out=k)
+                    d_expanded_input = grouped_x  # Will be overwritten; reuse buffer
+
+                d_lora_A, d_lora_B = group_bwd_lora(
+                    DY=grouped_grad_out,
+                    X=grouped_x,
+                    lora_A=lora_A,
+                    lora_B=lora_B,
+                    expert_offsets=expert_offsets,
+                    E=E,
+                    scaling=scaling,
+                )
+
+            # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+            # Input gradient: dX = dY @ W^T + scaling * (dY @ B) @ A
+            # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+            if ctx.use_fused_dX:
+                if can_fuse_gather and not grouped_out:
+                    # Fully fused: read ungrouped DY via scatter pattern
+                    d_expanded_input = scatter2scatter_lora_dX(
+                        DY=grad_out,
+                        W=expert_weights,
+                        sorted_expert_idxs=sorted_expert_idxs,
+                        sorted_scattered_idxs=sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                        k=1,
+                        lora_A=lora_A,
+                        lora_B=lora_B,
+                        scaling=scaling,
+                        dy_grouped=False,
+                        dx_grouped=grouped_in,
+                        out=d_expanded_input,
+                    )
+                else:
+                    # Fused dX only: read from pre-grouped DY
+                    d_expanded_input = scatter2scatter_lora_dX(
+                        DY=grouped_grad_out,
+                        W=expert_weights,
+                        sorted_expert_idxs=sorted_expert_idxs,
+                        sorted_scattered_idxs=sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                        k=1,
+                        lora_A=lora_A,
+                        lora_B=lora_B,
+                        scaling=scaling,
+                        dy_grouped=True,
+                        dx_grouped=grouped_in,
+                        out=d_expanded_input,
+                    )
+            else:
+                # Original path: separate base scatter2scatter + LoRA Python loop
+                d_expanded_input = base_ops.scatter2scatter(
+                    X=grouped_grad_out,
+                    x_grouped=True,
+                    W=expert_weights.permute(0, 2, 1),  # [E, N, K]
+                    sorted_expert_idxs=sorted_expert_idxs,
+                    sorted_scattered_idxs=sorted_scattered_idxs,
+                    k=1,
+                    y_grouped=grouped_in,
+                    out=d_expanded_input,
+                )
+
+                # LoRA part: dX_lora = scaling * (dY @ B) @ A
+                if scaling != 0.0:
+                    d_input_lora_grouped = _compute_lora_input_grad(
+                        grouped_grad_out,
+                        lora_A,
+                        lora_B,
+                        expert_offsets,
+                        E,
+                        scaling,
+                    )
+                    if grouped_in:
+                        d_expanded_input.add_(d_input_lora_grouped)
+                    else:
+                        # Scatter-add LoRA gradient directly into d_expanded_input.
+                        # Avoids allocating a zeros_like + add result
+                        d_expanded_input[sorted_scattered_idxs] += d_input_lora_grouped
+
+            # Reduce over top-k if k > 1
+            if k == 1:
+                d_input = d_expanded_input
+            else:
+                d_input = d_expanded_input.view(
+                    x.size(0), k, d_expanded_input.size(-1)
+                ).sum(-2)
+
+            # W is frozen during LoRA training -- skip weight gradient
+            d_weights = (
+                torch.zeros_like(expert_weights)
+                if expert_weights.requires_grad
+                else None
+            )
+            d_biases = None
+
+        return (
+            d_input,
+            d_weights,
+            None,
+            None,
+            None,
+            None,  # k, sorted indices, offsets
+            d_lora_A,
+            d_lora_B,
+            None,  # lora_A, lora_B, scaling
+            d_biases,
+            d_gates,
+            None,
+            None,  # grouped_in, grouped_out
+            None,  # use_fused_dX
+            None,  # use_fused_gather
+        )
+
+
+def _compute_lora_input_grad(
+    grouped_grad_out: torch.Tensor,
+    lora_A: torch.Tensor,
+    lora_B: torch.Tensor,
+    expert_offsets: torch.Tensor,
+    E: int,
+    scaling: float,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """
+    Compute the LoRA contribution to the input gradient:
+      dX_lora = scaling * (dY @ B) @ A
+
+    Uses PyTorch ops on expert-grouped data.
+    Each expert e: dX_e = scaling * (dY_e @ B_e) @ A_e
+    """
+    R = lora_A.size(0) // E
+    K = lora_A.size(1)
+    M_total = grouped_grad_out.size(0)
+
+    d_input_lora = torch.zeros(
+        (M_total, K), device=grouped_grad_out.device, dtype=grouped_grad_out.dtype
+    )
+
+    compute_dtype = grouped_grad_out.dtype
+
+    prev_offset = 0
+    for e in range(E):
+        curr_offset = expert_offsets[e].item()
+        if curr_offset > prev_offset:
+            dy_e = grouped_grad_out[prev_offset:curr_offset]  # [M_e, N]
+            a_e = lora_A[e * R : (e + 1) * R, :].to(compute_dtype)  # [r, K]
+            b_e = lora_B[:, e * R : (e + 1) * R].to(compute_dtype)  # [N, r]
+
+            # dX_e = scaling * (dY_e @ B_e) @ A_e
+            dy_b = dy_e @ b_e  # [M_e, r]
+            dx_e = scaling * (dy_b @ a_e)  # [M_e, K]
+            d_input_lora[prev_offset:curr_offset] = dx_e
+
+        prev_offset = curr_offset
+
+    return d_input_lora
+
+
+# =============================================================================
+# Helper: Extract LoRA params from PEFT ParamWrapper
+# =============================================================================
+
+
+def get_lora_params_from_wrapper(module) -> tuple:
+    """
+    Extract LoRA parameters from a PEFT ParamWrapper.
+
+    Returns:
+        (lora_A, lora_B, scaling) if LoRA is active, else (None, None, None)
+    """
+    if not hasattr(module, "lora_A") or not hasattr(module, "lora_B"):
+        return None, None, None
+
+    active_adapters = getattr(module, "active_adapters", ["default"])
+    if not active_adapters:
+        return None, None, None
+
+    adapter_name = active_adapters[0]
+
+    lora_A_dict = getattr(module, "lora_A", {})
+    lora_B_dict = getattr(module, "lora_B", {})
+    scaling_dict = getattr(module, "scaling", {})
+
+    if adapter_name not in lora_A_dict:
+        return None, None, None
+
+    lora_A = lora_A_dict[adapter_name].weight
+    lora_B = lora_B_dict[adapter_name].weight
+    scaling = scaling_dict[adapter_name]
+
+    return lora_A, lora_B, scaling
+
+
+# =============================================================================
+# Drop-in replacement for parallel_linear
+# =============================================================================
+
+
+def parallel_linear_lora(
+    inputs: torch.Tensor,
+    expert_weights: torch.Tensor,
+    k: int,
+    sorted_expert_idxs: torch.Tensor,
+    sorted_scattered_idxs: torch.Tensor,
+    expert_offsets: torch.Tensor,
+    lora_A: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    lora_B: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    scaling: float = 1.0,
+    expert_biases: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    gates: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    grouped_in: bool = False,
+    grouped_out: bool = False,
+    use_fused_dX: bool = False,
+    use_fused_gather: bool = False,
+):
+    """
+    Drop-in replacement for parallel_linear that supports LoRA.
+
+    If lora_A and lora_B are provided, uses fused LoRA kernel.
+    Otherwise falls back to standard scatter2scatter.
+    """
+    if lora_A is not None and lora_B is not None:
+        return ScatterMoELoRA.apply(
+            inputs,
+            expert_weights,
+            k,
+            sorted_expert_idxs,
+            sorted_scattered_idxs,
+            expert_offsets,
+            lora_A,
+            lora_B,
+            scaling,
+            expert_biases,
+            gates,
+            grouped_in,
+            grouped_out,
+            use_fused_dX,
+            use_fused_gather,
+        )
+    else:
+        from .parallel_experts import ParallelLinear
+
+        return ParallelLinear.apply(
+            inputs,
+            expert_weights,
+            k,
+            sorted_expert_idxs,
+            sorted_scattered_idxs,
+            expert_offsets,
+            expert_biases,
+            gates,
+            grouped_in,
+            grouped_out,
+        )

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/plugin.py

@@ -1,12 +1,59 @@
-from kernels import (
-    LayerRepository,
-    Mode,
-    register_kernel_mapping,
-    replace_kernel_forward_from_hub,
-)
+import importlib
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import torch
 
 from axolotl.integrations.base import BasePlugin
-from axolotl.utils.callbacks.models import get_causal_lm_model_cls_prefix
+from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
+
+LOG = get_logger(__name__)
+
+
+def _check_sonicmoe_gpu_compat():
+    """Validate GPU compute capability for SonicMoE and configure env.
+
+    Supported: Hopper (sm_90), Blackwell (sm_100 - sm_103).
+    B300 (sm_103) additionally requires Triton 3.6.0.
+    """
+    if not torch.cuda.is_available():
+        return
+
+    cc = torch.cuda.get_device_capability()
+
+    if cc < (9, 0):
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"SonicMoE requires Hopper (sm_90) or Blackwell (sm_100+) GPU, "
+            f"but detected sm_{cc[0]}{cc[1]}."
+        )
+
+    if cc > (10, 3):
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"SonicMoE does not yet support sm_{cc[0]}{cc[1]}. "
+            f"Supported: Hopper (sm_90) and Blackwell (sm_100 - sm_103)."
+        )
+
+    # Blackwell (sm_100+): enable QuACK GEMM kernels
+    if cc >= (10, 0):
+        os.environ.setdefault("USE_QUACK_GEMM", "1")
+        LOG.info(
+            f"Blackwell GPU (sm_{cc[0]}{cc[1]}) detected, enabling USE_QUACK_GEMM=1"
+        )
+
+    # B300 (sm_103): requires Triton 3.6.0
+    if cc == (10, 3):
+        triton_spec = importlib.util.find_spec("triton")
+        if triton_spec is None:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                "B300 (sm_103) requires Triton 3.6.0, but Triton is not installed."
+            )
+        import triton
+
+        triton_version = tuple(int(x) for x in triton.__version__.split(".")[:2])
+        if triton_version != (3, 6):
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"B300 (sm_103) requires Triton 3.6.x, but found {triton.__version__}."
+            )
 
 
 class KernelsPlugin(BasePlugin):
@@ -17,18 +64,45 @@ class KernelsPlugin(BasePlugin):
         if cfg.use_scattermoe:
             self._register_kernels()
             self._kernelize_model(cfg.model_config_type)
+        elif cfg.use_sonicmoe:
+            if not importlib.util.find_spec("sonicmoe"):
+                raise RuntimeError(
+                    "SonicMoE is not installed. See installation instructions at "
+                    "https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/blob/main/src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/README.md#sonicmoe-installation"
+                )
+
+            _check_sonicmoe_gpu_compat()
+
+            from axolotl.integrations.kernels.sonicmoe import patch_sonicmoe
+
+            LOG.info(
+                f"Applying SonicMoE patches for model type: {cfg.model_config_type}"
+            )
+            patch_sonicmoe(
+                cfg.model_config_type,
+                torch_compile=bool(getattr(cfg, "torch_compile", False)),
+            )
 
     def _register_kernels(self):
+        from kernels import (
+            LocalLayerRepository,
+            Mode,
+            register_kernel_mapping,
+        )
+
+        plugin_root = Path(__file__).parent
         register_kernel_mapping(
             {
                 "HFScatterMoEParallelExperts": {
                     "cuda": {
-                        Mode.TRAINING: LayerRepository(
-                            repo_id="axolotl-ai-co/scattermoe",
+                        Mode.TRAINING: LocalLayerRepository(
+                            repo_path=plugin_root / "libs" / "scattermoe_lora",
+                            package_name="scattermoe_lora",
                             layer_name="HFScatterMoEGatedMLP",
                         ),
-                        Mode.INFERENCE: LayerRepository(
-                            repo_id="axolotl-ai-co/scattermoe",
+                        Mode.INFERENCE: LocalLayerRepository(
+                            repo_path=plugin_root / "libs" / "scattermoe_lora",
+                            package_name="scattermoe_lora",
                             layer_name="HFScatterMoEGatedMLP",
                         ),
                     },
@@ -37,25 +111,11 @@ class KernelsPlugin(BasePlugin):
         )
 
     def _kernelize_model(self, model_type: str):
-        if model_type == "olmoe":
-            from transformers.models.olmoe.modeling_olmoe import OlmoeSparseMoeBlock
+        from kernels import replace_kernel_forward_from_hub
 
+        from axolotl.integrations.kernels.constants import resolve_moe_block_classes
+
+        for model_moe_cls in resolve_moe_block_classes(model_type):
             replace_kernel_forward_from_hub(
-                OlmoeSparseMoeBlock, "HFScatterMoEParallelExperts"
+                model_moe_cls, "HFScatterMoEParallelExperts"
             )
-        else:
-            try:
-                model_moe_cls = get_model_moe_block(model_type)
-                replace_kernel_forward_from_hub(
-                    model_moe_cls, "HFScatterMoEParallelExperts"
-                )
-            except Exception as err:
-                raise ValueError(f"Unsupported model type: {model_type}") from err
-
-
-def get_model_moe_block(model_type: str):
-    module_path = f"transformers.models.{model_type}.modeling_{model_type}"
-    model_cls_prefix, _ = get_causal_lm_model_cls_prefix(model_type)
-    module = __import__(module_path, fromlist=[f"{model_cls_prefix}SparseMoeBlock"])
-    model_cls = getattr(module, f"{model_cls_prefix}SparseMoeBlock")
-    return model_cls

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/sonicmoe/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from .patch import patch_sonicmoe
+
+__all__ = ["patch_sonicmoe"]

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/sonicmoe/patch.py

@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+"""
+SonicMoE patching for SparseMoeBlock forward pass.
+
+Monkeypatches the SparseMoeBlock class for a given model type to use
+SonicMoE's optimized kernels. Two forward paths are supported:
+
+1. **General routing path** (routing_fn is not None):
+   Uses a custom routing function + ``moe_general_routing_inputs``.
+   Suitable for models with non-standard routing (softmax->topk, sigmoid->topk).
+
+2. **Fused topk->softmax path** (routing_fn is None):
+   Uses ``moe_TC_softmax_topk_layer`` which fuses routing + expert computation.
+   Suitable for models with simple topk->softmax routing.
+
+Weight format conversion (interleave/deinterleave) is handled by the
+WeightConverter system, so the forward assumes weights are already in
+interleaved format.
+
+Shared experts are handled generically: if the block has a ``shared_expert``
+or ``shared_experts`` attribute, its output is computed alongside the routed
+experts and added to the final output. An optional ``shared_expert_gate``
+applies sigmoid gating to the shared expert contribution.
+"""
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+from axolotl.integrations.kernels.constants import resolve_moe_block_classes
+from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
+
+LOG = get_logger(__name__)
+
+
+def patch_sonicmoe(model_type: str, torch_compile: bool = False):
+    """Main entry point: patch SparseMoeBlock for SonicMoE support.
+
+    Args:
+        model_type: The HuggingFace model type (e.g. "qwen3_moe").
+        torch_compile: If True, wrap routing functions with torch.compile
+            for kernel fusion (fuses softmax+topk+renorm into fewer launches).
+    """
+    from .routing import get_model_moe_config
+    from .weight_converter import register_sonicmoe_weight_converter
+
+    routing_fn, activation, router_attr = get_model_moe_config(model_type)
+
+    if torch_compile and routing_fn is not None:
+        routing_fn = _try_compile_routing(routing_fn)
+
+    for moe_cls in resolve_moe_block_classes(model_type):
+        _patch_forward(moe_cls, routing_fn, activation, router_attr)
+    register_sonicmoe_weight_converter(model_type)
+
+
+def _try_compile_routing(routing_fn):
+    """Attempt to torch.compile the routing function, fall back to eager on failure."""
+    try:
+        compiled_fn = torch.compile(routing_fn, mode="reduce-overhead", dynamic=False)
+        LOG.info(f"torch.compile enabled for routing function: {routing_fn.__name__}")
+        return compiled_fn
+    except Exception as exc:  # pylint: disable=broad-except
+        LOG.warning(
+            f"torch.compile failed for routing function {routing_fn.__name__}, "
+            f"falling back to eager: {exc}"
+        )
+        return routing_fn
+
+
+def _patch_forward(moe_cls, routing_fn, activation, router_attr):
+    """Monkeypatch the SparseMoeBlock class with a SonicMoE forward.
+
+    The patched forward handles shared experts generically: if
+    ``self.shared_expert`` or ``self.shared_experts`` exists, it is computed
+    and added to the routed output. If ``self.shared_expert_gate`` also exists,
+    it applies sigmoid gating to the shared expert contribution (as in qwen2_moe).
+
+    Args:
+        moe_cls: The SparseMoeBlock class to patch.
+        routing_fn: Routing function (e.g. softmax_topk_routing), or None
+            for the fused moe_TC_softmax_topk_layer path.
+        activation: SonicMoE ActivationType enum value.
+        router_attr: Name of the router module attribute on the MoE block.
+    """
+    if hasattr(moe_cls, "_original_forward"):
+        LOG.info(f"{moe_cls.__name__}.forward already patched with SonicMoE, skipping")
+        return
+
+    original_forward = moe_cls.forward
+
+    if routing_fn is not None:
+        _make_general_forward(moe_cls, routing_fn, activation)
+    else:
+        _make_fused_forward(moe_cls, activation, router_attr)
+
+    moe_cls._original_forward = original_forward
+    LOG.info(f"Patched {moe_cls.__name__}.forward with SonicMoE implementation")
+
+
+def _make_general_forward(moe_cls, routing_fn, activation):
+    """Create forward using routing_fn + moe_general_routing_inputs."""
+
+    def sonicmoe_forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        from sonicmoe import moe_general_routing_inputs
+
+        batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_dim = hidden_states.shape
+        hidden_states_flat = hidden_states.view(-1, hidden_dim)
+
+        # Shared expert (computed early, matching original model ordering)
+        shared_expert_output = _compute_shared_expert(self, hidden_states_flat)
+
+        # Routing
+        router_scores, token_indices, expert_indices, _router_logits = routing_fn(
+            hidden_states_flat, self
+        )
+
+        # Permute weights to SonicMoE layout:
+        #   gate_up: [E, 2*I, H] -> [2*I, H, E]
+        #   down:    [E, H, I]   -> [H, I, E]
+        gate_up_weight = self.experts.gate_up_proj.permute(1, 2, 0)
+        down_weight = self.experts.down_proj.permute(1, 2, 0)
+        E = gate_up_weight.shape[-1]
+
+        output, _ = moe_general_routing_inputs(
+            hidden_states_flat,
+            router_scores,
+            token_indices,
+            expert_indices,
+            gate_up_weight,
+            None,  # b1 (no gate/up bias)
+            down_weight,
+            None,  # b2 (no down bias)
+            E,
+            torch.cuda.current_stream().cuda_stream,
+            activation,
+            False,  # is_inference_mode
+        )
+
+        # Add shared expert contribution if present
+        if shared_expert_output is not None:
+            if hasattr(self, "shared_expert_gate"):
+                shared_expert_output = (
+                    F.sigmoid(self.shared_expert_gate(hidden_states_flat))
+                    * shared_expert_output
+                )
+            output = output + shared_expert_output
+
+        return output.view(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_dim)
+
+    moe_cls.forward = sonicmoe_forward
+
+
+def _make_fused_forward(moe_cls, activation, router_attr):
+    """Create forward using moe_TC_softmax_topk_layer (topk -> softmax)."""
+
+    def sonicmoe_fused_forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        from sonicmoe import moe_TC_softmax_topk_layer
+
+        batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_dim = hidden_states.shape
+        hidden_states_flat = hidden_states.view(-1, hidden_dim)
+
+        # Shared expert (computed early, matching original model ordering)
+        shared_expert_output = _compute_shared_expert(self, hidden_states_flat)
+
+        router = getattr(self, router_attr)
+
+        # Permute weights to SonicMoE layout:
+        #   gate_up: [E, 2*I, H] -> [2*I, H, E]
+        #   down:    [E, H, I]   -> [H, I, E]
+        gate_up_weight = self.experts.gate_up_proj.permute(1, 2, 0)
+        down_weight = self.experts.down_proj.permute(1, 2, 0)
+
+        output, _router_logits, _expert_freq = moe_TC_softmax_topk_layer(
+            hidden_states_flat,
+            router.weight,
+            gate_up_weight,
+            None,  # b1 (no gate/up bias)
+            down_weight,
+            None,  # b2 (no down bias)
+            router.top_k,
+            torch.cuda.current_stream().cuda_stream,
+            activation,
+            False,  # is_inference_mode
+        )
+
+        # Add shared expert contribution if present
+        if shared_expert_output is not None:
+            if hasattr(self, "shared_expert_gate"):
+                shared_expert_output = (
+                    F.sigmoid(self.shared_expert_gate(hidden_states_flat))
+                    * shared_expert_output
+                )
+            output = output + shared_expert_output
+
+        return output.view(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_dim)
+
+    moe_cls.forward = sonicmoe_fused_forward
+
+
+def _compute_shared_expert(moe_block, hidden_states_flat):
+    """Compute shared expert output if the block has one.
+
+    Handles singular (qwen2_moe: ``shared_expert``), plural
+    (glm_moe_dsa/deepseek_v3: ``shared_experts``), and MLP
+    (hunyuan_v1_moe: ``shared_mlp``) attribute names.
+    """
+    shared_expert = (
+        getattr(moe_block, "shared_expert", None)
+        or getattr(moe_block, "shared_experts", None)
+        or getattr(moe_block, "shared_mlp", None)
+    )
+    if shared_expert is not None:
+        return shared_expert(hidden_states_flat)
+    return None

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/sonicmoe/routing.py

@@ -0,0 +1,219 @@
+"""
+Routing functions for SonicMoE integration.
+
+Different MoE architectures use different routing strategies:
+- qwen3_moe / qwen2_moe / qwen3_5_moe / qwen3_vl_moe / qwen3_omni_moe: softmax -> topk (with optional renormalization)
+- gpt_oss: topk -> softmax (uses fused moe_TC_softmax_topk_layer, routing_fn=None)
+- glm_moe_dsa: sigmoid -> topk (with group-based expert selection)
+
+Each model type maps to a (routing_fn, activation_type, router_attr) triple.
+When routing_fn is None, the fused moe_TC_softmax_topk_layer path is used.
+"""
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+
+def get_model_moe_config(model_type: str):
+    """Returns (routing_fn, activation, router_attr) for a given model type.
+
+    Args:
+        model_type: HuggingFace model type string.
+
+    Returns:
+        routing_fn: Callable or None. None signals the fused
+            moe_TC_softmax_topk_layer path (topk -> softmax models).
+        activation: SonicMoE ActivationType enum value.
+        router_attr: Name of the router module attribute on the MoE block
+            (e.g. "gate" or "router").
+
+    The activation type cannot be derived from config.hidden_act because
+    e.g. qwen3_moe reports "silu" but architecturally uses SwiGLU
+    (act_fn(gate) * up pattern). So we specify it per model type.
+    """
+    from sonicmoe.enums import ActivationType
+
+    if model_type in (
+        "qwen2_moe",
+        "qwen3_moe",
+        "qwen3_5_moe",
+        "qwen3_next",
+        "qwen3_vl_moe",
+        "qwen3_omni_moe",
+        "olmoe",
+        "mixtral",
+        "minimax",
+    ):
+        return softmax_topk_routing, ActivationType.SWIGLU, "gate"
+    elif model_type in (
+        "glm_moe_dsa",
+        "deepseek_v3",
+        "glm4_moe",
+        "glm4_moe_lite",
+        "glm4v_moe",
+        "minimax_m2",
+    ):
+        return sigmoid_topk_routing, ActivationType.SWIGLU, "gate"
+    # elif model_type in ("ernie4_5_moe",):
+    #     # Softmax→topk with e_score_correction_bias applied between softmax and topk.
+    #     return ..., ActivationType.SWIGLU, "gate"
+    # elif model_type in ("deepseek_v2",):
+    #     # Softmax→topk with group_limited_greedy. Different attr names: num_group
+    #     # (not n_group), gate is nn.Linear (not a router class).
+    #     return ..., ActivationType.SWIGLU, "gate"
+    # elif model_type in ("hunyuan_v1_moe",):
+    #     # Softmax→topk but gate structure differs: gate.wg (not gate.weight),
+    #     # top_k on block not gate, creates scatter routing matrix.
+    #     return ..., ActivationType.SWIGLU, "gate"
+    # Fused topk -> softmax path (routing_fn=None):
+    # elif model_type in ("gpt_oss",):
+    #     # NOTE: gpt_oss has a router bias which moe_TC_softmax_topk_layer
+    #     # ignores (it only takes router_w, not bias). Also has transposed
+    #     # weight layout [E, H, 2*I] and custom GLU activation.
+    #     return None, ActivationType.SWIGLU, "router"
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(f"SonicMoE: unsupported model type '{model_type}'")
+
+
+def softmax_topk_routing(
+    hidden_states: torch.Tensor, moe_block
+) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+    """Qwen3/Qwen2-style routing: softmax -> topk -> optional renorm.
+
+    Args:
+        hidden_states: [T, H] flattened token representations
+        moe_block: MoE block module (accesses moe_block.gate.*)
+
+    Returns:
+        router_scores: [T*K] flattened scores (float32)
+        token_indices: [T*K] which token each entry belongs to (int32), sorted ascending
+        expert_indices: [T*K] which expert (int32)
+        router_logits: [T, E] original logits for aux loss
+    """
+    gate = moe_block.gate
+    T, H = hidden_states.shape
+    K = gate.top_k
+
+    # Compute router logits and softmax over all experts
+    router_logits = F.linear(hidden_states, gate.weight)  # [T, E]
+    router_probs = F.softmax(router_logits, dim=-1, dtype=torch.float32)  # [T, E]
+
+    # Select top-k experts per token
+    top_values, top_indices = torch.topk(router_probs, K, dim=-1)  # [T, K] each
+
+    # Renormalize if configured (default True for models without the attribute,
+    # e.g. Mixtral/MiniMax which always normalize)
+    if getattr(gate, "norm_topk_prob", True):
+        top_values = top_values / top_values.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+
+    # no-op: matches transformers which casts to softmax output dtype (float32).
+    # top_values = top_values.to(router_probs.dtype)
+
+    # Flatten for moe_general_routing_inputs.
+    # Token indices are naturally sorted ascending from the [T, K] layout:
+    # [0, 0, ..., 1, 1, ..., T-1, T-1, ...] — this is required by SonicMoE.
+    # Expert sorting is handled internally by general_routing_router_metadata.
+    token_indices = (
+        torch.arange(T, device=hidden_states.device, dtype=torch.int32)
+        .unsqueeze(1)
+        .expand(T, K)
+    )
+
+    flat_scores = top_values.reshape(-1)  # [T*K]
+    flat_token_idx = token_indices.reshape(-1)  # [T*K]
+    flat_expert_idx = top_indices.to(torch.int32).reshape(-1)  # [T*K]
+
+    return flat_scores, flat_token_idx, flat_expert_idx, router_logits
+
+
+def sigmoid_topk_routing(
+    hidden_states: torch.Tensor, moe_block
+) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+    """Sigmoid-based routing: sigmoid -> optional group selection -> topk.
+
+    Supports two variants:
+    - **Group selection** (glm_moe_dsa, deepseek_v3, etc.): n_group > 1,
+      bias on gate, group-based masking before topk.
+    - **No group selection** (minimax_m2): n_group == 1 (or absent),
+      bias on moe_block, straight topk from all experts.
+
+    Final routing weights come from the original sigmoid scores (not
+    bias-corrected), with optional renormalization and scaling.
+
+    Args:
+        hidden_states: [T, H] flattened token representations
+        moe_block: MoE block module (accesses moe_block.gate.* and
+            optional moe_block.n_group, .topk_group, .top_k, .norm_topk_prob,
+            .routed_scaling_factor, .n_routed_experts)
+
+    Returns:
+        router_scores: [T*K] flattened scores (float32)
+        token_indices: [T*K] which token each entry belongs to (int32), sorted ascending
+        expert_indices: [T*K] which expert (int32)
+        router_logits: [T, E] original logits for aux loss
+    """
+    gate = moe_block.gate
+    T, H = hidden_states.shape
+    K = moe_block.top_k
+    E = getattr(moe_block, "n_routed_experts", gate.weight.shape[0])
+    n_group = getattr(moe_block, "n_group", 1)
+
+    # Compute router logits and sigmoid probabilities
+    router_logits = F.linear(hidden_states.float(), gate.weight.float())  # [T, E]
+    router_probs = router_logits.sigmoid()  # [T, E]
+
+    # Bias-corrected scores for expert selection (not used for final weights).
+    # glm_moe_dsa/deepseek_v3 store the bias on gate; minimax_m2 stores it on the block.
+    e_score_correction_bias = getattr(gate, "e_score_correction_bias", None)
+    if e_score_correction_bias is None:
+        e_score_correction_bias = getattr(moe_block, "e_score_correction_bias", None)
+    if e_score_correction_bias is None:
+        raise AttributeError(
+            f"sigmoid_topk_routing requires e_score_correction_bias on "
+            f"gate ({type(gate)}) or moe_block ({type(moe_block)}), but neither has it"
+        )
+    scores_for_choice = router_probs + e_score_correction_bias
+
+    # Group-based selection: pick top groups, mask the rest (skip when n_group == 1)
+    if n_group > 1:
+        group_scores = (
+            scores_for_choice.view(-1, n_group, E // n_group)
+            .topk(2, dim=-1)[0]
+            .sum(dim=-1)
+        )  # [T, n_group]
+        group_idx = torch.topk(
+            group_scores, k=moe_block.topk_group, dim=-1, sorted=False
+        )[1]
+        group_mask = torch.zeros_like(group_scores)
+        group_mask.scatter_(1, group_idx, 1)
+        score_mask = (
+            group_mask.unsqueeze(-1).expand(-1, n_group, E // n_group).reshape(-1, E)
+        )
+        scores_for_choice = scores_for_choice.masked_fill(~score_mask.bool(), 0.0)
+
+    # Final topk from (possibly masked) scores
+    topk_indices = torch.topk(scores_for_choice, k=K, dim=-1, sorted=False)[1]
+
+    # Gather weights from original sigmoid scores (not bias-corrected)
+    topk_weights = router_probs.gather(1, topk_indices)
+
+    # Optional renormalization + scaling
+    norm_topk_prob = getattr(moe_block, "norm_topk_prob", True)
+    if norm_topk_prob:
+        topk_weights = topk_weights / (topk_weights.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True) + 1e-20)
+    routed_scaling_factor = getattr(moe_block, "routed_scaling_factor", 1.0)
+    topk_weights = topk_weights * routed_scaling_factor
+
+    # Flatten for moe_general_routing_inputs.
+    # Token indices are naturally sorted ascending from the [T, K] layout.
+    token_indices = (
+        torch.arange(T, device=hidden_states.device, dtype=torch.int32)
+        .unsqueeze(1)
+        .expand(T, K)
+    )
+
+    flat_scores = topk_weights.to(torch.float32).reshape(-1)  # [T*K]
+    flat_token_idx = token_indices.reshape(-1)  # [T*K]
+    flat_expert_idx = topk_indices.to(torch.int32).reshape(-1)  # [T*K]
+
+    return flat_scores, flat_token_idx, flat_expert_idx, router_logits

src/axolotl/integrations/kernels/sonicmoe/weight_converter.py

@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+"""
+Custom WeightConverter operations for SonicMoE weight format conversion.
+
+SonicMoE requires gate_up_proj weights in interleaved format:
+- Standard (concatenated): [E, 2*I, H] where first I rows are gate, last I rows are up
+- SonicMoE (interleaved): [E, 2*I, H] where rows alternate [g0, u0, g1, u1, ...]
+
+These ConversionOps integrate with transformers' WeightConverter system so that
+weights are transparently converted during loading and reverted during saving.
+"""
+
+from typing import Any
+
+import torch
+from einops import rearrange
+from transformers.core_model_loading import ConversionOps
+
+from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
+
+LOG = get_logger(__name__)
+
+
+def interleave_gate_up(tensor: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """[gate..., up...] -> [g0, u0, g1, u1, ...] along the 2*I dimension."""
+    return rearrange(tensor, "... (two out) h -> ... (out two) h", two=2)
+
+
+def deinterleave_gate_up(tensor: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """[g0, u0, g1, u1, ...] -> [gate..., up...] along the 2*I dimension."""
+    return rearrange(tensor, "... (out two) h -> ... (two out) h", two=2)
+
+
+class ConcatenatedToInterleaved(ConversionOps):
+    """Convert concatenated gate/up projections to interleaved format.
+
+    Input:  [E, 2*I, H] with gate=[E, :I, H] and up=[E, I:, H]
+    Output: [E, 2*I, H] with rows alternating [g0, u0, g1, u1, ...]
+
+    This operation is applied along ``dim`` (default 1, the 2*I dimension).
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, dim: int = 1):
+        self.dim = dim
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def convert(
+        self,
+        input_dict: dict[str, Any],
+        source_patterns: list[str],
+        target_patterns: list[str],
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+        target_pattern = self._get_target_pattern(
+            input_dict, source_patterns, target_patterns
+        )
+        tensors = next(iter(input_dict.values()))
+        tensor = tensors[0] if isinstance(tensors, list) else tensors
+
+        interleaved = interleave_gate_up(tensor)
+
+        return {target_pattern: interleaved}
+
+    def _get_target_pattern(
+        self,
+        input_dict: dict[str, Any],
+        source_patterns: list[str],
+        target_patterns: list[str],
+    ) -> str:
+        # Follow the same logic as Transpose.get_target_pattern
+        if len(input_dict) != 1:
+            raise ValueError("Undefined Operation encountered!")
+        if len(target_patterns) > 1:
+            if len(source_patterns) == 1:
+                return source_patterns[0]
+            raise ValueError("Undefined Operation encountered!")
+        return target_patterns[0]
+
+    @property
+    def reverse_op(self) -> ConversionOps:
+        return InterleavedToConcatenated(self.dim)
+
+
+class InterleavedToConcatenated(ConversionOps):
+    """Convert interleaved gate/up projections back to concatenated format.
+
+    Input:  [E, 2*I, H] with rows alternating [g0, u0, g1, u1, ...]
+    Output: [E, 2*I, H] with gate=[E, :I, H] and up=[E, I:, H]
+
+    This is the reverse of ``ConcatenatedToInterleaved``.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, dim: int = 1):
+        self.dim = dim
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def convert(
+        self,
+        input_dict: dict[str, Any],
+        source_patterns: list[str],
+        target_patterns: list[str],
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+        target_pattern = self._get_target_pattern(
+            input_dict, source_patterns, target_patterns
+        )
+        tensors = next(iter(input_dict.values()))
+        tensor = tensors[0] if isinstance(tensors, list) else tensors
+
+        concatenated = deinterleave_gate_up(tensor)
+
+        return {target_pattern: concatenated}
+
+    def _get_target_pattern(
+        self,
+        input_dict: dict[str, Any],
+        source_patterns: list[str],
+        target_patterns: list[str],
+    ) -> str:
+        if len(input_dict) != 1:
+            raise ValueError("Undefined Operation encountered!")
+        if len(target_patterns) > 1:
+            if len(source_patterns) == 1:
+                return source_patterns[0]
+            raise ValueError("Undefined Operation encountered!")
+        return target_patterns[0]
+
+    @property
+    def reverse_op(self) -> ConversionOps:
+        return ConcatenatedToInterleaved(self.dim)
+
+
+def register_sonicmoe_weight_converter(model_type: str):
+    """Override the conversion mapping to add interleave step for gate_up_proj.
+
+    Appends a ConcatenatedToInterleaved operation to the existing gate_up_proj
+    converter chain. For example, qwen3_moe's chain becomes:
+        MergeModulelist(dim=0) -> Concatenate(dim=1) -> ConcatenatedToInterleaved(dim=1)
+
+    The reverse is auto-generated for saving:
+        InterleavedToConcatenated(dim=1) -> Chunk(dim=1) -> SplitModulelist(dim=0)
+    """
+    from transformers.conversion_mapping import (
+        get_checkpoint_conversion_mapping,
+        register_checkpoint_conversion_mapping,
+    )
+
+    existing = get_checkpoint_conversion_mapping(model_type)
+    if existing is None:
+        LOG.warning(
+            f"No conversion mapping found for model type '{model_type}'. "
+            "SonicMoE weight interleaving will not be applied during checkpoint loading."
+        )
+        return
+
+    # Find the gate_up_proj converter and append ConcatenatedToInterleaved
+    patched = False
+    for converter in existing:
+        if hasattr(converter, "operations") and any(
+            "gate_up_proj" in pat for pat in converter.target_patterns
+        ):
+            # Guard against double registration (e.g. plugin reloaded)
+            if any(
+                isinstance(op, ConcatenatedToInterleaved) for op in converter.operations
+            ):
+                LOG.info(
+                    f"SonicMoE weight converter already registered for '{model_type}'"
+                )
+                return
+            converter.operations.append(ConcatenatedToInterleaved(dim=1))
+            patched = True
+            break
+
+    if not patched:
+        LOG.warning(
+            f"Could not find gate_up_proj converter for model type '{model_type}'. "
+            "SonicMoE weight interleaving will not be applied during checkpoint loading."
+        )
+        return
+
+    register_checkpoint_conversion_mapping(model_type, existing, overwrite=True)
+    LOG.info(f"Registered SonicMoE weight converter for model type '{model_type}'")

src/axolotl/integrations/liger/plugin.py

@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ import sys
 from axolotl.integrations.base import BasePlugin
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
 
-from .models.base import patch_lce_forward
-from .utils import patch_with_compile_disable
-
 LOG = get_logger(__name__)
 
 
@@ -23,10 +20,18 @@ class LigerPlugin(BasePlugin):
         return "axolotl.integrations.liger.LigerArgs"
 
     def pre_model_load(self, cfg):
+        # shim: liger-kernel 0.7.0 imports ORPOTrainer from old trl path
+        import trl.trainer
+        from trl.experimental.orpo import ORPOTrainer
+
+        trl.trainer.ORPOTrainer = ORPOTrainer
+
         if cfg.torch_compile:
             # torch compile will unnecessarily attempt to optimize the triton kernel unless explicitly disabled
             import liger_kernel.ops.fused_linear_cross_entropy
 
+            from .utils import patch_with_compile_disable
+
             patch_with_compile_disable(
                 liger_kernel.ops.fused_linear_cross_entropy,
                 "fused_linear_cross_entropy_forward",
@@ -35,6 +40,7 @@ class LigerPlugin(BasePlugin):
                 liger_kernel.ops.fused_linear_cross_entropy,
                 "fused_linear_cross_entropy_backward",
             )
+
         from liger_kernel.transformers.cross_entropy import LigerCrossEntropyLoss
         from liger_kernel.transformers.functional import liger_cross_entropy
         from liger_kernel.transformers.layer_norm import LigerLayerNorm
@@ -192,6 +198,8 @@ class LigerPlugin(BasePlugin):
             )
         elif cfg.liger_fused_linear_cross_entropy:
             try:
+                from .models.base import patch_lce_forward
+
                 patch_lce_forward(cfg.model_config_type)
                 LOG.warning_once(
                     f"Applied ONLY liger_fused_linear_cross_entropy genericpatches for model type: {cfg.model_config_type}"

src/axolotl/integrations/lm_eval/README.md

@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ See https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness
 
 ## Usage
 
+There are two ways to use the LM Eval integration:
+
+### 1. Post-Training Evaluation
+
+When training with the plugin enabled, evaluation runs automatically after training completes:
+
 ```yaml
 plugins:
   - axolotl.integrations.lm_eval.LMEvalPlugin
@@ -16,9 +22,50 @@ lm_eval_tasks:
   - arc_easy
 
 lm_eval_batch_size: # Batch size for evaluation
-output_dir: # Directory to save evaluation results
+
+# Directory to save evaluation results.
+# The final model is loaded from this directory
+# unless specified otherwise (see below)
+output_dir:
 ```
 
+Run training as usual:
+```bash
+axolotl train config.yml
+```
+
+### 2. Standalone CLI Evaluation
+
+Evaluate any model directly without training:
+
+```yaml
+lm_eval_model: meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.lm_eval.LMEvalPlugin
+
+lm_eval_tasks:
+  - gsm8k
+  - hellaswag
+  - arc_easy
+
+lm_eval_batch_size: 8
+output_dir: ./outputs
+```
+
+Run evaluation:
+```bash
+axolotl lm-eval config.yml
+```
+
+## Model Selection Priority
+
+The model to evaluate is selected in the following priority order:
+
+1. **`lm_eval_model`** - Explicit model path or HuggingFace repo (highest priority)
+2. **`hub_model_id`** - Trained model pushed to HuggingFace Hub
+3. **`output_dir`** - Local checkpoint directory containing trained model weights
+
 ## Citation
 
 ```bib

src/axolotl/integrations/lm_eval/__init__.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Module for the Plugin for LM Eval Harness
 import subprocess  # nosec
 
 from axolotl.integrations.base import BasePlugin
-from axolotl.integrations.lm_eval.cli import build_lm_eval_command
+from axolotl.integrations.lm_eval.cli import build_lm_eval_command, get_model_path
 
 from .args import LMEvalArgs as LMEvalArgs
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class LMEvalPlugin(BasePlugin):
                 wandb_project=cfg.wandb_project,
                 wandb_entity=cfg.wandb_entity,
                 wandb_name=cfg.wandb_name,
-                model=cfg.lm_eval_model or cfg.hub_model_id,
+                model=get_model_path(cfg),
             ):
                 subprocess.run(  # nosec
                     lm_eval_args,

src/axolotl/integrations/lm_eval/cli.py

@@ -13,6 +13,21 @@ import yaml
 from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
 
 
+def get_model_path(cfg: DictDefault) -> str | None:
+    """
+    Determine which model path to use for evaluation.
+
+    Priority order (highest to lowest):
+    1. lm_eval_model - Explicit model path override
+    2. hub_model_id - Model pushed to HuggingFace Hub
+    3. None - Falls back to output_dir in build_lm_eval_command
+
+    Returns:
+        Model path string or None to use output_dir fallback
+    """
+    return cfg.lm_eval_model or cfg.hub_model_id or None
+
+
 def build_lm_eval_command(
     tasks: list[str],
     bfloat16=True,
@@ -108,7 +123,7 @@ def lm_eval(config: str, cloud: Optional[str] = None):
             wandb_project=cfg.wandb_project,
             wandb_entity=cfg.wandb_entity,
             wandb_name=cfg.wandb_name,
-            model=cfg.lm_eval_model or cfg.hub_model_id,
+            model=get_model_path(cfg),
             revision=cfg.revision,
             apply_chat_template=cfg.apply_chat_template,
             fewshot_as_multiturn=cfg.fewshot_as_multiturn,

src/axolotl/loaders/adapter.py

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ def setup_quantized_meta_for_peft(model: torch.nn.Module):
         return self
 
     for param in model.parameters():
-        if isinstance(param, Params4bit):
+        if isinstance(param, Params4bit) and param.quant_state is not None:
             param.quant_state._orig_to = param.quant_state.to
             param.quant_state.to = types.MethodType(temp_to_method, param.quant_state)
 

src/axolotl/loaders/model.py

@@ -172,7 +172,10 @@ class ModelLoader:
         # Build the model
         PLUGIN_MANAGER.pre_model_load(self.cfg)
         self.patch_manager.apply_post_plugin_pre_model_load_patches()
+
         skip_move_to_device = self._build_model()
+        self.patch_manager.apply_post_model_build_patches(self.model)
+
         PLUGIN_MANAGER.post_model_build(self.cfg, self.model)
 
         # Post-build model configuration
@@ -338,7 +341,12 @@ class ModelLoader:
             # LlamaRMSNorm layers are in fp32 after kbit_training or full finetune, so
             # we need to convert them back to fp16/bf16 for flash-attn compatibility.
             (
-                (needs_fa2_dtype or self.cfg.flash_attention or self.cfg.flex_attention)
+                (
+                    needs_fa2_dtype
+                    or self.cfg.flash_attention
+                    or self.cfg.flex_attention
+                    or self.cfg.sage_attention
+                )
                 and not self.is_qlora_and_fsdp_enabled
             )
             or (
@@ -612,6 +620,10 @@ class ModelLoader:
         elif self.cfg.sdp_attention:
             self.model_kwargs["attn_implementation"] = "sdpa"
             self.model_config._attn_implementation = "sdpa"
+        elif self.cfg.sage_attention:
+            # sets FA2 attention to re-use same internal handling like masking
+            self.model_kwargs["attn_implementation"] = "flash_attention_2"
+            self.model_config._attn_implementation = "flash_attention_2"
         elif self.cfg.eager_attention:
             self.model_kwargs["attn_implementation"] = "eager"
             self.model_config._attn_implementation = "eager"
@@ -662,8 +674,8 @@ class ModelLoader:
                 del self.model_kwargs["device_map"]
 
             transformers.modeling_utils.is_deepspeed_zero3_enabled = lambda: True
-            transformers.integrations.deepspeed.is_deepspeed_zero3_enabled = (
-                lambda: True
+            transformers.integrations.deepspeed.is_deepspeed_zero3_enabled = lambda: (
+                True
             )
 
         return hf_ds_cfg
@@ -851,6 +863,10 @@ class ModelLoader:
             # Make sure everything is in the same dtype
             skip_prepare_model_for_kbit_training = True
 
+        if getattr(self.model, "_moe_experts_quantized", False):
+            # Parametrized expert tensors dequantize on access — would OOM.
+            skip_prepare_model_for_kbit_training = True
+
         if (
             not skip_prepare_model_for_kbit_training
             and self.cfg.adapter in ["lora", "qlora"]

src/axolotl/loaders/patch_manager.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from functools import cached_property
 import addict
 import transformers
 from transformers import PretrainedConfig, PreTrainedModel
+from transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils import is_flash_attn_available
 
 from axolotl.integrations.base import PluginManager
 from axolotl.monkeypatch.multipack import (
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ class PatchManager:
         # self._apply_flex_attention_patches()
         self._apply_flash_attention_patches()
         self._apply_chunked_cross_entropy_patch()
+        self._apply_sageattn_patches()
         self._apply_fsdp_patches()
         self._apply_adapter_patches()
         self._apply_model_specific_patches()
@@ -116,6 +118,7 @@ class PatchManager:
     def apply_post_plugin_pre_model_load_patches(self):
         """Apply post plugin-pre_model_load load patches based on config."""
         self._apply_tiled_mlp(self.cfg.model_config_type)
+        self._apply_moe_expert_quantization_patch()
 
     def _apply_transformers_patches(self):
         from axolotl.monkeypatch.transformers.trainer_loss_calc import (
@@ -133,6 +136,10 @@ class PatchManager:
 
             patch_prepare_context_parallel_inputs()
 
+    def apply_post_model_build_patches(self, model: PreTrainedModel):
+        """Apply patches right after model build, before post-load setup."""
+        self._finalize_moe_expert_quantization(model)
+
     def apply_post_model_load_patches(self, model: PreTrainedModel):
         """Apply patches that require the model instance."""
         self._apply_llama_flash_attn_patches(model)
@@ -159,6 +166,13 @@ class PatchManager:
 
     def _apply_fsdp_patches(self):
         """Apply patches for FSDP configurations."""
+        if self.cfg.fsdp_config:
+            from axolotl.monkeypatch.accelerate.fsdp2 import (
+                patch_initialize_missing_keys_for_fsdp,
+            )
+
+            patch_initialize_missing_keys_for_fsdp()
+
         if self.cfg.context_parallel_size > 1 or (
             self.cfg.fsdp_config and str(self.cfg.fsdp_version) == "2"
         ):
@@ -168,9 +182,14 @@ class PatchManager:
 
             patch_parallelism_config()
         if self.cfg.fsdp_config and str(self.cfg.fsdp_version) == "2":
-            from axolotl.monkeypatch.accelerate.fsdp2 import patch_accelerate_fsdp2
+            from axolotl.monkeypatch.accelerate.fsdp2 import (
+                patch_accelerate_fsdp2,
+                patch_tied_keys_for_meta_device,
+            )
 
             patch_accelerate_fsdp2()
+            if self.cfg.fsdp_config.cpu_ram_efficient_loading:
+                patch_tied_keys_for_meta_device()
             if self.cfg.rl:
                 from axolotl.monkeypatch.trainer.trl import patch_trl_prepare_fsdp2
 
@@ -201,6 +220,13 @@ class PatchManager:
             flex_attn_compile_kwargs = self.cfg.flex_attn_compile_kwargs or {}
             patch_flex_wrapper(**flex_attn_compile_kwargs)
 
+    def _apply_sageattn_patches(self):
+        """Apply patches for SageAttention."""
+        if self.cfg.sage_attention:
+            from axolotl.monkeypatch.attention.sage_attn import patch_sageattn
+
+            patch_sageattn()
+
     def _apply_model_specific_patches(self):
         """Apply patches specific to model architectures."""
         if (
@@ -220,6 +246,31 @@ class PatchManager:
 
             patch_qwen3_next_modeling_packing()
 
+        if self.cfg.model_config_type == "qwen3_5" and self.cfg.sample_packing:
+            from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.qwen3_5.modeling import (
+                patch_qwen3_5_modeling_packing,
+            )
+
+            patch_qwen3_5_modeling_packing()
+
+        if self.cfg.model_config_type == "qwen3_5_moe" and self.cfg.sample_packing:
+            from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.qwen3_5.modeling import (
+                patch_qwen3_5_moe_modeling_packing,
+            )
+
+            patch_qwen3_5_moe_modeling_packing()
+
+        if (
+            self.cfg.model_config_type in ["qwen3_5", "qwen3_5_moe"]
+            and self.cfg.is_multimodal
+            and self.cfg.flash_attention
+        ):
+            from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.qwen3_5.modeling import (
+                patch_qwen3_5_vlm_flash_attention,
+            )
+
+            patch_qwen3_5_vlm_flash_attention()
+
         if self.cfg.model_config_type == "kimi_linear":
             from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.kimi_linear.patch_kimi_linear import (
                 patch_kimi_model,
@@ -320,7 +371,7 @@ class PatchManager:
             else:
                 has_remote_code = False
 
-            if has_remote_code and self.cfg.trust_remote_code is False:
+            if has_remote_code and self.cfg.trust_remote_code is not None:
                 # If explicitly set in YAML, prefer that
                 has_remote_code = self.cfg.trust_remote_code
 
@@ -343,15 +394,54 @@ class PatchManager:
         if (
             self.cfg.fsdp_config
             and str(self.cfg.fsdp_version) == "2"
-            and self.cfg.adapter == "qlora"
+            and (self.cfg.load_in_4bit or self.cfg.load_in_8bit)
         ):
             from axolotl.monkeypatch.fsdp2_qlora import (
+                apply_init_dtype_attrs_patch,
                 apply_init_sharded_param_patch,
                 apply_init_unsharded_param_patch,
+                apply_linear8bitlt_save_patch,
             )
 
             apply_init_sharded_param_patch()
             apply_init_unsharded_param_patch()
+            apply_init_dtype_attrs_patch()
+            if self.cfg.load_in_8bit:
+                apply_linear8bitlt_save_patch()
+
+    def _apply_moe_expert_quantization_patch(self):
+        """Patch transformers weight loading to quantize MoE expert params on-the-fly."""
+        if not self.cfg.quantize_moe_experts:
+            return
+
+        from axolotl.monkeypatch.moe_quant import (
+            patch_moe_quantization_on_load,
+            patch_peft_target_parameters_matching,
+        )
+
+        patch_moe_quantization_on_load(self.cfg)
+        patch_peft_target_parameters_matching()
+
+    def _finalize_moe_expert_quantization(self, model: PreTrainedModel):
+        """Log quantization results and set model flag for downstream use."""
+        import torch
+
+        model._moe_experts_quantized = False
+        if self.cfg.quantize_moe_experts:
+            from axolotl.monkeypatch.moe_quant import get_moe_quantized_count
+
+            count = get_moe_quantized_count()
+            if count > 0:
+                import gc
+
+                model._moe_experts_quantized = True
+                LOG.info(
+                    "Quantized %d MoE expert parameter(s) to %s during model loading",
+                    count,
+                    "4-bit" if self.cfg.load_in_4bit else "8-bit",
+                )
+                gc.collect()
+                torch.cuda.empty_cache()
 
     def _apply_tiled_mlp(self, model_type: str):
         if self.cfg.tiled_mlp:
@@ -492,6 +582,7 @@ class PatchManager:
             and not self.cfg.trust_remote_code
             and not self.cfg.gptq
             and self.cfg.flash_attention
+            and is_flash_attn_available()
             and not self.inference
         ):
             # TODO(MengqingCao): split these patches separately

src/axolotl/loaders/processor.py

@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ def load_processor(cfg: DictDefault, tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizerBase):
     if cfg.processor_type:
         processor_cls = getattr(transformers, cfg.processor_type)
 
+    # Build common kwargs for processor loading
+    processor_kwargs = {}
+    if cfg.revision_of_model:
+        processor_kwargs["revision"] = cfg.revision_of_model
+
     if cfg.tokenizer_use_mistral_common:
 
         def _patch_mistralcommontokenizer():
@@ -40,6 +45,7 @@ def load_processor(cfg: DictDefault, tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizerBase):
         if processor_cls == VoxtralProcessor:
             return VoxtralProcessor.from_pretrained(
                 cfg.processor_config,
+                **processor_kwargs,
             )
 
         from axolotl.utils.mistral import Mistral3Processor
@@ -48,10 +54,12 @@ def load_processor(cfg: DictDefault, tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizerBase):
             tokenizer=tokenizer,
         )
 
+    processor_kwargs["trust_remote_code"] = cfg.trust_remote_code or False
+    processor_kwargs["tokenizer"] = tokenizer
+
     processor = processor_cls.from_pretrained(
         cfg.processor_config,
-        trust_remote_code=cfg.trust_remote_code or False,
-        tokenizer=tokenizer,
+        **processor_kwargs,
     )
 
     # Attempt to load image size from processor if available

src/axolotl/loaders/tokenizer.py

@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ PLUGIN_MANAGER = PluginManager.get_instance()
 
 
 def modify_tokenizer_files(
-    tokenizer_path: str, token_mappings: dict[int, str], output_dir: str
+    tokenizer_path: str,
+    token_mappings: dict[int, str],
+    output_dir: str,
+    revision: str = "main",
 ) -> str:
     """
     Modify tokenizer files to replace added_tokens strings, save to output directory,
@@ -41,6 +44,7 @@ def modify_tokenizer_files(
         tokenizer_path: Path or name of the original tokenizer
         token_mappings: Dict mapping {token_id (int): new_token_string}
         output_dir: Directory to save the modified tokenizer
+        revision: Model revision/branch/tag/commit to load from (HF Hub)
 
     Returns:
         Path to the modified tokenizer directory
@@ -53,7 +57,9 @@ def modify_tokenizer_files(
 
     if is_local_main_process():
         # Load the tokenizer
-        temp_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_path, use_fast=True)
+        temp_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+            tokenizer_path, use_fast=True, revision=revision
+        )
 
         # Save the tokenizer to the output directory
         temp_tokenizer.save_pretrained(tokenizer_dir)
@@ -134,7 +140,10 @@ def load_tokenizer(cfg: DictDefault) -> PreTrainedTokenizer:
         from axolotl.utils.mistral import HFMistralTokenizer
 
         # Load the HF-compatible wrapper around MistralTokenizer
-        tokenizer = HFMistralTokenizer.from_pretrained(cfg.tokenizer_config)
+        kwargs = {}
+        if cfg.revision_of_model:
+            kwargs["revision"] = cfg.revision_of_model
+        tokenizer = HFMistralTokenizer.from_pretrained(cfg.tokenizer_config, **kwargs)
 
         return tokenizer
 
@@ -150,6 +159,8 @@ def load_tokenizer(cfg: DictDefault) -> PreTrainedTokenizer:
     if cfg.tokenizer_legacy is not None:
         # True is the default w/ https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/25224
         tokenizer_kwargs["legacy"] = cfg.tokenizer_legacy
+    if cfg.revision_of_model:
+        tokenizer_kwargs["revision"] = cfg.revision_of_model
 
     tokenizer_cls = AutoTokenizer
     if cfg.tokenizer_type:
@@ -161,8 +172,11 @@ def load_tokenizer(cfg: DictDefault) -> PreTrainedTokenizer:
     # Apply token string overrides if specified
     if cfg.added_tokens_overrides:
         # Modify tokenizer files and get path to modified tokenizer
+        modify_kwargs = {"output_dir": cfg.output_dir}
+        if cfg.revision_of_model:
+            modify_kwargs["revision"] = cfg.revision_of_model
         tokenizer_path = modify_tokenizer_files(
-            tokenizer_path, cfg.added_tokens_overrides, output_dir=cfg.output_dir
+            tokenizer_path, cfg.added_tokens_overrides, **modify_kwargs
         )
 
     tokenizer = tokenizer_cls.from_pretrained(
@@ -187,7 +201,7 @@ def load_tokenizer(cfg: DictDefault) -> PreTrainedTokenizer:
         tokenizer.pad_token = LLAMA_DEFAULT_EOS_TOKEN
 
     if tokenizer.__class__.__name__ == "GPTNeoXTokenizerFast":
-        tokenizer.add_special_tokens({"pad_token": "[PAD]"})
+        tokenizer.add_special_tokens({"pad_token": "[PAD]"})  # nosec B105
         os.environ["TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM"] = "false"
 
     # Mistral's official FA implementation requires left padding

src/axolotl/models/mamba/modeling_mamba.py

@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ class MambaLMHeadModel(nn.Module, GenerationMixin):
         self,
         save_directory: Union[str, os.PathLike],
         state_dict: Optional[dict] = None,
+        **kwargs,
     ):
         if state_dict is None:
             state_dict = self.state_dict()

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/accelerate/fsdp2.py

@@ -150,13 +150,17 @@ def get_state_dict(self, model, unwrap=True):
             )
     elif self.is_fsdp2:
         # https://github.com/pytorch/torchtune/blob/main/torchtune/training/_distributed.py#L465
+        from torch.distributed.tensor import DTensor
+
         state_dict = {}
         sharded_state_dict = model.state_dict()
         for param_name, param in sharded_state_dict.items():
             if param.is_cpu:
                 param = param.to(torch.device("cuda"))
 
-            param = param.full_tensor()
+            if isinstance(param, DTensor):
+                param = param.full_tensor()
+
             if torch.distributed.get_rank() == 0:
                 state_dict[param_name] = param.cpu()
             torch.distributed.barrier()
@@ -182,10 +186,56 @@ def get_state_dict(self, model, unwrap=True):
     return state_dict
 
 
+def patch_peft_param_wrapper_for_fsdp2():
+    """Patch PEFT's _LoraParameterProxy.forward for FSDP2 DTensor compatibility.
+
+    PEFT's ParamWrapper applies LoRA via torch.nn.utils.parametrize, which adds
+    delta_weight to the base weight W inside _LoraParameterProxy.forward().
+    Under FSDP2, W may be a DTensor (from FSDP unshard) while delta_weight is a
+    regular Tensor (or vice versa), causing a RuntimeError on mixed types.
+
+    This patch promotes the non-DTensor operand to match the DTensor's spec
+    using DTensor.from_local(), which is free for Replicate placement (just
+    metadata wrapping, no communication).
+    """
+    from peft.tuners.lora.layer import _LoraParameterProxy
+
+    if getattr(_LoraParameterProxy, "_axolotl_fsdp2_patched", False):
+        return
+
+    _original_forward = _LoraParameterProxy.forward
+
+    # NOTE: Replaces (not wraps) forward; assumes original is just `W + self.delta_weight`.
+    def _patched_forward(self, W):
+        from torch.distributed.tensor import DTensor
+
+        delta = self.delta_weight
+        w_is_dt = isinstance(W, DTensor)
+        d_is_dt = isinstance(delta, DTensor)
+
+        with torch.nn.utils.parametrize.cached():
+            if w_is_dt == d_is_dt:
+                return W + delta
+            if w_is_dt:
+                return W + DTensor.from_local(delta, W.device_mesh, W.placements)
+            return DTensor.from_local(W, delta.device_mesh, delta.placements) + delta
+
+    _LoraParameterProxy.forward = _patched_forward
+    _LoraParameterProxy._axolotl_fsdp2_patched = True
+    LOG.info("Patched PEFT _LoraParameterProxy.forward for FSDP2 DTensor compatibility")
+
+
 def _process_lora_module_for_fsdp(module, fsdp2_kwargs):
     """Helper function to process LoRA modules for FSDP2."""
+    from peft.tuners.lora.layer import ParamWrapper
     from torch.distributed.fsdp import fully_shard
 
+    # Skip ParamWrapper — its lora_A/B must not be independently sharded.
+    # The parent decoder layer's FSDP wrapper handles unsharding them.
+    # TODO: review if we even need to shard them separately in first place.
+    if isinstance(module, ParamWrapper):
+        return False
+
     log_bias_dtype_mismatch = False
 
     # Linear4Bit will keep it's bias term in fp32. If the weight dtype is in bf16 we are not able to
@@ -202,12 +252,20 @@ def _process_lora_module_for_fsdp(module, fsdp2_kwargs):
             fully_shard(module.lora_A[active_adapter], **fsdp2_kwargs)
         if module.lora_B:
             fully_shard(module.lora_B[active_adapter], **fsdp2_kwargs)
-        if module.lora_embedding_A:
-            fully_shard(module.lora_embedding_A[active_adapter], **fsdp2_kwargs)
-        if module.lora_embedding_B:
-            fully_shard(module.lora_embedding_B[active_adapter], **fsdp2_kwargs)
         if module.lora_magnitude_vector:
             fully_shard(module.lora_magnitude_vector[active_adapter], **fsdp2_kwargs)
+
+    # lora_embedding_A/B are ParameterDicts containing nn.Parameter (Tensors),
+    # not nn.Module. fully_shard() only accepts nn.Module, so we cannot shard
+    # individual embedding Parameters. Instead, shard the entire LoraLayer module. fully_shard() can be used hierarchically because it does not
+    # override groups already assigned by fully_shard(), so modules
+    # where fully_shard() was already called are not affected [see https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/distributed.fsdp.fully_shard.html]
+    if module.lora_embedding_A or module.lora_embedding_B:
+        from torch.distributed.fsdp import FSDPModule
+
+        if not isinstance(module, FSDPModule):
+            fully_shard(module, **fsdp2_kwargs)
+
     return log_bias_dtype_mismatch
 
 
@@ -327,6 +385,14 @@ def fsdp2_prepare_model(accelerator, model: torch.nn.Module) -> torch.nn.Module:
 
     is_peft_model = isinstance(model, PeftModel)
 
+    # Patch PEFT's _LoraParameterProxy for DTensor compatibility if any
+    # ParamWrapper modules exist (used for target_parameters / 3D expert params).
+    if is_peft_model:
+        from peft.tuners.lora.layer import ParamWrapper
+
+        if any(isinstance(m, ParamWrapper) for m in model.modules()):
+            patch_peft_param_wrapper_for_fsdp2()
+
     auto_wrap_policy = fsdp2_prepare_auto_wrap_policy(fsdp2_plugin, model)
     log_bias_dtype_mismatch = False
     if auto_wrap_policy is not None:
@@ -376,6 +442,83 @@ def fsdp2_prepare_model(accelerator, model: torch.nn.Module) -> torch.nn.Module:
     return model
 
 
+def patch_tied_keys_for_meta_device():
+    """Patch _adjust_tied_keys_with_tied_pointers to skip meta tensors.
+
+    Meta tensors all share data_ptr()==0, causing every parameter to be incorrectly
+    grouped as "tied". Skipping them is safe since they have no real storage.
+    """
+    from collections import defaultdict
+
+    from transformers import PreTrainedModel
+
+    def _patched_adjust_tied_keys_with_tied_pointers(self, missing_keys):
+        param_pointers = defaultdict(list)
+        for param_name, param_value in self.state_dict().items():
+            if param_value.is_meta:
+                continue
+            param_pointers[param_value.data_ptr()].append(param_name)
+
+        tied_param_names = [
+            names
+            for names in param_pointers.values()
+            if len(names) > 1
+            and not any(name in self.all_tied_weights_keys.keys() for name in names)
+            and not all(name in missing_keys for name in names)
+        ]
+
+        tied_weights_keys_by_pointers = {
+            param_name: group[0]
+            for group in tied_param_names
+            for param_name in group[1:]
+        }
+        self.all_tied_weights_keys.update(tied_weights_keys_by_pointers)
+
+    PreTrainedModel._adjust_tied_keys_with_tied_pointers = (
+        _patched_adjust_tied_keys_with_tied_pointers
+    )
+
+
+def patch_initialize_missing_keys_for_fsdp():
+    """Patch _initialize_missing_keys to skip re-initialization on FSDP non-rank-0.
+
+    When using cpu_ram_efficient_loading, non-rank-0 processes load weights on
+    meta device and move them to CPU as empty tensors. Without this patch,
+    initialize_weights() re-initializes ALL parameters (via guarded init
+    functions), which is slow and uses extra RAM per process.
+
+    The fix marks all params/buffers with _is_hf_initialized=True before calling
+    the original method, so guarded init functions (init.normal_, init.zeros_,
+    etc.) become no-ops on non-rank-0 processes. The real weights arrive later
+    via FSDP broadcast from rank 0.
+
+    Upstream fix: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/44473
+    Remove this patch once transformers includes the fix in a stable release.
+    """
+    from transformers import PreTrainedModel
+    from transformers.modeling_utils import is_fsdp_enabled, is_local_dist_rank_0
+
+    if getattr(PreTrainedModel._initialize_missing_keys, "_axolotl_patched", False):
+        return
+
+    _original_initialize_missing_keys = PreTrainedModel._initialize_missing_keys
+
+    def _patched_initialize_missing_keys(self, is_quantized: bool) -> None:
+        if is_fsdp_enabled() and not is_local_dist_rank_0():
+            for key in self.state_dict():
+                try:
+                    param_or_buffer = self.get_parameter_or_buffer(key)
+                    param_or_buffer._is_hf_initialized = True
+                except AttributeError:
+                    pass  # may happen when handling pre-quantized weights
+            self._is_hf_initialized = True
+
+        _original_initialize_missing_keys(self, is_quantized)
+
+    PreTrainedModel._initialize_missing_keys = _patched_initialize_missing_keys
+    PreTrainedModel._initialize_missing_keys._axolotl_patched = True
+
+
 def patch_accelerate_fsdp2():
     import accelerate
 

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/attention/sage_attn.py

@@ -0,0 +1,211 @@
+"""
+Monkeypatch for SageAttention for use with transformers.
+
+https://github.com/thu-ml/SageAttention/
+"""
+
+import torch
+from transformers.integrations.sdpa_attention import repeat_kv
+
+from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
+
+LOG = get_logger(__name__)
+
+sageattn = None  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+sageattn_varlen = None  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+
+
+def _is_sageattn_available():
+    """Determine if SageAttention is available"""
+    try:
+        import sageattention  # noqa: F401 # pylint: disable=unused-import
+
+        return True
+    except ImportError:
+        return False
+
+
+if _is_sageattn_available():
+    # import sageattn here if available
+    from sageattention import sageattn, sageattn_varlen
+
+
+def _check_sageattn_imported():
+    """Check if SageAttention is imported. Raises an ImportError if not."""
+    if sageattn is None:
+        raise ImportError(
+            "SageAttention is not installed. Please install it from source: "
+            "`pip install git+https://github.com/thu-ml/SageAttention.git@1718ddc06dbc694bcf3c6b49ac28c1921aa2d8bd`"
+        )
+
+
+def sage_attention_forward(
+    module: torch.nn.Module,
+    query: torch.Tensor,
+    key: torch.Tensor,
+    value: torch.Tensor,
+    attention_mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+    dropout: float = 0.0,
+    scaling: float | None = None,
+    is_causal: bool | None = None,
+    **kwargs,
+) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, None]:
+    """
+    Forward pass for SageAttention compatible with transformers attention interfaces.
+
+    https://github.com/thu-ml/SageAttention/
+    """
+
+    _check_sageattn_imported()
+
+    if kwargs.get("output_attentions", False) or kwargs.get("head_mask") is not None:
+        raise NotImplementedError(
+            "SageAttention does not support `output_attentions=True` or `head_mask`."
+        )
+
+    # The base sageattn API does not support dropout.
+    if dropout > 0.0:
+        raise NotImplementedError("SageAttention does not support dropout.")
+
+    # Handle Grouped-Query Attention (GQA) and Multi-Query Attention (MQA)
+    if hasattr(module, "num_key_value_groups"):
+        key = repeat_kv(key, module.num_key_value_groups)
+        value = repeat_kv(value, module.num_key_value_groups)
+
+    # Calculate is_causal following transformers
+    assert is_causal is not False, "is_causal must be True or None"
+    is_causal = True
+
+    position_ids = kwargs.get("position_ids", None)
+    query_length = query.shape[2]
+
+    cu_seqlens_q = kwargs.get("cu_seqlens_q", None)
+    cu_seqlens_k = kwargs.get("cu_seqlens_k", None)
+    max_length_q = kwargs.get("max_length_q", None)
+    max_length_k = kwargs.get("max_length_k", None)
+
+    # Sample packing uses position_ids, so we check for it first
+    if position_ids is not None and (
+        max_length_q is not None
+        or (query_length != 1 and not (torch.diff(position_ids, dim=-1) >= 0).all())
+    ):
+        # transpose inputs to NHD layout for use with FA2 utils
+        query = query.transpose(1, 2)
+        key = key.transpose(1, 2)
+        value = value.transpose(1, 2)
+
+        batch_size = query.size(0)
+
+        from transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils import (
+            prepare_fa2_from_position_ids,
+        )
+
+        if cu_seqlens_q is None or cu_seqlens_k is None:
+            query, key, value, indices_q, cu_seq_lens, max_seq_lens = (
+                prepare_fa2_from_position_ids(query, key, value, position_ids)
+            )
+
+            cu_seqlens_q, cu_seqlens_k = cu_seq_lens
+            max_length_q, max_length_k = max_seq_lens
+
+        else:
+            query = query.reshape(-1, query.size(-2), query.size(-1))
+            key = key.reshape(-1, key.size(-2), key.size(-1))
+            value = value.reshape(-1, value.size(-2), value.size(-1))
+
+        attn_output_unpad = sageattn_varlen(
+            q=query,
+            k=key,
+            v=value,
+            cu_seqlens_q=cu_seqlens_q,
+            cu_seqlens_k=cu_seqlens_k,
+            max_seqlen_q=max_length_q,
+            max_seqlen_k=max_length_k,
+            is_causal=is_causal,
+            sm_scale=scaling,
+            smooth_k=False,  # reduces loss 0 / nan grad norms
+            tensor_layout="NHD",
+        )
+
+        attn_output = attn_output_unpad.view(
+            batch_size, -1, attn_output_unpad.size(-2), attn_output_unpad.size(-1)
+        )
+
+    elif attention_mask is not None:
+        # NOTE: When used without `pad_to_sequence_len`, the loss becomes unstable after a few steps.
+
+        assert attention_mask.ndim == 2, "Attention mask must be 2D"
+
+        from transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils import (
+            _upad_input,
+        )
+
+        # transpose inputs to NHD layout for use with FA2 utils
+        query = query.transpose(1, 2)
+        key = key.transpose(1, 2)
+        value = value.transpose(1, 2)
+
+        batch_size = query.shape[0]
+
+        query, key, value, indices_q, cu_seq_lens, max_seq_lens = _upad_input(
+            query, key, value, attention_mask, query_length
+        )
+        cu_seqlens_q, cu_seqlens_k = cu_seq_lens
+        max_seqlen_q, max_seqlen_k = max_seq_lens
+
+        attn_output_unpad = sageattn_varlen(
+            q=query,
+            k=key,
+            v=value,
+            cu_seqlens_q=cu_seqlens_q,
+            cu_seqlens_k=cu_seqlens_k,
+            max_seqlen_q=max_seqlen_q,
+            max_seqlen_k=max_seqlen_k,
+            is_causal=is_causal,
+            sm_scale=scaling,
+            tensor_layout="NHD",
+        )
+
+        from flash_attn.bert_padding import pad_input
+
+        attn_output = pad_input(attn_output_unpad, indices_q, batch_size, query_length)
+    else:
+        # Use standard sageattn
+        # The input layout for transformers models is (batch_size, num_heads, seq_len, head_dim),
+        # which corresponds to SageAttention's "HND" layout.
+        attn_output = sageattn(
+            q=query,
+            k=key,
+            v=value,
+            tensor_layout="HND",
+            is_causal=is_causal,
+            sm_scale=scaling,
+        )
+
+        # SageAttention with "HND" returns (batch, heads, seq_len, head_dim)
+        # Transformers expects (batch, seq_len, heads, head_dim) for the output
+        # So we need to transpose dimensions 1 and 2
+        attn_output = attn_output.transpose(1, 2).contiguous()
+
+    return attn_output, None
+
+
+def patch_sageattn():
+    """Patch SageAttention for use with transformers."""
+
+    _check_sageattn_imported()
+
+    from transformers.modeling_utils import ALL_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS
+
+    # Replace flash attention with sage attention
+    ALL_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS.register("flash_attention_2", sage_attention_forward)
+
+    # Note: New method after transformers refactor to use ALL_MASK_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS
+    # Register sage_attention with the global attention interface
+    # ALL_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS.register("sage_attention", sage_attention_forward)
+
+    # from transformers.masking_utils import ALL_MASK_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS, flash_attention_mask
+
+    # ALL_MASK_ATTENTION_FUNCTIONS.register("sage_attention", flash_attention_mask)
+
+    LOG.info("SageAttention patched successfully")

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/fsdp2_qlora.py

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 """
-Monkeypatch to add Params4bit support to FSDP2. This enables QLoRA + FSDP2, as well as
-our LoRA / QLoRA Triton kernels to work with FSDP2.
+Monkeypatch to add Params4bit and Int8Params support to FSDP2. This enables QLoRA + FSDP2
+and 8-bit LoRA + 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.
+This patch modifies the _init_sharded_param and init_unsharded_param methods in FSDPParam
+to handle bitsandbytes Params4bit and Int8Params parameters, preserving their quantization
+metadata through the FSDP2 shard/unshard cycle.
 """
 
 import importlib
@@ -17,6 +18,8 @@ LOG = get_logger(__name__)
 
 def apply_init_sharded_param_patch():
     """Apply patch to FSDPParam._init_sharded_param to support Params4bit."""
+    if getattr(apply_init_sharded_param_patch, "_axolotl_patched", False):
+        return
     from torch.distributed.fsdp._fully_shard._fsdp_param import FSDPParam
 
     # Get original source
@@ -41,9 +44,20 @@ def apply_init_sharded_param_patch():
             bnb_quantized=param.bnb_quantized,
         )
         self.sharded_param = self.to_sharded_dtensor(self.sharded_param)
+    elif isinstance(param, bnb.nn.modules.Int8Params):
+        self.sharded_param = bnb.nn.modules.Int8Params(
+            data=sharded_param,
+            requires_grad=param.requires_grad,
+            has_fp16_weights=param.has_fp16_weights,
+            CB=None,
+            SCB=param.SCB,
+        )
+        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)"""
+        self.sharded_param = nn.Parameter(
+            self.to_sharded_dtensor(sharded_param),
+            requires_grad=param.requires_grad,
+        )"""
 
     # Apply the replacement
     if original_param_creation in original_source:
@@ -73,6 +87,7 @@ def apply_init_sharded_param_patch():
 
         # Replace the method
         FSDPParam._init_sharded_param = patched_init_sharded_param
+        apply_init_sharded_param_patch._axolotl_patched = True
         LOG.info("Successfully applied FSDP _init_sharded_param patch")
     else:
         LOG.warning("Could not find target code for _init_sharded_param patching")
@@ -80,6 +95,8 @@ def apply_init_sharded_param_patch():
 
 def apply_init_unsharded_param_patch():
     """Apply patch to FSDPParam.init_unsharded_param to support Params4bit."""
+    if getattr(apply_init_unsharded_param_patch, "_axolotl_patched", False):
+        return
     from torch.distributed.fsdp._fully_shard._fsdp_param import FSDPParam
 
     # Get original source
@@ -105,6 +122,14 @@ def apply_init_unsharded_param_patch():
                 module=local_tensor.module,
                 bnb_quantized=local_tensor.bnb_quantized,
             )
+        elif isinstance(local_tensor, bnb.nn.modules.Int8Params):
+            self._unsharded_param = bnb.nn.modules.Int8Params(
+                data=unsharded_param,
+                requires_grad=self.sharded_param.requires_grad,
+                has_fp16_weights=local_tensor.has_fp16_weights,
+                CB=unsharded_param,
+                SCB=local_tensor.SCB,
+            )
         else:
             self._unsharded_param = nn.Parameter(
                 unsharded_param, requires_grad=self.sharded_param.requires_grad
@@ -138,6 +163,74 @@ def apply_init_unsharded_param_patch():
 
         # Replace the method
         FSDPParam.init_unsharded_param = patched_init_unsharded_param
+        apply_init_unsharded_param_patch._axolotl_patched = True
         LOG.info("Successfully applied FSDP init_unsharded_param patch")
     else:
         LOG.warning("Could not find target code for patching")
+
+
+def apply_linear8bitlt_save_patch():
+    """Patch Linear8bitLt._save_to_state_dict to handle DTensor-wrapped Int8Params.
+
+    After FSDP2 sharding, Linear8bitLt.weight is a DTensor wrapping Int8Params.
+    BnB's _save_to_state_dict accesses self.weight.SCB directly, but DTensor
+    doesn't proxy custom attribute access to its _local_tensor. This patch
+    temporarily unwraps the DTensor during saving so BnB can find the SCB attribute.
+    """
+    if getattr(apply_linear8bitlt_save_patch, "_axolotl_patched", False):
+        return
+    import bitsandbytes as bnb
+    from torch.distributed.tensor import DTensor
+
+    original_save = bnb.nn.Linear8bitLt._save_to_state_dict
+
+    def _patched_save_to_state_dict(self, destination, prefix, keep_vars):
+        # Use _parameters dict directly to bypass nn.Module.__setattr__ type check.
+        weight = self._parameters["weight"]
+        unwrapped = False
+        if isinstance(weight, DTensor) and hasattr(weight, "_local_tensor"):
+            self._parameters["weight"] = weight._local_tensor
+            unwrapped = True
+        try:
+            original_save(self, destination, prefix, keep_vars)
+        finally:
+            if unwrapped:
+                self._parameters["weight"] = weight
+
+    bnb.nn.Linear8bitLt._save_to_state_dict = _patched_save_to_state_dict
+    apply_linear8bitlt_save_patch._axolotl_patched = True
+    LOG.info("Patched Linear8bitLt._save_to_state_dict for DTensor compatibility")
+
+
+def apply_init_dtype_attrs_patch():
+    """Prevent FSDP2 mixed precision from casting non-float quantized params.
+
+    When mixed precision is enabled (e.g., bf16), FSDP2's init_dtype_attrs sets
+    param_dtype=bf16 for ALL params. During all-gather, _to_dtype_if_needed casts
+    the sharded param to param_dtype. For non-float params (uint8 packed 4-bit,
+    int8 quantized) without FSDP2 extensions, this destroys the quantized data.
+
+    Params4bit handles this via fsdp_pre/post_all_gather extensions, but our
+    parametrize-based expert quantization uses plain nn.Parameter(uint8/int8)
+    without extensions.
+    """
+    if getattr(apply_init_dtype_attrs_patch, "_axolotl_patched", False):
+        return
+    from torch.distributed.fsdp._fully_shard._fsdp_param import FSDPParam
+
+    original_init_dtype_attrs = FSDPParam.init_dtype_attrs
+
+    def patched_init_dtype_attrs(self, mp_policy):
+        original_init_dtype_attrs(self, mp_policy)
+        # Skip casting non-float quantized params (uint8/int8) without FSDP2
+        # extensions — the parametrization chain handles dequantization.
+        if self.param_dtype is not None and not self.sharded_param.is_floating_point():
+            local = self.sharded_param
+            if hasattr(local, "_local_tensor"):
+                local = local._local_tensor
+            if not hasattr(local, "fsdp_pre_all_gather"):
+                self.param_dtype = None
+
+    FSDPParam.init_dtype_attrs = patched_init_dtype_attrs
+    apply_init_dtype_attrs_patch._axolotl_patched = True
+    LOG.info("Patched FSDPParam.init_dtype_attrs for non-float quantized params")

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/gradient_checkpointing/offload_cpu.py

@@ -59,7 +59,12 @@ class CPU_Offloaded_Gradient_Checkpointer(torch.autograd.Function):
         hidden_states = hidden_states.to("cuda", non_blocking=True).detach()
         hidden_states.requires_grad = True
         with torch.enable_grad():
-            (output,) = ctx.forward_function(hidden_states, *ctx.args)
+            output = ctx.forward_function(hidden_states, *ctx.args)
+            # Newer HF models (e.g. Qwen3MoE) using GradientCheckpointingLayer
+            # return a plain tensor, not a tuple.  Older models return tuples
+            # like (hidden_states, present_kv, ...).  Unwrap if needed.
+            if isinstance(output, (tuple, list)):
+                (output,) = output
         torch.autograd.backward(output, dY)
         return (
             None,

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/lora_kernels.py

@@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ def get_attention_cls_from_config(cfg: DictDefault) -> Type[nn.Module]:
         return attention_cls
     except (ImportError, AttributeError) as e:
         raise ValueError(
-            f"Could not import attention class for model_type: {model_type}. "
+            f"Axolotl could not import attention class for model_type: {model_type}. "
+            "Please raise an Issue and turn off lora kernels to continue training. "
             f"Error: {str(e)}"
         ) from e