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_quarto.yml

@@ -267,7 +267,6 @@ website:
             - docs/dataset_loading.qmd
             - docs/qat.qmd
             - docs/quantize.qmd
-            - docs/optimizations.qmd
 
         - section: "Core Concepts"
           contents:
@@ -286,6 +285,7 @@ website:
             - docs/custom_integrations.qmd
             - docs/sequence_parallelism.qmd
             - docs/gradient_checkpointing.qmd
+            - docs/moe_backends.md
             - docs/nd_parallelism.qmd
 
         - section: "Troubleshooting"

docs/dataset-formats/conversation.qmd

@@ -212,14 +212,6 @@ Instead of passing `tools` via the system prompt, an alternative method would be
 Tools need to follow [JSON schema](https://json-schema.org/learn/getting-started-step-by-step).
 :::
 
-::: {.callout-warning}
-If you have tool arguments with same name but different dtypes (like `"time": string` and `"time": number`), please save `arguments: ` as JSON string to prevent `datasets` from having casting issues.
-
-```
-"arguments": "{\"...\": \"...\"}"
-```
-:::
-
 Example config for Llama4:
 ```yaml
 chat_template: llama4

docs/dataset-formats/index.qmd

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ While we recommend `.jsonl`, you can also use the other formats (`csv`, `parquet
 
 ### Pre-training without streaming
 
-In the case that the dataset is small and can be loaded entirely into memory, another approach to running pre-training is to use the `completion` format. This would mean that the entire dataset is pre-tokenized instead of on-demand in streaming.
+On the rare case that the dataset is small and can be loaded entirely into memory, another approach to running pre-training is to use the `completion` format. This would mean that the entire dataset is pre-tokenized instead of on-demand in streaming.
 
 One benefit of this is that the tokenization can be performed separately on a CPU-only machine, and then transferred to a GPU machine for training to save costs.
 

docs/faq.qmd

@@ -140,7 +140,3 @@ description: Frequently asked questions
 **Q: `ValueError("Backward pass should have cleared tracker of all tensors")`
 
 > A: This may happen due to edge cases in using the modern OffloadActivations context manager for CUDA streams. If you encounter this error, you may have success using the naive implementation with `offload_activations: legacy` in your YAML.
-
-**Q: `Error parsing tool_calls arguments as JSON.`
-
-> A: There is an error parsing string arguments to a dict. Please check your dataset and the error message for more details.

docs/moe_backends.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+MoE Backends in Axolotl
+
+Axolotl supports selecting a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) compute backend via the training config (YAML):
+
+- Set `moe_backend: auto|torch_grouped|naive`
+
+Behavior
+- auto (default): prefers PyTorch 2.8+ grouped GEMM; otherwise naive.
+- torch_grouped: targets PyTorch 2.8+ grouped GEMM (H100/SM90+ recommended).
+- naive: keeps the reference per-expert loop.
+
+Notes
+- Current implementation wires the backend selector and routes Mixtral MoE through it. Torch grouped uses cuBLASLt grouped GEMM when available; otherwise, the code falls back to the naive per-expert loop.
+- No changes to training scripts are required; selection happens inside the model forward.
+
+Example
+moe_backend: torch_grouped
+accelerate launch -m axolotl.cli.train path/to/config.yaml

docs/multimodal.qmd

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ format:
 - [Pixtral](#sec-pixtral)
 - [Llava-1.5](#sec-llava-15)
 - [Mistral-Small-3.1](#sec-mistral-small-31)
-- [Magistral-Small-2509](#sec-magistral-small-2509)
 - [Voxtral](#sec-voxtral)
 - [Gemma-3](#sec-gemma-3)
 - [Gemma-3n](#sec-gemma-3n)
@@ -42,6 +41,7 @@ datasets:
   - path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
     type: chat_template
     split: train[:1%]
+    field_messages: messages
 
 # (optional) if doing lora, only finetune the Language model,
 # leave the vision model and vision tower frozen
@@ -94,22 +94,10 @@ chat_template: llava
 
 ### Mistral-Small-3.1 {#sec-mistral-small-31}
 
-::: {.callout-tip}
-Please make sure to install vision lib via `pip install 'mistral-common[opencv]==1.8.5'`
-:::
-
 ```yaml
 base_model: mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503
-```
 
-### Magistral-Small-2509 {#sec-magistral-small-2509}
-
-::: {.callout-tip}
-Please make sure to install vision lib via `pip install 'mistral-common[opencv]==1.8.5'`
-:::
-
-```yaml
-base_model: mistralai/Magistral-Small-2509
+chat_template: mistral_v7_tekken
 ```
 
 ### Voxtral {#sec-voxtral}

docs/optimizations.qmd

@@ -1,133 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Optimizations Guide
-description: A guide to the performance and memory optimizations available in Axolotl.
----
-
-Axolotl includes numerous optimizations to speed up training, reduce memory usage, and handle large models.
-
-This guide provides a high-level overview and directs you to the detailed documentation for each feature.
-
-## Speed Optimizations
-
-These optimizations focus on increasing training throughput and reducing total training time.
-
-### Sample Packing
-
-Improves GPU utilization by combining multiple short sequences into a single packed sequence for training. This requires enabling one of the [attention](#attention-implementations) implementations below.
-
-- **Config:** `sample_packing: true`
-- **Learn more:** [Sample Packing](multipack.qmd)
-
-### Attention Implementations
-
-Using an optimized attention implementation is critical for training speed.
-
-- **[Flash Attention 2](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention)**: `flash_attention: true`. **(Recommended)** The industry standard for fast attention on modern GPUs. Requires Ampere or higher. For AMD, check [AMD Support](https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention?tab=readme-ov-file#amd-rocm-support).
-- **[Flex Attention](https://pytorch.org/blog/flexattention/)**: `flex_attention: true`.
-- **[SDP Attention](https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention.html)**: `sdp_attention: true`. PyTorch's native implementation.
-- **[Xformers](https://github.com/facebookresearch/xformers)**: `xformers_attention: true`. Works with FP16.
-
-*Note: You should only enable one attention backend.*
-
-### LoRA Optimizations
-
-Leverages optimized kernels to accelerate LoRA training and reduce memory usage.
-
-- **Learn more:** [LoRA Optimizations Documentation](lora_optims.qmd)
-
-## Memory Optimizations
-
-These techniques help you fit larger models or use bigger batch sizes on your existing hardware.
-
-### Parameter Efficient Finetuning (LoRA & QLoRA)
-
-Drastically reduces memory by training a small set of "adapter" parameters instead of the full model. This is the most common and effective memory-saving technique.
-
-- Examples: Find configs with `lora` or `qlora` in the [examples directory](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/llama-3).
-- Config Reference: See `adapter`, `load_in_4bit`, and `load_in_8bit` in the [Configuration Reference](config-reference.qmd).
-
-### Gradient Checkpointing & Activation Offloading
-
-These techniques save VRAM by changing how activations are handled.
-
-- Gradient Checkpointing: re-computes activations during the backward pass, trading compute time for VRAM.
-- Activation Offloading: moves activations to CPU RAM or disk, trading I/O overhead for VRAM.
-- Learn more: [Gradient Checkpointing and Offloading Docs](gradient_checkpointing.qmd)
-
-### Cut Cross Entropy (CCE)
-
-Reduces VRAM usage by using an optimized cross-entropy loss calculation.
-
-- **Learn more:** [Custom Integrations - CCE](custom_integrations.qmd#cut-cross-entropy)
-
-### Liger Kernels
-
-Provides efficient Triton kernels to improve training speed and reduce memory usage.
-
-- **Learn more:** [Custom Integrations - Liger Kernels](custom_integrations.qmd#liger-kernels)
-
-## Long Context Models
-
-Techniques to train models on sequences longer than their original context window.
-
-### RoPE Scaling
-
-Extends a model's context window by interpolating its Rotary Position Embeddings.
-
-- **Config:** Pass the `rope_scaling` config under the `overrides_of_model_config: `. To learn how to set RoPE, check the respective model config.
-
-### Sequence Parallelism
-
-Splits long sequences across multiple GPUs, enabling training with sequence lengths that would not fit on a single device.
-
-- **Learn more:** [Sequence Parallelism Documentation](sequence_parallelism.qmd)
-
-### Artic Long Sequence Training (ALST)
-
-ALST is a recipe that combines several techniques to train long-context models efficiently. It typically involves:
-
-- TiledMLP to reduce memory usage in MLP layers.
-- Tiled Loss functions (like [CCE](#cut-cross-entropy-(cce) or [Liger](#liger-kernels)).
-- Activation Offloading to CPU.
-
-- Example: [ALST Example Configuration](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/alst)
-
-## Large Models (Distributed Training)
-
-To train models that don't fit on a single GPU, you'll need to use a distributed training strategy like FSDP or DeepSpeed. These frameworks shard the model weights, gradients, and optimizer states across multiple GPUs and nodes.
-
-- **Learn more:** [Multi-GPU Guide](multi-gpu.qmd)
-- **Learn more:** [Multi-Node Guide](multi-node.qmd)
-
-### N-D Parallelism (Beta)
-
-For advanced scaling, Axolotl allows you to compose different parallelism techniques (e.g., Data, Tensor, Sequence Parallelism). This is a powerful approach to train an extremely large model by overcoming multiple bottlenecks at once.
-
-- **Learn more:** [N-D Parallelism Guide](nd_parallelism.qmd)
-
-
-## Quantization
-
-Techniques to reduce the precision of model weights for memory savings.
-
-### 4-bit Training (QLoRA)
-
-The recommended approach for quantization-based training. It loads the base model in 4-bit using `bitsandbytes` and then trains QLoRA adapters. See [Adapter Finetuning](#adapter-finetuning-lora-qlora) for details.
-
-### FP8 Training
-
-Enables training with 8-bit floating point precision on supported hardware (e.g., NVIDIA Hopper series GPUs) for significant speed and memory gains.
-
-- **Example:** [Llama 3 FP8 FSDP Example](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/blob/main/examples/llama-3/3b-fp8-fsdp2.yaml)
-
-### Quantization Aware Training (QAT)
-
-Simulates quantization effects during training, helping the model adapt and potentially improving the final accuracy of the quantized model.
-
-- **Learn more:** [QAT Documentation](qat.qmd)
-
-### GPTQ
-
-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)

docs/qat.qmd

@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ qat:
 ```
 
 We support the following quantization schemas:
-
 - `Int4WeightOnly` (requires the `fbgemm-gpu` extra when installing Axolotl)
 - `Int8DynamicActivationInt4Weight`
 - `Float8DynamicActivationFloat8Weight`

examples/alst/README.md

@@ -7,24 +7,3 @@ techniques. It is a combination of:
 - Activation Offloading: Offload activations to CPU RAM to reduce memory usage
 
 For more information, you can check out the ALST paper [here](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.13996).
-
-## Usage
-
-```yaml
-tiled_mlp: true
-
-# See Sequence Parallelism docs
-# https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/sequence_parallelism.html
-context_parallel_size: int
-
-plugins:
-# See Cut Cross Entropy docs
-# https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#cut-cross-entropy
-  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
-
-# or Liger Kernel docs
-# https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#liger-kernels
-  - axolotl.integrations.liger.LigerPlugin
-# ...
-
-```

examples/apertus/README.md

@@ -1,110 +0,0 @@
-# Finetune Swiss-AI's Apertus with Axolotl
-
-[Apertus](https://huggingface.co/collections/swiss-ai/apertus-llm-68b699e65415c231ace3b059) is a family of opensource models trained by Swiss-ai.
-
-This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl with multi-turn conversations and proper masking.
-
-## Getting started
-
-1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html). You need to install from main as Apertus is only on nightly or use our latest [Docker images](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/docker.html).
-
-    Here is an example of how to install from main for pip:
-
-```bash
-# Ensure you have Pytorch installed (Pytorch 2.6.0 min)
-git clone https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl.git
-cd axolotl
-
-pip3 install packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel ninja
-pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn]'
-
-# Install CCE https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#cut-cross-entropy
-python scripts/cutcrossentropy_install.py | sh
-```
-
-2. (Optional, highly recommended) Install XIELU CUDA
-
-```bash
-## Recommended for reduced VRAM and faster speeds
-
-# Point to CUDA toolkit directory
-# For those using our Docker image, use the below path.
-export CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda
-
-pip3 install git+https://github.com/nickjbrowning/XIELU@59d6031 --no-build-isolation --no-deps
-```
-
-For any installation errors, see [XIELU Installation Issues](#xielu-installation-issues)
-
-3. Run the finetuning example:
-
-```bash
-axolotl train examples/apertus/apertus-8b-qlora.yaml
-```
-
-This config uses about 8.7 GiB VRAM.
-
-Let us know how it goes. Happy finetuning! 🚀
-
-### Tips
-
-- For inference, the official Apertus team recommends `top_p=0.9` and `temperature=0.8`.
-- You can instead use full paremter fine-tuning by removing the `adapter: qlora` and `load_in_4bit: true` from the config.
-- Read more on how to load your own dataset at [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
-- The dataset format follows the OpenAI Messages format as seen [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset-formats/conversation.html#chat_template).
-
-### XIELU Installation Issues
-
-#### `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'torch'`
-
-Please check these one by one:
-- Running in correct environment
-- Env has PyTorch installed
-- CUDA toolkit is at `CUDA_HOME`
-
-If those didn't help, please try the below solutions:
-
-1. Pass env for CMAKE and try install again:
-
-    ```bash
-    Python_EXECUTABLE=$(which python) pip3 install git+https://github.com/nickjbrowning/XIELU@59d6031 --no-build-isolation --no-deps
-    ```
-
-2. Git clone the repo and manually hardcode python path:
-
-    ```bash
-    git clone https://github.com/nickjbrowning/XIELU
-    cd xielu
-    git checkout 59d6031
-
-    cd xielu
-    nano CMakeLists.txt  # or vi depending on your preference
-    ```
-
-    ```diff
-    execute_process(
-    -    COMMAND ${Python_EXECUTABLE} -c "import torch.utils; print(torch.utils.cmake_prefix_path)"
-    +    COMMAND /root/miniconda3/envs/py3.11/bin/python -c "import torch.utils; print(torch.utils.cmake_prefix_path)"
-        RESULT_VARIABLE TORCH_CMAKE_PATH_RESULT
-        OUTPUT_VARIABLE TORCH_CMAKE_PATH_OUTPUT
-        ERROR_VARIABLE TORCH_CMAKE_PATH_ERROR
-    )
-    ```
-
-    ```bash
-    pip3 install . --no-build-isolation --no-deps
-    ```
-
-## Optimization Guides
-
-- [Multi-GPU Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-gpu.html)
-- [Multi-Node Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-node.html)
-- [LoRA Optimizations](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/lora_optims.html)
-
-## Related Resources
-
-- [Apertus Tech Report](https://github.com/swiss-ai/apertus-tech-report/blob/main/Apertus_Tech_Report.pdf)
-- [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/apertus/apertus-8b-qlora.yaml

@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-base_model: swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509
-
-# Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF
-# hub_model_id: username/custom_model_name
-
-plugins:
-  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
-
-load_in_8bit: false
-load_in_4bit: true
-
-datasets:
-  - path: fozziethebeat/alpaca_messages_2k_test
-    type: chat_template
-
-dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
-val_set_size: 0.1
-output_dir: ./outputs/lora-out
-
-adapter: qlora
-lora_model_dir:
-
-sequence_len: 2048
-sample_packing: true
-
-lora_r: 32
-lora_alpha: 16
-lora_dropout: 0.05
-lora_target_linear: true
-lora_target_modules:
-  - gate_proj
-  - down_proj
-  - up_proj
-  - q_proj
-  - v_proj
-  - k_proj
-  - o_proj
-
-wandb_project:
-wandb_entity:
-wandb_watch:
-wandb_name:
-wandb_log_model:
-
-gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
-micro_batch_size: 2
-num_epochs: 1
-optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
-lr_scheduler: cosine
-learning_rate: 0.0002
-
-bf16: auto
-tf32: false
-
-gradient_checkpointing: true
-resume_from_checkpoint:
-logging_steps: 1
-flash_attention: true
-
-warmup_ratio: 0.1
-evals_per_epoch: 1
-saves_per_epoch: 1
-
-# save_first_step: true  # uncomment this to validate checkpoint saving works with your config

examples/arcee/README.md

@@ -19,9 +19,6 @@ cd axolotl
 
 pip3 install packaging==23.2 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. Run the finetuning example:

examples/archived/deepcoder/deepcoder-14B-preview-lora.yml

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ strict: false
 datasets:
   - path: fozziethebeat/alpaca_messages_2k_test
     type: chat_template
+    field_messages: messages
+    message_property_mappings:
+      role: role
+      content: content
 
 dataset_prepared_path:
 val_set_size: 0.05

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@147ea28\""
+    "!pip install \"cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@c6a32c5\""
    ]
   },
   {

examples/deepcogito/cogito-v1-preview-llama-3B-lora.yml

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ strict: false
 datasets:
   - path: fozziethebeat/alpaca_messages_2k_test
     type: chat_template
+    field_messages: messages
+    message_property_mappings:
+      role: role
+      content: content
 
 dataset_prepared_path:
 val_set_size: 0.05

examples/deepcogito/cogito-v1-preview-qwen-14B-lora.yml

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ strict: false
 datasets:
   - path: fozziethebeat/alpaca_messages_2k_test
     type: chat_template
+    field_messages: messages
+    message_property_mappings:
+      role: role
+      content: content
 
 dataset_prepared_path:
 val_set_size: 0.05

examples/gemma3/gemma-3-4b-vision-qlora.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ datasets:
   - path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
     type: chat_template
     split: train[:1%]
-
+    field_messages: messages
 dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
 val_set_size: 0.01
 output_dir: ./outputs/out

examples/gemma3n/README.md

@@ -23,15 +23,7 @@ pip3 install timm==1.0.17
 pip3 install librosa==0.11.0
 ```
 
-3. Download sample dataset files
-
-```bash
-# for text + vision + audio only
-wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/Nanobit/text-vision-audio-2k-test/resolve/main/African_elephant.jpg
-wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/Nanobit/text-vision-audio-2k-test/resolve/main/En-us-African_elephant.oga
-```
-
-4. Run the finetuning example:
+3. Run the finetuning example:
 
 ```bash
 # text only

examples/llama-3/instruct-lora-8b.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,15 @@ chat_template: llama3
 datasets:
   - path: fozziethebeat/alpaca_messages_2k_test
     type: chat_template
+    field_messages: messages
+    message_property_mappings:
+      role: role
+      content: content
+    roles:
+      user:
+        - user
+      assistant:
+        - assistant
 
 dataset_prepared_path:
 val_set_size: 0.05

examples/llama-4/do-no-use-fa2/scout-vision-qlora-fsdp.yaml

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ datasets:
   - path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
     type: chat_template
     split: train[:1%]
+    field_messages: messages
 
 dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
 val_set_size: 0.0

examples/llama-4/scout-vision-qlora-fsdp2-flex.yaml

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ datasets:
   - path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
     type: chat_template
     split: train[:1%]
+    field_messages: messages
 
 dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
 val_set_size: 0.0

examples/magistral/README.md

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Finetune Magistral Small with Axolotl
 
-Magistral Small is a 24B parameter opensource model from MistralAI found on HuggingFace at [2506](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2506), [2507](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2507) (see [Thinking](#thinking)), and [2509](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2509) (see [Vision](#vision)). This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl with multi-turn conversations and proper masking.
+Magistral Small is a 24B parameter opensource model from MistralAI found on HuggingFace at [2506](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2506) and [2507](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2507) (see [Thinking](#thinking)). This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl with multi-turn conversations and proper masking.
 
 MistralAI has also released a proprietary medium-sized version called Magistral Medium.
 
-Thanks to the team at MistralAI for giving us early access to prepare for these releases.
+Thanks to the team at MistralAI for giving us early access to prepare for this release.
 
 ## Getting started
 
@@ -36,17 +36,29 @@ Let us know how it goes. Happy finetuning! 🚀
 
 ### Thinking
 
-MistralAI has released their [2507](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2507) model with thinking capabilities, enabling Chain-of-Thought reasoning with explicit thinking steps.
+MistralAI has released their [2507](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2507) model with thinking capabilities. The model requires the multi-content dataset format with support for an extra `role: thinking` within system and assistant messages.
 
-📚 **[See the Thinking fine-tuning guide →](./think/README.md)**
+Example format:
 
-### Vision
+```json
+{
+    "messages": [
+        {"role": "system", "content": [{ "type": "text", "text": "{SYSTEM_PROMPT}"}]},
+        {"role": "user", "content": [{ "type": "text", "text": "..."}]},
+        {"role": "assistant", "content": [{ "type": "thinking", "thinking": "..."}, { "type": "text", "text": "..." }]},
+    ],
+}
+```
 
-MistralAI has released their [2509](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2509) model with vision capabilities.
+Example config: `./magistral-small-think-qlora.yaml`.
 
-📚 **[See the Vision fine-tuning guide →](./vision/README.md)**
+The `thinking` section also supports an optional arg `closed: bool` (`True` default) which controls adding the closing `[/THINK]` tag.
 
-### Tips
+Limitations:
+- You cannot mix `content: str` with `content: list[dict]` as the `dataset.load_dataset` may complain about different types for `content` key.
+- This mode does not work with custom `train_detail` and `training` at the moment.
+
+### TIPS
 
 - We recommend adding the same/similar SystemPrompt that the model is tuned for. You can find this within the repo's files titled `SYSTEM_PROMPT.txt`.
 - For inference, the official MistralAI team recommends `top_p: 0.95` and `temperature: 0.7` with `max_tokens: 40960`.
@@ -77,5 +89,5 @@ In addition, we do not support overriding tokens yet.
 
 ## Future Work
 
-- Add parity to Preference Tuning, RL, etc.
+- Add parity to Preference Tuning, RL, Multi-modal, etc.
 - Add parity to other tokenizer configs like overriding tokens.

examples/magistral/think/README.md

@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-# Magistral Small Thinking Fine-tuning
-
-This guide covers fine-tuning [Magistral Small 2507](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2507) with thinking capabilities using Axolotl. The thinking model enables explicit Chain-of-Thought reasoning with separate thinking and response sections.
-
-## Prerequisites
-
-Before starting, ensure you have:
-- Installed Axolotl (see [main README](../README.md))
-
-## Getting Started
-
-Run the thinking model fine-tuning:
-
-```bash
-axolotl train magistral-small-think-qlora.yaml
-```
-
-This config uses about 19.1 GiB VRAM.
-
-### Tips
-
-- Dataset uses multi-content format with `type: thinking` support. See [Dataset Format](#dataset-format) below.
-- You cannot mix `content: str` and `content: list[dict]`, otherwise, dataset loading will fail. Keep it consistent.
-
-## Dataset Format
-
-The thinking model requires the multi-content dataset format with support for an extra `role: thinking` within system and assistant messages.
-
-Example format:
-
-```json
-{
-    "messages": [
-        {
-            "role": "system",
-            "content": [
-                { "type": "text", "text": "{SYSTEM_PROMPT}"}
-            ]
-        },
-        {
-            "role": "user",
-            "content": [
-                { "type": "text", "text": "Solve this step by step: What is 15% of 240?"}
-            ]
-        },
-        {
-            "role": "assistant",
-            "content": [
-                {
-                    "type": "thinking",
-                    "thinking": "I need to calculate 15% of 240. First, I'll convert 15% to decimal: 0.15. Then multiply: 0.15 × 240 = 36."
-                },
-                {
-                    "type": "text",
-                    "text": "To find 15% of 240, I'll multiply 240 by 0.15:\n\n240 × 0.15 = 36\n\nTherefore, 15% of 240 is 36."
-                }
-            ]
-        }
-    ]
-}
-```
-
-### Advanced Options
-
-The `thinking` section supports an optional `closed` parameter:
-
-```json
-{
-    "type": "thinking",
-    "thinking": "Internal reasoning here...",
-    "closed": true  // Default: true, controls adding the closing [/THINK] tag
-}
-```

examples/magistral/vision/README.md

@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-# Magistral Small Vision Fine-tuning
-
-This guide covers fine-tuning [Magistral Small 2509](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Magistral-Small-2509) with vision capabilities using Axolotl.
-
-## Prerequisites
-
-Before starting, ensure you have:
-- Installed Axolotl from source (see [main README](../README.md#getting-started))
-
-## Getting started
-
-1. Install the required vision lib:
-    ```bash
-    pip install 'mistral-common[opencv]==1.8.5'
-    ```
-
-2. Download the example dataset image:
-   ```bash
-   wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/Nanobit/text-vision-2k-test/resolve/main/African_elephant.jpg
-   ```
-
-3. Run the fine-tuning:
-   ```bash
-   axolotl train magistral-small-vision-24B-qlora.yml
-   ```
-
-This config uses about 17GiB VRAM.
-
-WARNING: The loss and grad norm will be much higher than normal at first. We suspect this to be inherent to the model as of the moment. If anyone would like to submit a fix for this, we are happy to take a look.
-
-### Tips
-
-Key differences from text-only model:
-- `max_tokens: 131072` for inference
-- Multi-modal dataset format required
-- Sample packing not supported
-
-## Dataset Format
-
-The vision model requires multi-modal dataset format as documented [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multimodal.html#dataset-format).
-
-One exception is that, passing `"image": PIL.Image` is not supported. MistralTokenizer only supports `path`, `url`, and `base64` for now.
-
-Example:
-```json
-{
-    "messages": [
-        {"role": "system", "content": [{ "type": "text", "text": "{SYSTEM_PROMPT}"}]},
-        {"role": "user", "content": [
-            { "type": "text", "text": "What's in this image?"},
-            {"type": "image", "path": "path/to/image.jpg" }
-        ]},
-        {"role": "assistant", "content": [{ "type": "text", "text": "..." }]},
-    ],
-}
-```
-
-## Limitations
-
-- Sample Packing is not supported for multi-modality training currently.

examples/magistral/vision/magistral-small-vision-24B-qlora.yml

@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-base_model: mistralai/Magistral-Small-2509
-processor_type: AutoProcessor
-
-# Enable to use mistral-common tokenizer
-tokenizer_use_mistral_common: true
-
-plugins:
-  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
-
-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
-
-# sample dataset below requires downloading image in advance
-# wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/Nanobit/text-vision-2k-test/resolve/main/African_elephant.jpg
-datasets:
-  - path: Nanobit/text-vision-2k-test
-    type: chat_template
-
-dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
-val_set_size: 0.01
-output_dir: ./outputs/out
-
-adapter: qlora
-lora_model_dir:
-
-sequence_len: 2048
-
-lora_r: 32
-lora_alpha: 16
-lora_dropout: 0.05
-lora_target_modules: 'model.language_model.layers.[\d]+.(mlp|cross_attn|self_attn).(up|down|gate|q|k|v|o)_proj'
-
-wandb_project:
-wandb_entity:
-wandb_watch:
-wandb_name:
-wandb_log_model:
-
-gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
-micro_batch_size: 1
-num_epochs: 1
-optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
-lr_scheduler: cosine
-learning_rate: 0.0002
-
-bf16: true
-fp16:
-tf32: true
-
-gradient_checkpointing: true
-logging_steps: 1
-flash_attention: true
-
-warmup_ratio: 0.1
-evals_per_epoch: 1
-saves_per_epoch: 1
-weight_decay: 0.0
-special_tokens:
-
-# save_first_step: true  # uncomment this to validate checkpoint saving works with your config

examples/mistral/mistral-small-3.1-24B-lora.yml

@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 base_model: mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503
 processor_type: AutoProcessor
 
-# Enable to use mistral-common tokenizer
-tokenizer_use_mistral_common: true
-
 load_in_8bit: true
 
 # these 3 lines are needed for now to handle vision chat templates w images
@@ -11,12 +8,12 @@ skip_prepare_dataset: true
 remove_unused_columns: false
 sample_packing: false
 
-# sample dataset below requires downloading image in advance
-# wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/Nanobit/text-vision-2k-test/resolve/main/African_elephant.jpg
+chat_template: mistral_v7_tekken
 datasets:
-  - path: Nanobit/text-vision-2k-test
+  - path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
     type: chat_template
-
+    split: train[:1%]
+    field_messages: messages
 dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
 val_set_size: 0.01
 output_dir: ./outputs/out
@@ -51,7 +48,8 @@ tf32: true
 
 gradient_checkpointing: true
 logging_steps: 1
-flash_attention: true
+# flash_attention: false # PixtralVisionModel does not support Flash Attention 2.0 yet.
+sdp_attention: true
 
 warmup_ratio: 0.1
 evals_per_epoch: 1

examples/moe/qwen2-moe-qlora-10gb.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B
+model_type: AutoModelForCausalLM
+tokenizer_type: AutoTokenizer
+trust_remote_code: true
+
+# Keep VRAM low
+load_in_8bit: false
+load_in_4bit: true
+
+datasets:
+  - path: mhenrichsen/alpaca_2k_test
+    type: alpaca
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0.05
+output_dir: ./outputs/qwen2-moe-qlora-10gb
+
+# Train small to fit 10GB
+sequence_len: 512
+sample_packing: false
+pad_to_sequence_len: false
+
+adapter: qlora
+lora_r: 32
+lora_alpha: 16
+lora_dropout: 0.05
+lora_target_linear: true
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 8
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: paged_adamw_8bit
+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: 5
+flash_attention: true
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.03
+evals_per_epoch: 2
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+weight_decay: 0.0
+
+model_config:
+  output_router_logits: true
+
+special_tokens:

examples/phi/lora-3.5.yaml

@@ -12,6 +12,15 @@ chat_template: phi_3
 datasets:
   - path: fozziethebeat/alpaca_messages_2k_test
     type: chat_template
+    field_messages: messages
+    message_property_mappings:
+      role: role
+      content: content
+    roles:
+      user:
+        - user
+      assistant:
+        - assistant
 
 dataset_prepared_path:
 val_set_size: 0.05

examples/pixtral/lora-12b.yml

@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ tf32: true
 
 gradient_checkpointing: true
 logging_steps: 1
-flash_attention: true
+# flash_attention:  # PixtralVisionModel does not support Flash Attention 2.0 yet
+sdp_attention: true
 
 warmup_ratio: 0.1
 evals_per_epoch: 1

examples/qwen2-vl/lora-7b.yaml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ datasets:
   - path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
     type: chat_template
     split: train[:1%]
-
+    field_messages: messages
 dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
 val_set_size: 0.0
 output_dir: ./outputs/out

examples/qwen2_5-vl/lora-7b.yaml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ datasets:
   - path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
     type: chat_template
     split: train[:1%]
-
+    field_messages: messages
 dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
 val_set_size: 0.0
 output_dir: ./outputs/out

examples/qwen3-next/README.md

@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-# Finetune Qwen3-Next with Axolotl
-
-[Qwen3-Next](https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-next-68c25fd6838e585db8eeea9d) represents the next-generation foundation models optimized for extreme context length and large-scale parameter efficiency. The series introduces architectural innovations including Hybrid Attention (Gated DeltaNet + Gated Attention), High-Sparsity MoE with 1:50 activation ratio, and Multi-Token Prediction for enhanced performance and inference acceleration.
-
-This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl with multi-turn conversations and proper masking.
-
-## Getting started
-
-1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html). 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).
-
-    Here is an example of how to install from main for pip:
-
-```bash
-# Ensure you have Pytorch installed (Pytorch 2.6.0 min)
-git clone https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl.git
-cd axolotl
-
-pip3 install packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel ninja
-pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn]'
-
-# 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"
-```
-
-3. Install FLA for improved performance
-```bash
-pip3 uninstall -y causal-conv1d && pip3 install flash-linear-attention==0.3.2
-```
-
-4. Run the finetuning example:
-
-```bash
-axolotl train examples/qwen3-next/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-qlora.yaml
-```
-
-This config uses about 45.62 GiB VRAM.
-
-Let us know how it goes. Happy finetuning! 🚀
-
-### 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 the `adapter: qlora` and `load_in_4bit: true` from the config. See [Multi-GPU](#optimization-guides) section below.
-- Read more on how to load your own dataset at [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
-- The dataset format follows the OpenAI Messages format as seen [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset-formats/conversation.html#chat_template).
-
-## Optimization Guides
-
-- [Multi-GPU Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-gpu.html)
-- [Multi-Node Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-node.html)
-- [LoRA Optimizations](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/lora_optims.html)
-
-## Related Resources
-
-- [Qwen3-Next Blog](https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen3_next/)
-- [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/qwen3-next/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-qlora.yaml

@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-base_model: Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
-
-# Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF
-# hub_model_id: username/custom_model_name
-
-plugins:
-  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
-
-load_in_8bit: false
-load_in_4bit: true
-
-datasets:
-  - path: fozziethebeat/alpaca_messages_2k_test
-    type: chat_template
-
-dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
-val_set_size: 0.1
-output_dir: ./outputs/lora-out
-
-adapter: qlora
-lora_model_dir:
-
-sequence_len: 2048
-sample_packing: true
-
-lora_r: 16
-lora_alpha: 8
-lora_dropout: 0.05
-lora_target_modules:
-  - linear_attn.in_proj_ba
-  - linear_attn.in_proj_qkvz
-  - linear_attn.out_proj
-  - shared_expert.up_proj
-  - shared_expert.down_proj
-  - shared_expert.gate_proj
-  - shared_expert_gate
-  - mlp.gate
-  - q_proj
-  - v_proj
-  - k_proj
-  - o_proj
-
-wandb_project:
-wandb_entity:
-wandb_watch:
-wandb_name:
-wandb_log_model:
-
-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/voxtral/README.md

@@ -27,14 +27,7 @@ pip3 install 'mistral_common[audio]==1.8.3'
 python scripts/cutcrossentropy_install.py | sh
 ```
 
-3. Download sample dataset files
-
-```bash
-# for text + audio only
-wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/Nanobit/text-audio-2k-test/resolve/main/En-us-African_elephant.oga
-```
-
-4. Run the finetuning example:
+3. Run the finetuning example:
 
 ```bash
 # text only

requirements.txt

@@ -70,4 +70,4 @@ schedulefree==1.4.1
 axolotl-contribs-lgpl==0.0.6
 axolotl-contribs-mit==0.0.5
 
-mistral-common==1.8.5
+mistral-common==1.8.3

scripts/bench_moe.py

@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Benchmark Hugging Face Qwen2 MoE block with and without grouped_mm."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import sys
+import time
+import weakref
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import torch
+import torch._dynamo as dynamo
+
+try:
+    from axolotl.kernels.moe import torch_grouped as tg
+except Exception:  # pragma: no cover
+    tg = None
+
+
+def bench(run, *, iters: int, warmup: int, sync: bool = True) -> float:
+    device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
+    for _ in range(warmup):
+        run()
+        if sync and device.type == "cuda":
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    times = []
+    for _ in range(iters):
+        if sync and device.type == "cuda":
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        start = time.perf_counter()
+        run()
+        if sync and device.type == "cuda":
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        times.append((time.perf_counter() - start) * 1000.0)
+    return sum(times) / len(times)
+
+
+def estimate_moe_flops(tokens: int, hidden: int, inter: int, top_k: int) -> float:
+    return 6.0 * tokens * top_k * hidden * inter
+
+
+def load_hf_block(
+    hidden: int,
+    inter: int,
+    experts: int,
+    top_k: int,
+    *,
+    device: torch.device,
+    dtype: torch.dtype,
+):
+    project_root = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
+    transformers_src = project_root / "transformers" / "src"
+    if transformers_src.exists() and str(transformers_src) not in sys.path:
+        sys.path.append(str(transformers_src))
+
+    from transformers.models.qwen2_moe.configuration_qwen2_moe import Qwen2MoeConfig
+    from transformers.models.qwen2_moe.modeling_qwen2_moe import Qwen2MoeSparseMoeBlock
+
+    cfg = Qwen2MoeConfig(
+        hidden_size=hidden,
+        moe_intermediate_size=inter,
+        shared_expert_intermediate_size=inter,
+        num_experts=experts,
+        num_experts_per_tok=top_k,
+        norm_topk_prob=True,
+        qkv_bias=True,
+    )
+
+    block = Qwen2MoeSparseMoeBlock(cfg).to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    block_grouped = Qwen2MoeSparseMoeBlock(cfg).to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    block_grouped.load_state_dict(block.state_dict())
+    return block, block_grouped
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Qwen2 MoE grouped_mm benchmark")
+    p.add_argument("--bsz", type=int, default=8)
+    p.add_argument("--seq", type=int, default=1024)
+    p.add_argument("--hidden", type=int, default=4096)
+    p.add_argument("--inter", type=int, default=14336)
+    p.add_argument("--experts", type=int, default=32)
+    p.add_argument("--top_k", type=int, default=4)
+    p.add_argument("--dtype", choices=["bf16", "fp16", "fp32"], default="bf16")
+    p.add_argument("--iters", type=int, default=50)
+    p.add_argument("--warmup", type=int, default=10)
+    p.add_argument("--profile", action="store_true")
+    p.add_argument(
+        "--compile",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Torch.compile both paths before benchmarking",
+    )
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
+    dtype = {
+        "bf16": torch.bfloat16,
+        "fp16": torch.float16,
+        "fp32": torch.float32,
+    }[args.dtype]
+
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    if device.type == "cuda":
+        torch.cuda.manual_seed(0)
+
+    block_naive, block_grouped = load_hf_block(
+        args.hidden,
+        args.inter,
+        args.experts,
+        args.top_k,
+        device=device,
+        dtype=dtype,
+    )
+
+    tokens = args.bsz * args.seq
+    flops_total = estimate_moe_flops(tokens, args.hidden, args.inter, args.top_k)
+    print(
+        f"Device={device} dtype={dtype} tokens={tokens} hidden={args.hidden} inter={args.inter} "
+        f"experts={args.experts} top_k={args.top_k}"
+    )
+
+    x = torch.randn(args.bsz, args.seq, args.hidden, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+
+    # Optional torch.compile
+    run_grouped_impl = None
+    if args.compile:
+        dynamo.config.capture_scalar_outputs = True
+        dynamo.config.allow_unspec_int_on_nn_module = True
+        try:
+            block_naive = torch.compile(block_naive)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+        except Exception as exc:  # pragma: no cover
+            print(f"torch.compile naive failed ({exc}); using eager")
+        else:
+
+            def grouped_forward(inp, *, block=block_grouped):
+                block.experts._ax_parent_block_ref = weakref.ref(block)  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+                y, _ = tg.moe_ffn_forward_grouped(
+                    inp, block.gate, block.experts, block.top_k
+                )
+                return y
+
+            try:
+                run_grouped_impl = torch.compile(grouped_forward)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+            except Exception as exc:  # pragma: no cover
+                print(f"torch.compile grouped failed ({exc}); using eager")
+                run_grouped_impl = None
+
+    def run_naive(block=block_naive, data=x):
+        y, _ = block(data)
+        return y
+
+    def run_grouped(block=block_grouped, data=x, impl=run_grouped_impl):
+        if impl is not None:
+            return impl(data)
+        if tg is None or not tg.available():
+            return torch.empty(0)
+        block.experts._ax_parent_block_ref = weakref.ref(block)  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+        y, _ = tg.moe_ffn_forward_grouped(data, block.gate, block.experts, block.top_k)
+        return y if y is not None else torch.empty(0)
+
+    t_naive = bench(run_naive, iters=args.iters, warmup=args.warmup)
+    tflops_naive = flops_total / ((t_naive / 1000.0) * 1e12)
+    print(
+        f"naive\t{t_naive:.2f} ms\t{tokens / (t_naive / 1000.0):.1f} tok/s\t{tflops_naive:.2f} TFLOP/s"
+    )
+
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        y_ref = run_naive()
+
+    if tg is None or not tg.available():
+        print("torch_grouped\tN/A (unavailable)")
+        return
+
+    y_grouped = run_grouped()
+    if y_grouped.numel() == 0:
+        print("torch_grouped\tN/A (op not callable)")
+        return
+
+    t_grouped = bench(run_grouped, iters=args.iters, warmup=args.warmup)
+    tflops_grouped = flops_total / ((t_grouped / 1000.0) * 1e12)
+    speedup = t_naive / t_grouped
+    print(
+        f"torch_grouped\t{t_grouped:.2f} ms\t{tokens / (t_grouped / 1000.0):.1f} tok/s\t"
+        f"{tflops_grouped:.2f} TFLOP/s\t{speedup:.2f}×"
+    )
+
+    diff = (y_ref.float() - y_grouped.float()).abs()
+    print(
+        "torch_grouped_check: "
+        f"max_abs={diff.max().item():.3e} mean_abs={diff.mean().item():.3e} "
+        f"rel_l2={(diff.pow(2).sum() / (y_ref.float().pow(2).sum() + 1e-12)).sqrt().item():.3e}"
+    )
+
+    if args.profile:
+        with torch.profiler.profile(
+            activities=[torch.profiler.ProfilerActivity.CUDA], record_shapes=True
+        ) as prof:
+            run_naive()
+        print(prof.key_averages().table(sort_by="cuda_time_total", row_limit=20))
+
+        with torch.profiler.profile(
+            activities=[torch.profiler.ProfilerActivity.CUDA], record_shapes=True
+        ) as prof:
+            run_grouped()
+        print(prof.key_averages().table(sort_by="cuda_time_total", row_limit=20))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

scripts/bench_moe_sweep.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Sweep grouped_mm vs naive performance for Qwen2 MoE block."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import csv
+import sys
+import time
+import weakref
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import List
+
+import torch
+import torch._dynamo as dynamo
+
+try:
+    from axolotl.kernels.moe import torch_grouped as tg
+except Exception:  # pragma: no cover
+    tg = None
+
+
+def _parse_list(arg: str) -> List[int]:
+    return [int(v) for v in arg.split(",") if v]
+
+
+def _bench(run, *, iters: int, warmup: int, device: torch.device) -> float:
+    for _ in range(warmup):
+        run()
+        if device.type == "cuda":
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    times: List[float] = []
+    for _ in range(iters):
+        if device.type == "cuda":
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        start = time.perf_counter()
+        run()
+        if device.type == "cuda":
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        times.append((time.perf_counter() - start) * 1000.0)
+    return sum(times) / len(times)
+
+
+def _estimate_flops(tokens: int, hidden: int, inter: int, top_k: int) -> float:
+    return 6.0 * tokens * top_k * hidden * inter
+
+
+def _load_block(
+    hidden: int,
+    inter: int,
+    experts: int,
+    top_k: int,
+    *,
+    device: torch.device,
+    dtype: torch.dtype,
+):
+    project_root = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
+    transformers_src = project_root / "transformers" / "src"
+    if transformers_src.exists() and str(transformers_src) not in sys.path:
+        sys.path.append(str(transformers_src))
+
+    from transformers.models.qwen2_moe.configuration_qwen2_moe import Qwen2MoeConfig
+    from transformers.models.qwen2_moe.modeling_qwen2_moe import Qwen2MoeSparseMoeBlock
+
+    cfg = Qwen2MoeConfig(
+        hidden_size=hidden,
+        moe_intermediate_size=inter,
+        shared_expert_intermediate_size=inter,
+        num_experts=experts,
+        num_experts_per_tok=top_k,
+        norm_topk_prob=True,
+        qkv_bias=True,
+    )
+
+    block = Qwen2MoeSparseMoeBlock(cfg).to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    block_grouped = Qwen2MoeSparseMoeBlock(cfg).to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    block_grouped.load_state_dict(block.state_dict())
+    return block, block_grouped
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Result:
+    bsz: int
+    seq: int
+    hidden: int
+    inter: int
+    experts: int
+    top_k: int
+    dtype: str
+    naive_ms: float
+    grouped_ms: float
+    speedup: float
+    naive_tflops: float
+    grouped_tflops: float
+    max_abs: float
+    mean_abs: float
+    rel_l2: float
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Grouped MoE sweep")
+    p.add_argument("--batch-sizes", default="4,8,16")
+    p.add_argument("--seq-lens", default="512,1024,2048")
+    p.add_argument("--hidden", default="2048,4096")
+    p.add_argument("--inter", default="5632,8192,14336")
+    p.add_argument("--experts", default="8,16,32")
+    p.add_argument("--top-k", default="1,2,4")
+    p.add_argument("--dtype", choices=["bf16", "fp16", "fp32"], default="bf16")
+    p.add_argument("--iters", type=int, default=25)
+    p.add_argument("--warmup", type=int, default=5)
+    p.add_argument("--csv", type=Path, default=None)
+    p.add_argument("--compile", action="store_true")
+    args = p.parse_args()
+
+    device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
+    dtype = {
+        "bf16": torch.bfloat16,
+        "fp16": torch.float16,
+        "fp32": torch.float32,
+    }[args.dtype]
+
+    if tg is None or not tg.available():
+        print("torch_grouped unavailable; sweep aborted")
+        return
+
+    bs_list = _parse_list(args.batch_sizes)
+    seq_list = _parse_list(args.seq_lens)
+    hidden_list = _parse_list(args.hidden)
+    inter_list = _parse_list(args.inter)
+    expert_list = _parse_list(args.experts)
+    topk_list = _parse_list(args.top_k)
+
+    results: List[Result] = []
+
+    print(
+        "bsz\tseq\thidden\tinter\texperts\ttop_k\tnaive(ms)\tgrouped(ms)\tspeedup\t"
+        "naive TF/s\tgrouped TF/s\tmax_abs\tmean_abs\trel_l2"
+    )
+
+    for bsz in bs_list:
+        for seq in seq_list:
+            tokens = bsz * seq
+            for hidden in hidden_list:
+                for inter in inter_list:
+                    for experts in expert_list:
+                        for top_k in topk_list:
+                            torch.manual_seed(0)
+                            if device.type == "cuda":
+                                torch.cuda.manual_seed(0)
+
+                            block_naive, block_grouped = _load_block(
+                                hidden,
+                                inter,
+                                experts,
+                                top_k,
+                                device=device,
+                                dtype=dtype,
+                            )
+
+                            x = torch.randn(
+                                bsz, seq, hidden, device=device, dtype=dtype
+                            )
+
+                            compiled_impl = None
+                            if args.compile:
+                                dynamo.config.capture_scalar_outputs = True
+                                dynamo.config.allow_unspec_int_on_nn_module = True
+                                try:
+                                    block_naive = torch.compile(block_naive)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+                                except Exception as exc:
+                                    print(
+                                        f"torch.compile naive failed ({exc}); using eager"
+                                    )
+                                else:
+
+                                    def grouped_forward(inp, *, block=block_grouped):
+                                        block.experts._ax_parent_block_ref = (
+                                            weakref.ref(block)
+                                        )  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+                                        y, _ = tg.moe_ffn_forward_grouped(
+                                            inp,
+                                            block.gate,
+                                            block.experts,
+                                            block.top_k,
+                                        )
+                                        return y
+
+                                    try:
+                                        compiled_impl = torch.compile(grouped_forward)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+                                    except Exception as exc:
+                                        print(
+                                            f"torch.compile grouped failed ({exc}); using eager"
+                                        )
+                                        compiled_impl = None
+
+                            def run_naive(block=block_naive, data=x):
+                                y, _ = block(data)
+                                return y
+
+                            def run_grouped(
+                                block=block_grouped, data=x, impl=compiled_impl
+                            ):
+                                if impl is not None:
+                                    return impl(data)
+                                block.experts._ax_parent_block_ref = weakref.ref(block)  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+                                y, _ = tg.moe_ffn_forward_grouped(
+                                    data,
+                                    block.gate,
+                                    block.experts,
+                                    block.top_k,
+                                )
+                                return y
+
+                            naive_ms = _bench(
+                                run_naive,
+                                iters=args.iters,
+                                warmup=args.warmup,
+                                device=device,
+                            )
+                            y_naive = run_naive()
+
+                            grouped_ms = _bench(
+                                run_grouped,
+                                iters=args.iters,
+                                warmup=args.warmup,
+                                device=device,
+                            )
+                            y_grouped = run_grouped()
+
+                            diff = (y_naive.float() - y_grouped.float()).abs()
+                            res = Result(
+                                bsz,
+                                seq,
+                                hidden,
+                                inter,
+                                experts,
+                                top_k,
+                                args.dtype,
+                                naive_ms,
+                                grouped_ms,
+                                naive_ms / grouped_ms,
+                                _estimate_flops(tokens, hidden, inter, top_k)
+                                / ((naive_ms / 1000.0) * 1e12),
+                                _estimate_flops(tokens, hidden, inter, top_k)
+                                / ((grouped_ms / 1000.0) * 1e12),
+                                diff.max().item(),
+                                diff.mean().item(),
+                                (
+                                    (
+                                        diff.pow(2).sum()
+                                        / (y_naive.float().pow(2).sum() + 1e-12)
+                                    )
+                                    .sqrt()
+                                    .item()
+                                ),
+                            )
+                            results.append(res)
+                            print(
+                                f"{bsz}\t{seq}\t{hidden}\t{inter}\t{experts}\t{top_k}\t{res.naive_ms:.2f}\t"
+                                f"{res.grouped_ms:.2f}\t{res.speedup:.2f}\t{res.naive_tflops:.2f}\t"
+                                f"{res.grouped_tflops:.2f}\t{res.max_abs:.2e}\t{res.mean_abs:.2e}\t{res.rel_l2:.2e}"
+                            )
+
+    if args.csv:
+        fieldnames = [
+            "bsz",
+            "seq",
+            "hidden",
+            "inter",
+            "experts",
+            "top_k",
+            "dtype",
+            "naive_ms",
+            "grouped_ms",
+            "speedup",
+            "naive_tflops",
+            "grouped_tflops",
+            "max_abs",
+            "mean_abs",
+            "rel_l2",
+        ]
+        with args.csv.open("w", newline="") as f:
+            writer = csv.DictWriter(f, fieldnames=fieldnames)
+            writer.writeheader()
+            for r in results:
+                writer.writerow(
+                    {
+                        "bsz": r.bsz,
+                        "seq": r.seq,
+                        "hidden": r.hidden,
+                        "inter": r.inter,
+                        "experts": r.experts,
+                        "top_k": r.top_k,
+                        "dtype": r.dtype,
+                        "naive_ms": f"{r.naive_ms:.4f}",
+                        "grouped_ms": f"{r.grouped_ms:.4f}",
+                        "speedup": f"{r.speedup:.4f}",
+                        "naive_tflops": f"{r.naive_tflops:.4f}",
+                        "grouped_tflops": f"{r.grouped_tflops:.4f}",
+                        "max_abs": f"{r.max_abs:.6e}",
+                        "mean_abs": f"{r.mean_abs:.6e}",
+                        "rel_l2": f"{r.rel_l2:.6e}",
+                    }
+                )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import weakref
+
+    main()

scripts/bench_torchtitan_moe.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Benchmark Torchtitan MoE grouped vs naive expert execution."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import sys
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import torch
+
+# Ensure torchtitan is importable when running from the axolotl tree
+_PROJECT_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
+_TITAN_PATH = _PROJECT_ROOT / "torchtitan"
+if str(_TITAN_PATH) not in sys.path:
+    sys.path.append(str(_TITAN_PATH))
+
+from torchtitan.models.moe import MoE, MoEArgs
+
+
+def _parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Torchtitan MoE microbenchmark")
+    p.add_argument("--bsz", type=int, default=8)
+    p.add_argument("--seq", type=int, default=1024)
+    p.add_argument("--hidden", type=int, default=4096)
+    p.add_argument("--inter", type=int, default=14336)
+    p.add_argument("--experts", type=int, default=8)
+    p.add_argument("--top_k", type=int, default=2)
+    p.add_argument("--dtype", choices=["bf16", "fp16", "fp32"], default="bf16")
+    p.add_argument("--iters", type=int, default=50)
+    p.add_argument("--warmup", type=int, default=10)
+    p.add_argument("--init-std", type=float, default=0.02)
+    p.add_argument(
+        "--score-before",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Apply routing scores before expert computation (default: after)",
+    )
+    p.add_argument(
+        "--score-func",
+        choices=["softmax", "sigmoid"],
+        default="softmax",
+    )
+    p.add_argument(
+        "--route-norm",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Enable Torchtitan router normalization when using sigmoid scores.",
+    )
+    return p.parse_args()
+
+
+def _map_dtype(arg: str) -> torch.dtype:
+    return {
+        "bf16": torch.bfloat16,
+        "fp16": torch.float16,
+        "fp32": torch.float32,
+    }[arg]
+
+
+def _estimate_moe_flops(tokens: int, hidden: int, inter: int, top_k: int) -> float:
+    # Two up projections + one down projection per expert/token combination.
+    return 6.0 * tokens * top_k * hidden * inter
+
+
+def _prepare_module(
+    moe: MoE,
+    *,
+    device: torch.device,
+    dtype: torch.dtype,
+) -> MoE:
+    moe = moe.to(device=device)
+    for param in moe.parameters():
+        param.data = param.data.to(dtype)
+        if param.grad is not None:
+            param.grad = None
+
+    buffers = dict(moe.named_buffers())
+    for name, buf in buffers.items():
+        if name == "tokens_per_expert":
+            moe._buffers[name] = torch.zeros_like(
+                buf, dtype=torch.float32, device=device
+            )
+        elif name == "expert_bias" and buf is not None:
+            moe._buffers[name] = torch.zeros_like(
+                buf, dtype=torch.float32, device=device
+            )
+        else:
+            moe._buffers[name] = buf.to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    moe.eval()
+    return moe
+
+
+@torch.inference_mode()
+def _forward_fn(module: MoE, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+    return module(x)
+
+
+def _bench(fn, *, iters: int, warmup: int, sync: bool = True) -> float:
+    device = torch.device("cuda") if torch.cuda.is_available() else torch.device("cpu")
+    for _ in range(warmup):
+        fn()
+        if sync and device.type == "cuda":
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    times = []
+    for _ in range(iters):
+        if sync and device.type == "cuda":
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        start = time.perf_counter()
+        fn()
+        if sync and device.type == "cuda":
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        times.append((time.perf_counter() - start) * 1000.0)
+    return sum(times) / len(times)
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    args = _parse_args()
+    device = torch.device("cuda") if torch.cuda.is_available() else torch.device("cpu")
+    dtype = _map_dtype(args.dtype)
+
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    if device.type == "cuda":
+        torch.cuda.manual_seed(0)
+
+    moe_args_grouped = MoEArgs(
+        num_experts=args.experts,
+        num_shared_experts=0,
+        score_func=args.score_func,
+        route_norm=args.route_norm,
+        top_k=args.top_k,
+        use_grouped_mm=True,
+        score_before_experts=args.score_before,
+        load_balance_coeff=None,
+    )
+    moe_grouped = MoE(moe_args_grouped, dim=args.hidden, hidden_dim=args.inter)
+    moe_grouped.init_weights(args.init_std, buffer_device=device)
+
+    moe_args_naive = MoEArgs(
+        num_experts=args.experts,
+        num_shared_experts=0,
+        score_func=args.score_func,
+        route_norm=args.route_norm,
+        top_k=args.top_k,
+        use_grouped_mm=False,
+        score_before_experts=args.score_before,
+        load_balance_coeff=None,
+    )
+    moe_naive = MoE(moe_args_naive, dim=args.hidden, hidden_dim=args.inter)
+    moe_naive.load_state_dict(moe_grouped.state_dict(), strict=True)
+
+    moe_grouped = _prepare_module(moe_grouped, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    moe_naive = _prepare_module(moe_naive, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+
+    x = torch.randn(args.bsz, args.seq, args.hidden, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+
+    tokens = args.bsz * args.seq
+    print(
+        f"Device={device} dtype={dtype} tokens={tokens} hidden={args.hidden} "
+        f"inter={args.inter} experts={args.experts} top_k={args.top_k}"
+    )
+
+    def run_naive():
+        return _forward_fn(moe_naive, x)
+
+    def run_grouped():
+        return _forward_fn(moe_grouped, x)
+
+    if hasattr(moe_naive, "tokens_per_expert"):
+        moe_naive.tokens_per_expert.zero_()
+    if hasattr(moe_grouped, "tokens_per_expert"):
+        moe_grouped.tokens_per_expert.zero_()
+
+    t_naive = _bench(run_naive, iters=args.iters, warmup=args.warmup)
+    flops = _estimate_moe_flops(tokens, args.hidden, args.inter, args.top_k)
+    tflops_naive = flops / ((t_naive / 1000.0) * 1e12)
+    print(
+        f"naive\t{t_naive:.2f} ms\t{tokens / (t_naive / 1000.0):.1f} tok/s\t"
+        f"{tflops_naive:.2f} TFLOP/s"
+    )
+
+    y_naive = run_naive()
+
+    if hasattr(moe_grouped, "tokens_per_expert"):
+        moe_grouped.tokens_per_expert.zero_()
+
+    t_grouped = _bench(run_grouped, iters=args.iters, warmup=args.warmup)
+    tflops_grouped = flops / ((t_grouped / 1000.0) * 1e12)
+    speedup = t_naive / t_grouped if t_grouped > 0 else float("nan")
+    print(
+        f"grouped\t{t_grouped:.2f} ms\t{tokens / (t_grouped / 1000.0):.1f} tok/s\t"
+        f"{tflops_grouped:.2f} TFLOP/s\t{speedup:.2f}×"
+    )
+
+    y_grouped = run_grouped()
+    diff = (y_naive.float() - y_grouped.float()).abs()
+    max_abs = diff.max().item()
+    mean_abs = diff.mean().item()
+    rel_l2 = (diff.pow(2).sum() / (y_naive.float().pow(2).sum() + 1e-12)).sqrt().item()
+    print(
+        f"grouped_check: max_abs={max_abs:.3e} mean_abs={mean_abs:.3e} rel_l2={rel_l2:.3e}"
+    )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

scripts/bench_torchtitan_moe_sweep.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Sweep Torchtitan MoE grouped vs naive configurations and report performance."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import csv
+import sys
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Iterable, List
+
+import torch
+
+_PROJECT_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
+_TITAN_PATH = _PROJECT_ROOT / "torchtitan"
+if str(_TITAN_PATH) not in sys.path:
+    sys.path.append(str(_TITAN_PATH))
+
+from torchtitan.models.moe import MoE, MoEArgs
+
+
+def _parse_int_list(value: str) -> List[int]:
+    return [int(v) for v in value.split(",") if v]
+
+
+def _parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
+    p = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Torchtitan MoE grouped vs naive sweep")
+    p.add_argument(
+        "--batch-sizes", default="4,8,16", help="Comma separated batch sizes"
+    )
+    p.add_argument(
+        "--seq-lens", default="1024,2048", help="Comma separated sequence lengths"
+    )
+    p.add_argument(
+        "--experts", default="8,16,32,64", help="Comma separated expert counts"
+    )
+    p.add_argument("--top-ks", default="1,2,4", help="Comma separated top_k choices")
+    p.add_argument("--hidden", type=int, default=4096)
+    p.add_argument("--inter", type=int, default=14336)
+    p.add_argument("--dtype", choices=["bf16", "fp16", "fp32"], default="bf16")
+    p.add_argument("--iters", type=int, default=25)
+    p.add_argument("--warmup", type=int, default=5)
+    p.add_argument("--init-std", type=float, default=0.02)
+    p.add_argument("--score-before", action="store_true")
+    p.add_argument("--score-func", choices=["softmax", "sigmoid"], default="softmax")
+    p.add_argument("--route-norm", action="store_true")
+    p.add_argument("--csv", type=Path, default=None, help="Optional CSV output path")
+    return p.parse_args()
+
+
+def _map_dtype(arg: str) -> torch.dtype:
+    return {
+        "bf16": torch.bfloat16,
+        "fp16": torch.float16,
+        "fp32": torch.float32,
+    }[arg]
+
+
+def _estimate_flops(tokens: int, hidden: int, inter: int, top_k: int) -> float:
+    return 6.0 * tokens * top_k * hidden * inter
+
+
+def _prepare_module(module: MoE, *, device: torch.device, dtype: torch.dtype) -> MoE:
+    module = module.to(device=device)
+    for param in module.parameters():
+        param.data = param.data.to(dtype)
+        if param.grad is not None:
+            param.grad = None
+    for name, buf in module.named_buffers():
+        if name == "tokens_per_expert":
+            module._buffers[name] = torch.zeros_like(
+                buf, dtype=torch.float32, device=device
+            )
+        elif name == "expert_bias" and buf is not None:
+            module._buffers[name] = torch.zeros_like(
+                buf, dtype=torch.float32, device=device
+            )
+        else:
+            module._buffers[name] = buf.to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    module.eval()
+    return module
+
+
+@torch.inference_mode()
+def _forward(module: MoE, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+    return module(x)
+
+
+def _bench(callable_, *, iters: int, warmup: int, device: torch.device) -> float:
+    for _ in range(warmup):
+        callable_()
+        if device.type == "cuda":
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    timings: List[float] = []
+    for _ in range(iters):
+        if device.type == "cuda":
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        start = time.perf_counter()
+        callable_()
+        if device.type == "cuda":
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        timings.append((time.perf_counter() - start) * 1000.0)
+    return sum(timings) / len(timings)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class SweepResult:
+    bsz: int
+    seq: int
+    experts: int
+    top_k: int
+    dtype: str
+    naive_ms: float
+    grouped_ms: float
+    speedup: float
+    naive_tflops: float
+    grouped_tflops: float
+    max_abs: float
+    mean_abs: float
+    rel_l2: float
+
+
+def _run_case(
+    *,
+    bsz: int,
+    seq: int,
+    experts: int,
+    top_k: int,
+    hidden: int,
+    inter: int,
+    dtype: torch.dtype,
+    device: torch.device,
+    iters: int,
+    warmup: int,
+    init_std: float,
+    score_before: bool,
+    score_func: str,
+    route_norm: bool,
+) -> SweepResult:
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    if device.type == "cuda":
+        torch.cuda.manual_seed(0)
+
+    moe_args_grouped = MoEArgs(
+        num_experts=experts,
+        num_shared_experts=0,
+        score_func=score_func,
+        route_norm=route_norm,
+        top_k=top_k,
+        use_grouped_mm=True,
+        score_before_experts=score_before,
+        load_balance_coeff=None,
+    )
+    moe_grouped = MoE(moe_args_grouped, dim=hidden, hidden_dim=inter)
+    moe_grouped.init_weights(init_std, buffer_device=device)
+
+    moe_args_naive = MoEArgs(
+        num_experts=experts,
+        num_shared_experts=0,
+        score_func=score_func,
+        route_norm=route_norm,
+        top_k=top_k,
+        use_grouped_mm=False,
+        score_before_experts=score_before,
+        load_balance_coeff=None,
+    )
+    moe_naive = MoE(moe_args_naive, dim=hidden, hidden_dim=inter)
+    moe_naive.load_state_dict(moe_grouped.state_dict(), strict=True)
+
+    moe_grouped = _prepare_module(moe_grouped, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+    moe_naive = _prepare_module(moe_naive, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+
+    x = torch.randn(bsz, seq, hidden, device=device, dtype=dtype)
+
+    def run_naive():
+        if hasattr(moe_naive, "tokens_per_expert"):
+            moe_naive.tokens_per_expert.zero_()
+        return _forward(moe_naive, x)
+
+    def run_grouped():
+        if hasattr(moe_grouped, "tokens_per_expert"):
+            moe_grouped.tokens_per_expert.zero_()
+        return _forward(moe_grouped, x)
+
+    naive_ms = _bench(run_naive, iters=iters, warmup=warmup, device=device)
+    y_naive = run_naive()
+
+    grouped_ms = _bench(run_grouped, iters=iters, warmup=warmup, device=device)
+    y_grouped = run_grouped()
+
+    diff = (y_naive.float() - y_grouped.float()).abs()
+    max_abs = diff.max().item()
+    mean_abs = diff.mean().item()
+    rel_l2 = (diff.pow(2).sum() / (y_naive.float().pow(2).sum() + 1e-12)).sqrt().item()
+
+    tokens = bsz * seq
+    flops = _estimate_flops(tokens, hidden, inter, top_k)
+    naive_tflops = flops / ((naive_ms / 1000.0) * 1e12)
+    grouped_tflops = flops / ((grouped_ms / 1000.0) * 1e12)
+    speedup = naive_ms / grouped_ms if grouped_ms > 0 else float("nan")
+
+    return SweepResult(
+        bsz=bsz,
+        seq=seq,
+        experts=experts,
+        top_k=top_k,
+        dtype=str(dtype),
+        naive_ms=naive_ms,
+        grouped_ms=grouped_ms,
+        speedup=speedup,
+        naive_tflops=naive_tflops,
+        grouped_tflops=grouped_tflops,
+        max_abs=max_abs,
+        mean_abs=mean_abs,
+        rel_l2=rel_l2,
+    )
+
+
+def _print_header(
+    hidden: int, inter: int, dtype: torch.dtype, device: torch.device
+) -> None:
+    print(f"Device={device} dtype={dtype} hidden={hidden} inter={inter}")
+    print(
+        "bsz\tseq\texperts\ttop_k\tnaive(ms)\tgrouped(ms)\tspeedup\t"
+        "naive TF/s\tgrouped TF/s\tmax_abs\tmean_abs\trel_l2"
+    )
+
+
+def _print_result(res: SweepResult) -> None:
+    print(
+        f"{res.bsz}\t{res.seq}\t{res.experts}\t{res.top_k}\t"
+        f"{res.naive_ms:.2f}\t{res.grouped_ms:.2f}\t{res.speedup:.2f}\t"
+        f"{res.naive_tflops:.2f}\t{res.grouped_tflops:.2f}\t"
+        f"{res.max_abs:.2e}\t{res.mean_abs:.2e}\t{res.rel_l2:.2e}"
+    )
+
+
+def _write_csv(path: Path, results: Iterable[SweepResult]) -> None:
+    fieldnames = [
+        "batch_size",
+        "seq_len",
+        "experts",
+        "top_k",
+        "dtype",
+        "naive_ms",
+        "grouped_ms",
+        "speedup",
+        "naive_tflops",
+        "grouped_tflops",
+        "max_abs",
+        "mean_abs",
+        "rel_l2",
+    ]
+    with path.open("w", newline="") as f:
+        writer = csv.DictWriter(f, fieldnames=fieldnames)
+        writer.writeheader()
+        for r in results:
+            writer.writerow(
+                {
+                    "batch_size": r.bsz,
+                    "seq_len": r.seq,
+                    "experts": r.experts,
+                    "top_k": r.top_k,
+                    "dtype": r.dtype,
+                    "naive_ms": f"{r.naive_ms:.4f}",
+                    "grouped_ms": f"{r.grouped_ms:.4f}",
+                    "speedup": f"{r.speedup:.4f}",
+                    "naive_tflops": f"{r.naive_tflops:.4f}",
+                    "grouped_tflops": f"{r.grouped_tflops:.4f}",
+                    "max_abs": f"{r.max_abs:.6e}",
+                    "mean_abs": f"{r.mean_abs:.6e}",
+                    "rel_l2": f"{r.rel_l2:.6e}",
+                }
+            )
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    args = _parse_args()
+    dtype = _map_dtype(args.dtype)
+    device = torch.device("cuda") if torch.cuda.is_available() else torch.device("cpu")
+
+    batch_sizes = _parse_int_list(args.batch_sizes)
+    seq_lens = _parse_int_list(args.seq_lens)
+    experts_list = _parse_int_list(args.experts)
+    top_ks = _parse_int_list(args.top_ks)
+
+    results: List[SweepResult] = []
+    _print_header(args.hidden, args.inter, dtype, device)
+
+    for bsz in batch_sizes:
+        for seq in seq_lens:
+            for experts in experts_list:
+                for top_k in top_ks:
+                    try:
+                        res = _run_case(
+                            bsz=bsz,
+                            seq=seq,
+                            experts=experts,
+                            top_k=top_k,
+                            hidden=args.hidden,
+                            inter=args.inter,
+                            dtype=dtype,
+                            device=device,
+                            iters=args.iters,
+                            warmup=args.warmup,
+                            init_std=args.init_std,
+                            score_before=args.score_before,
+                            score_func=args.score_func,
+                            route_norm=args.route_norm,
+                        )
+                    except RuntimeError as err:
+                        print(
+                            f"{bsz}\t{seq}\t{experts}\t{top_k}\tERROR: {err}",
+                            file=sys.stderr,
+                        )
+                        continue
+                    results.append(res)
+                    _print_result(res)
+
+    if args.csv and results:
+        _write_csv(args.csv, results)
+        print(f"Wrote {len(results)} rows to {args.csv}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

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@147ea28"'
+    + f'{UV_PREFIX}pip install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@c6a32c5"'
 )

scripts/debug_qwen2_experts.py

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Inspect Qwen2 MoE expert implementations for grouped-mm debugging."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import torch
+
+ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
+sys.path.extend(
+    [
+        str(ROOT / "transformers" / "src"),
+        str(ROOT / "src"),
+    ]
+)
+
+from transformers.models.qwen2_moe.configuration_qwen2_moe import Qwen2MoeConfig
+from transformers.models.qwen2_moe.modeling_qwen2_moe import Qwen2MoeSparseMoeBlock
+
+from axolotl.kernels.moe.torch_grouped import _iter_expert_impls
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    cfg = Qwen2MoeConfig(
+        hidden_size=4096,
+        moe_intermediate_size=14336,
+        shared_expert_intermediate_size=14336,
+        num_experts=32,
+        num_experts_per_tok=4,
+    )
+
+    block = Qwen2MoeSparseMoeBlock(cfg).to("cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+    experts = block.experts
+    experts._ax_parent_block = block
+
+    impls = _iter_expert_impls(experts)
+    print(f"impl count: {len(impls)}")
+    for idx, impl in enumerate(impls[:8]):
+        has_gate = hasattr(impl, "gate_proj")
+        has_up = hasattr(impl, "up_proj")
+        print(
+            f"impl[{idx}] type={impl.__class__.__name__} has_gate={has_gate} has_up={has_up}"
+        )
+        if has_gate:
+            print(f"  gate shape {tuple(impl.gate_proj.weight.shape)}")
+            print(f"  up shape   {tuple(impl.up_proj.weight.shape)}")
+            print(f"  down shape {tuple(impl.down_proj.weight.shape)}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

scripts/probe_torch_grouped_ops.py

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+Probe PyTorch for grouped GEMM operator names and namespaces.
+Run: python scripts/probe_torch_grouped_ops.py
+"""
+
+import sys
+
+
+def main():
+    try:
+        import torch
+    except Exception as e:
+        print("Failed to import torch:", e)
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    print("torch version:", torch.__version__)
+    namespaces = [n for n in dir(torch.ops) if not n.startswith("_")]
+    print("ops namespaces:", namespaces)
+
+    found_any = False
+    for ns in namespaces:
+        obj = getattr(torch.ops, ns, None)
+        ops = []
+        if obj is not None:
+            try:
+                ops = dir(obj)
+            except Exception as e:
+                print(f"warning: failed to list ops for namespace {ns}: {e}")
+        cands = [
+            o
+            for o in ops
+            if ("group" in o.lower())
+            or ("mm_grouped" in o.lower())
+            or ("matmul_grouped" in o.lower())
+            or ("grouped" in o.lower())
+        ]
+        if cands:
+            found_any = True
+            print(f"namespace {ns} candidates:", cands)
+
+    if not found_any:
+        print("No grouped GEMM candidates found. PyTorch >= 2.8 is recommended.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

setup.py

@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ extras_require = {
     "ring-flash-attn": [
         "flash-attn==2.8.3",
         "ring-flash-attn>=0.1.7",
+        "yunchang==0.6.0",
     ],
     "deepspeed": [
         "deepspeed==0.17.5",

src/axolotl/core/builders/rl.py

@@ -120,11 +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:
@@ -134,16 +129,10 @@ 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
-
         elif self.cfg.rl is RLType.ORPO:
             training_args_cls = AxolotlORPOConfig
+            if self.cfg.max_prompt_len:
+                training_args_kwargs["max_prompt_length"] = self.cfg.max_prompt_len
 
         elif self.cfg.rl is RLType.KTO:
             training_args_cls = AxolotlKTOConfig
@@ -155,6 +144,9 @@ class HFRLTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
                 self.cfg.kto_undesirable_weight or 1.0
             )
 
+            if self.cfg.max_prompt_len:
+                training_args_kwargs["max_prompt_length"] = self.cfg.max_prompt_len
+
         elif self.cfg.rl is RLType.GRPO:
             training_args_cls = GRPOStrategy.get_training_args_class()
             training_args_kwargs.update(GRPOStrategy.set_training_args_kwargs(self.cfg))

src/axolotl/core/datasets/transforms/chat_builder.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from typing import Any, Mapping
 
 def chat_message_transform_builder(
     train_on_inputs=False,
-    conversations_field: str = "messages",
+    conversations_field: str = "conversations",
     message_field_role: str | list[str] | None = None,  # commonly "role"
     message_field_content: str | list[str] | None = None,  # commonly "content"
     message_field_training: str | list[str] | None = None,  # commonly "weight"
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ def chat_message_transform_builder(
             If True, the transform will train on the inputs. If False, the transform will train on the targets.
             Defaults to False.
         conversations_field (str, optional):
-            The field name of the conversations. Defaults to "messages".
+            The field name of the conversations. Defaults to "conversations".
         message_field_role (str | list[str], optional):
-            The field name of the role.
+            The field name of the role. Defaults to "role".
         message_field_content (str | list[str], optional):
-            The field name of the message content.
+            The field name of the message content. Defaults to "content".
         message_field_training (str | list[str], optional):
-            The field name of the train/weight.
+            The field name of the train/weight. Defaults to "weight".
 
     Returns:
         Callable:

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

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ class DPOStrategy:
             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["max_prompt_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

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@147ea28"
+pip3 uninstall -y cut-cross-entropy && pip3 install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@c6a32c5"
 ```
 
 ## Usage
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ plugins:
 
 ## Supported Models
 
-- apertus
 - arcee
 - cohere
 - cohere2
@@ -45,13 +44,9 @@ plugins:
 - glm
 - glm4
 - glm4_moe
-- glm4v
-- glm4v_moe
 - gpt_oss
 - granite
 - granitemoe
-- granitemoeshared
-- granitemoehybrid
 - hunyuan_v1_dense
 - hunyuan_v1_moe
 - llama
@@ -70,9 +65,6 @@ plugins:
 - qwen2_5_vl
 - qwen3
 - qwen3_moe
-- qwen3_vl
-- qwen3_vl_moe
-- qwen3_next
 - smollm3
 - seed_oss
 - voxtral

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@147ea28"`'
+    '`pip install "cut-cross-entropy[transformers] @ git+https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/ml-cross-entropy.git@c6a32c5"`'
 )
 
 

src/axolotl/kernels/moe/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from .backends import MOEBackend, get_moe_backend_name
+
+__all__ = ["get_moe_backend_name", "MOEBackend"]

src/axolotl/kernels/moe/backends.py

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+import warnings
+from enum import Enum
+
+
+class MOEBackend(str, Enum):
+    AUTO = "auto"
+    TORCH_GROUPED = "torch_grouped"
+    NAIVE = "naive"
+
+
+def _probe_torch_grouped() -> bool:
+    try:
+        import torch  # noqa: F401
+
+        # Prefer a simple version check; exact APIs may vary across 2.8+.
+        ver = tuple(int(x) for x in torch.__version__.split("+")[0].split(".")[:2])
+        return ver >= (2, 8)
+    except Exception:
+        return False
+
+
+def get_moe_backend_name(preferred: str | None = None) -> MOEBackend:
+    """
+    Resolve the desired MoE backend using, in order of precedence:
+    - explicit preferred argument (e.g., from config)
+    - auto detection
+    """
+    choice = (preferred or "auto").lower()
+    try:
+        selected = MOEBackend(choice)
+    except ValueError:
+        warnings.warn(
+            f"Unknown moe backend '{choice}', falling back to auto", stacklevel=2
+        )
+        selected = MOEBackend.AUTO
+
+    if selected == MOEBackend.AUTO:
+        if _probe_torch_grouped():
+            return MOEBackend.TORCH_GROUPED
+        return MOEBackend.NAIVE
+    if selected == MOEBackend.TORCH_GROUPED and not _probe_torch_grouped():
+        warnings.warn(
+            "torch_grouped requested but torch>=2.8 not detected; falling back to naive",
+            stacklevel=2,
+        )
+        return MOEBackend.NAIVE
+    return selected

src/axolotl/kernels/moe/torch_grouped.py

@@ -0,0 +1,371 @@
+"""Minimal grouped GEMM fast path for MoE experts using PyTorch _grouped_mm."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import logging
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import List, Optional, Tuple
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+_LOGGER = logging.getLogger("axolotl.moe.grouped")
+
+
+def available() -> bool:
+    try:
+        major, minor = map(int, torch.__version__.split("+")[0].split(".")[:2])
+        if (major, minor) < (2, 8):
+            return False
+        if not torch.cuda.is_available():
+            return False
+        sm, _ = torch.cuda.get_device_capability()
+        if sm < 9:
+            return False
+        return hasattr(torch.ops, "_grouped_mm")
+    except Exception:
+        return False
+
+
+def _iter_expert_impls(
+    experts_module, visited: Optional[set[int]] = None
+) -> List[torch.nn.Module]:
+    if visited is None:
+        visited = set()
+    module_id = id(experts_module)
+    if module_id in visited:
+        return []
+    visited.add(module_id)
+
+    impls: List[torch.nn.Module] = []
+    for exp in experts_module:
+        candidate = getattr(exp, "mlp", getattr(exp, "ffn", exp))
+        if hasattr(candidate, "gate_proj") and hasattr(candidate, "up_proj"):
+            impls.append(candidate)
+            continue
+        nested = getattr(candidate, "experts", None)
+        if nested is not None:
+            impls.extend(_iter_expert_impls(nested, visited))
+            continue
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            "torch_grouped: unable to resolve expert implementation for module"
+        )
+    return impls
+
+
+@dataclass
+class _GroupedWeightStorage:
+    pattern: str
+    gate: torch.Tensor
+    up: torch.Tensor
+    down: torch.Tensor
+    fused_gate_up: torch.Tensor
+    dtype: torch.dtype
+    device: torch.device
+
+
+def _allocate_fused_gate_up(
+    num_experts: int,
+    gate_shape: torch.Size,
+    up_shape: torch.Size,
+    *,
+    device: torch.device,
+    dtype: torch.dtype,
+) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+    if gate_shape[1] != up_shape[1]:
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            "torch_grouped: gate and up projections must share the hidden dimension"
+        )
+
+    fused = torch.empty(
+        (num_experts, gate_shape[0] + up_shape[0], gate_shape[1]),
+        device=device,
+        dtype=dtype,
+    )
+    gate_view = fused[:, : gate_shape[0]]
+    up_view = fused[:, gate_shape[0] : gate_shape[0] + up_shape[0]]
+    return fused, gate_view, up_view
+
+
+def _ensure_grouped_weights(
+    experts_module, expert_impls: List[torch.nn.Module], sample_mod: torch.nn.Module
+) -> _GroupedWeightStorage:
+    storage: Optional[_GroupedWeightStorage] = getattr(
+        experts_module, "_ax_grouped_storage", None
+    )
+
+    def _store(new_storage: _GroupedWeightStorage) -> _GroupedWeightStorage:
+        experts_module._ax_grouped_storage = new_storage
+        return new_storage
+
+    # Identify expert parameter layout
+    if (
+        hasattr(sample_mod, "w1")
+        and hasattr(sample_mod, "w3")
+        and hasattr(sample_mod, "w2")
+    ):
+        pattern = "swi_glu"
+        num_experts = len(expert_impls)
+        w1_shape = sample_mod.w1.weight.shape
+        w3_shape = sample_mod.w3.weight.shape
+        w2_shape = sample_mod.w2.weight.shape
+        if (
+            storage is not None
+            and storage.pattern == pattern
+            and storage.dtype == sample_mod.w1.weight.dtype
+            and storage.device == sample_mod.w1.weight.device
+            and storage.gate.shape[1:] == w1_shape
+        ):
+            return storage
+
+        fused, gate, up = _allocate_fused_gate_up(
+            num_experts,
+            w1_shape,
+            w3_shape,
+            device=sample_mod.w1.weight.device,
+            dtype=sample_mod.w1.weight.dtype,
+        )
+        down = torch.empty(
+            (num_experts, *w2_shape),
+            device=sample_mod.w2.weight.device,
+            dtype=sample_mod.w2.weight.dtype,
+        )
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            for idx, mod in enumerate(expert_impls):
+                gate[idx].copy_(mod.w1.weight.detach())
+                up[idx].copy_(mod.w3.weight.detach())
+                down[idx].copy_(mod.w2.weight.detach())
+                mod.w1.weight.detach_()
+                mod.w1.weight.set_(gate[idx])
+                mod.w3.weight.detach_()
+                mod.w3.weight.set_(up[idx])
+                mod.w2.weight.detach_()
+                mod.w2.weight.set_(down[idx])
+
+        return _store(
+            _GroupedWeightStorage(
+                pattern=pattern,
+                gate=gate,
+                up=up,
+                down=down,
+                fused_gate_up=fused,
+                dtype=gate.dtype,
+                device=gate.device,
+            )
+        )
+
+    if hasattr(sample_mod, "gate_up_proj") and hasattr(sample_mod, "down_proj"):
+        pattern = "fused_gate_up"
+        gate_weight = sample_mod.gate_up_proj.weight
+        down_weight = sample_mod.down_proj.weight
+        if (
+            storage is not None
+            and storage.pattern == pattern
+            and storage.dtype == gate_weight.dtype
+            and storage.device == gate_weight.device
+            and storage.gate.shape[1:]
+            == (gate_weight.shape[0] // 2, gate_weight.shape[1])
+        ):
+            return storage
+
+        num_experts = len(expert_impls)
+        gate_full = torch.empty(
+            (num_experts, *gate_weight.shape),
+            device=gate_weight.device,
+            dtype=gate_weight.dtype,
+        )
+        down = torch.empty(
+            (num_experts, *down_weight.shape),
+            device=down_weight.device,
+            dtype=down_weight.dtype,
+        )
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            for idx, mod in enumerate(expert_impls):
+                gate_full[idx].copy_(mod.gate_up_proj.weight.detach())
+                down[idx].copy_(mod.down_proj.weight.detach())
+                mod.gate_up_proj.weight.detach_()
+                mod.gate_up_proj.weight.set_(gate_full[idx])
+                mod.down_proj.weight.detach_()
+                mod.down_proj.weight.set_(down[idx])
+
+        inter = gate_weight.shape[0] // 2
+        gate = gate_full[:, :inter]
+        up = gate_full[:, inter:]
+        return _store(
+            _GroupedWeightStorage(
+                pattern=pattern,
+                gate=gate,
+                up=up,
+                down=down,
+                fused_gate_up=gate_full,
+                dtype=gate.dtype,
+                device=gate.device,
+            )
+        )
+
+    if (
+        hasattr(sample_mod, "up_proj")
+        and hasattr(sample_mod, "gate_proj")
+        and hasattr(sample_mod, "down_proj")
+    ):
+        pattern = "dual_proj"
+        up_weight = sample_mod.up_proj.weight
+        gate_weight = sample_mod.gate_proj.weight
+        down_weight = sample_mod.down_proj.weight
+        if (
+            storage is not None
+            and storage.pattern == pattern
+            and storage.dtype == sample_mod.up_proj.weight.dtype
+            and storage.device == sample_mod.up_proj.weight.device
+            and storage.gate.shape[1:] == gate_weight.shape
+        ):
+            return storage
+
+        num_experts = len(expert_impls)
+        fused, gate, up = _allocate_fused_gate_up(
+            num_experts,
+            gate_weight.shape,
+            up_weight.shape,
+            device=gate_weight.device,
+            dtype=gate_weight.dtype,
+        )
+        down = torch.empty(
+            (num_experts, *down_weight.shape),
+            device=down_weight.device,
+            dtype=down_weight.dtype,
+        )
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            for idx, mod in enumerate(expert_impls):
+                gate[idx].copy_(mod.gate_proj.weight.detach())
+                up[idx].copy_(mod.up_proj.weight.detach())
+                down[idx].copy_(mod.down_proj.weight.detach())
+                mod.up_proj.weight.detach_()
+                mod.up_proj.weight.set_(up[idx])
+                mod.gate_proj.weight.detach_()
+                mod.gate_proj.weight.set_(gate[idx])
+                mod.down_proj.weight.detach_()
+                mod.down_proj.weight.set_(down[idx])
+
+        return _store(
+            _GroupedWeightStorage(
+                pattern=pattern,
+                gate=gate,
+                up=up,
+                down=down,
+                fused_gate_up=fused,
+                dtype=gate.dtype,
+                device=gate.device,
+            )
+        )
+
+    raise RuntimeError(
+        "torch_grouped: unsupported expert module layout for grouped weights"
+    )
+
+
+def moe_ffn_forward_grouped(
+    hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+    gate_linear: torch.nn.Linear,
+    experts_module,
+    top_k: int,
+) -> Tuple[Optional[torch.Tensor], Optional[torch.Tensor]]:
+    if not available():
+        return None, None
+
+    bsz, seqlen, hdim = hidden_states.shape
+    tokens = bsz * seqlen
+    device = hidden_states.device
+
+    routing_dtype = gate_linear.weight.dtype
+    expert_dtype = hidden_states.dtype
+
+    if expert_dtype not in (torch.bfloat16, torch.float16):
+        _LOGGER.debug(
+            "torch_grouped: unsupported expert dtype %s; falling back to naive",
+            expert_dtype,
+        )
+        return None, None
+
+    parent_block = None
+    parent_ref = getattr(experts_module, "_ax_parent_block_ref", None)
+    if parent_ref is not None:
+        try:
+            parent_block = parent_ref()
+        except TypeError:
+            parent_block = None
+
+    expert_container = getattr(experts_module, "experts", experts_module)
+
+    expert_impls = _iter_expert_impls(expert_container)
+    sample_mod = expert_impls[0]
+    storage = _ensure_grouped_weights(expert_container, expert_impls, sample_mod)
+    w_gate = storage.gate
+    w_up = storage.up
+    w2 = storage.down
+
+    x_flat = hidden_states.view(tokens, hdim).to(expert_dtype)
+    router_logits = gate_linear(x_flat.to(routing_dtype))
+
+    shared_out_flat: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
+    shared_owner = parent_block if parent_block is not None else experts_module
+    if hasattr(shared_owner, "shared_expert"):
+        shared_expert = shared_owner.shared_expert
+        shared_out_flat = shared_expert(x_flat)
+        shared_out_flat = shared_out_flat.to(expert_dtype)
+        shared_gate = getattr(shared_owner, "shared_expert_gate", None)
+        if shared_gate is not None:
+            gate_input = shared_gate(x_flat.to(shared_gate.weight.dtype))
+            gate_vals = torch.sigmoid(gate_input)
+            shared_out_flat.mul_(gate_vals.to(expert_dtype))
+
+    routing_weights = F.softmax(router_logits, dim=1, dtype=torch.float)
+    topk_weight, topk_idx = torch.topk(routing_weights, top_k, dim=-1, sorted=False)
+    topk_weight = topk_weight / topk_weight.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+
+    flat_idx = topk_idx.view(-1)
+    num_experts = len(expert_impls)
+    if flat_idx.numel() == 0:
+        zero = torch.zeros_like(x_flat)
+        return zero.view(bsz, seqlen, hdim), router_logits
+
+    sorted_experts, perm = torch.sort(flat_idx)
+    assignments = torch.bincount(sorted_experts, minlength=num_experts)
+    if assignments.sum() == 0:
+        zero = torch.zeros_like(x_flat)
+        return zero.view(bsz, seqlen, hdim), router_logits
+
+    token_indices_sorted = torch.div(perm, top_k, rounding_mode="floor").contiguous()
+    scores_sorted = topk_weight.reshape(-1).index_select(0, perm)
+
+    gather_index = token_indices_sorted.unsqueeze(-1).expand(-1, hdim)
+    routed_input = torch.gather(x_flat, 0, gather_index)
+
+    counts_i32 = assignments.to(device=device, dtype=torch.int32)
+    offsets = torch.cumsum(counts_i32, dim=0).to(dtype=torch.int32)
+    mm_dtype = torch.bfloat16 if expert_dtype == torch.bfloat16 else expert_dtype
+    routed_in = routed_input.to(mm_dtype)
+    w_gate_t = w_gate.transpose(-2, -1).to(mm_dtype)
+    w_up_t = w_up.transpose(-2, -1).to(mm_dtype)
+    w2_t = w2.transpose(-2, -1).to(mm_dtype)
+
+    routed_in = routed_in.contiguous()
+    w_gate_t = w_gate_t.contiguous()
+    gate_out = torch._grouped_mm(routed_in, w_gate_t, offs=offsets)
+    torch.ops.aten.silu_(gate_out)
+    w_up_t = w_up_t.contiguous()
+    up_out = torch._grouped_mm(routed_in, w_up_t, offs=offsets)
+    gate_out.mul_(up_out)
+    gate_out = gate_out.contiguous()
+    w2_t = w2_t.contiguous()
+    down_out = torch._grouped_mm(gate_out, w2_t, offs=offsets).to(expert_dtype)
+
+    weights = scores_sorted.unsqueeze(-1).to(expert_dtype)
+    down_out.mul_(weights)
+
+    combined = torch.zeros_like(x_flat)
+    combined.scatter_add_(0, gather_index, down_out)
+
+    output = combined.view(bsz, seqlen, hdim)
+    if shared_out_flat is not None:
+        output = output + shared_out_flat.view(bsz, seqlen, hdim)
+    return output, router_logits

src/axolotl/loaders/patch_manager.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import transformers
 from transformers import PretrainedConfig, PreTrainedModel
 
 from axolotl.integrations.base import PluginManager
+from axolotl.monkeypatch.moe_grouped import apply_grouped_to_moe_blocks
 from axolotl.monkeypatch.multipack import (
     SUPPORTED_MULTIPACK_MODEL_TYPES,
     patch_for_multipack,
@@ -57,6 +58,8 @@ class PatchManager:
         self._apply_fsdp_patches()
         self._apply_adapter_patches()
         self._apply_model_specific_patches()
+        # Apply MoE grouped GEMM patches (cfg.moe_backend)
+        apply_grouped_to_moe_blocks(self.cfg)
         self._apply_fp8_patches()
         self._apply_flash_attention_peft_patches()
         self._apply_gradient_checkpointing_patches()
@@ -68,12 +71,11 @@ class PatchManager:
         self._apply_self_attention_lora_patch()
         self._apply_fsdp2_bnb_patches()
         self._apply_patch_deepspeed_zero3()
-        self._apply_voxtral_patches()
-        self._apply_apertus_patches()
 
     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_voxtral_patches()
 
     def _apply_transformers_patches(self):
         from axolotl.monkeypatch.transformers.trainer_loss_calc import (
@@ -84,13 +86,6 @@ class PatchManager:
         patch_evaluation_loop()
         patch_maybe_log_save_evaluate()
 
-        if self.cfg.context_parallel_size > 1:
-            from axolotl.monkeypatch.transformers.trainer_context_parallel import (
-                patch_prepare_context_parallel_inputs,
-            )
-
-            patch_prepare_context_parallel_inputs()
-
     def apply_post_model_load_patches(self, model: PreTrainedModel):
         """Apply patches that require the model instance."""
         self._apply_llama_flash_attn_patches(model)
@@ -176,20 +171,6 @@ class PatchManager:
 
             patch_llama4_linearized_modeling()
 
-        if self.cfg.model_config_type == "qwen3_next" and self.cfg.sample_packing:
-            from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.qwen3_next.modeling import (
-                patch_qwen3_next_modeling_packing,
-            )
-
-            patch_qwen3_next_modeling_packing()
-
-        if self.cfg.model_config_type == "mistral3" and self.cfg.processor_type:
-            from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.mistral3.mistral_common_tokenizer import (
-                apply_mistral_tokenizer_image_patch,
-            )
-
-            apply_mistral_tokenizer_image_patch()
-
     def _apply_fp8_patches(self):
         """Apply patches for FP8 support."""
         if self.cfg.fp8:
@@ -291,6 +272,7 @@ class PatchManager:
                 self.cfg.model_config_type,
                 model_name=self.cfg.base_model,
                 has_remote_code=has_remote_code,
+                cfg=self.cfg,
             )
 
         if self.cfg.sample_packing:
@@ -356,13 +338,6 @@ class PatchManager:
 
             replace_stablelm_attn_with_flash_attn(self.cfg.base_model)
 
-        if self.model_config.model_type in ("mistral3", "llava"):
-            from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.pixtral.modeling_flash_attention_utils import (
-                apply_patch_is_packed_sequence,
-            )
-
-            apply_patch_is_packed_sequence()
-
     def _patch_loss_llama(self):
         """Patch loss functions and other optimizations for LLaMA models."""
         if not self.cfg.is_llama_derived_model:
@@ -508,12 +483,3 @@ class PatchManager:
                 apply_deepspeed_patches()
         except ImportError as e:
             LOG.warning(f"DeepSpeed patches not applied: {e}")
-
-    def _apply_apertus_patches(self):
-        """Apply patches for Apertus model."""
-        if self.cfg.model_config_type == "apertus":
-            from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.apertus.activation import (
-                patch_apertus_xielu_activation,
-            )
-
-            patch_apertus_xielu_activation()

src/axolotl/loaders/processor.py

@@ -21,13 +21,6 @@ def load_processor(cfg: DictDefault, tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizerBase):
     if cfg.processor_type:
         processor_cls = getattr(transformers, cfg.processor_type)
 
-    if cfg.tokenizer_use_mistral_common:
-        from axolotl.utils.mistral import Mistral3Processor
-
-        return Mistral3Processor(
-            tokenizer=tokenizer,
-        )
-
     processor = processor_cls.from_pretrained(
         cfg.processor_config,
         trust_remote_code=cfg.trust_remote_code or False,

src/axolotl/loaders/tokenizer.py

@@ -124,8 +124,13 @@ def load_tokenizer(cfg: DictDefault) -> PreTrainedTokenizer:
 
     def _load_mistral_common_tokenizer(cfg: DictDefault):
         """Load mistral-common tokenizer"""
+        from transformers import tokenization_mistral_common
+
         from axolotl.utils.mistral import HFMistralTokenizer
 
+        # patch
+        tokenization_mistral_common.MistralCommonTokenizer = HFMistralTokenizer
+
         # Load the HF-compatible wrapper around MistralTokenizer
         tokenizer = HFMistralTokenizer.from_pretrained(cfg.tokenizer_config)
 

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/accelerate/fsdp2.py

@@ -368,7 +368,6 @@ def fsdp2_prepare_model(accelerator, model: torch.nn.Module) -> torch.nn.Module:
         # removing the call above leads to extra memory usage as explained in the comment above
         if hasattr(model, "tie_weights"):
             model.tie_weights()
-    model = model.to(torch.float32)
     return model
 
 

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/mixtral/__init__.py

@@ -5,9 +5,14 @@ Patches to support multipack for mixtral
 import torch
 
 
-def patch_mixtral_moe_forward_zero3() -> None:
+def patch_mixtral_moe_forward_zero3(cfg=None) -> None:
+    import warnings
+
     import torch.nn.functional as F
 
+    from axolotl.kernels.moe import backends as _moe_backends
+    from axolotl.kernels.moe.backends import MOEBackend, get_moe_backend_name
+
     def mlp_forward(self, hidden_states):
         current_hidden_states = self.act_fn(self.w1(hidden_states)) * self.w3(
             hidden_states
@@ -21,21 +26,32 @@ def patch_mixtral_moe_forward_zero3() -> None:
         hidden_states = hidden_states.view(-1, hidden_dim)
         # router_logits: (batch * sequence_length, n_experts)
         router_logits = self.gate(hidden_states)
+        preferred = getattr(cfg, "moe_backend", None) if cfg is not None else None
+        backend = get_moe_backend_name(preferred)
+        if (
+            backend == MOEBackend.TORCH_GROUPED
+            and not _moe_backends._probe_torch_grouped()
+        ):
+            warnings.warn(
+                "torch_grouped selected but not available; falling back to naive",
+                stacklevel=2,
+            )
 
         routing_weights = F.softmax(router_logits, dim=1, dtype=torch.float)
         topk_weight, topk_idx = torch.topk(
             routing_weights, self.top_k, dim=-1, sorted=False
         )
         topk_weight /= topk_weight.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
-        # we cast back to the input dtype
         topk_weight = topk_weight.to(hidden_states.dtype)
 
-        hidden_states = hidden_states.repeat_interleave(self.top_k, dim=0)
-        y = torch.empty_like(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states_rep = hidden_states.repeat_interleave(self.top_k, dim=0)
+        y = torch.empty_like(hidden_states_rep)
         flat_topk_idx = topk_idx.view(-1)
         for i in range(self.num_experts):
             expert = self.experts[i]
-            y[flat_topk_idx == i] = expert(hidden_states[flat_topk_idx == i])
+            sel = flat_topk_idx == i
+            if sel.any():
+                y[sel] = expert(hidden_states_rep[sel])
         y = (y.view(*topk_weight.shape, -1) * topk_weight.unsqueeze(-1)).sum(dim=1)
         final_hidden_states = y.reshape(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_dim)
         return final_hidden_states, router_logits
@@ -46,4 +62,23 @@ def patch_mixtral_moe_forward_zero3() -> None:
     )
 
     MixtralBlockSparseTop2MLP.forward = mlp_forward
-    MixtralSparseMoeBlock.forward = moe_forward
+    # Wrap forward to support optional torch_grouped backend via config
+    from axolotl.kernels.moe import torch_grouped as _tg
+
+    preferred = getattr(cfg, "moe_backend", None) if cfg is not None else None
+    backend = get_moe_backend_name(preferred)
+
+    if backend == MOEBackend.TORCH_GROUPED and _tg.available():
+
+        def moe_forward_grouped(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+            bsz, seqlen, hdim = hidden_states.shape
+            y, router_logits = _tg.moe_ffn_forward_grouped(
+                hidden_states, self.gate, self.experts, self.top_k
+            )
+            if y is None:
+                return moe_forward(self, hidden_states)
+            return y, router_logits
+
+        MixtralSparseMoeBlock.forward = moe_forward_grouped
+    else:
+        MixtralSparseMoeBlock.forward = moe_forward

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/models/apertus/activation.py

@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-"""Monkeypatch for Apertus to dtype mismatch in XIELU act"""
-
-from torch import Tensor
-
-
-def patch_apertus_xielu_activation():
-    try:
-        from transformers.activations import XIELUActivation
-    except ImportError as err:
-        raise ImportError(
-            "Cannot import XIELUActivation. "
-            "Please make sure to update your transformers version >= 4.56.1."
-        ) from err
-
-    from transformers.activations import logger
-
-    # Store the original method
-    old_fn = XIELUActivation._xielu_cuda
-
-    def _xielu_cuda_fixed(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
-        """Firewall function to prevent torch.compile from seeing .item() calls"""
-        original_shape = x.shape
-        # CUDA kernel expects 3D tensors, reshape if needed
-        while x.dim() < 3:
-            x = x.unsqueeze(0)
-        if x.dim() > 3:
-            x = x.view(-1, 1, x.size(-1))
-        if original_shape != x.shape:
-            logger.warning_once(
-                "Warning: xIELU input tensor expects 3 dimensions but got (shape: %s). Reshaping to (shape: %s).",
-                original_shape,
-                x.shape,
-            )
-        result = self._xielu_cuda_obj.forward(
-            x,
-            self.alpha_p.to(x.dtype),
-            self.alpha_n.to(x.dtype),
-            # Temporary until xIELU CUDA fully implemented -> self.{beta,eps}.item()
-            self._beta_scalar,
-            self._eps_scalar,
-            self.with_vector_loads,
-        )
-        return result.view(original_shape)
-
-    # Apply the patch
-    XIELUActivation._xielu_cuda = _xielu_cuda_fixed
-
-    def unpatch():
-        """Restore the original method"""
-        XIELUActivation._xielu_cuda = old_fn
-
-    return unpatch

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/models/mistral3/mistral_common_tokenizer.py

@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-"""
-Monkeypatch to fix inefficient tensor conversion in MistralCommonTokenizer.apply_chat_template
-"""
-
-import importlib
-import inspect
-
-from axolotl.monkeypatch.utils import detab_code
-from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
-
-LOG = get_logger(__name__)
-
-
-def apply_mistral_tokenizer_image_patch():
-    """Apply patch to MistralCommonTokenizer.apply_chat_template to fix image tensor conversion."""
-    from transformers.tokenization_mistral_common import MistralCommonTokenizer
-
-    # Get original source
-    original_source = inspect.getsource(MistralCommonTokenizer.apply_chat_template)
-    original_source, _ = detab_code(original_source)
-
-    # Define the replacement
-    original_tensor_conversion = (
-        "                    pixel_values = torch.tensor(images)"
-    )
-
-    patched_tensor_conversion = """                    if isinstance(images, list) and len(images) > 0 and isinstance(images[0], np.ndarray):
-                        pixel_values = torch.tensor(np.array(images))
-                    else:
-                        pixel_values = torch.tensor(images)"""
-
-    # Apply the replacement
-    if original_tensor_conversion in original_source:
-        patched_source = original_source.replace(
-            original_tensor_conversion, patched_tensor_conversion
-        )
-        patched_source = patched_source.replace(
-            "def apply_chat_template(",
-            "def patched_apply_chat_template(",
-            1,
-        )
-
-        # Load necessary imports from the module
-        module_name = MistralCommonTokenizer.__module__
-        module = importlib.import_module(module_name)
-
-        # Detect what needs to be imported
-        items_to_import = []
-        for item in dir(module):
-            if item in patched_source and not item.startswith("_"):
-                items_to_import.append(item)
-
-        # Execute imports in global scope
-        if items_to_import:
-            exec(  # nosec B102
-                f"from {module_name} import ({', '.join(items_to_import)})",
-                globals(),
-            )
-
-        # Also need standard imports that might be used
-        exec("import numpy as np", globals())  # nosec B102
-        exec("import torch", globals())  # nosec B102
-        exec("from typing import Union, Optional, List, Dict, Any, Callable", globals())  # nosec B102
-        exec("from pathlib import Path", globals())  # nosec B102
-
-        # Import other dependencies that might be needed
-        try:
-            exec("from transformers.utils import is_torch_available", globals())  # nosec B102
-            exec(
-                "from transformers.tokenization_utils_base import BatchEncoding, PaddingStrategy, TensorType",
-                globals(),
-            )  # nosec B102
-            exec("from transformers.utils import logging", globals())  # nosec B102
-            exec("logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)", globals())  # nosec B102
-        except ImportError as e:
-            LOG.warning(f"Could not import some dependencies: {e}")
-
-        # Execute the patched source
-        exec(patched_source, globals())  # nosec B102
-
-        # Replace the method
-        MistralCommonTokenizer.apply_chat_template = patched_apply_chat_template
-        LOG.info("Successfully applied MistralCommonTokenizer tensor conversion patch")
-    else:
-        LOG.warning("Could not find target code for MistralCommonTokenizer patching")

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/models/pixtral/modeling_flash_attention_utils.py

@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-"""Monkeypatch for FA utils to accept 1D position_ids from Pixtral's position_ids_in_meshgrid"""
-
-import torch
-
-
-def apply_patch_is_packed_sequence():
-    """Apply patch to FA utils to accept 1D position_ids from Pixtral's position_ids_in_meshgrid"""
-    from transformers import modeling_flash_attention_utils
-
-    def fixed_is_packed_sequence(position_ids, batch_size):
-        """
-        Check the position ids whether packed sequences are indicated or not
-            1. Position ids exist
-            2. Flattened sequences only are supported
-            3. Compile-friendly `not (torch.diff(position_ids, dim=-1) >= 0).all()`, i.e. we have multiple increasing sequences
-        """
-        if position_ids is None:
-            return False
-
-        if position_ids.ndim == 1:
-            position_ids = position_ids.unsqueeze(0)  # [N] -> [1, N]
-
-        increasing_position_sequences = (
-            torch.arange(position_ids.shape[1], device=position_ids.device)
-            + position_ids.min()
-        )
-        return (
-            batch_size == 1
-            and (increasing_position_sequences - position_ids).abs().sum().bool().item()
-        )
-
-    # Store original method
-    old_fn = modeling_flash_attention_utils._is_packed_sequence
-
-    # Apply the patch
-    modeling_flash_attention_utils._is_packed_sequence = fixed_is_packed_sequence
-
-    def unpatch():
-        """Restore the original method"""
-        modeling_flash_attention_utils._is_packed_sequence = old_fn
-
-    return unpatch

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/models/qwen3_next/__init__.py

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-"""Qwen3_Next model monkeypatches."""

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/models/qwen3_next/modeling.py

@@ -1,317 +0,0 @@
-"""Monkeypatch for Qwen3_Next model to pass position_ids to linear attention."""
-
-from typing import Optional, Tuple
-
-import torch
-import torch.nn.functional as F
-
-from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
-
-LOG = get_logger(__name__)
-
-
-def get_cu_seqlens(position_ids):
-    """
-    Adapted from transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils.prepare_fa_kwargs_from_position_ids.
-
-    https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/0f1b128d3359a26bd18be99c26d7f04fb3cba914/src/transformers/modeling_flash_attention_utils.py#L316
-    """
-    tensor_kwargs = {"dtype": torch.int32, "device": position_ids.device}
-
-    position_ids = position_ids.view(-1)
-    indices_q = (position_ids == 0).nonzero().view(-1)
-
-    cu_seq_lens_q = torch.cat(
-        (
-            indices_q.to(**tensor_kwargs),
-            torch.tensor(position_ids.size(), **tensor_kwargs),
-        )
-    )
-
-    return cu_seq_lens_q
-
-
-def patch_qwen3_next_decoder_layer():
-    """Patch Qwen3NextDecoderLayer to pass position_ids to linear attention."""
-    try:
-        from transformers.models.qwen3_next.modeling_qwen3_next import (
-            Qwen3NextDecoderLayer,
-        )
-    except ImportError:
-        LOG.warning("Qwen3Next model not found, skipping patch")
-        return
-
-    # Store original forward method
-    original_decoder_forward = Qwen3NextDecoderLayer.forward
-
-    def patched_decoder_forward(
-        self,
-        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
-        position_embeddings: Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor],
-        attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-        position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
-        past_key_values: Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor]] = None,
-        cache_position: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
-        **kwargs,
-    ) -> torch.FloatTensor:
-        residual = hidden_states
-
-        hidden_states = self.input_layernorm(hidden_states)
-
-        # Token Mixer
-        if self.layer_type == "linear_attention":
-            hidden_states = self.linear_attn(
-                hidden_states=hidden_states,
-                cache_params=past_key_values,
-                cache_position=cache_position,
-                attention_mask=attention_mask,
-                position_ids=position_ids,
-            )
-        elif self.layer_type == "full_attention":
-            # Self Attention
-            hidden_states, _ = self.self_attn(
-                hidden_states=hidden_states,
-                attention_mask=attention_mask,
-                position_ids=position_ids,
-                past_key_values=past_key_values,
-                cache_position=cache_position,
-                position_embeddings=position_embeddings,
-                **kwargs,
-            )
-
-        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states
-
-        # Fully Connected
-        residual = hidden_states
-        hidden_states = self.post_attention_layernorm(hidden_states)
-        hidden_states = self.mlp(hidden_states)
-        # For the MoE layers, we need to unpack
-        if isinstance(hidden_states, Tuple):
-            hidden_states, _ = hidden_states
-        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states
-
-        return hidden_states
-
-    # Apply the patches
-    Qwen3NextDecoderLayer.forward = patched_decoder_forward
-
-    def unpatch():
-        """Restore the original forward method"""
-        Qwen3NextDecoderLayer.forward = original_decoder_forward
-
-    return unpatch
-
-
-def patch_qwen3_next_gateddelta_layer():
-    """Patch Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet to parse cu_seqlens and pass to chunk_gated_delta_rule"""
-    try:
-        from transformers.models.qwen3_next.modeling_qwen3_next import (
-            Qwen3NextDynamicCache,
-            Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet,
-            apply_mask_to_padding_states,
-        )
-    except ImportError:
-        LOG.warning("Qwen3Next model not found, skipping patch")
-        return
-
-    # Store original forward method
-    original_gated_delta_net_forward = Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet.forward
-
-    def patched_gated_delta_net_forward(
-        self,
-        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
-        cache_params: Optional[Qwen3NextDynamicCache] = None,
-        cache_position: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
-        attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
-        position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
-    ):
-        hidden_states = apply_mask_to_padding_states(hidden_states, attention_mask)
-
-        # Set up dimensions for reshapes later
-        batch_size, seq_len, _ = hidden_states.shape
-
-        use_precomputed_states = (
-            cache_params is not None
-            and cache_params.has_previous_state
-            and seq_len == 1
-            and cache_position is not None
-        )
-
-        # getting projected states from cache if it exists
-        if cache_params is not None:
-            conv_state = cache_params.conv_states[self.layer_idx]
-            recurrent_state = cache_params.recurrent_states[self.layer_idx]
-
-        projected_states_qkvz = self.in_proj_qkvz(hidden_states)
-        projected_states_ba = self.in_proj_ba(hidden_states)
-        query, key, value, z, b, a = self.fix_query_key_value_ordering(
-            projected_states_qkvz, projected_states_ba
-        )
-        query, key, value = (
-            x.reshape(x.shape[0], x.shape[1], -1) for x in (query, key, value)
-        )
-
-        mixed_qkv = torch.cat((query, key, value), dim=-1)
-        mixed_qkv = mixed_qkv.transpose(1, 2)
-
-        if use_precomputed_states:
-            # 2. Convolution sequence transformation
-            # NOTE: the conv state is updated in `causal_conv1d_update`
-            mixed_qkv = self.causal_conv1d_update(
-                mixed_qkv,
-                conv_state,
-                self.conv1d.weight.squeeze(1),
-                self.conv1d.bias,
-                self.activation,
-            )
-        else:
-            if cache_params is not None:
-                conv_state = F.pad(
-                    mixed_qkv, (self.conv_kernel_size - mixed_qkv.shape[-1], 0)
-                )
-                cache_params.conv_states[self.layer_idx] = conv_state
-            if self.causal_conv1d_fn is not None:
-                mixed_qkv = self.causal_conv1d_fn(
-                    x=mixed_qkv,
-                    weight=self.conv1d.weight.squeeze(1),
-                    bias=self.conv1d.bias,
-                    activation=self.activation,
-                    seq_idx=None,
-                )
-            else:
-                mixed_qkv = F.silu(self.conv1d(mixed_qkv)[:, :, :seq_len])
-
-        mixed_qkv = mixed_qkv.transpose(1, 2)
-        query, key, value = torch.split(
-            mixed_qkv,
-            [
-                self.key_dim,
-                self.key_dim,
-                self.value_dim,
-            ],
-            dim=-1,
-        )
-        query = query.reshape(query.shape[0], query.shape[1], -1, self.head_k_dim)
-        key = key.reshape(key.shape[0], key.shape[1], -1, self.head_k_dim)
-        value = value.reshape(value.shape[0], value.shape[1], -1, self.head_v_dim)
-
-        beta = b.sigmoid()
-        # If the model is loaded in fp16, without the .float() here, A might be -inf
-        g = -self.A_log.float().exp() * F.softplus(a.float() + self.dt_bias)
-        if self.num_v_heads // self.num_k_heads > 1:
-            query = query.repeat_interleave(self.num_v_heads // self.num_k_heads, dim=2)
-            key = key.repeat_interleave(self.num_v_heads // self.num_k_heads, dim=2)
-
-        if not use_precomputed_states:
-            cu_seqlens = get_cu_seqlens(position_ids=position_ids)
-            core_attn_out, last_recurrent_state = self.chunk_gated_delta_rule(
-                query,
-                key,
-                value,
-                g=g,
-                beta=beta,
-                initial_state=None,
-                output_final_state=cache_params is not None,
-                use_qk_l2norm_in_kernel=True,
-                cu_seqlens=cu_seqlens,
-            )
-
-        else:
-            core_attn_out, last_recurrent_state = self.recurrent_gated_delta_rule(
-                query,
-                key,
-                value,
-                g=g,
-                beta=beta,
-                initial_state=recurrent_state,
-                output_final_state=cache_params is not None,
-                use_qk_l2norm_in_kernel=True,
-            )
-
-        # Update cache
-        if cache_params is not None:
-            cache_params.recurrent_states[self.layer_idx] = last_recurrent_state
-
-        z_shape_og = z.shape
-        # reshape input data into 2D tensor
-        core_attn_out = core_attn_out.reshape(-1, core_attn_out.shape[-1])
-        z = z.reshape(-1, z.shape[-1])
-        core_attn_out = self.norm(core_attn_out, z)
-        core_attn_out = core_attn_out.reshape(z_shape_og)
-        core_attn_out = core_attn_out.reshape(
-            core_attn_out.shape[0], core_attn_out.shape[1], -1
-        )
-
-        output = self.out_proj(core_attn_out)
-        return output
-
-    # Apply the patches
-    Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet.forward = patched_gated_delta_net_forward
-
-    def unpatch():
-        """Restore the original forward method"""
-        Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet.forward = original_gated_delta_net_forward
-
-    return unpatch
-
-
-def patch_qwen3_next_imports():
-    """Patch Qwen3Next imports to use try/except instead of is_flash_linear_attention_available."""
-    try:
-        import transformers.models.qwen3_next.modeling_qwen3_next as qwen3_modeling
-    except ImportError:
-        LOG.warning("Qwen3Next model not found, skipping import patch")
-        return
-
-    # Save original values for unpatch
-    original_FusedRMSNormGated = getattr(qwen3_modeling, "FusedRMSNormGated", None)
-    original_chunk_gated_delta_rule = getattr(
-        qwen3_modeling, "chunk_gated_delta_rule", None
-    )
-    original_fused_recurrent_gated_delta_rule = getattr(
-        qwen3_modeling, "fused_recurrent_gated_delta_rule", None
-    )
-    original_is_fast_path_available = getattr(
-        qwen3_modeling, "is_fast_path_available", False
-    )
-
-    try:
-        from fla.modules import FusedRMSNormGated
-        from fla.ops.gated_delta_rule import (
-            chunk_gated_delta_rule,
-            fused_recurrent_gated_delta_rule,
-        )
-
-        qwen3_modeling.FusedRMSNormGated = FusedRMSNormGated
-        qwen3_modeling.chunk_gated_delta_rule = chunk_gated_delta_rule
-        qwen3_modeling.fused_recurrent_gated_delta_rule = (
-            fused_recurrent_gated_delta_rule
-        )
-
-        # Force is_fast_path_available to be True
-        # fla has triton kernels for causal_conv1d
-        qwen3_modeling.is_fast_path_available = True
-    except ImportError:
-        qwen3_modeling.chunk_gated_delta_rule = None
-        qwen3_modeling.fused_recurrent_gated_delta_rule = None
-        qwen3_modeling.FusedRMSNormGated = None
-
-    def unpatch():
-        """Restore the original import values"""
-        qwen3_modeling.FusedRMSNormGated = original_FusedRMSNormGated
-        qwen3_modeling.chunk_gated_delta_rule = original_chunk_gated_delta_rule
-        qwen3_modeling.fused_recurrent_gated_delta_rule = (
-            original_fused_recurrent_gated_delta_rule
-        )
-        qwen3_modeling.is_fast_path_available = original_is_fast_path_available
-
-    return unpatch
-
-
-def patch_qwen3_next_modeling_packing():
-    """Apply all Qwen3Next model patches."""
-    patch_qwen3_next_imports()
-    patch_qwen3_next_decoder_layer()
-    patch_qwen3_next_gateddelta_layer()
-
-    LOG.info("Applied Qwen3Next patch for packing")

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/moe_grouped.py

@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+import logging
+import weakref
+from functools import wraps
+
+import torch
+
+from axolotl.common.architectures import MOE_ARCH_BLOCK
+from axolotl.kernels.moe.backends import MOEBackend, get_moe_backend_name
+
+_LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.moe.patch")
+
+
+def _patch_block_forward(block_cls, grouped_fn):
+    """Replace block_cls.forward with grouped_fn preserving signature."""
+    block_cls.forward = grouped_fn
+
+
+def apply_grouped_to_moe_blocks(cfg=None) -> None:
+    """
+    Attempt to patch all known MoE block classes to use the torch_grouped backend
+    when cfg.moe_backend resolves to 'torch_grouped' and the op is available.
+    Falls back to original forwards otherwise.
+    """
+    preferred = getattr(cfg, "moe_backend", None) if cfg is not None else None
+    backend = get_moe_backend_name(preferred)
+    if backend != MOEBackend.TORCH_GROUPED:
+        _LOG.info(
+            f"moe_backend is '{backend}', not 'torch_grouped'; skipping grouped patches"
+        )
+        return
+    try:
+        from axolotl.kernels.moe import torch_grouped as _tg
+    except Exception:
+        _LOG.warning("torch_grouped backend import failed; skipping grouped patches")
+        return
+    if not _tg.available():
+        _LOG.warning(
+            "torch_grouped requested but unavailable (op smoke test failed); skipping grouped patches"
+        )
+        return
+
+    # Map of architecture key to (modeling module path, class name or list of class names)
+    model_mods = {
+        "mixtral": (
+            "transformers.models.mixtral.modeling_mixtral",
+            MOE_ARCH_BLOCK.get("mixtral"),
+        ),
+        "qwen2_moe": (
+            "transformers.models.qwen2_moe.modeling_qwen2_moe",
+            MOE_ARCH_BLOCK.get("qwen2_moe"),
+        ),
+        "qwen3_moe": (
+            "transformers.models.qwen3_moe.modeling_qwen3_moe",
+            MOE_ARCH_BLOCK.get("qwen3_moe"),
+        ),
+        "jamba": (
+            "transformers.models.jamba.modeling_jamba",
+            MOE_ARCH_BLOCK.get("jamba"),
+        ),
+        "deepseek_v2": (
+            "transformers.models.deepseek_v2.modeling_deepseek_v2",
+            MOE_ARCH_BLOCK.get("deepseek_v2"),
+        ),
+        # Others may not follow standard paths; best-effort import
+        "dbrx": ("transformers.models.dbrx.modeling_dbrx", MOE_ARCH_BLOCK.get("dbrx")),
+        "jetmoe": (
+            "transformers.models.jetmoe.modeling_jetmoe",
+            MOE_ARCH_BLOCK.get("jetmoe"),
+        ),
+        "gpt_oss": (
+            "transformers.models.gpt_oss.modeling_gpt_oss",
+            MOE_ARCH_BLOCK.get("gpt_oss"),
+        ),
+    }
+
+    def make_grouped_forward(orig_forward):
+        @wraps(orig_forward)
+        def _grouped_forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor, *args, **kwargs):
+            bsz, seqlen, hdim = hidden_states.shape
+            # expose parent block so grouped backend can access shared expert context
+            try:
+                self.experts._ax_parent_block_ref = weakref.ref(self)
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+            y, router_logits = _tg.moe_ffn_forward_grouped(
+                hidden_states, self.gate, self.experts, self.top_k
+            )
+            # One-time log per block instance indicating whether grouped engaged or fallback occurred
+            if not getattr(self, "_ax_grouped_wrapper_logged", False):
+                if y is None:
+                    _LOG.warning(
+                        "Grouped wrapper active but fell back to naive for %s",
+                        self.__class__.__name__,
+                    )
+                else:
+                    _LOG.info(
+                        f"Grouped wrapper engaged for {self.__class__.__name__} (top_k={self.top_k})"
+                    )
+                self._ax_grouped_wrapper_logged = True
+            if y is None:
+                return orig_forward(self, hidden_states, *args, **kwargs)
+            return y, router_logits
+
+        return _grouped_forward
+
+    patched = 0
+    for key, (mod_path, cls_names) in model_mods.items():
+        if not cls_names:
+            continue
+        try:
+            import importlib
+
+            modeling = importlib.import_module(mod_path)
+            names = cls_names if isinstance(cls_names, list) else [cls_names]
+            for name in names:
+                if not hasattr(modeling, name):
+                    continue
+                block_cls = getattr(modeling, name)
+                orig_forward = getattr(block_cls, "forward", None)
+                if orig_forward is None:
+                    continue
+                _patch_block_forward(block_cls, make_grouped_forward(orig_forward))
+                patched += 1
+                _LOG.info(f"Patched MoE block for grouped GEMM: {mod_path}.{name}")
+        except Exception as e:
+            # Best effort; log and skip this entry
+            _LOG.warning(f"Skipping MoE patch for arch '{key}' ({mod_path}): {e}")
+    if patched == 0:
+        _LOG.warning(
+            "No MoE blocks patched for grouped GEMM; model may not use known MoE classes"
+        )
+    else:
+        _LOG.info(f"Grouped GEMM patches applied to {patched} MoE block class(es)")

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/multipack.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ from axolotl.monkeypatch.mixtral import patch_mixtral_moe_forward_zero3
 from axolotl.monkeypatch.utils import get_unpad_data
 
 SUPPORTED_MULTIPACK_MODEL_TYPES = [
-    "apertus",
     "mllama_text_model",
     "llama",
     "llama4",
@@ -21,7 +20,6 @@ SUPPORTED_MULTIPACK_MODEL_TYPES = [
     "qwen2_moe",
     "qwen3",
     "qwen3_moe",
-    "qwen3_next",
     "falcon",
     "phi",
     "phi3",
@@ -48,7 +46,7 @@ SUPPORTED_MULTIPACK_MODEL_TYPES = [
 ]
 
 
-def patch_for_multipack(model_type, model_name=None, has_remote_code=False):
+def patch_for_multipack(model_type, model_name=None, has_remote_code=False, cfg=None):
     if has_remote_code:
         patch_remote(model_name)
     elif hasattr(transformers, "modeling_flash_attention_utils"):
@@ -59,7 +57,7 @@ def patch_for_multipack(model_type, model_name=None, has_remote_code=False):
         transformers.modeling_flash_attention_utils._get_unpad_data = get_unpad_data
 
     if model_type == "mixtral" and is_deepspeed_zero3_enabled():
-        patch_mixtral_moe_forward_zero3()
+        patch_mixtral_moe_forward_zero3(cfg)
 
 
 def patch_remote(model_name):

src/axolotl/monkeypatch/transformers/trainer_context_parallel.py

@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-"""Monkey patch to allow context parallelism with FlashAttention in HF Trainer."""
-
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-import importlib
-import inspect
-
-from transformers import Trainer
-
-from axolotl.monkeypatch.utils import detab_code
-from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
-
-LOG = get_logger(__name__)
-
-GUARD_PATTERN = 'if model.config._attn_implementation != "sdpa":'
-PATCHED_GUARD = (
-    'if model.config._attn_implementation not in ("sdpa", "flash_attention_2"):'
-)
-
-
-def patch_prepare_context_parallel_inputs() -> None:
-    """Relax the SDPA-only guard when running context parallelism with FlashAttention."""
-    if getattr(Trainer, "_axolotl_prepare_context_parallel_inputs_patched", False):
-        LOG.debug("Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs already patched")
-        return
-
-    try:
-        original_source = inspect.getsource(Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs)
-    except OSError as exc:  # pragma: no cover - occurs when source is unavailable
-        LOG.warning("Unable to patch Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs: %s", exc)
-        return
-
-    if GUARD_PATTERN not in original_source:
-        LOG.warning(
-            "Expected guard not found in Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs; \n"
-            "skipping FlashAttention context parallelism patch"
-        )
-        return
-
-    patched_source = original_source.replace(GUARD_PATTERN, PATCHED_GUARD)
-    patched_source, _ = detab_code(patched_source)
-    patched_source = patched_source.replace(
-        "def _prepare_context_parallel_inputs(",
-        "def axolotl_prepare_context_parallel_inputs(",
-        1,
-    )
-
-    module_name = Trainer.__module__
-    module = importlib.import_module(module_name)
-
-    # import symbols referenced in the method so exec can succeed
-    items_to_import = []
-    for item in dir(module):
-        if item in patched_source:
-            items_to_import.append(item)
-
-    exec(f"from {module_name} import ({', '.join(items_to_import)})", globals())
-    exec(patched_source, globals())
-
-    Trainer._original_prepare_context_parallel_inputs = (
-        Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs
-    )
-    Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs = axolotl_prepare_context_parallel_inputs
-    Trainer._axolotl_prepare_context_parallel_inputs_source = patched_source
-    Trainer._axolotl_prepare_context_parallel_inputs_patched = True
-    LOG.debug(
-        "Patched Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs for FlashAttention + CP"
-    )

src/axolotl/processing_strategies.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ from transformers.image_utils import load_image
 
 from axolotl.utils.dict import remove_none_values
 from axolotl.utils.logging import get_logger
-from axolotl.utils.mistral.mistral3_processor import Mistral3Processor
 
 LOG = get_logger(__name__)
 
@@ -422,36 +421,6 @@ class SmolVLM2ProcessingStrategy(ProcessingStrategy):
         ]
 
 
-class Mistral3ProcessingStrategy(ProcessingStrategy):
-    """Processing Strategy class for Mistral3"""
-
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        processor: Mistral3Processor,
-        chat_template: Optional[str] = None,
-        image_size: int | tuple[int, int] | None = None,
-        image_resize_algorithm: Resampling | None = None,
-    ):
-        super().__init__(processor, chat_template, image_size, image_resize_algorithm)
-        special_ids = (
-            processor.tokenizer.tokenizer.instruct_tokenizer.image_encoder.special_ids
-        )
-
-        self.image_token = special_ids.img
-        self.image_break_token = special_ids.img_break
-        self.image_end_token = special_ids.img_end
-
-    def process_labels(self, input_ids):
-        labels = input_ids.clone()
-
-        labels[labels == self.processor.tokenizer.pad_token_id] = -100
-        labels[labels == self.image_token] = -100
-        labels[labels == self.image_break_token] = -100
-        labels[labels == self.image_end_token] = -100
-
-        return labels
-
-
 def get_processing_strategy(
     processor: ProcessorMixin,
     chat_template,
@@ -494,11 +463,6 @@ def get_processing_strategy(
             **processing_kwargs,
         )
 
-    if isinstance(processor, Mistral3Processor):
-        return Mistral3ProcessingStrategy(
-            **processing_kwargs,
-        )
-
     # llama3_2_vision, llama4, llava
     # mistral_v7_tekken, pixtral, lfm2vl
     return ProcessingStrategy(

src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/chat_template.py

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 HF Chat Templates prompt strategy
 """
 
-import json
 from collections import defaultdict
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Set, Union
 
@@ -795,22 +794,6 @@ class ChatTemplateStrategy(PromptTokenizingStrategy):
                 if val is not None:
                     transformed_message[key] = val
 
-        if "tool_calls" in transformed_message and transformed_message["tool_calls"]:
-            for tool_call in transformed_message["tool_calls"]:
-                if "function" in tool_call and "arguments" in tool_call["function"]:
-                    args = tool_call["function"]["arguments"]
-                    if isinstance(args, str):
-                        try:
-                            tool_call["function"]["arguments"] = json.loads(args)
-                        except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
-                            LOG.error(
-                                f"Error parsing tool_calls arguments as JSON. "
-                                f"Function: {tool_call.get('function', {}).get('name', 'unknown')}, "
-                                f"Arguments string: {args!r}, "
-                                f"Error: {e}"
-                            )
-                            raise
-
         return transformed_message
 
     def _get_images(self, prompt):

src/axolotl/utils/mistral/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 """Init for `axolotl.utils.mistral` module."""
 
-from axolotl.utils.mistral.mistral3_processor import Mistral3Processor
 from axolotl.utils.mistral.mistral_tokenizer import HFMistralTokenizer
 
-__all__ = ["HFMistralTokenizer", "Mistral3Processor"]
+__all__ = ["HFMistralTokenizer"]

src/axolotl/utils/mistral/mistral3_processor.py

@@ -1,169 +0,0 @@
-"""Processor for Mistral3 multimodal models with image support"""
-
-from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Union
-
-import torch
-from transformers import ProcessorMixin
-from transformers.feature_extraction_utils import BatchFeature
-from transformers.processing_utils import ProcessingKwargs
-from transformers.tokenization_utils_base import PreTokenizedInput, TextInput
-
-from axolotl.utils.mistral.mistral_tokenizer import HFMistralTokenizer
-
-
-class Mistral3ProcessorKwargs(ProcessingKwargs):
-    _defaults: Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]] = {
-        "text_kwargs": {
-            "padding": True,
-        },
-        "common_kwargs": {
-            "return_tensors": "pt",
-            "return_dict": True,
-            "tokenize": True,
-        },
-    }
-
-
-class Mistral3Processor(ProcessorMixin):
-    """
-    Processor for Mistral3 multimodal models that handles text and images.
-    Wraps HFMistralTokenizer and adds image processing capabilities.
-    """
-
-    attributes = ["tokenizer"]
-    tokenizer_class = "HFMistralTokenizer"
-
-    def __init__(self, tokenizer: HFMistralTokenizer):
-        # Don't call super().__init__ to avoid the class validation issue
-        self.tokenizer = tokenizer
-
-    @property
-    def chat_template(self) -> None:
-        """Chat template is not supported. Dummy method to satisfy HuggingFace API."""
-        return None
-
-    @property
-    def audio_tokenizer(self) -> None:
-        """Audio tokenizer is not supported. Dummy method to satisfy HuggingFace API."""
-        return None
-
-    def _merge_kwargs(
-        self, processor_kwargs_class: Any, **kwargs: Any
-    ) -> Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]]:
-        """Merge kwargs with defaults similar to ProcessorMixin"""
-        defaults = processor_kwargs_class._defaults
-        output_kwargs: Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]] = {}
-
-        for kwarg_type, default_values in defaults.items():
-            output_kwargs[kwarg_type] = {**default_values}
-
-        # Update with provided kwargs
-        for key, value in kwargs.items():
-            # Try to match key to appropriate kwarg type
-            if key in ["padding", "truncation", "max_length"]:
-                output_kwargs.setdefault("text_kwargs", {}).update({key: value})
-            elif key in ["return_tensors", "return_dict", "tokenize"]:
-                output_kwargs.setdefault("common_kwargs", {}).update({key: value})
-            else:
-                # Add to text_kwargs by default
-                output_kwargs.setdefault("text_kwargs", {}).update({key: value})
-
-        return output_kwargs
-
-    def apply_chat_template(
-        self,
-        conversation: Union[list[dict[str, str]], list[list[dict[str, str]]]],
-        **kwargs: Any,
-    ) -> Union[BatchFeature, str, list[str]]:
-        """
-        Apply chat template with image support for Mistral3.
-
-        Similar to VoxtralProcessor, this method extracts images from the conversation,
-        calls the tokenizer's apply_chat_template, then adds pixel_values and image_sizes
-        to the result.
-        """
-        output_kwargs = self._merge_kwargs(Mistral3ProcessorKwargs, **kwargs)
-        text_kwargs = output_kwargs["text_kwargs"]
-        common_kwargs = output_kwargs["common_kwargs"]
-
-        return_tensors = common_kwargs.pop("return_tensors", "pt")
-        if return_tensors != "pt":
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"{self.__class__.__name__} only supports `return_tensors='pt'`."
-            )
-
-        return_dict = common_kwargs.pop("return_dict", False)
-        tokenize = common_kwargs.pop("tokenize", False)
-
-        # Determine if batched
-        if isinstance(conversation, (list, tuple)) and (
-            isinstance(conversation[0], (list, tuple))
-            or hasattr(conversation[0], "content")
-        ):
-            is_batched = True
-            conversations = conversation
-        else:
-            is_batched = False
-            conversations = [conversation]  # type: ignore
-
-        # Call tokenizer's apply_chat_template
-        tokenizer_kwargs = {**text_kwargs, **common_kwargs}
-        tokenizer_kwargs["return_tensors"] = return_tensors
-        tokenizer_kwargs["tokenize"] = tokenize
-        tokenizer_kwargs["return_dict"] = return_dict
-
-        encoded_instruct_inputs = self.tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
-            conversations,
-            **tokenizer_kwargs,
-        )
-
-        if tokenize:
-            if return_dict:
-                # The tokenizer already handles pixel_values, we just need to add image_sizes
-                if hasattr(encoded_instruct_inputs, "items"):
-                    data: Dict[str, Any] = dict(encoded_instruct_inputs)  # type: ignore
-                elif hasattr(encoded_instruct_inputs, "data"):
-                    data = encoded_instruct_inputs.data  # type: ignore
-                else:
-                    raise ValueError("Unknown data type")
-
-                if "pixel_values" in data:
-                    pixel_values = data["pixel_values"]
-
-                    # MistralTokenizer returns a Double, so we convert to fp32
-                    data["pixel_values"] = pixel_values.to(dtype=torch.float32)
-
-                    # Always batched: [B, C, H, W] -> image_sizes: [B, 2]
-                    # Since tensor is homogeneous, all images have same H, W
-                    batch_size = pixel_values.shape[0]
-                    image_sizes = torch.tensor([pixel_values.shape[-2:]] * batch_size)
-                    data["image_sizes"] = image_sizes
-
-                return BatchFeature(data=data, tensor_type=return_tensors)
-
-        if not is_batched:
-            return encoded_instruct_inputs[0]
-
-        return encoded_instruct_inputs
-
-    def __call__(
-        self,
-        text: Optional[
-            Union[
-                TextInput, PreTokenizedInput, list[TextInput], list[PreTokenizedInput]
-            ]
-        ],
-        **kwargs: Any,
-    ) -> BatchFeature:
-        """
-        Forward text processing to the tokenizer.
-        This method does not support images - use apply_chat_template instead.
-        """
-        output_kwargs = self._merge_kwargs(Mistral3ProcessorKwargs, **kwargs)
-        text_kwargs = output_kwargs["text_kwargs"]
-        common_kwargs = output_kwargs["common_kwargs"]
-
-        out = self.tokenizer(text, **text_kwargs)
-        return BatchFeature(
-            data=out, tensor_type=common_kwargs.pop("return_tensors", None)
-        )

src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py

@@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
     vllm: VllmConfig | None = Field(
         default_factory=lambda: VllmConfig(),
     )
+    moe_backend: Literal["auto", "torch_grouped", "naive"] | None = Field(
+        default=None,
+        json_schema_extra={
+            "description": "Mixture-of-Experts backend to use: 'auto', 'torch_grouped', or 'naive'. If not set, defaults to 'auto'.",
+        },
+    )
+
+    # Value is constrained by the Literal type; no normalization needed.
     qat: QATConfig | None = None
     quantization: PTQConfig | None = None
     reward_model: bool | None = Field(
@@ -436,8 +444,8 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
         },
     )
     min_sample_len: int | None = None
-    max_prompt_len: int | None = Field(
-        default=None,
+    max_prompt_len: int = Field(
+        default=512,
         json_schema_extra={"description": "maximum prompt length for RL training"},
     )
     sample_packing: bool | None = Field(

tests/monkeypatch/test_mistral_tokenizer_patch.py

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-"""Integration tests for MistralCommonTokenizer patches."""
-
-import pytest
-
-
-class TestMistralTokenizerPatchIntegration:
-    """Test MistralCommonTokenizer patch integration."""
-
-    @pytest.mark.integration
-    def test_mistral_tokenizer_image_patch(self):
-        """Test that MistralCommonTokenizer image patch can be applied."""
-        try:
-            from transformers.tokenization_mistral_common import MistralCommonTokenizer
-        except ImportError:
-            pytest.skip("MistralCommonTokenizer not available")
-
-        from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.mistral3.mistral_common_tokenizer import (
-            apply_mistral_tokenizer_image_patch,
-        )
-
-        # Store original method
-        original_apply_chat_template = MistralCommonTokenizer.apply_chat_template
-
-        # Apply patch
-        apply_mistral_tokenizer_image_patch()
-
-        # Verify patch was applied
-        assert (
-            MistralCommonTokenizer.apply_chat_template != original_apply_chat_template
-        ), "apply_chat_template was not patched"
-
-        # Verify the method is still callable
-        assert callable(MistralCommonTokenizer.apply_chat_template), (
-            "Patched method is not callable"
-        )

tests/monkeypatch/test_moe_grouped.py

@@ -0,0 +1,258 @@
+import sys
+import types
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+from axolotl.kernels.moe import (
+    backends as moe_backends,
+    torch_grouped as torch_grouped_module,
+)
+from axolotl.monkeypatch import moe_grouped
+
+
+class DummyExperts(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, layers):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.layers = nn.ModuleList(layers)
+        self.num_experts = len(layers)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, idx):
+        return self.layers[idx]
+
+
+class DummyQwenMLP(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, idx: int, hidden: int, intermediate: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.gate_up_proj = nn.Linear(hidden, 2 * intermediate, bias=False)
+        self.down_proj = nn.Linear(intermediate, hidden, bias=False)
+        nn.init.constant_(self.gate_up_proj.weight, float(idx + 1))
+        nn.init.constant_(self.down_proj.weight, float((idx + 1) * 10))
+
+
+class DummyQwenExpert(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, idx: int, hidden: int, intermediate: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.mlp = DummyQwenMLP(idx, hidden, intermediate)
+
+
+def _make_transformers_stub(monkeypatch, block_cls):
+    # ensure we start from the original forward for each test
+    if block_cls is DummyMixtralBlock:
+        DummyMixtralBlock.forward = _DUMMY_MIXTRAL_ORIG_FORWARD
+
+    transformers_mod = types.ModuleType("transformers")
+    models_mod = types.ModuleType("transformers.models")
+    mixtral_mod = types.ModuleType("transformers.models.mixtral")
+    modeling_mixtral = types.ModuleType("transformers.models.mixtral.modeling_mixtral")
+    modeling_mixtral.MixtralSparseMoeBlock = block_cls
+
+    transformers_mod.models = models_mod
+    models_mod.mixtral = mixtral_mod
+    mixtral_mod.modeling_mixtral = modeling_mixtral
+
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "transformers", transformers_mod)
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "transformers.models", models_mod)
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "transformers.models.mixtral", mixtral_mod)
+    monkeypatch.setitem(
+        sys.modules,
+        "transformers.models.mixtral.modeling_mixtral",
+        modeling_mixtral,
+    )
+
+
+def test_grouped_uses_per_expert_nested_modules(monkeypatch):
+    hidden = 4
+    intermediate = 2
+    num_experts = 2
+
+    experts = DummyExperts(
+        [DummyQwenExpert(i, hidden, intermediate) for i in range(num_experts)]
+    )
+
+    gate = nn.Linear(hidden, num_experts, bias=False)
+    nn.init.zeros_(gate.weight)
+
+    captured = []
+
+    def fake_grouped_mm(As, Bs, dtype):
+        captured.append([b.detach().clone() for b in Bs])
+        return [
+            torch.zeros(a.shape[0], b.shape[-1], device=a.device, dtype=a.dtype)
+            for a, b in zip(As, Bs, strict=False)
+        ]
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(torch_grouped_module, "_call_grouped_mm", fake_grouped_mm)
+
+    hidden_states = torch.randn(1, 2, hidden)
+    y, router_logits = torch_grouped_module.moe_ffn_forward_grouped(
+        hidden_states, gate, experts, top_k=2
+    )
+
+    assert y is not None
+    assert router_logits is not None
+    assert captured, "Grouped GEMM path should have been invoked"
+    first_call = captured[0]
+    expected0 = experts[0].mlp.gate_up_proj.weight.t()
+    expected1 = experts[1].mlp.gate_up_proj.weight.t()
+    assert torch.equal(first_call[0], expected0)
+    assert torch.equal(first_call[1], expected1)
+    assert not torch.equal(first_call[0], first_call[1])
+
+
+def test_grouped_accepts_module_list_experts(monkeypatch):
+    hidden = 4
+    intermediate = 2
+    experts = nn.ModuleList(
+        [DummyQwenExpert(i, hidden, intermediate) for i in range(2)]
+    )
+    gate = nn.Linear(hidden, len(experts), bias=False)
+    nn.init.zeros_(gate.weight)
+
+    calls = {"count": 0}
+
+    def fake_grouped_mm(As, Bs, dtype):
+        calls["count"] += 1
+        return [
+            torch.zeros(a.shape[0], b.shape[-1], device=a.device, dtype=a.dtype)
+            for a, b in zip(As, Bs, strict=False)
+        ]
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(torch_grouped_module, "_call_grouped_mm", fake_grouped_mm)
+
+    hidden_states = torch.randn(1, 2, hidden)
+    y, router_logits = torch_grouped_module.moe_ffn_forward_grouped(
+        hidden_states, gate, experts, top_k=2
+    )
+
+    assert y is not None
+    assert router_logits is not None
+    assert calls["count"] > 0
+
+
+class _DummyCfg:
+    moe_backend = "torch_grouped"
+
+
+class DummyMixtralBlock(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.top_k = 1
+        self.gate = lambda x: x
+        self.experts = object()
+        self._calls = []
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor, attention_mask=None):
+        self._calls.append((hidden_states, attention_mask))
+        tokens = hidden_states.shape[0] * hidden_states.shape[1]
+        router = torch.ones(
+            tokens, 2, device=hidden_states.device, dtype=hidden_states.dtype
+        )
+        return hidden_states + 5, router
+
+
+_DUMMY_MIXTRAL_ORIG_FORWARD = DummyMixtralBlock.forward
+
+
+def test_apply_grouped_forward_handles_args(monkeypatch):
+    _make_transformers_stub(monkeypatch, DummyMixtralBlock)
+    import axolotl.common.architectures as arch
+
+    original_map = arch.MOE_ARCH_BLOCK.copy()
+    monkeypatch.setitem(arch.MOE_ARCH_BLOCK, "mixtral", "MixtralSparseMoeBlock")
+    for key in list(original_map.keys()):
+        if key != "mixtral":
+            monkeypatch.setitem(arch.MOE_ARCH_BLOCK, key, None)
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        moe_grouped,
+        "get_moe_backend_name",
+        lambda preferred=None: moe_backends.MOEBackend.TORCH_GROUPED,
+    )
+
+    results = {}
+
+    def fake_grouped_forward(hidden_states, gate, experts, top_k):
+        results["called"] = True
+        router = torch.zeros(
+            hidden_states.shape[0] * hidden_states.shape[1],
+            2,
+            device=hidden_states.device,
+            dtype=hidden_states.dtype,
+        )
+        return hidden_states + 1, router
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(torch_grouped_module, "available", lambda: True)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        torch_grouped_module,
+        "moe_ffn_forward_grouped",
+        fake_grouped_forward,
+    )
+
+    cfg = _DummyCfg()
+    moe_grouped.apply_grouped_to_moe_blocks(cfg)
+
+    block = DummyMixtralBlock()
+    hidden_states = torch.ones(1, 2, 3)
+    mask = torch.zeros(1, 2)
+    out, router = block.forward(hidden_states, attention_mask=mask)
+
+    assert results.get("called") is True
+    assert torch.equal(out, hidden_states + 1)
+    assert router.shape[0] == hidden_states.shape[0] * hidden_states.shape[1]
+
+
+def test_apply_grouped_forward_fallback(monkeypatch):
+    _make_transformers_stub(monkeypatch, DummyMixtralBlock)
+    import axolotl.common.architectures as arch
+
+    original_map = arch.MOE_ARCH_BLOCK.copy()
+    monkeypatch.setitem(arch.MOE_ARCH_BLOCK, "mixtral", "MixtralSparseMoeBlock")
+    for key in list(original_map.keys()):
+        if key != "mixtral":
+            monkeypatch.setitem(arch.MOE_ARCH_BLOCK, key, None)
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        moe_grouped,
+        "get_moe_backend_name",
+        lambda preferred=None: moe_backends.MOEBackend.TORCH_GROUPED,
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(torch_grouped_module, "available", lambda: True)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        torch_grouped_module,
+        "moe_ffn_forward_grouped",
+        lambda *args, **kwargs: (None, None),
+    )
+
+    cfg = _DummyCfg()
+    moe_grouped.apply_grouped_to_moe_blocks(cfg)
+
+    block = DummyMixtralBlock()
+    hidden_states = torch.ones(1, 2, 3)
+    mask = torch.zeros(1, 2)
+    out, router = block.forward(hidden_states, attention_mask=mask)
+
+    assert torch.equal(out, hidden_states + 5)
+    assert router.shape[0] == hidden_states.shape[0] * hidden_states.shape[1]
+    assert block._calls, "Original forward should have been invoked"
+    call_hidden, call_mask = block._calls[-1]
+    assert torch.equal(call_hidden, hidden_states)
+    assert torch.equal(call_mask, mask)
+
+
+def test_get_moe_backend_name_prefers_probe(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(moe_backends, "_probe_torch_grouped", lambda: True)
+    assert moe_backends.get_moe_backend_name() == moe_backends.MOEBackend.TORCH_GROUPED
+
+
+def test_get_moe_backend_name_falls_back(monkeypatch):
+    warnings_captured = []
+
+    def fake_warn(msg, *, stacklevel=None):  # noqa: ARG001
+        warnings_captured.append(msg)
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(moe_backends, "_probe_torch_grouped", lambda: False)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(moe_backends.warnings, "warn", fake_warn)
+    backend = moe_backends.get_moe_backend_name("torch_grouped")
+    assert backend == moe_backends.MOEBackend.NAIVE
+    assert warnings_captured, "Expected warning when torch_grouped unavailable"

tests/monkeypatch/test_pixtral_flash_attention_patch.py

@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-"""Integration tests for Pixtral Flash Attention patches."""
-
-import pytest
-import torch
-
-
-class TestPixtralFlashAttentionPatchIntegration:
-    """Test Pixtral Flash Attention patch integration."""
-
-    @pytest.mark.integration
-    def test_pixtral_flash_attention_patch(self):
-        """Test that Pixtral Flash Attention patch can be applied and works correctly."""
-        try:
-            from transformers import modeling_flash_attention_utils
-        except ImportError:
-            pytest.skip("Flash Attention utils not available")
-
-        from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.pixtral.modeling_flash_attention_utils import (
-            apply_patch_is_packed_sequence,
-        )
-
-        # Store original method
-        original_is_packed_sequence = modeling_flash_attention_utils._is_packed_sequence
-
-        # Apply patch and get unpatch function
-        unpatch_fn = apply_patch_is_packed_sequence()
-
-        # Verify patch was applied
-        assert (
-            modeling_flash_attention_utils._is_packed_sequence
-            != original_is_packed_sequence
-        ), "_is_packed_sequence was not patched"
-
-        # Test the patched function with 1D position_ids
-        patched_fn = modeling_flash_attention_utils._is_packed_sequence
-
-        # Test 1D position_ids 1 sequence
-        position_ids_1d = torch.tensor([0, 1, 2, 3])
-        result = patched_fn(position_ids_1d, batch_size=1)
-        assert isinstance(result, bool), "Function should return a boolean"
-        assert result is False, "1D sequential position_ids should not be packed"
-
-        # Test 1D packed 2 sequences
-        position_ids_1d_packed = torch.tensor([0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2])
-        result = patched_fn(position_ids_1d_packed, batch_size=1)
-        assert isinstance(result, bool), "Function should return a boolean"
-        assert result is True, "1D packed position_ids should be detected as packed"
-
-        # Test 2D packed 2 sequences
-        position_ids_2d_packed = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 1]])
-        result = patched_fn(position_ids_2d_packed, batch_size=1)
-        assert isinstance(result, bool), "Function should return a boolean"
-        assert result is True, "2D packed position_ids should be detected as packed"
-
-        # Test 2D 1 sequence
-        position_ids_2d_normal = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]])
-        result = patched_fn(position_ids_2d_normal, batch_size=1)
-        assert isinstance(result, bool), "Function should return a boolean"
-        assert result is False, "2D sequential position_ids should not be packed"
-
-        # Test 2D batch size 2
-        position_ids_2d_normal = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]])
-        result = patched_fn(position_ids_2d_normal, batch_size=2)
-        assert isinstance(result, bool), "Function should return a boolean"
-        assert result is False, "2D position_ids batch 2 should not be packed"
-
-        # Test None case
-        result = patched_fn(None, batch_size=1)
-        assert isinstance(result, bool), "Function should return a boolean"
-        assert result is False, "None position_ids should return False"
-
-        # Test unpatch function
-        unpatch_fn()
-        assert (
-            modeling_flash_attention_utils._is_packed_sequence
-            == original_is_packed_sequence
-        ), "unpatch function did not restore original method"

tests/monkeypatch/test_qwen3_next_modeling_patch.py

@@ -1,111 +0,0 @@
-"""Integration tests for Qwen3 Next modeling patches."""
-
-import pytest
-import torch
-
-# Skip entire module if qwen3_next not available
-qwen3_next = pytest.importorskip("transformers.models.qwen3_next.modeling_qwen3_next")
-
-
-class TestQwen3NextModelingPatchIntegration:
-    """Test Qwen3 Next modeling patch integration."""
-
-    @pytest.mark.integration
-    def test_qwen3_next_decoder_layer_patch(self):
-        """Test that Qwen3Next decoder layer patch can be applied."""
-        from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.qwen3_next.modeling import (
-            patch_qwen3_next_decoder_layer,
-        )
-
-        # Store original method
-        original_forward = qwen3_next.Qwen3NextDecoderLayer.forward
-
-        # Apply patch and get unpatch function
-        unpatch_fn = patch_qwen3_next_decoder_layer()
-
-        # Verify patch was applied
-        assert qwen3_next.Qwen3NextDecoderLayer.forward != original_forward, (
-            "decoder layer forward method was not patched"
-        )
-
-        # Verify the method is still callable
-        assert callable(qwen3_next.Qwen3NextDecoderLayer.forward), (
-            "Patched method is not callable"
-        )
-
-        # Test unpatch function
-        if unpatch_fn:
-            unpatch_fn()
-            assert qwen3_next.Qwen3NextDecoderLayer.forward == original_forward, (
-                "unpatch function did not restore original method"
-            )
-
-    @pytest.mark.integration
-    def test_qwen3_next_gateddelta_layer_patch(self):
-        """Test that Qwen3Next GatedDeltaNet patch can be applied."""
-        from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.qwen3_next.modeling import (
-            patch_qwen3_next_gateddelta_layer,
-        )
-
-        # Store original method
-        original_forward = qwen3_next.Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet.forward
-
-        # Apply patch and get unpatch function
-        unpatch_fn = patch_qwen3_next_gateddelta_layer()
-
-        # Verify patch was applied
-        assert qwen3_next.Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet.forward != original_forward, (
-            "GatedDeltaNet forward method was not patched"
-        )
-
-        # Verify the method is still callable
-        assert callable(qwen3_next.Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet.forward), (
-            "Patched method is not callable"
-        )
-
-        # Test unpatch function
-        if unpatch_fn:
-            unpatch_fn()
-            assert qwen3_next.Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet.forward == original_forward, (
-                "unpatch function did not restore original method"
-            )
-
-    @pytest.mark.integration
-    def test_qwen3_next_imports_patch(self):
-        """Test that Qwen3Next imports patch can be applied without errors."""
-        from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.qwen3_next.modeling import (
-            patch_qwen3_next_imports,
-        )
-
-        # Apply patch - should not raise any exceptions even if modules unavailable
-        unpatch_fn = patch_qwen3_next_imports()
-
-        # Test that unpatch function is returned (or None if skipped)
-        assert unpatch_fn is None or callable(unpatch_fn), (
-            "patch_qwen3_next_imports should return None or callable unpatch function"
-        )
-
-    @pytest.mark.integration
-    def test_qwen3_next_modeling_packing_patch(self):
-        """Test that all Qwen3Next modeling patches can be applied together."""
-        from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.qwen3_next.modeling import (
-            patch_qwen3_next_modeling_packing,
-        )
-
-        # This should not raise any exceptions
-        patch_qwen3_next_modeling_packing()
-
-
-@pytest.mark.integration
-def test_get_cu_seqlens_utility():
-    """Test the get_cu_seqlens utility function."""
-    from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.qwen3_next.modeling import get_cu_seqlens
-
-    # Test with simple position_ids
-    position_ids = torch.tensor([[0, 1, 2, 0, 1]])
-    cu_seqlens = get_cu_seqlens(position_ids)
-    assert cu_seqlens.dtype == torch.int32, "Should be int32 dtype"
-
-    # Should return tensor with start positions and total length
-    expected = torch.tensor([0, 3, 5], dtype=torch.int32)
-    assert torch.equal(cu_seqlens, expected), f"Expected {expected}, got {cu_seqlens}"

tests/monkeypatch/test_trainer_context_parallel_patch.py

@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-"""Tests for the HF Trainer context parallel patch."""
-
-import pytest
-from transformers import Trainer
-
-from axolotl.monkeypatch.transformers.trainer_context_parallel import (
-    GUARD_PATTERN,
-    PATCHED_GUARD,
-    patch_prepare_context_parallel_inputs,
-)
-
-
-@pytest.fixture
-def restore_trainer_prepare_method():
-    """Ensure Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs is restored after a test."""
-    original_method = getattr(
-        Trainer,
-        "_original_prepare_context_parallel_inputs",
-        Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs,
-    )
-    patched_attr_present = hasattr(
-        Trainer, "_axolotl_prepare_context_parallel_inputs_patched"
-    )
-
-    yield
-
-    Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs = original_method
-    if patched_attr_present:
-        delattr(Trainer, "_axolotl_prepare_context_parallel_inputs_patched")
-    if hasattr(Trainer, "_original_prepare_context_parallel_inputs"):
-        delattr(Trainer, "_original_prepare_context_parallel_inputs")
-    if hasattr(Trainer, "_axolotl_prepare_context_parallel_inputs_source"):
-        delattr(Trainer, "_axolotl_prepare_context_parallel_inputs_source")
-
-
-def test_patch_attention_guard(restore_trainer_prepare_method):
-    """Patch should swap the guard to allow sdpa or flash attention."""
-    # Ensure we start from the unpatched method
-    if hasattr(Trainer, "_original_prepare_context_parallel_inputs"):
-        Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs = (
-            Trainer._original_prepare_context_parallel_inputs
-        )
-        delattr(Trainer, "_original_prepare_context_parallel_inputs")
-    if hasattr(Trainer, "_axolotl_prepare_context_parallel_inputs_patched"):
-        delattr(Trainer, "_axolotl_prepare_context_parallel_inputs_patched")
-
-    patch_prepare_context_parallel_inputs()
-
-    patched_method = Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs
-    assert patched_method is not None
-    assert getattr(Trainer, "_axolotl_prepare_context_parallel_inputs_patched", False)
-
-    source = Trainer._axolotl_prepare_context_parallel_inputs_source
-    assert GUARD_PATTERN not in source
-    assert PATCHED_GUARD in source
-
-
-def test_patch_is_idempotent(restore_trainer_prepare_method):
-    """Calling the patch twice should leave the same patched function in place."""
-    patch_prepare_context_parallel_inputs()
-    first_patched = Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs
-
-    patch_prepare_context_parallel_inputs()
-    second_patched = Trainer._prepare_context_parallel_inputs
-
-    assert first_patched is second_patched

tests/monkeypatch/test_voxtral_modeling_patch.py

@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-"""Integration tests for Voxtral modeling patches."""
-
-import pytest
-
-
-class TestVoxtralModelingPatchIntegration:
-    """Test Voxtral modeling patch integration."""
-
-    @pytest.mark.integration
-    def test_voxtral_conditional_generation_patch(self):
-        """Test that Voxtral conditional generation patch can be applied."""
-        try:
-            from transformers.models.voxtral.modeling_voxtral import (
-                VoxtralForConditionalGeneration,
-            )
-        except ImportError:
-            pytest.skip("VoxtralForConditionalGeneration not available")
-
-        from axolotl.monkeypatch.models.voxtral.modeling import (
-            patch_voxtral_conditional_generation_forward,
-        )
-
-        # Store original method
-        original_forward = VoxtralForConditionalGeneration.forward
-
-        # Apply patch and get unpatch function
-        unpatch_fn = patch_voxtral_conditional_generation_forward()
-
-        # Verify patch was applied
-        assert VoxtralForConditionalGeneration.forward != original_forward, (
-            "forward method was not patched"
-        )
-
-        # Verify the method is still callable
-        assert callable(VoxtralForConditionalGeneration.forward), (
-            "Patched method is not callable"
-        )
-
-        # Test unpatch function
-        unpatch_fn()
-        assert VoxtralForConditionalGeneration.forward == original_forward, (
-            "unpatch function did not restore original method"
-        )

tests/prompt_strategies/conftest.py

@@ -177,15 +177,6 @@ def fixture_devstral_1_1_tokenizer():
     return tokenizer
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(name="qwen3_tokenizer")
-def qwen3_tokenizer_fixture(
-    download_qwen3_half_billion_model,
-):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument,redefined-outer-name
-    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B")
-
-    return tokenizer
-
-
 @pytest.fixture(name="mistralv03_tokenizer_chat_template_jinja")
 def fixture_mistralv03_chat_template_jinja_w_system() -> str:
     return '{%- if messages[0]["role"] == "system" %}\n    {%- set system_message = messages[0]["content"] %}\n    {%- set loop_messages = messages[1:] %}\n{%- else %}\n    {%- set loop_messages = messages %}\n{%- endif %}\n{%- if not tools is defined %}\n    {%- set tools = none %}\n{%- endif %}\n{%- set user_messages = loop_messages | selectattr("role", "equalto", "user") | list %}\n\n{#- This block checks for alternating user/assistant messages, skipping tool calling messages #}\n{%- set ns = namespace() %}\n{%- set ns.index = 0 %}\n{%- for message in loop_messages %}\n    {%- if not (message.role == "tool" or message.role == "tool_results" or (message.tool_calls is defined and message.tool_calls is not none)) %}\n        {%- if (message["role"] == "user") != (ns.index % 2 == 0) %}\n            {{- raise_exception("After the optional system message, conversation roles must alternate user/assistant/user/assistant/...") }}\n        {%- endif %}\n        {%- set ns.index = ns.index + 1 %}\n    {%- endif %}\n{%- endfor %}\n\n{{- bos_token }}\n{%- for message in loop_messages %}\n    {%- if message["role"] == "user" %}\n        {%- if tools is not none and (message == user_messages[-1]) %}\n            {{- "[AVAILABLE_TOOLS] [" }}\n            {%- for tool in tools %}\n                {%- set tool = tool.function %}\n                {{- \'{"type": "function", "function": {\' }}\n                {%- for key, val in tool.items() if key != "return" %}\n                    {%- if val is string %}\n                        {{- \'"\' + key + \'": "\' + val + \'"\' }}\n                    {%- else %}\n                        {{- \'"\' + key + \'": \' + val|tojson }}\n                    {%- endif %}\n                    {%- if not loop.last %}\n                        {{- ", " }}\n                    {%- endif %}\n                {%- endfor %}\n                {{- "}}" }}\n                {%- if not loop.last %}\n                    {{- ", " }}\n                {%- else %}\n                    {{- "]" }}\n                {%- endif %}\n            {%- endfor %}\n            {{- "[/AVAILABLE_TOOLS]" }}\n            {%- endif %}\n        {%- if loop.first and system_message is defined %}\n            {{- "[INST] " + system_message + "\\n\\n" + message["content"] + "[/INST]" }}\n        {%- else %}\n            {{- "[INST] " + message["content"] + "[/INST]" }}\n        {%- endif %}\n    {%- elif message.tool_calls is defined and message.tool_calls is not none %}\n        {{- "[TOOL_CALLS] [" }}\n        {%- for tool_call in message.tool_calls %}\n            {%- set out = tool_call.function|tojson %}\n            {{- out[:-1] }}\n            {%- if not tool_call.id is defined or tool_call.id|length != 9 %}\n                {{- raise_exception("Tool call IDs should be alphanumeric strings with length 9!") }}\n            {%- endif %}\n            {{- \', "id": "\' + tool_call.id + \'"}\' }}\n            {%- if not loop.last %}\n                {{- ", " }}\n            {%- else %}\n                {{- "]" + eos_token }}\n            {%- endif %}\n        {%- endfor %}\n    {%- elif message["role"] == "assistant" %}\n        {{- " " + message["content"]|trim + eos_token}}\n    {%- elif message["role"] == "tool_results" or message["role"] == "tool" %}\n        {%- if message.content is defined and message.content.content is defined %}\n            {%- set content = message.content.content %}\n        {%- else %}\n            {%- set content = message.content %}\n        {%- endif %}\n        {{- \'[TOOL_RESULTS] {"content": \' + content|string + ", " }}\n        {%- if not message.tool_call_id is defined or message.tool_call_id|length != 9 %}\n            {{- raise_exception("Tool call IDs should be alphanumeric strings with length 9!") }}\n        {%- endif %}\n        {{- \'"call_id": "\' + message.tool_call_id + \'"}[/TOOL_RESULTS]\' }}\n    {%- else %}\n        {{- raise_exception("Only user and assistant roles are supported, with the exception of an initial optional system message!") }}\n    {%- endif %}\n{%- endfor %}\n'

tests/prompt_strategies/test_chat_template_ds_schema_unification.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import json
 
 import pytest
 from datasets import Dataset
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
 
 from axolotl.prompt_strategies.chat_template import StrategyLoader
 from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
@@ -22,6 +23,15 @@ def fixture_messages_w_tools():
     return Dataset.from_list(rows)
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(name="qwen3_tokenizer")
+def qwen3_tokenizer_fixture(
+    download_qwen3_half_billion_model,
+):
+    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B")
+
+    return tokenizer
+
+
 @pytest.fixture(name="qwen3_prompt_strategy")
 def qwen3_chat_template_strategy(qwen3_tokenizer):
     cfg = DictDefault(

tests/prompt_strategies/test_chat_templates_thinking.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Tests for splitting reasoning/thinking from content into separate field
 
 import pytest
 from datasets import Dataset
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
 
 from axolotl.prompt_strategies.chat_template import (
     load,
@@ -55,6 +56,15 @@ def messages_w_reasoning_fixture():
     )
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(name="qwen3_tokenizer")
+def qwen3_tokenizer_fixture(
+    download_qwen3_half_billion_model,
+):
+    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B")
+
+    return tokenizer
+
+
 class TestSplitThinking:
     """
     test class to make sure datasets with reasoning content conforms to the chat_template strategy

tests/prompt_strategies/test_chat_templates_tool_call_string_arguments.py

@@ -1,214 +0,0 @@
-"""
-Tests for handling json tool content
-"""
-
-import json
-
-import pytest
-from datasets import Dataset
-
-from axolotl.prompt_strategies.chat_template import (
-    load,
-)
-from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
-
-
-@pytest.fixture(name="qwen3_instruct_prompt_strategy")
-def qwen3_instruct_chat_template_strategy(qwen3_tokenizer):
-    strategy = load(
-        qwen3_tokenizer,
-        DictDefault(
-            {
-                "train_on_inputs": False,
-                "sequence_len": 512,
-            }
-        ),
-        DictDefault(
-            {
-                "chat_template": "qwen3",
-                "message_field_role": "role",
-                "message_field_content": "content",
-                "message_property_mappings": {
-                    "role": "role",
-                    "content": "content",
-                },
-                "roles": {
-                    "user": ["user"],
-                    "assistant": ["assistant"],
-                    "system": ["system"],
-                },
-                "field_messages": "messages",
-            }
-        ),
-    )
-    return strategy
-
-
-class TestQwen3IdenticalConversationArgs:
-    """
-    Test Qwen3 tools is identical between JSON and dict
-    """
-
-    @pytest.fixture(name="conversation_dict_args_dataset")
-    def fixture_conversation_dict_args_dataset(self):
-        """
-        Provides a dataset with conversation where arguments is a dict.
-        """
-        user_content = "What is the weather in Boston?"
-        function_name = "get_current_weather"
-        arguments_dict = {"location": "Boston, MA", "unit": "celsius"}
-
-        data = [
-            {
-                "messages": [
-                    {"role": "user", "content": user_content},
-                    {
-                        "role": "assistant",
-                        "content": "",
-                        "tool_calls": [
-                            {
-                                "function": {
-                                    "name": function_name,
-                                    "arguments": arguments_dict,  # dict格式
-                                }
-                            }
-                        ],
-                    },
-                ],
-            }
-        ]
-        return Dataset.from_list(data)
-
-    @pytest.fixture(name="conversation_str_args_dataset")
-    def fixture_conversation_str_args_dataset(self):
-        """
-        Provides a dataset with conversation where arguments is a JSON string.
-        """
-        user_content = "What is the weather in Boston?"
-        function_name = "get_current_weather"
-        arguments_dict = {"location": "Boston, MA", "unit": "celsius"}
-        arguments_str = json.dumps(arguments_dict)
-
-        data = [
-            {
-                "messages": [
-                    {"role": "user", "content": user_content},
-                    {
-                        "role": "assistant",
-                        "content": "",
-                        "tool_calls": [
-                            {
-                                "function": {
-                                    "name": function_name,
-                                    "arguments": arguments_str,  # str格式
-                                }
-                            }
-                        ],
-                    },
-                ],
-            }
-        ]
-        return Dataset.from_list(data)
-
-    @pytest.fixture(name="conversation_mixed_time_types_dataset")
-    def fixture_conversation_mixed_time_types_dataset(self):
-        """
-        Provides a dataset where 'time' field has different types in different tool calls.
-        """
-        data = [
-            {
-                "messages": [
-                    {
-                        "role": "user",
-                        "content": "Get weather information at different times",
-                    },
-                    {
-                        "role": "assistant",
-                        "content": "",
-                        "tool_calls": [
-                            {
-                                "function": {
-                                    "name": "func1",
-                                    "arguments": json.dumps(
-                                        {"time": "2025-08-01"}
-                                    ),  # string type
-                                }
-                            },
-                            {
-                                "function": {
-                                    "name": "func2",
-                                    "arguments": json.dumps(
-                                        {"time": 1690876800}
-                                    ),  # number type
-                                }
-                            },
-                        ],
-                    },
-                ],
-            }
-        ]
-        return Dataset.from_list(data)
-
-    def test_dict_and_str_args_produce_identical_output(
-        self,
-        conversation_dict_args_dataset,
-        conversation_str_args_dataset,
-        qwen3_instruct_prompt_strategy,
-        qwen3_tokenizer,
-    ):
-        """
-        Tests that after tokenization and decoding, the outputs for both
-        dict and string `arguments` are exactly the same.
-        """
-        processed_dict_args = conversation_dict_args_dataset.map(
-            qwen3_instruct_prompt_strategy.tokenize_prompt,
-            batched=True,
-            remove_columns=["messages"],
-        )
-
-        processed_str_args = conversation_str_args_dataset.map(
-            qwen3_instruct_prompt_strategy.tokenize_prompt,
-            batched=True,
-            remove_columns=["messages"],
-        )
-
-        decoded_prompt_from_dict = qwen3_tokenizer.decode(
-            processed_dict_args[0]["input_ids"]
-        )
-
-        decoded_prompt_from_str = qwen3_tokenizer.decode(
-            processed_str_args[0]["input_ids"]
-        )
-
-        assert decoded_prompt_from_dict == decoded_prompt_from_str, (
-            f"Dict format output:\n{decoded_prompt_from_dict}\n"
-            f"String format output:\n{decoded_prompt_from_str}"
-        )
-
-        assert (
-            processed_dict_args[0]["input_ids"] == processed_str_args[0]["input_ids"]
-        ), "The tokenized input_ids should be identical for dict and str arguments"
-
-    def test_str_args_with_mixed_time_types_no_error(
-        self,
-        conversation_mixed_time_types_dataset,
-        qwen3_instruct_prompt_strategy,
-        qwen3_tokenizer,
-    ):
-        """
-        Tests that when 'time' field has different types (string vs number)
-        in different tool calls, str format arguments don't cause errors.
-        """
-        processed = conversation_mixed_time_types_dataset.map(
-            qwen3_instruct_prompt_strategy.tokenize_prompt,
-            batched=True,
-            remove_columns=["messages"],
-        )
-
-        assert len(processed) == 1
-        assert "input_ids" in processed[0]
-        assert len(processed[0]["input_ids"]) > 0
-
-        decoded = qwen3_tokenizer.decode(processed[0]["input_ids"])
-        assert "2025-08-01" in decoded, "String time value should be present"
-        assert "1690876800" in decoded, "Number time value should be present"