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.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ First of all, thank you for your interest in contributing to axolotl! We appreci
   - [Commit Messages](#commit-messages)
 - [Additional Resources](#additional-resources)
 
-## Code of Conductcode
+## Code of Conduct
 
 All contributors are expected to adhere to our [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). Please read it before participating in the axolotl community.
 

.github/workflows/base.yml

@@ -22,24 +22,6 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
-          - cuda: "121"
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
-            cudnn_version: 8
-            python_version: "3.10"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
-            torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
-          - cuda: "121"
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
-            cudnn_version: 8
-            python_version: "3.11"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
-            torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
-          - cuda: "124"
-            cuda_version: 12.4.1
-            cudnn_version: ""
-            python_version: "3.10"
-            pytorch: 2.4.1
-            torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
           - cuda: "124"
             cuda_version: 12.4.1
             cudnn_version: ""
@@ -52,6 +34,12 @@ jobs:
             python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.5.1
             torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
+          - cuda: "124"
+            cuda_version: 12.4.1
+            cudnn_version: ""
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.6.0
+            torch_cuda_arch_list: "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.6 8.7 8.9 9.0+PTX"
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4

.github/workflows/docs.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ jobs:
         - name: Setup Python
           uses: actions/setup-python@v5
           with:
-            python-version: '3.10'
+            python-version: '3.11'
         - name: install dependencies
           run: |
             python3 -m pip install jupyter

.github/workflows/lint.yml

@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.11"
           cache: 'pip' # caching pip dependencies
       - uses: pre-commit/action@v3.0.1

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -15,17 +15,6 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
-          - cuda: 121
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
-            python_version: "3.10"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
-            axolotl_extras: mamba-ssm
-          - cuda: 121
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
-            python_version: "3.11"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
-            axolotl_extras: mamba-ssm
-            is_latest: true
           - cuda: 124
             cuda_version: 12.4.1
             python_version: "3.11"
@@ -36,6 +25,12 @@ jobs:
             python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.5.1
             axolotl_extras:
+            is_latest: true
+          - cuda: 124
+            cuda_version: 12.4.1
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.6.0
+            axolotl_extras:
     runs-on: axolotl-gpu-runner
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
@@ -82,17 +77,6 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
-          - cuda: 121
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
-            python_version: "3.10"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
-            axolotl_extras:
-          - cuda: 121
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
-            python_version: "3.11"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
-            axolotl_extras:
-            is_latest: true
           - cuda: 124
             cuda_version: 12.4.1
             python_version: "3.11"
@@ -103,6 +87,7 @@ jobs:
             python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.5.1
             axolotl_extras:
+            is_latest: true
     runs-on: axolotl-gpu-runner
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
@@ -145,10 +130,10 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
-          - cuda: 121
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
+          - cuda: 124
+            cuda_version: 12.4.1
             python_version: "3.11"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
+            pytorch: 2.4.1
             axolotl_extras:
     runs-on: axolotl-gpu-runner
     steps:

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

@@ -20,12 +20,6 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
-          - cuda: 121
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
-            python_version: "3.11"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
-            axolotl_extras:
-            num_gpus: 2
           - cuda: 124
             cuda_version: 12.4.1
             python_version: "3.11"
@@ -40,6 +34,13 @@ jobs:
             axolotl_extras:
             num_gpus: 2
             nightly_build: "true"
+          - cuda: 124
+            cuda_version: 12.4.1
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.6.0
+            axolotl_extras:
+            num_gpus: 2
+            nightly_build: "true"
     runs-on: [self-hosted, modal]
     timeout-minutes: 120
     steps:
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.11"
       - name: Install Modal
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip

.github/workflows/nightlies.yml

@@ -12,17 +12,6 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
-          - cuda: 121
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
-            python_version: "3.10"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
-            axolotl_extras:
-          - cuda: 121
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
-            python_version: "3.11"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
-            axolotl_extras:
-            is_latest: true
           - cuda: 124
             cuda_version: 12.4.1
             python_version: "3.11"
@@ -33,6 +22,11 @@ jobs:
             python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.5.1
             axolotl_extras:
+          - cuda: 124
+            cuda_version: 12.4.1
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.6.0
+            axolotl_extras:
     runs-on: axolotl-gpu-runner
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
@@ -76,17 +70,6 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
-          - cuda: 121
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
-            python_version: "3.10"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
-            axolotl_extras:
-          - cuda: 121
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
-            python_version: "3.11"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
-            axolotl_extras:
-            is_latest: true
           - cuda: 124
             cuda_version: 12.4.1
             python_version: "3.11"

.github/workflows/pypi.yml

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Setup Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.11"
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |

.github/workflows/tests-nightly.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.11"
           cache: 'pip' # caching pip dependencies
       - uses: pre-commit/action@v3.0.1
         env:
@@ -25,13 +25,8 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       max-parallel: 2
       matrix:
-        python_version: ["3.10", "3.11"]
-        pytorch_version: ["2.3.1", "2.4.1", "2.5.1"]
-        exclude:
-          - python_version: "3.10"
-            pytorch_version: "2.4.1"
-          - python_version: "3.10"
-            pytorch_version: "2.5.1"
+        python_version: ["3.11"]
+        pytorch_version: ["2.4.1", "2.5.1", "2.6.0"]
     timeout-minutes: 20
 
     steps:
@@ -98,13 +93,6 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
-          - cuda: 121
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
-            python_version: "3.10"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
-            num_gpus: 1
-            axolotl_extras: mamba-ssm
-            nightly_build: "true"
           - cuda: 124
             cuda_version: 12.4.1
             python_version: "3.11"
@@ -119,13 +107,20 @@ jobs:
             num_gpus: 1
             axolotl_extras:
             nightly_build: "true"
+          - cuda: 124
+            cuda_version: 12.4.1
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.6.0
+            num_gpus: 1
+            axolotl_extras:
+            nightly_build: "true"
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Install Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.11"
       - name: Install Modal
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.11"
           cache: 'pip' # caching pip dependencies
       - uses: pre-commit/action@v3.0.1
         env:
@@ -48,13 +48,8 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       max-parallel: 2
       matrix:
-        python_version: ["3.10", "3.11"]
-        pytorch_version: ["2.3.1", "2.4.1", "2.5.1"]
-        exclude:
-          - python_version: "3.10"
-            pytorch_version: "2.4.1"
-          - python_version: "3.10"
-            pytorch_version: "2.5.1"
+        python_version: ["3.11"]
+        pytorch_version: ["2.4.1", "2.5.1", "2.6.0"]
     timeout-minutes: 20
 
     steps:
@@ -127,7 +122,7 @@ jobs:
       max-parallel: 1
       matrix:
         python_version: ["3.11"]
-        pytorch_version: ["2.4.1", "2.5.1"]
+        pytorch_version: ["2.4.1", "2.5.1", "2.6.0"]
     timeout-minutes: 20
 
     steps:
@@ -216,7 +211,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.11"
       - name: Install Modal
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
@@ -228,6 +223,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "AXOLOTL_ARGS=${{ matrix.axolotl_args}}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "AXOLOTL_EXTRAS=${{ matrix.axolotl_extras}}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "CUDA=${{ matrix.cuda }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "MODAL_IMAGE_BUILDER_VERSION=2024.10" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "N_GPUS=${{ matrix.num_gpus }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
       - name: Run tests job on Modal
         run: |
@@ -244,25 +240,25 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         include:
-          - cuda: 121
-            cuda_version: 12.1.1
-            python_version: "3.10"
-            pytorch: 2.3.1
-            num_gpus: 1
-            axolotl_extras: mamba-ssm
           - cuda: 124
             cuda_version: 12.4.1
             python_version: "3.11"
             pytorch: 2.4.1
             num_gpus: 1
             axolotl_extras:
+          - cuda: 124
+            cuda_version: 12.4.1
+            python_version: "3.11"
+            pytorch: 2.6.0
+            num_gpus: 1
+            axolotl_extras:
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Install Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: "3.10"
+          python-version: "3.11"
       - name: Install Modal
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
@@ -274,6 +270,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "AXOLOTL_ARGS=${{ matrix.axolotl_args}}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "AXOLOTL_EXTRAS=${{ matrix.axolotl_extras}}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "CUDA=${{ matrix.cuda }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+          echo "MODAL_IMAGE_BUILDER_VERSION=2024.10" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "N_GPUS=${{ matrix.num_gpus }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
       - name: Run tests job on Modal
         run: |

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ repos:
     hooks:
       - id: isort
 -   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
-    rev: 6.0.0
+    rev: 6.1.0
     hooks:
     - id: flake8
 -   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint

README.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <p align="center">
     <picture>
-        <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="image/axolotl_logo_digital_white.svg">
-        <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="image/axolotl_logo_digital_black.svg">
-        <img alt="Axolotl" src="image/axolotl_logo_digital_black.svg" width="400" height="104" style="max-width: 100%;">
+        <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/887513285d98132142bf5db2a74eb5e0928787f1/image/axolotl_logo_digital_white.svg">
+        <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/887513285d98132142bf5db2a74eb5e0928787f1/image/axolotl_logo_digital_black.svg">
+        <img alt="Axolotl" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/887513285d98132142bf5db2a74eb5e0928787f1/image/axolotl_logo_digital_black.svg" width="400" height="104" style="max-width: 100%;">
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     <img src="https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/actions/workflows/multi-gpu-e2e.yml/badge.svg" alt="multigpu-semi-weekly tests">
+    <a href="https://www.phorm.ai/query?projectId=e315ba4a-4e14-421f-ab05-38a1f9076f25">
+    <img alt="phorm.ai" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Phorm-Ask_AI-%23F2777A.svg?&logo=data:image/svg+xml;base64,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">
+  </a>
 </p>
 
-Axolotl is a tool designed to streamline the fine-tuning of various AI models, offering support for multiple configurations and architectures.
+Axolotl is a tool designed to streamline post-training for various AI models.
+Post-training refers to any modifications or additional training performed on
+pre-trained models - including full model fine-tuning, parameter-efficient tuning (like
+LoRA and QLoRA), supervised fine-tuning (SFT), instruction tuning, and alignment
+techniques. With support for multiple model architectures and training configurations,
+Axolotl makes it easy to get started with these techniques.
+
+Axolotl is designed to work with YAML config files that contain everything you need to
+preprocess a dataset, train or fine-tune a model, run model inference or evaluation,
+and much more.
 
 Features:
+
 - Train various Huggingface models such as llama, pythia, falcon, mpt
 - Supports fullfinetune, lora, qlora, relora, and gptq
 - Customize configurations using a simple yaml file or CLI overwrite
 - Load different dataset formats, use custom formats, or bring your own tokenized datasets
-- Integrated with xformer, flash attention, [liger kernel](https://github.com/linkedin/Liger-Kernel), rope scaling, and multipacking
+- Integrated with [xformers](https://github.com/facebookresearch/xformers), flash attention, [liger kernel](https://github.com/linkedin/Liger-Kernel), rope scaling, and multipacking
 - Works with single GPU or multiple GPUs via FSDP or Deepspeed
 - Easily run with Docker locally or on the cloud
 - Log results and optionally checkpoints to wandb, mlflow or Comet
 - And more!
 
-<a href="https://www.phorm.ai/query?projectId=e315ba4a-4e14-421f-ab05-38a1f9076f25">
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-</a>
+## 🚀 Quick Start
 
-<table>
-<tr>
-<td>
+**Requirements**:
+- NVIDIA GPU (Ampere or newer for `bf16` and Flash Attention) or AMD GPU
+- Python 3.11
+- PyTorch ≥2.4.1
 
-## Table of Contents
-- [Axolotl](#axolotl)
-  - [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
-  - [Quickstart ⚡](#quickstart-)
-    - [Edge Builds](#edge-builds-)
-    - [Axolotl CLI Usage](#axolotl-cli-usage)
-  - [Badge ❤🏷️](#badge-️)
-  - [Contributing 🤝](#contributing-)
-  - [Sponsors 🤝❤](#sponsors-)
-  - [Axolotl supports](#axolotl-supports)
-  - [Advanced Setup](#advanced-setup)
-    - [Environment](#environment)
-      - [Docker](#docker)
-      - [Conda/Pip venv](#condapip-venv)
-      - [Cloud GPU](#cloud-gpu)
-      - [Bare Metal Cloud GPU](#bare-metal-cloud-gpu)
-        - [LambdaLabs](#lambdalabs)
-        - [GCP](#gcp)
-      - [Windows](#windows)
-      - [Mac](#mac)
-      - [Google Colab](#google-colab)
-      - [Launching on public clouds via SkyPilot](#launching-on-public-clouds-via-skypilot)
-      - [Launching on public clouds via dstack](#launching-on-public-clouds-via-dstack)
-    - [Dataset](#dataset)
-    - [Config](#config)
-      - [All Config Options](#all-config-options)
-    - [Train](#train)
-      - [Preprocess dataset](#preprocess-dataset)
-      - [Multi-GPU](#multi-gpu)
-        - [DeepSpeed](#deepspeed)
-        - [FSDP](#fsdp)
-        - [FSDP + QLoRA](#fsdp--qlora)
-        - [Weights \& Biases Logging](#weights--biases-logging)
-        - [Special Tokens](#special-tokens)
-      - [Liger Kernel](#liger-kernel)
-    - [Inference Playground](#inference-playground)
-    - [Merge LORA to base](#merge-lora-to-base)
-  - [Common Errors 🧰](#common-errors-)
-    - [Tokenization Mismatch b/w Inference \& Training](#tokenization-mismatch-bw-inference--training)
-  - [Debugging Axolotl](#debugging-axolotl)
-  - [Need help? 🙋](#need-help-)
+### Installation
 
-</td>
-<td>
-
-<div align="center">
-  <img src="image/axolotl_symbol_digital_white.svg" alt="axolotl" width="160">
-  <div>
-    <p>
-      <b>Axolotl provides a unified repository for fine-tuning <br />a variety of AI models with ease</b>
-    </p>
-    <p>
-      Go ahead and Axolotl questions!!
-    </p>
-    <img src="https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/actions/workflows/pre-commit.yml/badge.svg?branch=main" alt="pre-commit">
-    <img alt="PyTest Status" src="https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/actions/workflows/tests.yml/badge.svg?branch=main">
-  </div>
-</div>
-
-</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-## Quickstart ⚡
-
-Get started with Axolotl in just a few steps! This quickstart guide will walk you through setting up and running a basic fine-tuning task.
-
-**Requirements**: *Nvidia* GPU (Ampere architecture or newer for `bf16` and Flash Attention) or *AMD* GPU, Python >=3.10 and PyTorch >=2.3.1.
-
-```bash
+```shell
 pip3 install --no-build-isolation axolotl[flash-attn,deepspeed]
 
-# download examples and optionally deepspeed configs to the local path
+# Download example axolotl configs, deepspeed configs
 axolotl fetch examples
 axolotl fetch deepspeed_configs  # OPTIONAL
-
-# finetune using lora
-axolotl train examples/llama-3/lora-1b.yml
 ```
 
-### Edge Builds 🏎️
+Other installation approaches are described [here](https://axolotl-ai-cloud.github.io/axolotl/docs/installation.html).
 
-If you're looking for the latest features and updates between releases, you'll need to install
-from source.
+### Your First Fine-tune
 
-```bash
-git clone https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl.git
-cd axolotl
-pip3 install packaging ninja
-pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn,deepspeed]'
-```
-
-### Axolotl CLI Usage
-We now support a new, more streamlined CLI using [click](https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/stable/).
-
-```bash
-# preprocess datasets - optional but recommended
-CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0" axolotl preprocess examples/llama-3/lora-1b.yml
-
-# finetune lora
-axolotl train examples/llama-3/lora-1b.yml
-
-# inference
-axolotl inference examples/llama-3/lora-1b.yml \
-    --lora-model-dir="./outputs/lora-out"
-
-# gradio
-axolotl inference examples/llama-3/lora-1b.yml \
-    --lora-model-dir="./outputs/lora-out" --gradio
-
-# remote yaml files - the yaml config can be hosted on a public URL
-# Note: the yaml config must directly link to the **raw** yaml
-axolotl train https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/main/examples/llama-3/lora-1b.yml
-```
-
-We've also added a new command for fetching `examples` and `deepspeed_configs` to your
-local machine. This will come in handy when installing `axolotl` from PyPI.
-
-```bash
-# Fetch example YAML files (stores in "examples/" folder)
+```shell
+# Fetch axolotl examples
 axolotl fetch examples
 
-# Fetch deepspeed config files (stores in "deepspeed_configs/" folder)
-axolotl fetch deepspeed_configs
-
-# Optionally, specify a destination folder
+# Or, specify a custom path
 axolotl fetch examples --dest path/to/folder
+
+# Train a model using LoRA
+axolotl train examples/llama-3/lora-1b.yml
 ```
 
-### Legacy Usage
-<details>
+That's it! Check out our [Getting Started Guide](https://axolotl-ai-cloud.github.io/axolotl/docs/getting-started.html) for a more detailed walkthrough.
 
-<summary>Click to Expand</summary>
+## ✨ Key Features
 
-While the Axolotl CLI is the preferred method for interacting with axolotl, we
-still support the legacy `-m axolotl.cli.*` usage.
+- **Multiple Model Support**: Train various models like LLaMA, Mistral, Mixtral, Pythia, and more
+- **Training Methods**: Full fine-tuning, LoRA, QLoRA, and more
+- **Easy Configuration**: Simple YAML files to control your training setup
+- **Performance Optimizations**: Flash Attention, xformers, multi-GPU training
+- **Flexible Dataset Handling**: Use various formats and custom datasets
+- **Cloud Ready**: Run on cloud platforms or local hardware
 
-```bash
-# preprocess datasets - optional but recommended
-CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0" python -m axolotl.cli.preprocess examples/llama-3/lora-1b.yml
+## 📚 Documentation
 
-# finetune lora
-accelerate launch -m axolotl.cli.train examples/llama-3/lora-1b.yml
+- [Installation Options](https://axolotl-ai-cloud.github.io/axolotl/docs/installation.html) - Detailed setup instructions for different environments
+- [Configuration Guide](https://axolotl-ai-cloud.github.io/axolotl/docs/config.html) - Full configuration options and examples
+- [Dataset Guide](https://axolotl-ai-cloud.github.io/axolotl/docs/dataset-formats/) - Supported formats and how to use them
+- [Multi-GPU Training](https://axolotl-ai-cloud.github.io/axolotl/docs/multi-gpu.html)
+- [Multi-Node Training](https://axolotl-ai-cloud.github.io/axolotl/docs/multi-node.html)
+- [Multipacking](https://axolotl-ai-cloud.github.io/axolotl/docs/multipack.html)
+- [FAQ](https://axolotl-ai-cloud.github.io/axolotl/docs/faq.html) - Frequently asked questions
 
-# inference
-accelerate launch -m axolotl.cli.inference examples/llama-3/lora-1b.yml \
-    --lora_model_dir="./outputs/lora-out"
+## 🤝 Getting Help
 
-# gradio
-accelerate launch -m axolotl.cli.inference examples/llama-3/lora-1b.yml \
-    --lora_model_dir="./outputs/lora-out" --gradio
+- Join our [Discord community](https://discord.gg/HhrNrHJPRb) for support
+- Check out our [Examples](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/tree/main/examples/) directory
+- Read our [Debugging Guide](https://axolotl-ai-cloud.github.io/axolotl/docs/debugging.html)
+- Need dedicated support? Please contact [✉️wing@axolotl.ai](mailto:wing@axolotl.ai) for options
 
-# remote yaml files - the yaml config can be hosted on a public URL
-# Note: the yaml config must directly link to the **raw** yaml
-accelerate launch -m axolotl.cli.train https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/main/examples/llama-3/lora-1b.yml
-```
+## 🌟 Contributing
 
-</details>
+Contributions are welcome! Please see our [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.
 
-## Badge ❤🏷️
-
-Building something cool with Axolotl? Consider adding a badge to your model card.
-
-```markdown
-[<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/main/image/axolotl-badge-web.png" alt="Built with Axolotl" width="200" height="32"/>](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl)
-```
-
-[<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/main/image/axolotl-badge-web.png" alt="Built with Axolotl" width="200" height="32"/>](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl)
-
-## Sponsors 🤝❤
-
-If you love axolotl, consider sponsoring the project by reaching out directly to [wing@axolotl.ai](mailto:wing@axolotl.ai).
-
----
-
-- [Modal](https://modal.com/) Modal lets you run data/AI jobs in the cloud, by just writing a few lines of Python. Customers use Modal to deploy Gen AI models at large scale, fine-tune LLM models, run protein folding simulations, and much more.
-
----
-
-## Contributing 🤝
-
-Please read the [contributing guide](./.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)
-
-Bugs? Please check the [open issues](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/issues/bug) else create a new Issue.
-
-PRs are **greatly welcome**!
-
-Please run the quickstart instructions followed by the below to setup env:
-```bash
-pip3 install -r requirements-dev.txt -r requirements-tests.txt
-pre-commit install
-
-# test
-pytest tests/
-
-# optional: run against all files
-pre-commit run --all-files
-```
-
-Thanks to all of our contributors to date. Help drive open source AI progress forward by contributing to Axolotl.
-
-<a href="https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/graphs/contributors">
-  <img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=openaccess-ai-collective/axolotl" alt="contributor chart by https://contrib.rocks"/>
-</a>
-
-## Axolotl supports
+## Supported Models
 
 |             | fp16/fp32 | lora | qlora | gptq | gptq w/flash attn | flash attn | xformers attn |
 |-------------|:----------|:-----|-------|------|-------------------|------------|--------------|
@@ -272,523 +136,16 @@ Thanks to all of our contributors to date. Help drive open source AI progress fo
 ❌: not supported
 ❓: untested
 
-## Advanced Setup
+## ❤️ Sponsors
 
-### Environment
+Thank you to our sponsors who help make Axolotl possible:
 
-#### Docker
+- [Modal](https://www.modal.com?utm_source=github&utm_medium=github&utm_campaign=axolotl) - Modal lets you run
+jobs in the cloud, by just writing a few lines of Python. Customers use Modal to deploy Gen AI models at large scale,
+fine-tune large language models, run protein folding simulations, and much more.
 
-  ```bash
-  docker run --gpus '"all"' --rm -it axolotlai/axolotl:main-latest
-  ```
+Interested in sponsoring? Contact us at [wing@axolotl.ai](mailto:wing@axolotl.ai)
 
-  Or run on the current files for development:
+## 📜 License
 
-  ```sh
-  docker compose up -d
-  ```
-
->[!Tip]
-> If you want to debug axolotl or prefer to use Docker as your development environment, see the [debugging guide's section on Docker](docs/debugging.qmd#debugging-with-docker).
-
-  <details>
-
-  <summary>Docker advanced</summary>
-
-  A more powerful Docker command to run would be this:
-
-  ```bash
-docker run --privileged --gpus '"all"' --shm-size 10g --rm -it --name axolotl --ipc=host --ulimit memlock=-1 --ulimit stack=67108864 --mount type=bind,src="${PWD}",target=/workspace/axolotl -v ${HOME}/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface axolotlai/axolotl:main-latest
-  ```
-
-  It additionally:
-  * Prevents memory issues when running e.g. deepspeed (e.g. you could hit SIGBUS/signal 7 error) through `--ipc` and `--ulimit` args.
-  * Persists the downloaded HF data (models etc.) and your modifications to axolotl code through `--mount`/`-v` args.
-  * The `--name` argument simply makes it easier to refer to the container in vscode (`Dev Containers: Attach to Running Container...`) or in your terminal.
-  * The `--privileged` flag gives all capabilities to the container.
-  * The `--shm-size 10g` argument increases the shared memory size. Use this if you see `exitcode: -7` errors using deepspeed.
-
-  [More information on nvidia website](https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/frameworks/user-guide/index.html#setincshmem)
-
-  </details>
-
-#### Conda/Pip venv
-  1. Install python >=**3.10**
-
-  2. Install pytorch stable https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/
-
-  3. Install Axolotl along with python dependencies
-        ```bash
-        pip3 install packaging
-        pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn,deepspeed]'
-        ```
-  4. (Optional) Login to Huggingface to use gated models/datasets.
-        ```bash
-        huggingface-cli login
-        ```
-        Get the token at huggingface.co/settings/tokens
-
-#### Cloud GPU
-
-For cloud GPU providers that support docker images, use [`axolotlai/axolotl-cloud:main-latest`](https://hub.docker.com/r/axolotlai/axolotl-cloud/tags)
-
-- on Latitude.sh use this [direct link](https://latitude.sh/blueprint/989e0e79-3bf6-41ea-a46b-1f246e309d5c)
-- on JarvisLabs.ai use this [direct link](https://jarvislabs.ai/templates/axolotl)
-- on RunPod use this [direct link](https://runpod.io/gsc?template=v2ickqhz9s&ref=6i7fkpdz)
-
-#### Bare Metal Cloud GPU
-
-##### LambdaLabs
-
-  <details>
-
-  <summary>Click to Expand</summary>
-
-  1. Install python
-  ```bash
-  sudo apt update
-  sudo apt install -y python3.10
-
-  sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3.10 1
-  sudo update-alternatives --config python # pick 3.10 if given option
-  python -V # should be 3.10
-
-  ```
-
-  2. Install pip
-  ```bash
-  wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
-  python get-pip.py
-  ```
-
-  3. Install Pytorch https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/
-
-  4. Follow instructions on quickstart.
-
-  5. Run
-  ```bash
-  pip3 install protobuf==3.20.3
-  pip3 install -U --ignore-installed requests Pillow psutil scipy
-  ```
-
-  6. Set path
-  ```bash
-  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-  ```
-  </details>
-
-##### GCP
-
-<details>
-
-<summary>Click to Expand</summary>
-
-Use a Deeplearning linux OS with cuda and pytorch installed. Then follow instructions on quickstart.
-
-Make sure to run the below to uninstall xla.
-```bash
-pip uninstall -y torch_xla[tpu]
-```
-
-</details>
-
-#### Windows
-Please use WSL or Docker!
-
-#### Mac
-
-Use the below instead of the install method in QuickStart.
-```
-pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.'
-```
-More info: [mac.md](/docs/mac.qmd)
-
-#### Google Colab
-
-Please use this example [notebook](examples/colab-notebooks/colab-axolotl-example.ipynb).
-
-#### Launching on public clouds via SkyPilot
-To launch on GPU instances (both on-demand and spot instances) on 7+ clouds (GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI, and more), you can use [SkyPilot](https://skypilot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html):
-
-```bash
-pip install "skypilot-nightly[gcp,aws,azure,oci,lambda,kubernetes,ibm,scp]"  # choose your clouds
-sky check
-```
-
-Get the [example YAMLs](https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot/tree/master/llm/axolotl) of using Axolotl to finetune `mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1`:
-```
-git clone https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot.git
-cd skypilot/llm/axolotl
-```
-
-Use one command to launch:
-```bash
-# On-demand
-HF_TOKEN=xx sky launch axolotl.yaml --env HF_TOKEN
-
-# Managed spot (auto-recovery on preemption)
-HF_TOKEN=xx BUCKET=<unique-name> sky spot launch axolotl-spot.yaml --env HF_TOKEN --env BUCKET
-```
-
-#### Launching on public clouds via dstack
-To launch on GPU instance (both on-demand and spot instances) on public clouds (GCP, AWS, Azure, Lambda Labs, TensorDock, Vast.ai, and CUDO), you can use [dstack](https://dstack.ai/).
-
-Write a job description in YAML as below:
-
-```yaml
-# dstack.yaml
-type: task
-
-image: axolotlai/axolotl-cloud:main-latest
-
-env:
-  - HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN
-  - WANDB_API_KEY
-
-commands:
-  - accelerate launch -m axolotl.cli.train config.yaml
-
-ports:
-  - 6006
-
-resources:
-  gpu:
-    memory: 24GB..
-    count: 2
-```
-
-then, simply run the job with `dstack run` command. Append `--spot` option if you want spot instance. `dstack run` command will show you the instance with cheapest price across multi cloud services:
-
-```bash
-pip install dstack
-HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN=xxx WANDB_API_KEY=xxx dstack run . -f dstack.yaml # --spot
-```
-
-For further and fine-grained use cases, please refer to the official [dstack documents](https://dstack.ai/docs/) and the detailed description of [axolotl example](https://github.com/dstackai/dstack/tree/master/examples/fine-tuning/axolotl) on the official repository.
-
-### Dataset
-
-Axolotl supports a variety of dataset formats.  It is recommended to use a JSONL.  The schema of the JSONL depends upon the task and the prompt template you wish to use.  Instead of a JSONL, you can also use a HuggingFace dataset with columns for each JSONL field.
-
-See [the documentation](https://axolotl-ai-cloud.github.io/axolotl/docs/dataset-formats/) for more information on how to use different dataset formats.
-
-### Config
-
-See [examples](examples) for quick start. It is recommended to duplicate and modify to your needs. The most important options are:
-
-- model
-  ```yaml
-  base_model: ./llama-7b-hf # local or huggingface repo
-  ```
-  Note: The code will load the right architecture.
-
-- dataset
-  ```yaml
-  datasets:
-      # huggingface repo
-    - path: vicgalle/alpaca-gpt4
-      type: alpaca
-
-      # huggingface repo with specific configuration/subset
-    - path: EleutherAI/pile
-      name: enron_emails
-      type: completion # format from earlier
-      field: text # Optional[str] default: text, field to use for completion data
-
-      # huggingface repo with multiple named configurations/subsets
-    - path: bigcode/commitpackft
-      name:
-        - ruby
-        - python
-        - typescript
-      type: ... # unimplemented custom format
-
-      # chat_template https://axolotl-ai-cloud.github.io/axolotl/docs/dataset-formats/conversation.html#chat_template
-    - path: ...
-      type: chat_template
-      chat_template: chatml # defaults to tokenizer's chat_template
-
-      # local
-    - path: data.jsonl # or json
-      ds_type: json # see other options below
-      type: alpaca
-
-      # dataset with splits, but no train split
-    - path: knowrohit07/know_sql
-      type: context_qa.load_v2
-      train_on_split: validation
-
-      # loading from s3 or gcs
-      # s3 creds will be loaded from the system default and gcs only supports public access
-    - path: s3://path_to_ds # Accepts folder with arrow/parquet or file path like above. Supports s3, gcs.
-      ...
-
-      # Loading Data From a Public URL
-      # - The file format is `json` (which includes `jsonl`) by default. For different formats, adjust the `ds_type` option accordingly.
-    - path: https://some.url.com/yourdata.jsonl # The URL should be a direct link to the file you wish to load. URLs must use HTTPS protocol, not HTTP.
-      ds_type: json # this is the default, see other options below.
-  ```
-
-- loading
-  ```yaml
-  load_in_4bit: true
-  load_in_8bit: true
-
-  bf16: auto # require >=ampere, auto will detect if your GPU supports this and choose automatically.
-  fp16: # leave empty to use fp16 when bf16 is 'auto'. set to false if you want to fallback to fp32
-  tf32: true # require >=ampere
-
-  bfloat16: true # require >=ampere, use instead of bf16 when you don't want AMP (automatic mixed precision)
-  float16: true # use instead of fp16 when you don't want AMP
-  ```
-  Note: Repo does not do 4-bit quantization.
-
-- lora
-  ```yaml
-  adapter: lora # 'qlora' or leave blank for full finetune
-  lora_r: 8
-  lora_alpha: 16
-  lora_dropout: 0.05
-  lora_target_modules:
-    - q_proj
-    - v_proj
-  ```
-
-#### All Config Options
-
-See [these docs](docs/config.qmd) for all config options.
-
-### Train
-
-Run
-```bash
-accelerate launch -m axolotl.cli.train your_config.yml
-```
-
-> [!TIP]
-> You can also reference a config file that is hosted on a public URL, for example `accelerate launch -m axolotl.cli.train https://yourdomain.com/your_config.yml`
-
-#### Preprocess dataset
-
-You can optionally pre-tokenize dataset with the following before finetuning.
-This is recommended for large datasets.
-
-- Set `dataset_prepared_path:` to a local folder for saving and loading pre-tokenized dataset.
-- (Optional): Set `push_dataset_to_hub: hf_user/repo` to push it to Huggingface.
-- (Optional): Use `--debug` to see preprocessed examples.
-
-```bash
-python -m axolotl.cli.preprocess your_config.yml
-```
-
-#### Multi-GPU
-
-Below are the options available in axolotl for training with multiple GPUs. Note that DeepSpeed
-is the recommended multi-GPU option currently because FSDP may experience
-[loss instability](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/26498).
-
-##### DeepSpeed
-
-Deepspeed is an optimization suite for multi-gpu systems allowing you to train much larger models than you
-might typically be able to fit into your GPU's VRAM. More information about the various optimization types
-for deepspeed is available at https://huggingface.co/docs/accelerate/main/en/usage_guides/deepspeed#what-is-integrated
-
-We provide several default deepspeed JSON configurations for ZeRO stage 1, 2, and 3.
-
-```yaml
-deepspeed: deepspeed_configs/zero1.json
-```
-
-```shell
-accelerate launch -m axolotl.cli.train examples/llama-2/config.yml --deepspeed deepspeed_configs/zero1.json
-```
-
-##### FSDP
-
-- llama FSDP
-```yaml
-fsdp:
-  - full_shard
-  - auto_wrap
-fsdp_config:
-  fsdp_offload_params: true
-  fsdp_state_dict_type: FULL_STATE_DICT
-  fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: LlamaDecoderLayer
-```
-
-##### FSDP + QLoRA
-
-Axolotl supports training with FSDP and QLoRA, see [these docs](docs/fsdp_qlora.qmd) for more information.
-
-##### Weights & Biases Logging
-
-Make sure your `WANDB_API_KEY` environment variable is set (recommended) or you login to wandb with `wandb login`.
-
-- wandb options
-```yaml
-wandb_mode:
-wandb_project:
-wandb_entity:
-wandb_watch:
-wandb_name:
-wandb_log_model:
-```
-
-##### Comet Logging
-
-Make sure your `COMET_API_KEY` environment variable is set (recommended) or you login to wandb with `comet login`.
-
-- wandb options
-```yaml
-use_comet:
-comet_api_key:
-comet_workspace:
-comet_project_name:
-comet_experiment_key:
-comet_mode:
-comet_online:
-comet_experiment_config:
-```
-
-##### Special Tokens
-
-It is important to have special tokens like delimiters, end-of-sequence, beginning-of-sequence in your tokenizer's vocabulary.  This will help you avoid tokenization issues and help your model train better.  You can do this in axolotl like this:
-
-```yml
-special_tokens:
-  bos_token: "<s>"
-  eos_token: "</s>"
-  unk_token: "<unk>"
-tokens: # these are delimiters
-  - "<|im_start|>"
-  - "<|im_end|>"
-```
-
-When you include these tokens in your axolotl config, axolotl adds these tokens to the tokenizer's vocabulary.
-
-##### Liger Kernel
-
-Liger Kernel: Efficient Triton Kernels for LLM Training
-
-https://github.com/linkedin/Liger-Kernel
-
-Liger (LinkedIn GPU Efficient Runtime) Kernel is a collection of Triton kernels designed specifically for LLM training.
-It can effectively increase multi-GPU training throughput by 20% and reduces memory usage by 60%. The Liger Kernel
-composes well and is compatible with both FSDP and Deepspeed.
-
-```yaml
-plugins:
-  - axolotl.integrations.liger.LigerPlugin
-liger_rope: true
-liger_rms_norm: true
-liger_glu_activation: true
-liger_layer_norm: true
-liger_fused_linear_cross_entropy: true
-```
-
-### Inference Playground
-
-Axolotl allows you to load your model in an interactive terminal playground for quick experimentation.
-The config file is the same config file used for training.
-
-Pass the appropriate flag to the inference command, depending upon what kind of model was trained:
-
-- Pretrained LORA:
-  ```bash
-  python -m axolotl.cli.inference examples/your_config.yml --lora_model_dir="./lora-output-dir"
-  ```
-- Full weights finetune:
-  ```bash
-  python -m axolotl.cli.inference examples/your_config.yml --base_model="./completed-model"
-  ```
-- Full weights finetune w/ a prompt from a text file:
-  ```bash
-  cat /tmp/prompt.txt | python -m axolotl.cli.inference examples/your_config.yml \
-    --base_model="./completed-model" --prompter=None --load_in_8bit=True
-  ```
--- With gradio hosting
-  ```bash
-  python -m axolotl.cli.inference examples/your_config.yml --gradio
-  ```
-
-Please use `--sample_packing False` if you have it on and receive the error similar to below:
-
-> RuntimeError: stack expects each tensor to be equal size, but got [1, 32, 1, 128] at entry 0 and [1, 32, 8, 128] at entry 1
-
-### Merge LORA to base
-
-The following command will merge your LORA adapater with your base model. You can optionally pass the argument `--lora_model_dir` to specify the directory where your LORA adapter was saved, otherwhise, this will be inferred from `output_dir` in your axolotl config file.  The merged model is saved in the sub-directory `{lora_model_dir}/merged`.
-
-```bash
-python3 -m axolotl.cli.merge_lora your_config.yml --lora_model_dir="./completed-model"
-```
-
-You may need to use the `gpu_memory_limit` and/or `lora_on_cpu` config options to avoid running out of memory. If you still run out of CUDA memory, you can try to merge in system RAM with
-
-```bash
-CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="" python3 -m axolotl.cli.merge_lora ...
-```
-
-although this will be very slow, and using the config options above are recommended instead.
-
-## Common Errors 🧰
-
-See also the [FAQ's](./docs/faq.qmd) and [debugging guide](docs/debugging.qmd).
-
-> If you encounter a 'Cuda out of memory' error, it means your GPU ran out of memory during the training process. Here's how to resolve it:
-
-Please reduce any below
-  - `micro_batch_size`
-  - `eval_batch_size`
-  - `gradient_accumulation_steps`
-  - `sequence_len`
-
-If it does not help, try running without deepspeed and without accelerate (replace "accelerate launch" with "python") in the command.
-
-Using adamw_bnb_8bit might also save you some memory.
-
-> `failed (exitcode: -9)`
-
-Usually means your system has run out of system memory.
-Similarly, you should consider reducing the same settings as when you run out of VRAM.
-Additionally, look into upgrading your system RAM which should be simpler than GPU upgrades.
-
-> RuntimeError: expected scalar type Float but found Half
-
-Try set `fp16: true`
-
-> NotImplementedError: No operator found for `memory_efficient_attention_forward` ...
-
-Try to turn off xformers.
-
-> accelerate config missing
-
-It's safe to ignore it.
-
-> NCCL Timeouts during training
-
-See the [NCCL](docs/nccl.qmd) guide.
-
-
-### Tokenization Mismatch b/w Inference & Training
-
-For many formats, Axolotl constructs prompts by concatenating token ids _after_ tokenizing strings.  The reason for concatenating token ids rather than operating on strings is to maintain precise accounting for attention masks.
-
-If you decode a prompt constructed by axolotl, you might see spaces between tokens (or lack thereof) that you do not expect, especially around delimiters and special tokens.  When you are starting out with a new format, you should always do the following:
-
-1. Materialize some data using `python -m axolotl.cli.preprocess your_config.yml --debug`, and then decode the first few rows with your model's tokenizer.
-2. During inference, right before you pass a tensor of token ids to your model, decode these tokens back into a string.
-3. Make sure the inference string from #2 looks **exactly** like the data you fine tuned on from #1, including spaces and new lines.  If they aren't the same, adjust your inference server accordingly.
-4. As an additional troubleshooting step, you can look at the token ids between 1 and 2 to make sure they are identical.
-
-Having misalignment between your prompts during training and inference can cause models to perform very poorly, so it is worth checking this.  See [this blog post](https://hamel.dev/notes/llm/finetuning/05_tokenizer_gotchas.html) for a concrete example.
-
-## Debugging Axolotl
-
-See [this debugging guide](docs/debugging.qmd) for tips on debugging Axolotl, along with an example configuration for debugging with VSCode.
-
-## Need help? 🙋
-
-Join our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/HhrNrHJPRb) where our community members can help you.
-
-Need dedicated support? Please contact us at [✉️wing@axolotl.ai](ailto:wing@axolotl.ai) for dedicated support options.
+This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

_quarto.yml

@@ -28,16 +28,21 @@ website:
         - section: "How-To Guides"
           contents:
           # TODO Edit folder structure after we have more docs.
+            - docs/getting-started.qmd
+            - docs/installation.qmd
             - docs/debugging.qmd
+            - docs/inference.qmd
             - docs/multipack.qmd
             - docs/fsdp_qlora.qmd
             - docs/input_output.qmd
             - docs/rlhf.qmd
             - docs/nccl.qmd
             - docs/mac.qmd
+            - docs/multi-gpu.qmd
             - docs/multi-node.qmd
             - docs/unsloth.qmd
             - docs/amd_hpc.qmd
+            - docs/ray-integration.qmd
         - section: "Dataset Formats"
           contents: docs/dataset-formats/*
         - section: "Reference"
@@ -45,7 +50,6 @@ website:
             - docs/config.qmd
         - docs/faq.qmd
 
-
 format:
   html:
     theme: materia

cicd/Dockerfile.jinja

@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ RUN if [ "$NIGHTLY_BUILD" = "true" ] ; then \
     fi
 
 RUN if [ "$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS" != "" ] ; then \
-        pip install --no-build-isolation -e .[deepspeed,flash-attn,optimizers,$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS] $AXOLOTL_ARGS; \
+        pip install --no-build-isolation -e .[deepspeed,flash-attn,optimizers,ray,$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS] $AXOLOTL_ARGS; \
     else \
-        pip install --no-build-isolation -e .[deepspeed,flash-attn,optimizers] $AXOLOTL_ARGS; \
+        pip install --no-build-isolation -e .[deepspeed,flash-attn,optimizers,ray] $AXOLOTL_ARGS; \
     fi
 
 RUN python scripts/unsloth_install.py | sh

cicd/cicd.sh

@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ python -c "import torch; assert '$PYTORCH_VERSION' in torch.__version__"
 pytest -v --durations=10 -n8 --ignore=tests/e2e/ --ignore=tests/patched/ /workspace/axolotl/tests/
 # pytest -v --durations=10 -n8 --dist loadfile /workspace/axolotl/tests/patched/
 pytest -v --durations=10 /workspace/axolotl/tests/e2e/patched/
+pytest -v --durations=10 -n1 /workspace/axolotl/tests/e2e/solo/
 pytest -v --durations=10 /workspace/axolotl/tests/e2e/integrations/
-pytest -v --durations=10 --ignore=tests/e2e/patched/ --ignore=tests/e2e/multigpu/ --ignore=tests/e2e/integrations/ /workspace/axolotl/tests/e2e/
+pytest -v --durations=10 --ignore=tests/e2e/solo/ --ignore=tests/e2e/patched/ --ignore=tests/e2e/multigpu/ --ignore=tests/e2e/integrations/ /workspace/axolotl/tests/e2e/

cicd/multigpu.py

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ df_template = template_env.get_template("Dockerfile.jinja")
 df_args = {
     "AXOLOTL_EXTRAS": os.environ.get("AXOLOTL_EXTRAS", ""),
     "AXOLOTL_ARGS": os.environ.get("AXOLOTL_ARGS", ""),
-    "PYTORCH_VERSION": os.environ.get("PYTORCH_VERSION", "2.3.1"),
-    "BASE_TAG": os.environ.get("BASE_TAG", "main-base-py3.11-cu121-2.3.1"),
+    "PYTORCH_VERSION": os.environ.get("PYTORCH_VERSION", "2.4.1"),
+    "BASE_TAG": os.environ.get("BASE_TAG", "main-base-py3.11-cu121-2.4.1"),
     "CUDA": os.environ.get("CUDA", "121"),
     "GITHUB_REF": os.environ.get("GITHUB_REF", "refs/heads/main"),
     "GITHUB_SHA": os.environ.get("GITHUB_SHA", ""),

cicd/tests.py

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ df_template = template_env.get_template("Dockerfile.jinja")
 df_args = {
     "AXOLOTL_EXTRAS": os.environ.get("AXOLOTL_EXTRAS", ""),
     "AXOLOTL_ARGS": os.environ.get("AXOLOTL_ARGS", ""),
-    "PYTORCH_VERSION": os.environ.get("PYTORCH_VERSION", "2.3.1"),
-    "BASE_TAG": os.environ.get("BASE_TAG", "main-base-py3.11-cu121-2.3.1"),
+    "PYTORCH_VERSION": os.environ.get("PYTORCH_VERSION", "2.4.1"),
+    "BASE_TAG": os.environ.get("BASE_TAG", "main-base-py3.11-cu121-2.4.1"),
     "CUDA": os.environ.get("CUDA", "121"),
     "GITHUB_REF": os.environ.get("GITHUB_REF", "refs/heads/main"),
     "GITHUB_SHA": os.environ.get("GITHUB_SHA", ""),
@@ -38,16 +38,12 @@ temp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
 with open(pathlib.Path(temp_dir) / "Dockerfile", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
     f.write(dockerfile_contents)
 
-cicd_image = (
-    Image.from_dockerfile(
-        pathlib.Path(temp_dir) / "Dockerfile",
-        context_mount=None,
-        force_build=True,
-        gpu="A10G",
-    )
-    .env(df_args)
-    .pip_install("fastapi==0.110.0", "pydantic==2.6.3")
-)
+cicd_image = Image.from_dockerfile(
+    pathlib.Path(temp_dir) / "Dockerfile",
+    context_mount=None,
+    force_build=True,
+    gpu="A10G",
+).env(df_args)
 
 app = App("Axolotl CI/CD", secrets=[])
 
@@ -59,7 +55,7 @@ VOLUME_CONFIG = {
 }
 
 N_GPUS = int(os.environ.get("N_GPUS", 1))
-GPU_CONFIG = modal.gpu.A10G(count=N_GPUS)
+GPU_CONFIG = modal.gpu.L40S(count=N_GPUS)
 
 
 def run_cmd(cmd: str, run_folder: str):

docker/Dockerfile

@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ WORKDIR /workspace/axolotl
 
 # If AXOLOTL_EXTRAS is set, append it in brackets
 RUN if [ "$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS" != "" ] ; then \
-        pip install --no-build-isolation -e .[deepspeed,flash-attn,optimizers,$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS] $AXOLOTL_ARGS; \
+        pip install --no-build-isolation -e .[deepspeed,flash-attn,optimizers,ray,$AXOLOTL_EXTRAS] $AXOLOTL_ARGS; \
     else \
-        pip install --no-build-isolation -e .[deepspeed,flash-attn,optimizers] $AXOLOTL_ARGS; \
+        pip install --no-build-isolation -e .[deepspeed,flash-attn,optimizers,ray] $AXOLOTL_ARGS; \
     fi
 
 RUN python scripts/unsloth_install.py | sh

docker/Dockerfile-cloud

@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ RUN apt install --yes --no-install-recommends openssh-server tmux && \
     printf "\n[[ -z \"\$TMUX\"  ]] && { tmux attach-session -t ssh_tmux || tmux new-session -s ssh_tmux; exit; }\n" >> ~/.bashrc && \
     printf "[ ! -z \"\$TERM\" -a -r /etc/motd ] && cat /etc/motd\n" >> ~/.bashrc && \
     chmod +x /workspace/axolotl/scripts/cloud-entrypoint.sh && \
-    chmod +x /root/cloud-entrypoint.sh
+    chmod +x /root/cloud-entrypoint.sh && \
+    echo 'set-option -g history-limit 5000' >> ~/.tmux.conf
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["/root/cloud-entrypoint.sh"]
 CMD ["sleep", "infinity"]

docs/cli.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,256 @@
+# Axolotl CLI Documentation
+
+The Axolotl CLI provides a streamlined interface for training and fine-tuning large language models. This guide covers
+the CLI commands, their usage, and common examples.
+
+### Table of Contents
+
+- Basic Commands
+- Command Reference
+  - fetch
+  - preprocess
+  - train
+  - inference
+  - merge-lora
+  - merge-sharded-fsdp-weights
+  - evaluate
+  - lm-eval
+- Legacy CLI Usage
+- Remote Compute with Modal Cloud
+  - Cloud Configuration
+  - Running on Modal Cloud
+  - Cloud Configuration Options
+
+
+### Basic Commands
+
+All Axolotl commands follow this general structure:
+
+```bash
+axolotl <command> [config.yml] [options]
+```
+
+The config file can be local or a URL to a raw YAML file.
+
+### Command Reference
+
+#### fetch
+
+Downloads example configurations and deepspeed configs to your local machine.
+
+```bash
+# Get example YAML files
+axolotl fetch examples
+
+# Get deepspeed config files
+axolotl fetch deepspeed_configs
+
+# Specify custom destination
+axolotl fetch examples --dest path/to/folder
+```
+
+#### preprocess
+
+Preprocesses and tokenizes your dataset before training. This is recommended for large datasets.
+
+```bash
+# Basic preprocessing
+axolotl preprocess config.yml
+
+# Preprocessing with one GPU
+CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0" axolotl preprocess config.yml
+
+# Debug mode to see processed examples
+axolotl preprocess config.yml --debug
+
+# Debug with limited examples
+axolotl preprocess config.yml --debug --debug-num-examples 5
+```
+
+Configuration options:
+
+```yaml
+dataset_prepared_path: Local folder for saving preprocessed data
+push_dataset_to_hub: HuggingFace repo to push preprocessed data (optional)
+```
+
+#### train
+
+Trains or fine-tunes a model using the configuration specified in your YAML file.
+
+```bash
+# Basic training
+axolotl train config.yml
+
+# Train and set/override specific options
+axolotl train config.yml \
+    --learning-rate 1e-4 \
+    --micro-batch-size 2 \
+    --num-epochs 3
+
+# Training without accelerate
+axolotl train config.yml --no-accelerate
+
+# Resume training from checkpoint
+axolotl train config.yml --resume-from-checkpoint path/to/checkpoint
+```
+
+#### inference
+
+Runs inference using your trained model in either CLI or Gradio interface mode.
+
+```bash
+# CLI inference with LoRA
+axolotl inference config.yml --lora-model-dir="./outputs/lora-out"
+
+# CLI inference with full model
+axolotl inference config.yml --base-model="./completed-model"
+
+# Gradio web interface
+axolotl inference config.yml --gradio \
+    --lora-model-dir="./outputs/lora-out"
+
+# Inference with input from file
+cat prompt.txt | axolotl inference config.yml \
+    --base-model="./completed-model"
+```
+
+#### merge-lora
+
+Merges trained LoRA adapters into the base model.
+
+```bash
+# Basic merge
+axolotl merge-lora config.yml
+
+# Specify LoRA directory (usually used with checkpoints)
+axolotl merge-lora config.yml --lora-model-dir="./lora-output/checkpoint-100"
+
+# Merge using CPU (if out of GPU memory)
+CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="" axolotl merge-lora config.yml
+```
+
+Configuration options:
+
+```yaml
+gpu_memory_limit: Limit GPU memory usage
+lora_on_cpu: Load LoRA weights on CPU
+```
+
+#### merge-sharded-fsdp-weights
+
+Merges sharded FSDP model checkpoints into a single combined checkpoint.
+
+```bash
+# Basic merge
+axolotl merge-sharded-fsdp-weights config.yml
+```
+
+#### evaluate
+
+Evaluates a model's performance using metrics specified in the config.
+
+```bash
+# Basic evaluation
+axolotl evaluate config.yml
+```
+
+#### lm-eval
+
+Runs LM Evaluation Harness on your model.
+
+```bash
+# Basic evaluation
+axolotl lm-eval config.yml
+
+# Evaluate specific tasks
+axolotl lm-eval config.yml --tasks arc_challenge,hellaswag
+```
+
+Configuration options:
+
+```yaml
+lm_eval_tasks: List of tasks to evaluate
+lm_eval_batch_size: Batch size for evaluation
+output_dir: Directory to save evaluation results
+```
+
+### Legacy CLI Usage
+
+While the new Click-based CLI is preferred, Axolotl still supports the legacy module-based CLI:
+
+```bash
+# Preprocess
+python -m axolotl.cli.preprocess config.yml
+
+# Train
+accelerate launch -m axolotl.cli.train config.yml
+
+# Inference
+accelerate launch -m axolotl.cli.inference config.yml \
+    --lora_model_dir="./outputs/lora-out"
+
+# Gradio interface
+accelerate launch -m axolotl.cli.inference config.yml \
+    --lora_model_dir="./outputs/lora-out" --gradio
+```
+
+### Remote Compute with Modal Cloud
+
+Axolotl supports running training and inference workloads on Modal cloud infrastructure. This is configured using a
+cloud YAML file alongside your regular Axolotl config.
+
+#### Cloud Configuration
+
+Create a cloud config YAML with your Modal settings:
+
+```yaml
+# cloud_config.yml
+provider: modal
+gpu: a100  # Supported: l40s, a100-40gb, a100-80gb, a10g, h100, t4, l4
+gpu_count: 1    # Number of GPUs to use
+timeout: 86400  # Maximum runtime in seconds (24 hours)
+branch: main    # Git branch to use (optional)
+
+volumes:        # Persistent storage volumes
+  - name: axolotl-cache
+    mount: /workspace/cache
+
+env:            # Environment variables
+  - WANDB_API_KEY
+  - HF_TOKEN
+```
+
+#### Running on Modal Cloud
+
+Commands that support the --cloud flag:
+
+```bash
+# Preprocess on cloud
+axolotl preprocess config.yml --cloud cloud_config.yml
+
+# Train on cloud
+axolotl train config.yml --cloud cloud_config.yml
+
+# Train without accelerate on cloud
+axolotl train config.yml --cloud cloud_config.yml --no-accelerate
+
+# Run lm-eval on cloud
+axolotl lm-eval config.yml --cloud cloud_config.yml
+```
+
+#### Cloud Configuration Options
+
+```yaml
+provider: compute provider, currently only `modal` is supported
+gpu: GPU type to use
+gpu_count: Number of GPUs (default: 1)
+memory: RAM in GB (default: 128)
+timeout: Maximum runtime in seconds
+timeout_preprocess: Preprocessing timeout
+branch: Git branch to use
+docker_tag: Custom Docker image tag
+volumes: List of persistent storage volumes
+env: Environment variables to pass
+secrets: Secrets to inject
+```

docs/config.qmd

@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ overrides_of_model_config:
     type: # linear | dynamic
     factor: # float
 
+# optional overrides the base model loading from_pretrained
+overrides_of_model_kwargs:
+  # use_cache: False
+
 # optional overrides to the bnb 4bit quantization configuration
 # https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/main_classes/quantization#transformers.BitsAndBytesConfig
 bnb_config_kwargs:
@@ -187,6 +191,12 @@ rl:
 # whether to perform weighting if doing DPO training. Boolean.
 dpo_use_weighting:
 
+# reward modelling: `True` or `False`
+reward_model:
+
+# process reward modelling: `True` or `False`
+process_reward_model:
+
 # The name of the chat template to use for training, following values are supported:
 # - tokenizer_default: Uses the chat template that is available in the tokenizer_config.json. If the chat template is not available in the tokenizer, it will raise an error. This is the default value.
 # - alpaca/inst/chatml/gemma/cohere/llama3/phi_3/deepseek_v2/jamba: These chat templates are available in the axolotl codebase at src/axolotl/utils/chat_templates.py
@@ -244,6 +254,8 @@ total_num_tokens:
 sample_packing_group_size: 100000
 # The number of samples which can be packed into one sequence. Increase if using a large sequence_len with many short samples.
 sample_packing_bin_size: 200
+# whether to concatenate samples during pretraining
+pretraining_sample_concatenation:
 
 # Use batch flattening for speedups when not using sample_packing
 batch_flattening:
@@ -358,10 +370,11 @@ warmup_ratio: 0.05  # cannot use with warmup_steps
 learning_rate: 0.00003
 lr_quadratic_warmup:
 logging_steps:
-eval_steps: # Leave empty to eval at each epoch, integers for every N steps. decimal for fraction of total steps
+eval_steps: # Leave empty to eval at each epoch, integer for every N steps. float for fraction of total steps
 evals_per_epoch: # number of times per epoch to run evals, mutually exclusive with eval_steps
-save_strategy: # Set to `"no"` to skip checkpoint saves
-save_steps: # Leave empty to save at each epoch
+eval_strategy: # Set to `"no"` to skip evaluation, `"epoch"` at end of each epoch, leave empty to infer from `eval_steps`.
+save_strategy: # Set to `"no"` to skip checkpoint saves, `"epoch"` at end of each epoch, `"best"` when better result is achieved, leave empty to infer from `save_steps`.
+save_steps: # Leave empty to save at each epoch, integer for every N steps. float for fraction of total steps
 saves_per_epoch: # number of times per epoch to save a checkpoint, mutually exclusive with save_steps
 save_total_limit: # Checkpoints saved at a time
 # Maximum number of iterations to train for. It precedes num_epochs which means that

docs/dataset-formats/conversation.qmd

@@ -8,14 +8,12 @@ order: 3
 
 IMPORTANT: ShareGPT is deprecated!. Please see `chat_template` section below.
 
-
 ## pygmalion
 
 ```{.json filename="data.jsonl"}
 {"conversations": [{"role": "...", "value": "..."}]}
 ```
 
-
 ## chat_template
 
 Chat Template strategy uses a jinja2 template that converts a list of messages into a prompt. Support using tokenizer's template, a supported template, or custom jinja2.

docs/dataset-formats/pretraining.qmd

@@ -19,7 +19,14 @@ For pretraining, there is no prompt template or roles.  The only required field
 Axolotl usually loads the entire dataset into memory. This will be challenging for large datasets. Use the following config to enable streaming:
 
 ```{.yaml filename="config.yaml"}
-pretraining_dataset: # hf path only
+pretraining_dataset:
+  - name:
+    path:
+    split:
+    text_column: # column in dataset with the data, usually `text`
+    type: pretrain
+    trust_remote_code:
+    skip: # number of rows of data to skip over from the beginning
 ...
 ```
 

docs/dataset-formats/stepwise_supervised.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+title: Stepwise Supervised Format
+description: Format for datasets with stepwise completions and labels
+order: 3
+---
+
+## Stepwise Supervised
+
+The stepwise supervised format is designed for chain-of-thought (COT) reasoning
+datasets where each example contains multiple completion steps and a preference label
+for each step.
+
+### Example
+
+Here's a simple example of a stepwise supervised dataset entry:
+
+```json
+{
+  "prompt": "Which number is larger, 9.8 or 9.11?",
+  "completions": [
+    "The fractional part of 9.8 is 0.8, while the fractional part of 9.11 is 0.11.",
+    "Since 0.11 is greater than 0.8, the number 9.11 is larger than 9.8."
+  ],
+  "labels": [true, false]
+}
+```

docs/faq.qmd

@@ -19,3 +19,7 @@ description: Frequently asked questions
 **Q: AttributeError: 'DummyOptim' object has no attribute 'step'**
 
 > A: You may be using deepspeed with single gpu. Please don't set `deepspeed:` in yaml or cli.
+
+**Q: The codes is stuck on saving preprocessed datasets.**
+
+> A: This is usually an issue with the GPU. This can be resolved through setting the os environment variable `CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0`. If you are on runpod, this is usually a pod issue. Starting a new pod should take care of it.

docs/getting-started.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+---
+title: "Getting Started with Axolotl"
+format:
+  html:
+    toc: true
+    toc-depth: 3
+    number-sections: true
+execute:
+  enabled: false
+---
+
+This guide will walk you through your first model fine-tuning project with Axolotl.
+
+## Quick Example {#sec-quick-example}
+
+Let's start by fine-tuning a small language model using LoRA. This example uses a 1B parameter model to ensure it runs on most GPUs.
+Assuming `axolotl` is installed (if not, see our [Installation Guide](installation.qmd))
+
+1. Download example configs:
+```shell
+axolotl fetch examples
+```
+
+2. Run the training:
+```shell
+axolotl train examples/llama-3/lora-1b.yml
+```
+
+That's it! Let's understand what just happened.
+
+## Understanding the Process {#sec-understanding}
+
+### The Configuration File {#sec-config}
+
+The YAML configuration file controls everything about your training. Here's what (part of) our example config looks like:
+
+```yaml
+base_model: NousResearch/Llama-3.2-1B
+# hub_model_id: username/custom_model_name
+
+datasets:
+  - path: teknium/GPT4-LLM-Cleaned
+    type: alpaca
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0.1
+output_dir: ./outputs/lora-out
+
+adapter: lora
+lora_model_dir:
+```
+
+See our [Config options](config.qmd) for more details.
+
+### Training {#sec-training}
+
+When you run `axolotl train`, Axolotl:
+
+1. Downloads the base model
+2. (If specified) applies LoRA adapter layers
+3. Loads and processes the dataset
+4. Runs the training loop
+5. Saves the trained model and / or LoRA weights
+
+## Your First Custom Training {#sec-custom}
+
+Let's modify the example for your own data:
+
+1. Create a new config file `my_training.yml`:
+
+```yaml
+base_model: NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-llama-1b-v1
+adapter: lora
+
+# Training settings
+micro_batch_size: 2
+num_epochs: 3
+learning_rate: 0.0003
+
+# Your dataset
+datasets:
+  - path: my_data.jsonl        # Your local data file
+    type: alpaca               # Or other format
+```
+
+This specific config is for LoRA fine-tuning a model with instruction tuning data using
+the `alpaca` dataset format, which has the following format:
+
+```json
+{
+    "instruction": "Write a description of alpacas.",
+    "input": "",
+    "output": "Alpacas are domesticated South American camelids..."
+}
+```
+
+Please see our [Dataset Formats](dataset-formats) for more dataset formats and how to
+format them.
+
+2. Prepare your JSONL data in the specified format (in this case, the expected `alpaca
+format):
+
+```json
+{"instruction": "Classify this text", "input": "I love this!", "output": "positive"}
+{"instruction": "Classify this text", "input": "Not good at all", "output": "negative"}
+```
+
+Please consult the supported [Dataset Formats](dataset-formats/) for more details.
+
+3. Run the training:
+
+```shell
+axolotl train my_training.yml
+```
+
+## Common Tasks {#sec-common-tasks}
+
+### Testing Your Model {#sec-testing}
+
+After training, test your model:
+
+```shell
+axolotl inference my_training.yml --lora-model-dir="./outputs/lora-out"
+```
+
+### Preprocessing Data {#sec-preprocessing}
+
+For large datasets, preprocess first:
+
+```shell
+axolotl preprocess my_training.yml
+```
+
+### Using a UI {#sec-ui}
+
+Launch a Gradio interface:
+
+```shell
+axolotl inference my_training.yml --lora-model-dir="./outputs/lora-out" --gradio
+```
+
+## Next Steps {#sec-next-steps}
+
+Now that you have the basics, you might want to:
+
+- Try different model architectures
+- Experiment with hyperparameters
+- Use more advanced training methods
+- Scale up to larger models
+
+Check our other guides for details on these topics:
+
+- [Configuration Guide](config.qmd) - Full configuration options
+- [Dataset Formats](dataset-formats) - Working with different data formats
+- [Multi-GPU Training](multi-gpu.qmd)
+- [Multi-Node Training](multi-node.qmd)

docs/inference.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+---
+title: "Inference Guide"
+format:
+  html:
+    toc: true
+    toc-depth: 3
+    number-sections: true
+    code-tools: true
+execute:
+  enabled: false
+---
+
+This guide covers how to use your trained models for inference, including model loading, interactive testing, and common troubleshooting steps.
+
+## Quick Start {#sec-quickstart}
+
+### Basic Inference {#sec-basic}
+
+::: {.panel-tabset}
+
+## LoRA Models
+
+```{.bash}
+axolotl inference your_config.yml --lora-model-dir="./lora-output-dir"
+```
+
+## Full Fine-tuned Models
+
+```{.bash}
+axolotl inference your_config.yml --base-model="./completed-model"
+```
+
+:::
+
+## Advanced Usage {#sec-advanced}
+
+### Gradio Interface {#sec-gradio}
+
+Launch an interactive web interface:
+
+```{.bash}
+axolotl inference your_config.yml --gradio
+```
+
+### File-based Prompts {#sec-file-prompts}
+
+Process prompts from a text file:
+
+```{.bash}
+cat /tmp/prompt.txt | axolotl inference your_config.yml \
+  --base-model="./completed-model" --prompter=None
+```
+
+### Memory Optimization {#sec-memory}
+
+For large models or limited memory:
+
+```{.bash}
+axolotl inference your_config.yml --load-in-8bit=True
+```
+
+## Merging LoRA Weights {#sec-merging}
+
+Merge LoRA adapters with the base model:
+
+```{.bash}
+axolotl merge-lora your_config.yml --lora-model-dir="./completed-model"
+```
+
+### Memory Management for Merging {#sec-memory-management}
+
+::: {.panel-tabset}
+
+## Configuration Options
+
+```{.yaml}
+gpu_memory_limit: 20GiB  # Adjust based on your GPU
+lora_on_cpu: true        # Process on CPU if needed
+```
+
+## Force CPU Merging
+
+```{.bash}
+CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="" axolotl merge-lora ...
+```
+
+:::
+
+## Tokenization {#sec-tokenization}
+
+### Common Issues {#sec-tokenization-issues}
+
+::: {.callout-warning}
+Tokenization mismatches between training and inference are a common source of problems.
+:::
+
+To debug:
+
+1. Check training tokenization:
+```{.bash}
+axolotl preprocess your_config.yml --debug
+```
+
+2. Verify inference tokenization by decoding tokens before model input
+
+3. Compare token IDs between training and inference
+
+### Special Tokens {#sec-special-tokens}
+
+Configure special tokens in your YAML:
+
+```{.yaml}
+special_tokens:
+  bos_token: "<s>"
+  eos_token: "</s>"
+  unk_token: "<unk>"
+tokens:
+  - "<|im_start|>"
+  - "<|im_end|>"
+```
+
+## Troubleshooting {#sec-troubleshooting}
+
+### Common Problems {#sec-common-problems}
+
+::: {.panel-tabset}
+
+## Memory Issues
+
+- Use 8-bit loading
+- Reduce batch sizes
+- Try CPU offloading
+
+## Token Issues
+
+- Verify special tokens
+- Check tokenizer settings
+- Compare training and inference preprocessing
+
+## Performance Issues
+
+- Verify model loading
+- Check prompt formatting
+- Ensure temperature/sampling settings
+
+:::
+
+For more details, see our [debugging guide](debugging.qmd).

docs/installation.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+---
+title: "Installation Guide"
+format:
+  html:
+    toc: true
+    toc-depth: 3
+    number-sections: true
+    code-tools: true
+execute:
+  enabled: false
+---
+
+This guide covers all the ways you can install and set up Axolotl for your environment.
+
+## Requirements {#sec-requirements}
+
+- NVIDIA GPU (Ampere architecture or newer for `bf16` and Flash Attention) or AMD GPU
+- Python ≥3.10
+- PyTorch ≥2.4.1
+
+## Installation Methods {#sec-installation-methods}
+
+### PyPI Installation (Recommended) {#sec-pypi}
+
+```{.bash}
+pip3 install --no-build-isolation axolotl[flash-attn,deepspeed]
+```
+
+We use `--no-build-isolation` in order to detect the installed PyTorch version (if
+installed) in order not to clobber it, and so that we set the correct version of
+dependencies that are specific to the PyTorch version or other installed
+co-dependencies.
+
+### Edge/Development Build {#sec-edge-build}
+
+For the latest features between releases:
+
+```{.bash}
+git clone https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl.git
+cd axolotl
+pip3 install packaging ninja
+pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn,deepspeed]'
+```
+
+### Docker {#sec-docker}
+
+```{.bash}
+docker run --gpus '"all"' --rm -it axolotlai/axolotl:main-latest
+```
+
+For development with Docker:
+
+```{.bash}
+docker compose up -d
+```
+
+::: {.callout-tip}
+### Advanced Docker Configuration
+```{.bash}
+docker run --privileged --gpus '"all"' --shm-size 10g --rm -it \
+  --name axolotl --ipc=host \
+  --ulimit memlock=-1 --ulimit stack=67108864 \
+  --mount type=bind,src="${PWD}",target=/workspace/axolotl \
+  -v ${HOME}/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
+  axolotlai/axolotl:main-latest
+```
+:::
+
+## Cloud Environments {#sec-cloud}
+
+### Cloud GPU Providers {#sec-cloud-gpu}
+
+For providers supporting Docker:
+
+- Use `axolotlai/axolotl-cloud:main-latest`
+- Available on:
+  - [Latitude.sh](https://latitude.sh/blueprint/989e0e79-3bf6-41ea-a46b-1f246e309d5c)
+  - [JarvisLabs.ai](https://jarvislabs.ai/templates/axolotl)
+  - [RunPod](https://runpod.io/gsc?template=v2ickqhz9s&ref=6i7fkpdz)
+
+### Google Colab {#sec-colab}
+
+Use our [example notebook](../examples/colab-notebooks/colab-axolotl-example.ipynb).
+
+## Platform-Specific Instructions {#sec-platform-specific}
+
+### macOS {#sec-macos}
+
+```{.bash}
+pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.'
+```
+
+See @sec-troubleshooting for Mac-specific issues.
+
+### Windows {#sec-windows}
+
+::: {.callout-important}
+We recommend using WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) or Docker.
+:::
+
+## Environment Managers {#sec-env-managers}
+
+### Conda/Pip venv {#sec-conda}
+
+1. Install Python ≥3.10
+2. Install PyTorch: https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/
+3. Install Axolotl:
+   ```{.bash}
+   pip3 install packaging
+   pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn,deepspeed]'
+   ```
+4. (Optional) Login to Hugging Face:
+   ```{.bash}
+   huggingface-cli login
+   ```
+
+## Troubleshooting {#sec-troubleshooting}
+
+If you encounter installation issues, see our [FAQ](faq.qmd) and [Debugging Guide](debugging.qmd).

docs/lr_groups.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+---
+title: Learning Rate Groups
+description: "Setting different learning rates by module name"
+---
+
+## Background
+
+Inspired by LoRA+, Axolotl allows practitioners to specify separate learning rates for each module or groups of
+modules in a model.
+
+## Example
+
+```yaml
+lr_groups:
+  - name: o_proj
+    modules:
+      - self_attn.o_proj.weight
+    lr: 1e-6
+  - name: q_proj
+    modules:
+      - model.layers.2.self_attn.q_proj.weight
+    lr: 1e-5
+
+learning_rate: 2e-5
+```
+
+In this example, we have a default learning rate of 2e-5 across the entire model, but we have a separate learning rate
+of 1e-6 for all the self attention `o_proj` modules across all layers, and a learning are of 1e-5 to the 3rd layer's
+self attention `q_proj` module.

docs/multi-gpu.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+---
+title: "Multi-GPU Training Guide"
+format:
+  html:
+    toc: true
+    toc-depth: 3
+    number-sections: true
+    code-tools: true
+execute:
+  enabled: false
+---
+
+This guide covers advanced training configurations for multi-GPU setups using Axolotl.
+
+## Overview {#sec-overview}
+
+Axolotl supports several methods for multi-GPU training:
+
+- DeepSpeed (recommended)
+- FSDP (Fully Sharded Data Parallel)
+- FSDP + QLoRA
+
+## DeepSpeed {#sec-deepspeed}
+
+DeepSpeed is the recommended approach for multi-GPU training due to its stability and performance. It provides various optimization levels through ZeRO stages.
+
+### Configuration {#sec-deepspeed-config}
+
+Add to your YAML config:
+
+```{.yaml}
+deepspeed: deepspeed_configs/zero1.json
+```
+
+### Usage {#sec-deepspeed-usage}
+
+```{.bash}
+accelerate launch -m axolotl.cli.train examples/llama-2/config.yml --deepspeed deepspeed_configs/zero1.json
+```
+
+### ZeRO Stages {#sec-zero-stages}
+
+We provide default configurations for:
+
+- ZeRO Stage 1 (`zero1.json`)
+- ZeRO Stage 2 (`zero2.json`)
+- ZeRO Stage 3 (`zero3.json`)
+
+Choose based on your memory requirements and performance needs.
+
+## FSDP {#sec-fsdp}
+
+### Basic FSDP Configuration {#sec-fsdp-config}
+
+```{.yaml}
+fsdp:
+  - full_shard
+  - auto_wrap
+fsdp_config:
+  fsdp_offload_params: true
+  fsdp_state_dict_type: FULL_STATE_DICT
+  fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: LlamaDecoderLayer
+```
+
+### FSDP + QLoRA {#sec-fsdp-qlora}
+
+For combining FSDP with QLoRA, see our [dedicated guide](fsdp_qlora.qmd).
+
+## Performance Optimization {#sec-performance}
+
+### Liger Kernel Integration {#sec-liger}
+
+::: {.callout-note}
+Liger Kernel provides efficient Triton kernels for LLM training, offering:
+
+- 20% increase in multi-GPU training throughput
+- 60% reduction in memory usage
+- Compatibility with both FSDP and DeepSpeed
+:::
+
+Configuration:
+
+```{.yaml}
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.liger.LigerPlugin
+liger_rope: true
+liger_rms_norm: true
+liger_glu_activation: true
+liger_layer_norm: true
+liger_fused_linear_cross_entropy: true
+```
+
+## Troubleshooting {#sec-troubleshooting}
+
+### NCCL Issues {#sec-nccl}
+
+For NCCL-related problems, see our [NCCL troubleshooting guide](nccl.qmd).
+
+### Common Problems {#sec-common-problems}
+
+::: {.panel-tabset}
+
+## Memory Issues
+
+- Reduce `micro_batch_size`
+- Reduce `eval_batch_size`
+- Adjust `gradient_accumulation_steps`
+- Consider using a higher ZeRO stage
+
+## Training Instability
+
+- Start with DeepSpeed ZeRO-2
+- Monitor loss values
+- Check learning rates
+
+:::
+
+For more detailed troubleshooting, see our [debugging guide](debugging.qmd).

docs/multi-node.qmd

@@ -3,6 +3,18 @@ title: Multi Node
 description: How to use Axolotl on multiple machines
 ---
 
+The below are three ways to train multi-node in Axolotl.
+
+::: {.callout-important}
+Each machine needs a copy of Axolotl, we suggest using the same commit to ensure compatibility.
+
+You will also need to have the same configuration file for your model on each machine.
+
+Make sure the main machine is reachable by other machines.
+:::
+
+# Accelerate
+
 You will need to create a configuration for accelerate, either by using `accelerate config` and follow the instructions or you can use one of the preset below:
 
 ~/.cache/huggingface/accelerate/default_config.yaml
@@ -26,7 +38,7 @@ tpu_use_sudo: false
 use_cpu: false
 ```
 
-Configure your model to use FSDP with for example:
+Configure your model to use FSDP in the Axolotl yaml. For example:
 ```yaml
 fsdp:
   - full_shard
@@ -37,12 +49,40 @@ fsdp_config:
   fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: LlamaDecoderLayer
 ```
 
-## Machine configuration
-
-On each machine you need a copy of Axolotl, we suggest using the same commit to ensure compatibility.
-
-You will also need to have the same configuration file for your model on each machine.
-
-On the main machine only, make sure the port you set as `main_process_port` is open in TCP and reachable by other machines.
-
 All you have to do now is launch using accelerate as you would usually do on each machine and voila, the processes will start once you have launched accelerate on every machine.
+
+# Raytrain
+
+Please see ray train doc [here](ray-integration.qmd).
+
+# Torchrun
+
+If you are using Infiniband, we recommend torchrun to utilize the full bandwidth.
+
+Set the following env (change buffersize/socketname depending on your system):
+
+```yaml
+export NCCL_IB_DISABLE=0
+export NCCL_SOCKET_IFNAME="eth0,en,eth,em,bond"
+export NCCL_BUFFSIZE=2097152
+```
+
+Run the following on each node:
+
+```bash
+torchrun --nnodes $num_nodes --nproc_per_node $gpu_per_node --rdzv_id $rdzv_id --rdzv_backend c10d --rdzv_endpoint "$head_node_ip:$head_node_port" -m axolotl.cli.train config.yaml
+```
+
+Please make sure to substitute the placeholder variables.
+
+- `num_nodes`: Number of nodes (containing GPUs)
+- `gpu_per_node`: Number of gpus per node
+- `head_node_ip`: IP of the head node (make sure other machines can connect to this)
+- `head_node_port`: Port of the head node (make sure other machines can connect to this. Default 29400)
+- `rdzv_id`: A unique job ID that is used by the job across nodes.
+
+::: {.callout-note}
+You need to call `axolotl.cli.train` instead of `axolotl train` as the latter calls accelerate under the hood
+:::
+
+More info on the available configs can be found on the Pytorch docs [here](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/elastic/run.html)

docs/ray-integration.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+---
+title: Ray Train integration
+description: How to use Axolotl with Ray Train
+---
+
+Axolotl supports using Ray as an alternative to `accelerate` for orchestrating training. This is especially useful for multi-node training since you only have to setup code and dependencies in a single node and launch training as if you were using a single node.
+
+With the `--use-ray` CLI flag, Axolotl will use Ray Train's [`TorchTrainer`](https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/train/api/doc/ray.train.torch.TorchTrainer.html#ray.train.torch.TorchTrainer) to run training.
+
+## Ray cluster setup
+
+A prerequisite using the Ray Train integration is to setup a Ray cluster on your desired node(s). For a detailed guide on how you can get started with ray clusters, check the official Ray docs here: https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/cluster/getting-started.html
+
+Every Ray cluster has one _head_ node and a set of worker nodes. The head node is just like any other worker node, but it also runs certain special processes related to scheduling and orchestration. Ray-enabled scripts are run on the head node and depending on the resources (number of CPUs, GPUs, etc) they request, will be scheduled to run certain tasks on the worker nodes. For more on key concepts behind a Ray cluster, you can refer this [doc](https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/cluster/key-concepts.html#cluster-key-concepts).
+
+## Sanity check
+
+To run a sanity check on whether your ray cluster is setup properly, execute the following on the head node:
+
+```bash
+ray status
+```
+
+The output should have a summary of your Ray cluster - list of all the nodes in your cluster, the number of CPUs and GPUs in your cluster, etc. For example, if you have a cluster with 1 CPU-only head node and 2 4xL40S worker nodes, the output can look like this:
+
+
+```
+Node status
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+Active:
+ 1 head
+Idle:
+ 2 4xL40S:48CPU-384GB
+Pending:
+ (no pending nodes)
+Recent failures:
+ (no failures)
+
+Resources
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+Usage:
+ 0.0/96.0 CPU
+ 0.0/8.0 GPU
+ 0B/800.00GiB memory
+ 0B/229.57GiB object_store_memory
+
+Demands:
+ (no resource demands)
+```
+
+You should also be able to see the same on the [Ray dashboard](https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-observability/getting-started.html).
+
+
+## Configuring training with Ray Train
+
+You can find an example configuration at `configs/llama-3/lora-1b-ray.yaml`.
+
+The key parameters to note here are:
+
+```yaml
+...
+use_ray: true
+ray_num_workers: 4
+# optional
+resources_per_worker:
+    GPU: 1
+...
+```
+
+- `use_ray`: This is the flag that enables the Ray Train integration. You can either use the corresponding `--use-ray` flag in the CLI or set `use_ray` in the config file.
+- `ray_num_workers`: This is the number of workers/GPUs to use for training.
+- `resources_per_worker`: This is the Ray [resource request](https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-core/scheduling/resources.html) for each worker. This can be used to request a specific GPU type or a custom resource for each worker. For example, if your ray cluster has GPUs of different types, and you only want to use NVIDIA L40S GPUs, you can do
+
+```yaml
+resources_per_worker:
+    accelerator_type:L40S: 0.001
+```
+
+## Launching training
+
+You can simply run the following command on the head node:
+
+```bash
+axolotl train examples/llama-3/lora-1b-ray.yml --use-ray
+```
+
+This will launch training on the head node and workers will be scheduled automatically by Ray Train to run on the appropriate head or worker nodes.
+
+You can also monitor training progress on the Ray dashboard.
+
+Coming back to the example on a Ray cluster with 1 head node and 2 4xL40S worker nodes, let's say you want to make use of all 8 GPUs. You would be able to just set `ray_num_workers: 8` and run the previous command. The Cluster tab will show the following:
+
+![Ray dashboard](./images/ray-cluster-dashboard.png)

docs/reward_modelling.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+---
+title: "Reward Modelling"
+description: "Reward models are used to guide models towards behaviors which is preferred by humans, by training over large datasets annotated with human preferences. "
+---
+
+### Overview
+
+Reward modelling is a technique used to train models to predict the reward or value of a given input. This is particularly useful in reinforcement learning scenarios where the model needs to evaluate the quality of its actions or predictions.
+We support the reward modelling techniques supported by `trl`.
+
+### (Outcome) Reward Models
+
+Outcome reward models are trained using data which contains preference annotations for an entire interaction between the user and model (e.g. rather than per-turn or per-step).
+
+```yaml
+base_model: google/gemma-2-2b
+model_type: AutoModelForSequenceClassification
+num_labels: 1
+tokenizer_type: AutoTokenizer
+
+reward_model: true
+chat_template: gemma
+datasets:
+  - path: argilla/distilabel-intel-orca-dpo-pairs
+    type: bradley_terry.chat_template
+
+val_set_size: 0.1
+eval_steps: 100
+```
+
+### Process Reward Models (PRM)
+
+Process reward models are trained using data which contains preference annotations for each step in a series of interactions. Typically, PRMs are trained to provide reward signals over each step of a reasoning trace and are used for downstream reinforcement learning.
+```yaml
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B
+model_type: AutoModelForTokenClassification
+num_labels: 2
+
+process_reward_model: true
+datasets:
+  - path: trl-lib/math_shepherd
+    type: stepwise_supervised
+    split: train
+
+val_set_size: 0.1
+eval_steps: 100
+```

examples/cerebras/btlm-ft.yml

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ output_dir: ./outputs/btlm-out
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
 micro_batch_size: 1
 num_epochs: 1
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 adam_beta2: 0.95
 adam_eps: 0.000000001
 max_grad_norm: 1.0

examples/cloud/modal.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+project_name:
+volumes:
+  - name: axolotl-data
+    mount: /workspace/data
+  - name: axolotl-artifacts
+    mount: /workspace/artifacts
+
+# environment variables from local to set as secrets
+secrets:
+  - HF_TOKEN
+  - WANDB_API_KEY
+
+# Which branch of axolotl to use remotely
+branch:
+
+# additional custom commands when building the image
+dockerfile_commands:
+
+gpu: h100
+gpu_count: 1
+
+# Train specific configurations
+memory: 128
+timeout: 86400
+
+# Preprocess specific configurations
+memory_preprocess: 32
+timeout_preprocess: 14400

examples/deepseek-v2/fft-fsdp-16b.yaml

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ wandb_log_model:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 8
 micro_batch_size: 1
 num_epochs: 1
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 lr_scheduler: cosine
 learning_rate: 2e-5
 

examples/deepseek-v2/qlora-fsdp-2_5.yaml

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ peft_use_rslora: true
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
 micro_batch_size: 8
 num_epochs: 1
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 lr_scheduler: cosine
 learning_rate: 2e-5
 

examples/gemma2/reward-model.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 base_model: google/gemma-2-2b
 # optionally might have model_type or tokenizer_type
 model_type: AutoModelForSequenceClassification
+num_labels: 1
 tokenizer_type: AutoTokenizer
 # Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF
 # hub_model_id: username/custom_model_name

examples/jamba/qlora_fsdp_large.yaml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ lora_target_linear: false
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
 micro_batch_size: 1
 num_epochs: 2
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 lr_scheduler: cosine
 learning_rate: 0.00001
 

examples/llama-2/gptq-lora.yml

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ output_dir: ./outputs/model-out
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
 micro_batch_size: 1
 num_epochs: 4
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 adam_beta2: 0.95
 adam_eps: 0.00001
 max_grad_norm: 1.0

examples/llama-2/qlora-fsdp.yml

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ wandb_log_model:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
 micro_batch_size: 4
 num_epochs: 4
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 lr_scheduler: cosine
 learning_rate: 0.00001
 

examples/llama-3/fft-8b-liger-fsdp.yaml

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ wandb_log_model:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
 micro_batch_size: 2
 num_epochs: 1
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 lr_scheduler: cosine
 learning_rate: 2e-5
 

examples/llama-3/lora-1b-ray.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+base_model: NousResearch/Llama-3.2-1B
+# Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF
+# hub_model_id: username/custom_model_name
+
+load_in_8bit: false
+load_in_4bit: false
+strict: false
+
+datasets:
+  - path: teknium/GPT4-LLM-Cleaned
+    type: alpaca
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0.1
+output_dir: ./outputs/lora-out
+
+adapter: lora
+lora_model_dir:
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: true
+eval_sample_packing: true
+pad_to_sequence_len: true
+
+lora_r: 16
+lora_alpha: 32
+lora_dropout: 0.05
+lora_fan_in_fan_out:
+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: 2
+micro_batch_size: 2
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_8bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+train_on_inputs: false
+group_by_length: false
+bf16: auto
+fp16:
+tf32: false
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+early_stopping_patience:
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+local_rank:
+logging_steps: 1
+xformers_attention:
+flash_attention: true
+
+loss_watchdog_threshold: 5.0
+loss_watchdog_patience: 3
+
+warmup_steps: 10
+evals_per_epoch: 4
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+debug:
+deepspeed: deepspeed_configs/zero3.json
+weight_decay: 0.0
+fsdp:
+fsdp_config:
+special_tokens:
+  pad_token: "<|end_of_text|>"
+
+use_ray: true
+ray_num_workers: 4

examples/llama-3/qlora-fsdp-405b.yaml

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ lora_target_linear: true
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
 micro_batch_size: 1
 num_epochs: 2
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 lr_scheduler: cosine
 learning_rate: 0.00001
 

examples/llama-3/qlora-fsdp-70b.yaml

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ wandb_log_model:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
 micro_batch_size: 1
 num_epochs: 4
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 lr_scheduler: cosine
 learning_rate: 0.00001
 

examples/mistral/lora-mps.yml

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ wandb_log_model:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 8
 micro_batch_size: 1
 num_epochs: 2
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 lr_scheduler: cosine
 learning_rate: 0.0002
 

examples/mistral/mixtral-8x22b-qlora-fsdp.yml

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ wandb_log_model:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
 micro_batch_size: 2
 num_epochs: 1
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 lr_scheduler: cosine
 learning_rate: 0.0002
 

examples/mistral/mixtral-qlora-fsdp.yml

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ wandb_log_model:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
 micro_batch_size: 2
 num_epochs: 1
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 lr_scheduler: cosine
 learning_rate: 0.0002
 

examples/phi/phi-ft.yml

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ wandb_log_model:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
 micro_batch_size: 2
 num_epochs: 4
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 adam_beta2: 0.95
 adam_epsilon: 0.00001
 max_grad_norm: 1.0

examples/phi/phi-qlora.yml

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ wandb_log_model:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
 micro_batch_size: 2
 num_epochs: 4
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 adam_beta2: 0.95
 adam_epsilon: 0.00001
 max_grad_norm: 1.0

examples/phi/phi2-ft.yml

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ wandb_log_model:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
 micro_batch_size: 2
 num_epochs: 4
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 adam_beta2: 0.95
 adam_epsilon: 0.00001
 max_grad_norm: 1.0

examples/phi/phi3-ft-fsdp.yml

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ wandb_log_model:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 2
 micro_batch_size: 12
 num_epochs: 2
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 adam_beta2: 0.95
 adam_epsilon: 0.00001
 max_grad_norm: 1.0

examples/phi/phi3-ft.yml

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ lora_fan_in_fan_out:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
 micro_batch_size: 2
 num_epochs: 1
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 adam_beta2: 0.95
 adam_epsilon: 0.00001
 max_grad_norm: 1.0

examples/qwen2/prm.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B
+# optionally might have model_type or tokenizer_type
+model_type: AutoModelForTokenClassification
+num_labels: 2
+tokenizer_type: AutoTokenizer
+# Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF
+# hub_model_id: username/custom_model_name
+
+load_in_8bit: false
+load_in_4bit: false
+strict: false
+
+process_reward_model: true
+chat_template:
+datasets:
+  - path: trl-lib/math_shepherd
+    type: stepwise_supervised
+    step_separator: "\n"
+    max_completion_length:
+    train_on_last_step_only: false
+
+val_set_size: 0.2
+output_dir: ./outputs/out
+remove_unused_columns: false
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: false
+eval_sample_packing: false
+pad_to_sequence_len: true
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
+micro_batch_size: 8
+eval_batch_size: 8
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_torch
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+train_on_inputs: false
+group_by_length: false
+bf16: true
+fp16:
+tf32:
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
+  use_reentrant: false
+early_stopping_patience:
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+local_rank:
+logging_steps: 1
+xformers_attention:
+flash_attention: true
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch:
+eval_table_size:
+eval_max_new_tokens: 128
+eval_steps: 100
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+debug:
+deepspeed:
+weight_decay: 0.0
+fsdp:
+fsdp_config:
+special_tokens:

examples/qwen2/qlora-fsdp.yaml

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ wandb_log_model:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
 micro_batch_size: 1
 num_epochs: 4
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 lr_scheduler: cosine
 learning_rate: 0.0002
 

examples/qwen2/reward-model.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+base_model:  Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B
+# optionally might have model_type or tokenizer_type
+model_type: AutoModelForSequenceClassification
+num_labels: 1
+tokenizer_type: AutoTokenizer
+# Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF
+# hub_model_id: username/custom_model_name
+
+load_in_8bit: false
+load_in_4bit: false
+strict: false
+
+reward_model: true
+chat_template: qwen_25
+datasets:
+  - path: argilla/distilabel-intel-orca-dpo-pairs
+    type: bradley_terry.chat_template
+val_set_size: 0.0
+output_dir: ./outputs/out
+remove_unused_columns: false
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: false
+eval_sample_packing: false
+pad_to_sequence_len: true
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 2
+num_epochs: 4
+optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+train_on_inputs: false
+group_by_length: false
+bf16: true
+fp16:
+tf32: true
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
+  use_reentrant: false
+early_stopping_patience:
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+local_rank:
+logging_steps: 1
+xformers_attention:
+flash_attention: true
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch:
+eval_table_size:
+eval_max_new_tokens: 128
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+debug:
+deepspeed:
+weight_decay: 0.0
+fsdp:
+fsdp_config:
+special_tokens:

examples/tiny-llama/lora-mps.yml

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ wandb_log_model:
 gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
 micro_batch_size: 2
 num_epochs: 4
-optimizer: adamw_torch
+optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
 lr_scheduler: cosine
 learning_rate: 0.0002
 

requirements.txt

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 --extra-index-url https://huggingface.github.io/autogptq-index/whl/cu118/
 
 # START section of dependencies that don't install on Darwin/MacOS
-bitsandbytes==0.45.0
+bitsandbytes==0.45.2
 triton>=3.0.0
 mamba-ssm==1.2.0.post1
-flash-attn==2.7.0.post2
+flash-attn==2.7.4.post1
 xformers>=0.0.23.post1
 autoawq==0.2.7.post3
 liger-kernel==0.5.2
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ liger-kernel==0.5.2
 packaging==23.2
 
 peft==0.14.0
-transformers==4.47.1
+transformers==4.48.3
 tokenizers>=0.21.0
-accelerate==1.2.1
+accelerate==1.3.0
 datasets==3.2.0
 deepspeed==0.16.1
 trl==0.13.0
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ hf_transfer
 sentencepiece
 gradio==3.50.2
 
+modal==0.70.5
 pydantic==2.6.3
 addict
 fire

scripts/chat_datasets.py

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def parse_dataset(dataset=None, split="train"):
         )
     ds_cfg["field_messages"] = field_messages
 
-    message_fields = features["conversations"][0].keys()
+    message_fields = features[field_messages][0].keys()
     message_field_role = None
     for key in ["from", "role"]:
         if key in message_fields:

scripts/finetune.py

@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-"""Prepare and train a model on a dataset. Can also infer from a model or merge lora"""
-import logging
-from pathlib import Path
-
-import fire
-import transformers
-
-from axolotl.cli import (
-    check_accelerate_default_config,
-    check_user_token,
-    do_inference,
-    do_merge_lora,
-    load_cfg,
-    load_datasets,
-    print_axolotl_text_art,
-)
-from axolotl.cli.shard import shard
-from axolotl.common.cli import TrainerCliArgs
-from axolotl.train import train
-
-LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.scripts.finetune")
-
-
-def do_cli(config: Path = Path("examples/"), **kwargs):
-    print_axolotl_text_art()
-    LOG.warning(
-        str(
-            PendingDeprecationWarning(
-                "scripts/finetune.py will be replaced with calling axolotl.cli.train"
-            )
-        )
-    )
-    parsed_cfg = load_cfg(config, **kwargs)
-    check_accelerate_default_config()
-    check_user_token()
-    parser = transformers.HfArgumentParser((TrainerCliArgs))
-    parsed_cli_args, _ = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses(
-        return_remaining_strings=True
-    )
-    if parsed_cli_args.inference:
-        do_inference(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args)
-    elif parsed_cli_args.merge_lora:
-        do_merge_lora(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args)
-    elif parsed_cli_args.shard:
-        shard(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args)
-    else:
-        dataset_meta = load_datasets(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args)
-        train(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args, dataset_meta=dataset_meta)
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    fire.Fire(do_cli)

scripts/motd

@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 
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-                                 88            88   88
-      .d8888b. dP.  .dP .d8888b. 88 .d8888b. d8888P 88
-      88'  `88  `8bd8'  88'  `88 88 88'  `88   88   88
-      88.  .88  .d88b.  88.  .88 88 88.  .88   88   88
-      `88888P8 dP'  `dP `88888P' dP `88888P'   dP   dP
+     #@@ #@@      @@# @@#
+    @@  @@          @@  @@           =@@#                               @@                 #@    =@@#.
+    @@    #@@@@@@@@@    @@           #@#@=                              @@                 #@     .=@@
+      #@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@            =@# @#     ##=     ##    =####=+    @@      =#####+  =#@@###.   @@
+    @@@@@@@@@@/  +@@/  +@@          #@  =@=     #@=   @@   =@#+  +#@#   @@    =@#+  +#@#   #@.      @@
+    @@@@@@@@@@  ##@@  ##@@         =@#   @#      =@# @#    @@      @@   @@    @@      #@   #@       @@
+     @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@          #@=+++#@=      =@@#     @@      @@   @@    @@      #@   #@       @@
+                                  =@#=====@@     =@# @#    @@      @@   @@    @@      #@   #@       @@
+    @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  @@@@        #@      #@=   #@=  +@@   #@#    =@#   @@.   =@#    =@#   #@.      @@
+                                 =@#       @#  #@=     #@   =#@@@@#=    +#@@=  +#@@@@#=    .##@@+   @@
+    @@@@  @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
 
 Welcome to the axolotl cloud image! If the you've mounted a disk to /workspace and the axolotl directory ie empty, run the following commands:
 

setup.py

@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ def parse_requirements():
                 _install_requires.append(line)
     try:
         xformers_version = [req for req in _install_requires if "xformers" in req][0]
-        triton_version = [req for req in _install_requires if "triton" in req][0]
-        torchao_version = [req for req in _install_requires if "torchao" in req][0]
         autoawq_version = [req for req in _install_requires if "autoawq" in req][0]
         if "Darwin" in platform.system():
             # skip packages not compatible with OSX
@@ -73,12 +71,15 @@ def parse_requirements():
             else:
                 raise ValueError("Invalid version format")
 
-            if (major, minor) >= (2, 5):
+            if (major, minor) >= (2, 6):
+                _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(xformers_version))
+                _install_requires.append("xformers==0.0.29.post2")
+            elif (major, minor) >= (2, 5):
                 _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(xformers_version))
                 if patch == 0:
                     _install_requires.append("xformers==0.0.28.post2")
                 else:
-                    _install_requires.append("xformers==0.0.28.post3")
+                    _install_requires.append("xformers==0.0.29")
                 _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(autoawq_version))
             elif (major, minor) >= (2, 4):
                 if patch == 0:
@@ -87,24 +88,8 @@ def parse_requirements():
                 else:
                     _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(xformers_version))
                     _install_requires.append("xformers==0.0.28.post1")
-            elif (major, minor) >= (2, 3):
-                _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(torchao_version))
-                _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(triton_version))
-                _install_requires.append("triton>=2.3.1")
-                if patch == 0:
-                    _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(xformers_version))
-                    _install_requires.append("xformers>=0.0.26.post1")
-                else:
-                    _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(xformers_version))
-                    _install_requires.append("xformers>=0.0.27")
-            elif (major, minor) >= (2, 2):
-                _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(torchao_version))
-                _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(xformers_version))
-                _install_requires.append("xformers>=0.0.25.post1")
             else:
-                _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(torchao_version))
-                _install_requires.pop(_install_requires.index(xformers_version))
-                _install_requires.append("xformers>=0.0.23.post1")
+                raise ValueError("axolotl requires torch>=2.4")
 
     except PackageNotFoundError:
         pass
@@ -168,5 +153,8 @@ setup(
             "lomo-optim==0.1.1",
             "torch-optimi==0.2.1",
         ],
+        "ray": [
+            "ray[train]",
+        ],
     },
 )

src/axolotl/cli/__init__.py

@@ -1,568 +1,5 @@
-"""Prepare and train a model on a dataset. Can also infer from a model or merge lora"""
+"""Axolotl CLI module initialization."""
 
-import importlib
-import json
-import logging
-import math
 import os
-import random
-import sys
-import tempfile
-from pathlib import Path
-from threading import Thread
-from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union
-from urllib.parse import urlparse
-
-import requests
-import torch
-import yaml
-
-# add src to the pythonpath so we don't need to pip install this
-from accelerate.commands.config import config_args
-from art import text2art
-from huggingface_hub import HfApi
-from huggingface_hub.utils import LocalTokenNotFoundError
-from transformers import GenerationConfig, TextIteratorStreamer, TextStreamer
-from transformers.utils import is_torch_bf16_gpu_available
-from transformers.utils.import_utils import _is_package_available
-
-from axolotl.common.cli import TrainerCliArgs, load_model_and_tokenizer
-from axolotl.logging_config import configure_logging
-from axolotl.train import TrainDatasetMeta
-from axolotl.utils.chat_templates import (
-    get_chat_template,
-    get_chat_template_from_config,
-)
-from axolotl.utils.comet_ import setup_comet_env_vars
-from axolotl.utils.config import (
-    normalize_cfg_datasets,
-    normalize_config,
-    prepare_plugins,
-    validate_config,
-)
-from axolotl.utils.data import load_prepare_dpo_datasets, prepare_dataset
-from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
-from axolotl.utils.distributed import is_main_process
-from axolotl.utils.mlflow_ import setup_mlflow_env_vars
-from axolotl.utils.models import load_processor, load_tokenizer
-from axolotl.utils.tokenization import check_dataset_labels
-from axolotl.utils.trainer import prepare_opinionated_env, prepare_optim_env
-from axolotl.utils.wandb_ import setup_wandb_env_vars
-
-project_root = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".."))
-src_dir = os.path.join(project_root, "src")
-sys.path.insert(0, src_dir)
-
-configure_logging()
-LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.scripts")
 
 os.environ["HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER"] = "1"
-
-AXOLOTL_LOGO = """
-     #@@ #@@      @@# @@#
-    @@  @@          @@  @@           =@@#                               @@                 #@    =@@#.
-    @@    #@@@@@@@@@    @@           #@#@=                              @@                 #@     .=@@
-      #@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@            =@# @#     ##=     ##    =####=+    @@      =#####+  =#@@###.   @@
-    @@@@@@@@@@/  +@@/  +@@          #@  =@=     #@=   @@   =@#+  +#@#   @@    =@#+  +#@#   #@.      @@
-    @@@@@@@@@@  ##@@  ##@@         =@#   @#      =@# @#    @@      @@   @@    @@      #@   #@       @@
-     @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@          #@=+++#@=      =@@#     @@      @@   @@    @@      #@   #@       @@
-                                  =@#=====@@     =@# @#    @@      @@   @@    @@      #@   #@       @@
-    @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  @@@@        #@      #@=   #@=  +@@   #@#    =@#   @@.   =@#    =@#   #@.      @@
-                                 =@#       @#  #@=     #@   =#@@@@#=    +#@@=  +#@@@@#=    .##@@+   @@
-    @@@@  @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
-"""
-
-
-def print_legacy_axolotl_text_art(suffix=None):
-    font = "nancyj"
-    ascii_text = "  axolotl"
-    if suffix:
-        ascii_text += f"  x  {suffix}"
-    ascii_art = text2art(ascii_text, font=font)
-
-    if is_main_process():
-        print(ascii_art)
-
-    print_dep_versions()
-
-
-def print_axolotl_text_art(
-    **kwargs,  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
-):
-    if is_main_process():
-        print(AXOLOTL_LOGO)
-
-
-def print_dep_versions():
-    packages = ["accelerate", "peft", "transformers", "trl", "torch", "bitsandbytes"]
-    max_len = max(len(pkg) for pkg in packages)
-    if is_main_process():
-        print("*" * 40)
-        print("**** Axolotl Dependency Versions *****")
-        for pkg in packages:
-            pkg_version = _is_package_available(pkg, return_version=True)
-            print(f"{pkg: >{max_len}}: {pkg_version[1]: <15}")
-        print("*" * 40)
-
-
-def check_remote_config(config: Union[str, Path]):
-    # Check if the config is a valid HTTPS URL to a .yml or .yaml file
-    if not (isinstance(config, str) and config.startswith("https://")):
-        return config  # Return the original value if it's not a valid URL
-
-    filename = os.path.basename(urlparse(config).path)
-    temp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
-
-    try:
-        response = requests.get(config, timeout=30)
-        response.raise_for_status()  # Check for HTTP errors
-
-        content = response.content
-        try:
-            # Try parsing as JSON first to catch cases where JSON content is mistakenly considered YAML
-            json.loads(content)
-            # Log a warning but do not raise an error; JSON is technically valid YAML - this can happen when you forget to point to a raw github link
-            LOG.warning(
-                f"Warning: The content of the file at {config} is JSON, which is technically valid YAML but might not be intended."
-            )
-        except json.JSONDecodeError:
-            # If it's not valid JSON, verify it's valid YAML
-            try:
-                yaml.safe_load(content)
-            except yaml.YAMLError as err:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    f"Failed to parse the content at {config} as YAML: {err}"
-                ) from err
-
-        # Write the content to a file if it's valid YAML (or JSON treated as YAML)
-        output_path = Path(temp_dir) / filename
-        with open(output_path, "wb") as file:
-            file.write(content)
-        LOG.info(
-            f"Using the following config obtained from {config}: \n\n{content.decode('utf-8')}\n"
-        )
-        return output_path
-
-    except requests.RequestException as err:
-        # This catches all requests-related exceptions including HTTPError
-        raise RuntimeError(f"Failed to download {config}: {err}") from err
-    except Exception as err:
-        # Catch-all for any other exceptions
-        raise err
-
-
-def get_multi_line_input() -> Optional[str]:
-    print("Give me an instruction (Ctrl + D to submit): ")
-    instruction = ""
-    for line in sys.stdin:
-        instruction += line  # pylint: disable=consider-using-join
-    # instruction = pathlib.Path("/proc/self/fd/0").read_text()
-    return instruction
-
-
-def do_merge_lora(
-    *,
-    cfg: DictDefault,
-    cli_args: TrainerCliArgs,
-):
-    model, tokenizer = load_model_and_tokenizer(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
-    safe_serialization = cfg.save_safetensors is True
-
-    LOG.info("running merge of LoRA with base model")
-    model = model.merge_and_unload(progressbar=True)
-    try:
-        model.to(dtype=cfg.torch_dtype)
-    except RuntimeError:
-        pass
-    model.generation_config.do_sample = True
-
-    if cfg.local_rank == 0:
-        LOG.info(f"saving merged model to: {str(Path(cfg.output_dir) / 'merged')}")
-        model.save_pretrained(
-            str(Path(cfg.output_dir) / "merged"),
-            safe_serialization=safe_serialization,
-            progressbar=True,
-        )
-        tokenizer.save_pretrained(str(Path(cfg.output_dir) / "merged"))
-
-
-def do_inference(
-    *,
-    cfg: DictDefault,
-    cli_args: TrainerCliArgs,
-):
-    model, tokenizer = load_model_and_tokenizer(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
-    prompter = cli_args.prompter
-
-    prompter_module = None
-    chat_template_str = None
-    if prompter:
-        prompter_module = getattr(
-            importlib.import_module("axolotl.prompters"), prompter
-        )
-    elif cfg.chat_template:
-        chat_template_str = get_chat_template(cfg.chat_template)
-    elif cfg.datasets[0].type == "chat_template":
-        chat_template_str = get_chat_template_from_config(
-            cfg=cfg, ds_cfg=cfg.datasets[0], tokenizer=tokenizer
-        )
-
-    model = model.to(cfg.device, dtype=cfg.torch_dtype)
-
-    while True:
-        print("=" * 80)
-        # support for multiline inputs
-        instruction = get_multi_line_input()
-        if not instruction:
-            return
-
-        if prompter_module:
-            prompt: str = next(
-                prompter_module().build_prompt(instruction=instruction.strip("\n"))
-            )
-        else:
-            prompt = instruction.strip()
-
-        if chat_template_str:
-            batch = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
-                [
-                    {
-                        "role": "user",
-                        "content": prompt,
-                    }
-                ],
-                return_tensors="pt",
-                add_special_tokens=True,
-                add_generation_prompt=True,
-                chat_template=chat_template_str,
-                tokenize=True,
-                return_dict=True,
-            )
-        else:
-            batch = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt", add_special_tokens=True)
-
-        print("=" * 40)
-        model.eval()
-        with torch.no_grad():
-            generation_config = GenerationConfig(
-                repetition_penalty=1.1,
-                max_new_tokens=1024,
-                temperature=0.9,
-                top_p=0.95,
-                top_k=40,
-                bos_token_id=tokenizer.bos_token_id,
-                eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
-                pad_token_id=tokenizer.pad_token_id,
-                do_sample=True,
-                use_cache=True,
-                return_dict_in_generate=True,
-                output_attentions=False,
-                output_hidden_states=False,
-                output_scores=False,
-            )
-            streamer = TextStreamer(tokenizer)
-            generated = model.generate(
-                inputs=batch["input_ids"].to(cfg.device),
-                generation_config=generation_config,
-                streamer=streamer,
-            )
-        print("=" * 40)
-        print(tokenizer.decode(generated["sequences"].cpu().tolist()[0]))
-
-
-def do_inference_gradio(
-    *,
-    cfg: DictDefault,
-    cli_args: TrainerCliArgs,
-):
-    import gradio as gr
-
-    model, tokenizer = load_model_and_tokenizer(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
-    prompter = cli_args.prompter
-
-    prompter_module = None
-    chat_template_str = None
-    if prompter:
-        prompter_module = getattr(
-            importlib.import_module("axolotl.prompters"), prompter
-        )
-    elif cfg.chat_template:
-        chat_template_str = get_chat_template(cfg.chat_template, tokenizer=tokenizer)
-
-    model = model.to(cfg.device, dtype=cfg.torch_dtype)
-
-    def generate(instruction):
-        if not instruction:
-            return
-        if prompter_module:
-            # pylint: disable=stop-iteration-return
-            prompt: str = next(
-                prompter_module().build_prompt(instruction=instruction.strip("\n"))
-            )
-        else:
-            prompt = instruction.strip()
-
-        if chat_template_str:
-            batch = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
-                [
-                    {
-                        "role": "user",
-                        "content": prompt,
-                    }
-                ],
-                return_tensors="pt",
-                add_special_tokens=True,
-                add_generation_prompt=True,
-                chat_template=chat_template_str,
-                tokenize=True,
-                return_dict=True,
-            )
-        else:
-            batch = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt", add_special_tokens=True)
-
-        model.eval()
-        with torch.no_grad():
-            generation_config = GenerationConfig(
-                repetition_penalty=1.1,
-                max_new_tokens=cfg.get("gradio_max_new_tokens", 1024),
-                temperature=cfg.get("gradio_temperature", 0.9),
-                top_p=0.95,
-                top_k=40,
-                bos_token_id=tokenizer.bos_token_id,
-                eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
-                pad_token_id=tokenizer.pad_token_id,
-                do_sample=True,
-                use_cache=True,
-                return_dict_in_generate=True,
-                output_attentions=False,
-                output_hidden_states=False,
-                output_scores=False,
-            )
-            streamer = TextIteratorStreamer(tokenizer)
-            generation_kwargs = {
-                "inputs": batch["input_ids"].to(cfg.device),
-                "attention_mask": batch["attention_mask"].to(cfg.device),
-                "generation_config": generation_config,
-                "streamer": streamer,
-            }
-
-            thread = Thread(target=model.generate, kwargs=generation_kwargs)
-            thread.start()
-
-            all_text = ""
-
-            for new_text in streamer:
-                all_text += new_text
-                yield all_text
-
-    demo = gr.Interface(
-        fn=generate,
-        inputs="textbox",
-        outputs="text",
-        title=cfg.get("gradio_title", "Axolotl Gradio Interface"),
-    )
-
-    demo.queue().launch(
-        show_api=False,
-        share=cfg.get("gradio_share", True),
-        server_name=cfg.get("gradio_server_name", "127.0.0.1"),
-        server_port=cfg.get("gradio_server_port", None),
-    )
-
-
-def choose_config(path: Path):
-    yaml_files = list(path.glob("*.yml"))
-
-    if not yaml_files:
-        raise ValueError(
-            "No YAML config files found in the specified directory. Are you using a .yml extension?"
-        )
-
-    if len(yaml_files) == 1:
-        print(f"Using default YAML file '{yaml_files[0]}'")
-        return str(yaml_files[0])
-
-    print("Choose a YAML file:")
-    for idx, file in enumerate(yaml_files):
-        print(f"{idx + 1}. {file}")
-
-    chosen_file = None
-    while chosen_file is None:
-        try:
-            choice = int(input("Enter the number of your choice: "))
-            if 1 <= choice <= len(yaml_files):
-                chosen_file = str(yaml_files[choice - 1])
-            else:
-                print("Invalid choice. Please choose a number from the list.")
-        except ValueError:
-            print("Invalid input. Please enter a number.")
-
-    return chosen_file
-
-
-def check_not_in(list1: List[str], list2: Union[Dict[str, Any], List[str]]) -> bool:
-    return not any(el in list2 for el in list1)
-
-
-def load_cfg(config: Union[str, Path] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs):
-    config = check_remote_config(config)
-    if Path(config).is_dir():
-        config = choose_config(Path(config))
-
-    # load the config from the yaml file
-    with open(config, encoding="utf-8") as file:
-        cfg: DictDefault = DictDefault(yaml.safe_load(file))
-    # if there are any options passed in the cli, if it is something that seems valid from the yaml,
-    # then overwrite the value
-    cfg_keys = cfg.keys()
-    for k, _ in kwargs.items():
-        # if not strict, allow writing to cfg even if it's not in the yml already
-        if k in cfg_keys or not cfg.strict:
-            # handle booleans
-            if isinstance(cfg[k], bool):
-                cfg[k] = bool(kwargs[k])
-            else:
-                cfg[k] = kwargs[k]
-
-    cfg.axolotl_config_path = config
-
-    try:
-        device_props = torch.cuda.get_device_properties("cuda")
-        gpu_version = "sm_" + str(device_props.major) + str(device_props.minor)
-    except:  # pylint: disable=bare-except # noqa: E722
-        gpu_version = None
-
-    prepare_plugins(cfg)
-
-    cfg = validate_config(
-        cfg,
-        capabilities={
-            "bf16": is_torch_bf16_gpu_available(),
-            "n_gpu": int(os.environ.get("WORLD_SIZE", 1)),
-            "compute_capability": gpu_version,
-        },
-        env_capabilities={
-            "torch_version": str(torch.__version__).split("+", maxsplit=1)[0],
-        },
-    )
-
-    prepare_optim_env(cfg)
-
-    prepare_opinionated_env(cfg)
-
-    normalize_config(cfg)
-
-    normalize_cfg_datasets(cfg)
-
-    setup_wandb_env_vars(cfg)
-
-    setup_mlflow_env_vars(cfg)
-
-    setup_comet_env_vars(cfg)
-
-    return cfg
-
-
-def load_datasets(
-    *,
-    cfg: DictDefault,
-    cli_args: TrainerCliArgs,
-) -> TrainDatasetMeta:
-    tokenizer = load_tokenizer(cfg)
-    processor = load_processor(cfg, tokenizer=tokenizer) if cfg.processor_type else None
-
-    train_dataset, eval_dataset, total_num_steps, prompters = prepare_dataset(
-        cfg,
-        tokenizer,
-        processor=processor,
-    )
-
-    if (
-        cli_args.debug
-        or cfg.debug
-        or cli_args.debug_text_only
-        or int(cli_args.debug_num_examples) > 0
-    ):
-        LOG.info("check_dataset_labels...")
-        check_dataset_labels(
-            train_dataset.select(
-                [
-                    random.randrange(0, len(train_dataset) - 1)  # nosec
-                    for _ in range(cli_args.debug_num_examples)
-                ]
-            ),
-            tokenizer,
-            num_examples=cli_args.debug_num_examples,
-            text_only=cli_args.debug_text_only,
-        )
-
-        LOG.info("printing prompters...")
-        for prompter in prompters:
-            LOG.info(prompter)
-
-    return TrainDatasetMeta(
-        train_dataset=train_dataset,
-        eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
-        total_num_steps=total_num_steps,
-    )
-
-
-def load_rl_datasets(
-    *,
-    cfg: DictDefault,
-    cli_args: TrainerCliArgs,  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
-) -> TrainDatasetMeta:
-    train_dataset, eval_dataset = load_prepare_dpo_datasets(cfg)
-    total_num_steps = int(
-        math.ceil(len(train_dataset) * cfg.num_epochs / cfg.batch_size)
-    )
-
-    if cli_args.debug or cfg.debug:
-        LOG.info("check_dataset_labels...")
-
-        tokenizer = load_tokenizer(cfg)
-        check_dataset_labels(
-            train_dataset.select(
-                [
-                    random.randrange(0, len(train_dataset) - 1)  # nosec
-                    for _ in range(cli_args.debug_num_examples)
-                ]
-            ),
-            tokenizer,
-            num_examples=cli_args.debug_num_examples,
-            text_only=cli_args.debug_text_only,
-            rl_mode=True,
-        )
-
-    return TrainDatasetMeta(
-        train_dataset=train_dataset,
-        eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
-        total_num_steps=total_num_steps,
-    )
-
-
-def check_accelerate_default_config():
-    if Path(config_args.default_yaml_config_file).exists():
-        LOG.warning(
-            f"accelerate config file found at {config_args.default_yaml_config_file}. This can lead to unexpected errors"
-        )
-
-
-def check_user_token():
-    # Skip check if HF_HUB_OFFLINE is set to True
-    if os.getenv("HF_HUB_OFFLINE") == "1":
-        LOG.info(
-            "Skipping HuggingFace token verification because HF_HUB_OFFLINE is set to True. Only local files will be used."
-        )
-        return True
-
-    # Verify if token is valid
-    api = HfApi()
-    try:
-        user_info = api.whoami()
-        return bool(user_info)
-    except LocalTokenNotFoundError:
-        LOG.warning(
-            "Error verifying HuggingFace token. Remember to log in using `huggingface-cli login` and get your access token from https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens if you want to use gated models or datasets."
-        )
-        return False

src/axolotl/cli/args.py

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+"""Module for axolotl CLI command arguments."""
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from typing import Optional
+
+
+@dataclass
+class PreprocessCliArgs:
+    """Dataclass with CLI arguments for `axolotl preprocess` command."""
+
+    debug: bool = field(default=False)
+    debug_text_only: bool = field(default=False)
+    debug_num_examples: int = field(default=1)
+    prompter: Optional[str] = field(default=None)
+    download: Optional[bool] = field(default=True)
+    iterable: Optional[bool] = field(
+        default=None,
+        metadata={
+            "help": "Use IterableDataset for streaming processing of large datasets"
+        },
+    )
+
+
+@dataclass
+class TrainerCliArgs:
+    """Dataclass with CLI arguments for `axolotl train` command."""
+
+    debug: bool = field(default=False)
+    debug_text_only: bool = field(default=False)
+    debug_num_examples: int = field(default=0)
+    merge_lora: bool = field(default=False)
+    prompter: Optional[str] = field(default=None)
+    shard: bool = field(default=False)
+    main_process_port: Optional[int] = field(default=None)
+    num_processes: Optional[int] = field(default=None)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class EvaluateCliArgs:
+    """Dataclass with CLI arguments for `axolotl evaluate` command."""
+
+    debug: bool = field(default=False)
+    debug_text_only: bool = field(default=False)
+    debug_num_examples: int = field(default=0)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class InferenceCliArgs:
+    """Dataclass with CLI arguments for `axolotl inference` command."""
+
+    prompter: Optional[str] = field(default=None)

src/axolotl/cli/art.py

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+"""Axolotl ASCII logo utils."""
+
+from axolotl.utils.distributed import is_main_process
+
+AXOLOTL_LOGO = """
+     #@@ #@@      @@# @@#
+    @@  @@          @@  @@           =@@#                               @@                 #@    =@@#.
+    @@    #@@@@@@@@@    @@           #@#@=                              @@                 #@     .=@@
+      #@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@            =@# @#     ##=     ##    =####=+    @@      =#####+  =#@@###.   @@
+    @@@@@@@@@@/  +@@/  +@@          #@  =@=     #@=   @@   =@#+  +#@#   @@    =@#+  +#@#   #@.      @@
+    @@@@@@@@@@  ##@@  ##@@         =@#   @#      =@# @#    @@      @@   @@    @@      #@   #@       @@
+     @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@          #@=+++#@=      =@@#     @@      @@   @@    @@      #@   #@       @@
+                                  =@#=====@@     =@# @#    @@      @@   @@    @@      #@   #@       @@
+    @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  @@@@        #@      #@=   #@=  +@@   #@#    =@#   @@.   =@#    =@#   #@.      @@
+                                 =@#       @#  #@=     #@   =#@@@@#=    +#@@=  +#@@@@#=    .##@@+   @@
+    @@@@  @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
+"""
+
+
+def print_axolotl_text_art():
+    """Prints axolotl ASCII art."""
+    if is_main_process():
+        print(AXOLOTL_LOGO)

src/axolotl/cli/checks.py

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+"""Various checks for Axolotl CLI."""
+
+import logging
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from accelerate.commands.config import config_args
+from huggingface_hub import HfApi
+from huggingface_hub.utils import LocalTokenNotFoundError
+
+from axolotl.logging_config import configure_logging
+
+configure_logging()
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def check_accelerate_default_config() -> None:
+    """Logs at warning level if no accelerate config file is found."""
+    if Path(config_args.default_yaml_config_file).exists():
+        LOG.warning(
+            f"accelerate config file found at {config_args.default_yaml_config_file}. This can lead to unexpected errors"
+        )
+
+
+def check_user_token() -> bool:
+    """Checks for HF user info. Check is skipped if HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1.
+
+    Returns:
+        Boolean indicating successful check (i.e., HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1 or HF user info is retrieved).
+
+    Raises:
+        LocalTokenNotFoundError: If HF user info can't be retrieved.
+    """
+    # Skip check if HF_HUB_OFFLINE is set to True
+    if os.getenv("HF_HUB_OFFLINE") == "1":
+        LOG.info(
+            "Skipping HuggingFace token verification because HF_HUB_OFFLINE is set to True. Only local files will be used."
+        )
+        return True
+
+    # Verify if token is valid
+    api = HfApi()
+    try:
+        user_info = api.whoami()
+        return bool(user_info)
+    except LocalTokenNotFoundError:
+        LOG.warning(
+            "Error verifying HuggingFace token. Remember to log in using `huggingface-cli login` and get your access token from https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens if you want to use gated models or datasets."
+        )
+        return False

src/axolotl/cli/cloud/__init__.py

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+"""
+launch axolotl in supported cloud platforms
+"""
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Union
+
+import yaml
+
+from axolotl.cli.art import print_axolotl_text_art
+from axolotl.cli.cloud.modal_ import ModalCloud
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
+
+
+def load_cloud_cfg(cloud_config: Union[Path, str]) -> DictDefault:
+    """Load and validate cloud configuration."""
+    # Load cloud configuration.
+    with open(cloud_config, encoding="utf-8") as file:
+        cloud_cfg: DictDefault = DictDefault(yaml.safe_load(file))
+    return cloud_cfg
+
+
+def do_cli_preprocess(
+    cloud_config: Union[Path, str],
+    config: Union[Path, str],
+) -> None:
+    print_axolotl_text_art()
+    cloud_cfg = load_cloud_cfg(cloud_config)
+    cloud = ModalCloud(cloud_cfg)
+    with open(config, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
+        config_yaml = file.read()
+    cloud.preprocess(config_yaml)
+
+
+def do_cli_train(
+    cloud_config: Union[Path, str],
+    config: Union[Path, str],
+    accelerate: bool = True,
+) -> None:
+    print_axolotl_text_art()
+    cloud_cfg = load_cloud_cfg(cloud_config)
+    cloud = ModalCloud(cloud_cfg)
+    with open(config, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
+        config_yaml = file.read()
+    cloud.train(config_yaml, accelerate=accelerate)
+
+
+def do_cli_lm_eval(
+    cloud_config: Union[Path, str],
+    config: Union[Path, str],
+) -> None:
+    print_axolotl_text_art()
+    cloud_cfg = load_cloud_cfg(cloud_config)
+    cloud = ModalCloud(cloud_cfg)
+    with open(config, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
+        config_yaml = file.read()
+    cloud.lm_eval(config_yaml)

src/axolotl/cli/cloud/base.py

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+"""
+base class for cloud platforms from cli
+"""
+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+
+
+class Cloud(ABC):
+    """
+    Abstract base class for cloud platforms.
+    """
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def preprocess(self, config_yaml: str, *args, **kwargs) -> None:
+        pass
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def train(self, config_yaml: str, accelerate: bool = True) -> str:
+        pass

src/axolotl/cli/cloud/modal_.py

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+"""
+Modal Cloud support from CLI
+"""
+import copy
+import json
+import os
+import subprocess  # nosec B404
+from pathlib import Path
+from random import randint
+
+import modal
+
+from axolotl.cli.cloud.base import Cloud
+
+
+def run_cmd(cmd: str, run_folder: str, volumes=None):
+    """Run a command inside a folder, with Modal Volume reloading before and commit on success."""
+    # Ensure volumes contain latest files.
+    if volumes:
+        for _, vol in volumes.items():
+            vol.reload()
+
+    # modal workaround so it doesn't use the automounted axolotl
+    new_env = copy.deepcopy(os.environ)
+    if "PYTHONPATH" in new_env:
+        del new_env["PYTHONPATH"]
+
+    # Propagate errors from subprocess.
+    if exit_code := subprocess.call(  # nosec B603
+        cmd.split(), cwd=run_folder, env=new_env
+    ):
+        exit(exit_code)  # pylint: disable=consider-using-sys-exit
+
+    # Commit writes to volume.
+    if volumes:
+        for _, vol in volumes.items():
+            vol.commit()
+
+
+class ModalCloud(Cloud):
+    """
+    Modal Cloud implementation.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, config, app=None):
+        self.config = config
+        if not app:
+            app = modal.App()
+        self.app = app
+
+        self.volumes = {}
+        if config.volumes:
+            for volume_config in config.volumes:
+                _, mount, vol = self.create_volume(volume_config)
+                self.volumes[mount] = (vol, volume_config)
+
+    def get_env(self):
+        res = {
+            "HF_DATASETS_CACHE": "/workspace/data/huggingface-cache/datasets",
+            "HF_HUB_CACHE": "/workspace/data/huggingface-cache/hub",
+        }
+
+        for key in self.config.get("env", []):
+            if isinstance(key, str):
+                if val := os.environ.get(key, ""):
+                    res[key] = val
+            elif isinstance(key, dict):
+                (key_, val) = list(key.items())[0]
+                res[key_] = val
+        return res
+
+    def get_image(self):
+        docker_tag = "main-py3.11-cu124-2.5.1"
+        if self.config.docker_tag:
+            docker_tag = self.config.docker_tag
+        docker_image = f"axolotlai/axolotl:{docker_tag}"
+
+        # grab the sha256 hash from docker hub for this image+tag
+        # this ensures that we always get the latest image for this tag, even if it's already cached
+        try:
+            manifest = subprocess.check_output(  # nosec B602
+                f"docker manifest inspect {docker_image}",
+                shell=True,
+            ).decode("utf-8")
+            sha256_hash = json.loads(manifest)["manifests"][0]["digest"]
+        except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
+            sha256_hash = None
+
+        # create the image
+        if sha256_hash:
+            image = modal.Image.from_registry(f"axolotlai/axolotl@{sha256_hash}")
+        else:
+            image = modal.Image.from_registry(docker_image)
+
+        dockerfile_commands = []
+        if self.config.dockerfile_commands:
+            dockerfile_commands.extend(self.config.dockerfile_commands)
+
+        # branch
+        if self.config.branch:
+            dockerfile_commands.extend(
+                [
+                    # Random id for cache busting of branch commits
+                    f"RUN echo '{str(randint(0, 1000000))}'",  # nosec B311
+                    f"RUN cd /workspace/axolotl && git fetch && git checkout {self.config.branch}",
+                ]
+            )
+
+        if dockerfile_commands:
+            image = image.dockerfile_commands(dockerfile_commands)
+
+        if env := self.get_env():
+            image = image.env(env)
+
+        image = image.pip_install("fastapi==0.110.0", "pydantic==2.6.3")
+
+        return image
+
+    def get_secrets(self):
+        res = []
+        if self.config.secrets:
+            for key in self.config.get("secrets", []):
+                # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
+                if isinstance(key, str):
+                    if val := os.environ.get(key, ""):
+                        res.append(modal.Secret.from_dict({key: val}))
+                elif isinstance(key, dict):
+                    (key_, val) = list(key.items())[0]
+                    res.append(modal.Secret.from_dict({key_: val}))
+        return res
+
+    def create_volume(self, volume_config):
+        name = volume_config.name
+        mount = volume_config.mount
+        return name, mount, modal.Volume.from_name(name, create_if_missing=True)
+
+    def get_ephemeral_disk_size(self):
+        return 1000 * 525  # 1 TiB
+
+    def get_preprocess_timeout(self):
+        if self.config.timeout_preprocess:
+            return int(self.config.timeout_preprocess)
+        return 60 * 60 * 3  # 3 hours
+
+    def get_preprocess_memory(self):
+        memory = 128  # default to 128GiB
+        if self.config.memory:
+            memory = int(self.config.memory)
+        if self.config.memory_preprocess:
+            memory = int(self.config.memory_preprocess)
+        return 1024 * memory
+
+    def get_preprocess_env(self):
+        return self.app.function(
+            image=self.get_image(),
+            volumes={k: v[0] for k, v in self.volumes.items()},
+            cpu=8.0,
+            ephemeral_disk=self.get_ephemeral_disk_size(),
+            memory=self.get_preprocess_memory(),
+            timeout=self.get_preprocess_timeout(),
+            secrets=self.get_secrets(),
+        )
+
+    def preprocess(self, config_yaml: str, *args, **kwargs):
+        modal_fn = self.get_preprocess_env()(_preprocess)
+        with modal.enable_output():
+            with self.app.run(detach=True):
+                modal_fn.remote(
+                    config_yaml,
+                    volumes={k: v[0] for k, v in self.volumes.items()},
+                    *args,
+                    **kwargs,
+                )
+
+    def get_train_timeout(self):
+        if self.config.timeout:
+            return int(self.config.timeout)
+        return 60 * 60 * 24  # 24 hours
+
+    def get_train_gpu(self):  # pylint: disable=too-many-return-statements
+        count = self.config.gpu_count or 1
+        family = self.config.gpu.lower() or "l40s"
+
+        if family == "l40s":
+            return modal.gpu.L40S(count=count)
+        if family in ["a100", "a100-40gb"]:
+            return modal.gpu.A100(count=count, size="40GB")
+        if family == "a100-80gb":
+            return modal.gpu.A100(count=count, size="80GB")
+        if family in ["a10", "a10g"]:
+            return modal.gpu.A10G(count=count)
+        if family == "h100":
+            return modal.gpu.H100(count=count)
+        if family == "t4":
+            return modal.gpu.T4(count=count)
+        if family == "l4":
+            return modal.gpu.L4(count=count)
+        raise ValueError(f"Unsupported GPU family: {family}")
+
+    def get_train_memory(self):
+        memory = 128  # default to 128GiB
+        if self.config.memory:
+            memory = int(self.config.memory)
+        return 1024 * memory
+
+    def get_train_env(self):
+        return self.app.function(
+            image=self.get_image(),
+            volumes={k: v[0] for k, v in self.volumes.items()},
+            cpu=16.0,
+            gpu=self.get_train_gpu(),
+            memory=self.get_train_memory(),
+            timeout=self.get_train_timeout(),
+            secrets=self.get_secrets(),
+        )
+
+    def train(self, config_yaml: str, accelerate: bool = True):
+        modal_fn = self.get_train_env()(_train)
+        with modal.enable_output():
+            with self.app.run(detach=True):
+                modal_fn.remote(
+                    config_yaml,
+                    accelerate=accelerate,
+                    volumes={k: v[0] for k, v in self.volumes.items()},
+                )
+
+    def lm_eval(self, config_yaml: str):
+        modal_fn = self.get_train_env()(_lm_eval)
+        with modal.enable_output():
+            with self.app.run(detach=True):
+                if self.config.get("spawn", False):
+                    modal_fn_exec = modal_fn.spawn
+                else:
+                    modal_fn_exec = modal_fn.remote
+                modal_fn_exec(
+                    config_yaml,
+                    volumes={k: v[0] for k, v in self.volumes.items()},
+                )
+
+
+def _preprocess(config_yaml: str, volumes=None):
+    Path("/workspace/artifacts/axolotl").mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with open(
+        "/workspace/artifacts/axolotl/config.yaml", "w", encoding="utf-8"
+    ) as f_out:
+        f_out.write(config_yaml)
+    run_folder = "/workspace/artifacts/axolotl"
+    run_cmd(
+        "axolotl preprocess /workspace/artifacts/axolotl/config.yaml --dataset-processes=8",
+        run_folder,
+        volumes,
+    )
+
+
+def _train(config_yaml: str, accelerate: bool = True, volumes=None):
+    with open(
+        "/workspace/artifacts/axolotl/config.yaml", "w", encoding="utf-8"
+    ) as f_out:
+        f_out.write(config_yaml)
+    run_folder = "/workspace/artifacts/axolotl"
+    if accelerate:
+        accelerate_args = "--accelerate"
+    else:
+        accelerate_args = "--no-accelerate"
+    run_cmd(
+        f"axolotl train {accelerate_args} /workspace/artifacts/axolotl/config.yaml",
+        run_folder,
+        volumes,
+    )
+
+
+def _lm_eval(config_yaml: str, volumes=None):
+    with open(
+        "/workspace/artifacts/axolotl/config.yaml", "w", encoding="utf-8"
+    ) as f_out:
+        f_out.write(config_yaml)
+    run_folder = "/workspace/artifacts/axolotl"
+    run_cmd(
+        "axolotl lm-eval /workspace/artifacts/axolotl/config.yaml",
+        run_folder,
+        volumes,
+    )

src/axolotl/cli/config.py

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+"""Configuration loading and processing."""
+
+import json
+import logging
+import os
+import tempfile
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Union
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
+
+import requests
+import torch
+import yaml
+from transformers.utils import is_torch_bf16_gpu_available
+
+from axolotl.integrations.base import PluginManager
+from axolotl.utils.comet_ import setup_comet_env_vars
+from axolotl.utils.config import (
+    normalize_cfg_datasets,
+    normalize_config,
+    validate_config,
+)
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
+from axolotl.utils.mlflow_ import setup_mlflow_env_vars
+from axolotl.utils.trainer import prepare_opinionated_env, prepare_optim_env
+from axolotl.utils.wandb_ import setup_wandb_env_vars
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def check_remote_config(config: Union[str, Path]) -> Union[str, Path]:
+    """
+    First, determines if the passed config is a valid HTTPS URL. Then, attempts to query
+    for it and parse its content, first as JSON, then as YAML (YAML is preferred).
+    Finally, the parsed content is written to a local file and its path is returned.
+
+    Args:
+        config: HTTPS URL to a YAML or JSON file.
+
+    Returns:
+        Either the original `config` if it's not a valid HTTPS URL, or the path to the
+        downloaded remote config.
+
+    Raises:
+        ValueError: If the remote configuration is neither valid JSON or YAML.
+        RuntimeError: If some request-related exception occurs from the file download.
+        Exception: Catch-all for any other exception.
+    """
+    # Check if the config is a valid HTTPS URL to a .yml or .yaml file
+    if not (isinstance(config, str) and config.startswith("https://")):
+        return config  # Return the original value if it's not a valid URL
+
+    filename = os.path.basename(urlparse(config).path)
+    temp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+
+    try:
+        response = requests.get(config, timeout=30)
+        response.raise_for_status()  # Check for HTTP errors
+
+        content = response.content
+        try:
+            # Try parsing as JSON first to catch cases where JSON content is mistakenly
+            # considered YAML.
+            json.loads(content)
+
+            # Log a warning but do not raise an error; JSON is technically valid YAML.
+            # This can happen when you forget to point to a raw GitHub link.
+            LOG.warning(
+                f"Warning: The content of the file at {config} is JSON, which is technically valid YAML but might not be intended."
+            )
+        except json.JSONDecodeError:
+            # If it's not valid JSON, verify it's valid YAML
+            try:
+                yaml.safe_load(content)
+            except yaml.YAMLError as err:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"Failed to parse the content at {config} as YAML: {err}"
+                ) from err
+
+        # Write the content to a file if it's valid YAML (or JSON treated as YAML)
+        output_path = Path(temp_dir) / filename
+        with open(output_path, "wb") as file:
+            file.write(content)
+        LOG.info(
+            f"Using the following config obtained from {config}: \n\n{content.decode('utf-8')}\n"
+        )
+        return output_path
+
+    except requests.RequestException as err:
+        # This catches all requests-related exceptions including HTTPError
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Failed to download {config}: {err}") from err
+    except Exception as err:
+        # Catch-all for any other exceptions
+        raise err
+
+
+def choose_config(path: Path) -> str:
+    """
+    Helper method for choosing a `axolotl` config YAML file (considering only files
+    ending with `.yml` or `.yaml`). If more than one config file exists in the passed
+    `path`, the user is prompted to choose one.
+
+    Args:
+        path: Directory in which config file(s) are stored.
+
+    Returns:
+        Path to either (1) the sole YAML file, or (2) if more than one YAML files exist,
+        the user-selected YAML file.
+
+    Raises:
+        ValueError: If no YAML files are found in the given `path`.
+    """
+    yaml_files = list(path.glob("*.yml")) + list(path.glob("*.yaml"))
+
+    if not yaml_files:
+        raise ValueError(
+            "No YAML config files found in the specified directory. Are you using a .yml extension?"
+        )
+
+    if len(yaml_files) == 1:
+        print(f"Using default YAML file '{yaml_files[0]}'")
+        return str(yaml_files[0])
+
+    print("Choose a YAML file:")
+    for idx, file in enumerate(yaml_files):
+        print(f"{idx + 1}. {file}")
+
+    chosen_file = None
+    while chosen_file is None:
+        try:
+            choice = int(input("Enter the number of your choice: "))
+            if 1 <= choice <= len(yaml_files):
+                chosen_file = str(yaml_files[choice - 1])
+            else:
+                print("Invalid choice. Please choose a number from the list.")
+        except ValueError:
+            print("Invalid input. Please enter a number.")
+
+    return chosen_file
+
+
+def prepare_plugins(cfg: DictDefault):
+    """
+    Registers the plugins for the given configuration.
+
+    Args:
+        cfg: Dictionary mapping `axolotl` config keys to values.
+    """
+    if cfg.get("plugins"):
+        plugin_manager = PluginManager.get_instance()
+        for plugin_name in cfg["plugins"]:
+            plugin_manager.register(plugin_name)
+
+
+def load_cfg(config: Union[str, Path] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs) -> DictDefault:
+    """
+    Loads the `axolotl` configuration stored at `config`, validates it, and performs
+    various setup.
+
+    Args:
+        config: Path (local or remote) to `axolotl` config YAML file.
+        kwargs: Additional keyword arguments to override config file values.
+
+    Returns:
+        `DictDefault` mapping configuration keys to values.
+    """
+    config = check_remote_config(config)
+    if Path(config).is_dir():
+        config = choose_config(Path(config))
+
+    # Load the config from the yaml file
+    with open(config, encoding="utf-8") as file:
+        cfg: DictDefault = DictDefault(yaml.safe_load(file))
+
+    # If there are any options passed in the cli, if it is something that seems valid
+    # from the yaml, then overwrite the value
+    cfg_keys = cfg.keys()
+    for k, _ in kwargs.items():
+        # if not strict, allow writing to cfg even if it's not in the yml already
+        if k in cfg_keys or not cfg.strict:
+            # handle booleans
+            if isinstance(cfg[k], bool):
+                cfg[k] = bool(kwargs[k])
+            else:
+                cfg[k] = kwargs[k]
+
+    cfg.axolotl_config_path = config
+
+    try:
+        device_props = torch.cuda.get_device_properties("cuda")
+        gpu_version = "sm_" + str(device_props.major) + str(device_props.minor)
+    except:  # pylint: disable=bare-except # noqa: E722
+        gpu_version = None
+
+    prepare_plugins(cfg)
+
+    cfg = validate_config(
+        cfg,
+        capabilities={
+            "bf16": is_torch_bf16_gpu_available(),
+            "n_gpu": int(os.environ.get("WORLD_SIZE", 1)),
+            "compute_capability": gpu_version,
+        },
+        env_capabilities={
+            "torch_version": str(torch.__version__).split("+", maxsplit=1)[0]
+        },
+    )
+
+    prepare_optim_env(cfg)
+    prepare_opinionated_env(cfg)
+    normalize_config(cfg)
+    normalize_cfg_datasets(cfg)
+    setup_wandb_env_vars(cfg)
+    setup_mlflow_env_vars(cfg)
+    setup_comet_env_vars(cfg)
+
+    return cfg

src/axolotl/cli/evaluate.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-"""
-CLI to run training on a model
-"""
+"""CLI to run evaluation on a model."""
+
 import logging
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Union
@@ -9,35 +8,48 @@ import fire
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
 from transformers.hf_argparser import HfArgumentParser
 
-from axolotl.cli import (
-    check_accelerate_default_config,
-    check_user_token,
-    load_cfg,
-    load_datasets,
-    load_rl_datasets,
-    print_axolotl_text_art,
-)
-from axolotl.common.cli import TrainerCliArgs
+from axolotl.cli.args import TrainerCliArgs
+from axolotl.cli.art import print_axolotl_text_art
+from axolotl.cli.checks import check_accelerate_default_config, check_user_token
+from axolotl.cli.config import load_cfg
+from axolotl.common.datasets import load_datasets, load_preference_datasets
 from axolotl.evaluate import evaluate
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
 
-LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.cli.evaluate")
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def do_evaluate(cfg, cli_args) -> None:
+def do_evaluate(cfg: DictDefault, cli_args: TrainerCliArgs) -> None:
+    """
+    Evaluates a `transformers` model by first loading the dataset(s) specified in the
+    `axolotl` config, and then calling `axolotl.evaluate.evaluate`, which computes
+    evaluation metrics on the given dataset(s) and writes them to disk.
+
+    Args:
+        cfg: Dictionary mapping `axolotl` config keys to values.
+        cli_args: CLI arguments.
+    """
     # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
     print_axolotl_text_art()
     check_accelerate_default_config()
     check_user_token()
 
-    if cfg.rl:  # and cfg.rl != "orpo":
-        dataset_meta = load_rl_datasets(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
+    if cfg.rl:
+        dataset_meta = load_preference_datasets(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
     else:
         dataset_meta = load_datasets(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
 
-    evaluate(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args, dataset_meta=dataset_meta)
+    evaluate(cfg=cfg, dataset_meta=dataset_meta)
 
 
 def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs) -> None:
+    """
+    Parses `axolotl` config, CLI args, and calls `do_evaluate`.
+
+    Args:
+        config: Path to `axolotl` config YAML file.
+        kwargs: Additional keyword arguments to override config file values.
+    """
     # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
     parsed_cfg = load_cfg(config, **kwargs)
     parser = HfArgumentParser(TrainerCliArgs)

src/axolotl/cli/inference.py

@@ -1,32 +1,267 @@
-"""
-CLI to run inference on a trained model
-"""
+"""CLI to run inference on a trained model."""
+
+import importlib
+import logging
+import sys
 from pathlib import Path
+from threading import Thread
 from typing import Union
 
 import fire
+import torch
 import transformers
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
+from transformers import GenerationConfig, TextIteratorStreamer, TextStreamer
 
-from axolotl.cli import (
-    do_inference,
-    do_inference_gradio,
-    load_cfg,
-    print_axolotl_text_art,
+from axolotl.cli.args import InferenceCliArgs
+from axolotl.cli.art import print_axolotl_text_art
+from axolotl.cli.config import load_cfg
+from axolotl.cli.utils import load_model_and_tokenizer
+from axolotl.utils.chat_templates import (
+    get_chat_template,
+    get_chat_template_from_config,
 )
-from axolotl.common.cli import TrainerCliArgs
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), gradio=False, **kwargs):
+def get_multi_line_input() -> str:
+    """
+    Gets multi-line input from terminal.
+
+    Returns:
+        Possibly multi-line, possibly empty stdin input as a string.
+    """
+    print("Give me an instruction (Ctrl + D to submit): ")
+
+    instruction = ""
+    for line in sys.stdin:
+        instruction += line  # pylint: disable=consider-using-join
+
+    return instruction
+
+
+def do_inference(
+    *,
+    cfg: DictDefault,
+    cli_args: InferenceCliArgs,
+):
+    """
+    Runs inference on the command line in a loop. User input is accepted, a chat template
+    is (optionally) applied, and the model specified in the `axolotl` config is used to
+    generate completions according to a default generation config.
+
+    Args:
+        cfg: Dictionary mapping `axolotl` config keys to values.
+        cli_args: Inference-specific CLI arguments.
+    """
+    model, tokenizer = load_model_and_tokenizer(cfg=cfg, inference=True)
+    prompter = cli_args.prompter
+
+    prompter_module = None
+    chat_template_str = None
+    if prompter:
+        prompter_module = getattr(
+            importlib.import_module("axolotl.prompters"), prompter
+        )
+    elif cfg.chat_template:
+        chat_template_str = get_chat_template(cfg.chat_template)
+    elif cfg.datasets[0].type == "chat_template":
+        chat_template_str = get_chat_template_from_config(
+            cfg=cfg, ds_cfg=cfg.datasets[0], tokenizer=tokenizer
+        )
+
+    model = model.to(cfg.device, dtype=cfg.torch_dtype)
+
+    while True:
+        print("=" * 80)
+        # support for multiline inputs
+        instruction = get_multi_line_input()
+        if not instruction:
+            return
+
+        if prompter_module:
+            prompt: str = next(
+                prompter_module().build_prompt(instruction=instruction.strip("\n"))
+            )
+        else:
+            prompt = instruction.strip()
+
+        if chat_template_str:
+            batch = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
+                [
+                    {
+                        "role": "user",
+                        "content": prompt,
+                    }
+                ],
+                return_tensors="pt",
+                add_special_tokens=True,
+                add_generation_prompt=True,
+                chat_template=chat_template_str,
+                tokenize=True,
+                return_dict=True,
+            )
+        else:
+            batch = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt", add_special_tokens=True)
+
+        print("=" * 40)
+        model.eval()
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            generation_config = GenerationConfig(
+                repetition_penalty=1.1,
+                max_new_tokens=1024,
+                temperature=0.9,
+                top_p=0.95,
+                top_k=40,
+                bos_token_id=tokenizer.bos_token_id,
+                eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
+                pad_token_id=tokenizer.pad_token_id,
+                do_sample=True,
+                use_cache=True,
+                return_dict_in_generate=True,
+                output_attentions=False,
+                output_hidden_states=False,
+                output_scores=False,
+            )
+            streamer = TextStreamer(tokenizer)
+            generated = model.generate(
+                inputs=batch["input_ids"].to(cfg.device),
+                generation_config=generation_config,
+                streamer=streamer,
+            )
+        print("=" * 40)
+        print(tokenizer.decode(generated["sequences"].cpu().tolist()[0]))
+
+
+def do_inference_gradio(
+    *,
+    cfg: DictDefault,
+    cli_args: InferenceCliArgs,
+):
+    """
+    Runs inference in a Gradio interface. User input is accepted, a chat template is
+    (optionally) applied, and the model specified in the `axolotl` config is used to
+    generate completions according to a default generation config.
+
+    Args:
+        cfg: Dictionary mapping `axolotl` config keys to values.
+        cli_args: Inference-specific CLI arguments.
+    """
+    import gradio as gr
+
+    model, tokenizer = load_model_and_tokenizer(cfg=cfg, inference=True)
+    prompter = cli_args.prompter
+
+    prompter_module = None
+    chat_template_str = None
+    if prompter:
+        prompter_module = getattr(
+            importlib.import_module("axolotl.prompters"), prompter
+        )
+    elif cfg.chat_template:
+        chat_template_str = get_chat_template(cfg.chat_template, tokenizer=tokenizer)
+
+    model = model.to(cfg.device, dtype=cfg.torch_dtype)
+
+    def generate(instruction):
+        if not instruction:
+            return
+        if prompter_module:
+            # pylint: disable=stop-iteration-return
+            prompt: str = next(
+                prompter_module().build_prompt(instruction=instruction.strip("\n"))
+            )
+        else:
+            prompt = instruction.strip()
+
+        if chat_template_str:
+            batch = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
+                [
+                    {
+                        "role": "user",
+                        "content": prompt,
+                    }
+                ],
+                return_tensors="pt",
+                add_special_tokens=True,
+                add_generation_prompt=True,
+                chat_template=chat_template_str,
+                tokenize=True,
+                return_dict=True,
+            )
+        else:
+            batch = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt", add_special_tokens=True)
+
+        model.eval()
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            generation_config = GenerationConfig(
+                repetition_penalty=1.1,
+                max_new_tokens=cfg.get("gradio_max_new_tokens", 1024),
+                temperature=cfg.get("gradio_temperature", 0.9),
+                top_p=0.95,
+                top_k=40,
+                bos_token_id=tokenizer.bos_token_id,
+                eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
+                pad_token_id=tokenizer.pad_token_id,
+                do_sample=True,
+                use_cache=True,
+                return_dict_in_generate=True,
+                output_attentions=False,
+                output_hidden_states=False,
+                output_scores=False,
+            )
+            streamer = TextIteratorStreamer(tokenizer)
+            generation_kwargs = {
+                "inputs": batch["input_ids"].to(cfg.device),
+                "attention_mask": batch["attention_mask"].to(cfg.device),
+                "generation_config": generation_config,
+                "streamer": streamer,
+            }
+
+            thread = Thread(target=model.generate, kwargs=generation_kwargs)
+            thread.start()
+
+            all_text = ""
+
+            for new_text in streamer:
+                all_text += new_text
+                yield all_text
+
+    demo = gr.Interface(
+        fn=generate,
+        inputs="textbox",
+        outputs="text",
+        title=cfg.get("gradio_title", "Axolotl Gradio Interface"),
+    )
+
+    demo.queue().launch(
+        show_api=False,
+        share=cfg.get("gradio_share", True),
+        server_name=cfg.get("gradio_server_name", "127.0.0.1"),
+        server_port=cfg.get("gradio_server_port", None),
+    )
+
+
+def do_cli(
+    config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), gradio: bool = False, **kwargs
+) -> None:
+    """
+    Parses axolotl config, CLI args, and calls `do_inference` or `do_inference_gradio`.
+
+    Args:
+        config: Path to `axolotl` config YAML file.
+        kwargs: Additional keyword arguments to override config file values.
+    """
     # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
     print_axolotl_text_art()
     parsed_cfg = load_cfg(config, inference=True, **kwargs)
     parsed_cfg.sample_packing = False
-    parser = transformers.HfArgumentParser((TrainerCliArgs))
+    parser = transformers.HfArgumentParser(InferenceCliArgs)
     parsed_cli_args, _ = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses(
         return_remaining_strings=True
     )
-    parsed_cli_args.inference = True
 
     if gradio:
         do_inference_gradio(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args)

src/axolotl/cli/main.py

@@ -1,22 +1,102 @@
-"""CLI definition for various axolotl commands."""
+"""Click CLI definitions for various axolotl commands."""
 # pylint: disable=redefined-outer-name
+
+import logging
+import random
 import subprocess  # nosec B404
+import tempfile
+from copy import deepcopy
+from itertools import product
+from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Optional
 
 import click
+import yaml
 
 import axolotl
+from axolotl.cli.args import EvaluateCliArgs, PreprocessCliArgs, TrainerCliArgs
 from axolotl.cli.utils import (
     add_options_from_config,
     add_options_from_dataclass,
     build_command,
     fetch_from_github,
+    filter_none_kwargs,
 )
-from axolotl.common.cli import EvaluateCliArgs, PreprocessCliArgs, TrainerCliArgs
+from axolotl.integrations.lm_eval.cli import lm_eval
 from axolotl.utils import set_pytorch_cuda_alloc_conf
 from axolotl.utils.config.models.input.v0_4_1 import AxolotlInputConfig
 
 
+def generate_sweep_configs(base_config, sweeps_config):
+    """
+    Recursively generates all possible configurations by applying sweeps to the base config.
+
+    Args:
+        base_config (dict): The original configuration dictionary
+        sweeps_config (dict): Dictionary where keys are parameters and values are either:
+            - lists of values to sweep independently
+            - or for paired values, a list of dicts under the '_' key
+
+    Returns:
+        list: List of all possible configuration dictionaries
+
+    Example:
+        sweeps_config = {
+            'learning_rate': [0.1, 0.01],
+            '_': [
+                {'load_in_8bit': True, 'adapter': 'lora'},
+                {'load_in_4bit': True, 'adapter': 'qlora'}
+            ]
+        }
+    """
+    # Separate paired values from regular sweeps
+    paired_values = sweeps_config.get("_", [])
+    regular_sweeps = {k: v for k, v in sweeps_config.items() if k != "_"}
+
+    # Process regular sweeps
+    param_names = list(regular_sweeps.keys())
+    param_values = list(regular_sweeps.values())
+
+    # Generate combinations for regular sweeps
+    regular_combinations = list(product(*param_values)) if param_values else [()]
+
+    # Combine regular sweeps with paired values
+    all_combinations = []
+    for reg_combo in regular_combinations:
+        if paired_values:
+            for paired_set in paired_values:
+                new_config = {}
+                # new_config = deepcopy(base_config)
+                # Combine regular parameters with paired parameters
+                full_combo = {**dict(zip(param_names, reg_combo)), **paired_set}
+                for param_name, param_value in full_combo.items():
+                    new_config[param_name] = param_value
+                print(new_config)
+                all_combinations.append(new_config)
+        else:
+            # If no paired values, just use regular combinations
+            # new_config = deepcopy(base_config)
+            new_config = {}
+            for param_name, param_value in zip(param_names, reg_combo):
+                new_config[param_name] = param_value
+            print(new_config)
+            all_combinations.append(new_config)
+
+    # randomize the order of trials
+    random.seed(42)
+    random.shuffle(all_combinations)
+
+    # Generate a new config for each combination
+    result_configs = []
+    for combination in all_combinations:
+        new_config = deepcopy(base_config)
+        for param_name, param_value in combination.items():
+            new_config[param_name] = param_value
+        result_configs.append(new_config)
+
+    return result_configs
+
+
 @click.group()
 @click.version_option(version=axolotl.__version__, prog_name="axolotl")
 def cli():
@@ -25,50 +105,132 @@ def cli():
 
 @cli.command()
 @click.argument("config", type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str))
-@click.option(
-    "--iterable/--no-iterable",
-    default=False,
-    help="Use IterableDataset for streaming processing of large datasets",
-)
+@click.option("--cloud", default=None, type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str))
 @add_options_from_dataclass(PreprocessCliArgs)
 @add_options_from_config(AxolotlInputConfig)
-def preprocess(config: str, iterable: bool, **kwargs):
-    """Preprocess datasets before training."""
-    kwargs = {k: v for k, v in kwargs.items() if v is not None}
+@filter_none_kwargs
+def preprocess(config: str, cloud: Optional[str] = None, **kwargs) -> None:
+    """
+    Preprocess datasets before training.
 
-    from axolotl.cli.preprocess import do_cli
+    Args:
+        config: Path to `axolotl` config YAML file.
+        cloud: Path to a cloud accelerator configuration file.
+        kwargs: Additional keyword arguments which correspond to CLI args or `axolotl`
+            config options.
+    """
+    if cloud:
+        from axolotl.cli.cloud import do_cli_preprocess
 
-    do_cli(config=config, iterable=iterable, **kwargs)
-
-
-@cli.command()
-@click.argument("config", type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str))
-@click.option(
-    "--accelerate/--no-accelerate",
-    default=True,
-    help="Use accelerate launch for multi-GPU training",
-)
-@add_options_from_dataclass(TrainerCliArgs)
-@add_options_from_config(AxolotlInputConfig)
-def train(config: str, accelerate: bool, **kwargs):
-    """Train or fine-tune a model."""
-    kwargs = {k: v for k, v in kwargs.items() if v is not None}
-
-    # Enable expandable segments for cuda allocation to improve VRAM usage
-    set_pytorch_cuda_alloc_conf()
-
-    if accelerate:
-        base_cmd = ["accelerate", "launch", "-m", "axolotl.cli.train"]
-        if config:
-            base_cmd.append(config)
-        cmd = build_command(base_cmd, kwargs)
-        subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)  # nosec B603
+        do_cli_preprocess(cloud_config=cloud, config=config)
     else:
-        from axolotl.cli.train import do_cli
+        from axolotl.cli.preprocess import do_cli
 
         do_cli(config=config, **kwargs)
 
 
+@cli.command()
+@click.argument("config", type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str))
+@click.option(
+    "--accelerate/--no-accelerate",
+    default=True,
+    help="Use accelerate launch for multi-GPU training",
+)
+@click.option("--cloud", default=None, type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str))
+@click.option(
+    "--sweep",
+    type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str),
+    help="YAML config for sweeping hyperparameters",
+)
+@add_options_from_dataclass(TrainerCliArgs)
+@add_options_from_config(AxolotlInputConfig)
+@filter_none_kwargs
+def train(
+    config: str,
+    accelerate: bool,
+    cloud: Optional[str] = None,
+    sweep: Optional[str] = None,
+    **kwargs,
+) -> None:
+    """
+    Train or fine-tune a model.
+
+    Args:
+        config: Path to `axolotl` config YAML file.
+        accelerate: Whether to use `accelerate` launcher.
+        cloud: Path to a cloud accelerator configuration file
+        sweep: Path to YAML config for sweeping hyperparameters.
+        kwargs: Additional keyword arguments which correspond to CLI args or `axolotl`
+            config options.
+    """
+    # Enable expandable segments for cuda allocation to improve VRAM usage
+    set_pytorch_cuda_alloc_conf()
+    from axolotl.cli.cloud import do_cli_train
+
+    if "use_ray" in kwargs and kwargs["use_ray"]:
+        accelerate = False
+    if sweep:
+        # load the sweep configuration yaml file
+        with open(sweep, "r", encoding="utf-8") as fin:
+            sweep_config: dict[str, list] = yaml.safe_load(fin)
+        with open(config, "r", encoding="utf-8") as fin:
+            base_config: dict[str, list] = yaml.safe_load(fin)
+
+        # generate all possible configurations
+        permutations = generate_sweep_configs(base_config, sweep_config)
+
+        def iter_configs():
+            for perm in permutations:
+                # open temp directory for temporary configurations
+                with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir:
+                    with open(
+                        Path(temp_dir) / "config.yaml", "w", encoding="utf-8"
+                    ) as fout:
+                        yaml.dump(perm, fout)
+                    yield str(Path(temp_dir) / "config.yaml")
+
+    else:
+
+        def iter_configs():
+            yield config
+
+    for cfg_file in iter_configs():
+        # handle errors from subprocess so we can continue rest of sweeps
+        try:
+            if accelerate:
+                if cloud:
+                    do_cli_train(cloud_config=cloud, config=config, accelerate=True)
+                else:
+                    accelerate_args = []
+                    if "main_process_port" in kwargs:
+                        main_process_port = kwargs.pop("main_process_port", None)
+                        accelerate_args.append("--main_process_port")
+                        accelerate_args.append(str(main_process_port))
+                    if "num_processes" in kwargs:
+                        num_processes = kwargs.pop("num_processes", None)
+                        accelerate_args.append("--num-processes")
+                        accelerate_args.append(str(num_processes))
+
+                    base_cmd = ["accelerate", "launch"]
+                    base_cmd.extend(accelerate_args)
+                    base_cmd.extend(["-m", "axolotl.cli.train"])
+                    if cfg_file:
+                        base_cmd.append(cfg_file)
+                    cmd = build_command(base_cmd, kwargs)
+                    subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)  # nosec B603
+            else:
+                if cloud:
+                    do_cli_train(cloud_config=cloud, config=config, accelerate=False)
+                else:
+                    from axolotl.cli.train import do_cli
+
+                    do_cli(config=cfg_file, **kwargs)
+        except subprocess.CalledProcessError as exc:
+            logging.error(f"Failed to train/fine-tune config '{cfg_file}': {exc}")
+            if not sweep:
+                raise exc
+
+
 @cli.command()
 @click.argument("config", type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str))
 @click.option(
@@ -78,10 +240,17 @@ def train(config: str, accelerate: bool, **kwargs):
 )
 @add_options_from_dataclass(EvaluateCliArgs)
 @add_options_from_config(AxolotlInputConfig)
-def evaluate(config: str, accelerate: bool, **kwargs):
-    """Evaluate a model."""
-    kwargs = {k: v for k, v in kwargs.items() if v is not None}
+@filter_none_kwargs
+def evaluate(config: str, accelerate: bool, **kwargs) -> None:
+    """
+    Evaluate a model.
 
+    Args:
+        config: Path to `axolotl` config YAML file.
+        accelerate: Whether to use `accelerate` launcher.
+        kwargs: Additional keyword arguments which correspond to CLI args or `axolotl`
+            config options.
+    """
     if accelerate:
         base_cmd = ["accelerate", "launch", "-m", "axolotl.cli.evaluate"]
         if config:
@@ -101,81 +270,33 @@ def evaluate(config: str, accelerate: bool, **kwargs):
     default=False,
     help="Use accelerate launch for multi-GPU inference",
 )
-@click.option(
-    "--lora-model-dir",
-    type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str),
-    help="Directory containing LoRA model",
-)
-@click.option(
-    "--base-model",
-    type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str),
-    help="Path to base model for non-LoRA models",
-)
 @click.option("--gradio", is_flag=True, help="Launch Gradio interface")
-@click.option("--load-in-8bit", is_flag=True, help="Load model in 8-bit mode")
 @add_options_from_dataclass(TrainerCliArgs)
 @add_options_from_config(AxolotlInputConfig)
-def inference(
-    config: str,
-    accelerate: bool,
-    lora_model_dir: Optional[str] = None,
-    base_model: Optional[str] = None,
-    **kwargs,
-):
-    """Run inference with a trained model."""
-    kwargs = {k: v for k, v in kwargs.items() if v is not None}
-    del kwargs["inference"]  # interferes with inference.do_cli
-
-    if lora_model_dir:
-        kwargs["lora_model_dir"] = lora_model_dir
-    if base_model:
-        kwargs["base_model"] = base_model
+@filter_none_kwargs
+def inference(config: str, accelerate: bool, gradio: bool, **kwargs) -> None:
+    """
+    Run inference with a trained model.
 
+    Args:
+        config: Path to `axolotl` config YAML file.
+        accelerate: Whether to use `accelerate` launcher.
+        gradio: Whether to use Gradio browser interface or command line for inference.
+        kwargs: Additional keyword arguments which correspond to CLI args or `axolotl`
+            config options.
+    """
     if accelerate:
         base_cmd = ["accelerate", "launch", "-m", "axolotl.cli.inference"]
         if config:
             base_cmd.append(config)
+        if gradio:
+            base_cmd.append("--gradio")
         cmd = build_command(base_cmd, kwargs)
         subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)  # nosec B603
     else:
         from axolotl.cli.inference import do_cli
 
-        do_cli(config=config, **kwargs)
-
-
-@cli.command()
-@click.argument("config", type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str))
-@click.option(
-    "--accelerate/--no-accelerate",
-    default=False,
-    help="Use accelerate launch for multi-GPU operations",
-)
-@click.option(
-    "--model-dir",
-    type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str),
-    help="Directory containing model weights to shard",
-)
-@click.option(
-    "--save-dir",
-    type=click.Path(path_type=str),
-    help="Directory to save sharded weights",
-)
-@add_options_from_dataclass(TrainerCliArgs)
-@add_options_from_config(AxolotlInputConfig)
-def shard(config: str, accelerate: bool, **kwargs):
-    """Shard model weights."""
-    kwargs = {k: v for k, v in kwargs.items() if v is not None}
-
-    if accelerate:
-        base_cmd = ["accelerate", "launch", "-m", "axolotl.cli.shard"]
-        if config:
-            base_cmd.append(config)
-        cmd = build_command(base_cmd, kwargs)
-        subprocess.run(cmd, check=True)  # nosec B603
-    else:
-        from axolotl.cli.shard import do_cli
-
-        do_cli(config=config, **kwargs)
+        do_cli(config=config, gradio=gradio, **kwargs)
 
 
 @cli.command()
@@ -185,20 +306,19 @@ def shard(config: str, accelerate: bool, **kwargs):
     default=True,
     help="Use accelerate launch for weight merging",
 )
-@click.option(
-    "--model-dir",
-    type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str),
-    help="Directory containing sharded weights",
-)
-@click.option(
-    "--save-path", type=click.Path(path_type=str), help="Path to save merged weights"
-)
 @add_options_from_dataclass(TrainerCliArgs)
 @add_options_from_config(AxolotlInputConfig)
-def merge_sharded_fsdp_weights(config: str, accelerate: bool, **kwargs):
-    """Merge sharded FSDP model weights."""
-    kwargs = {k: v for k, v in kwargs.items() if v is not None}
+@filter_none_kwargs
+def merge_sharded_fsdp_weights(config: str, accelerate: bool, **kwargs) -> None:
+    """
+    Merge sharded FSDP model weights.
 
+    Args:
+        config: Path to `axolotl` config YAML file.
+        accelerate: Whether to use `accelerate` launcher.
+        kwargs: Additional keyword arguments which correspond to CLI args or `axolotl`
+            config options.
+    """
     if accelerate:
         base_cmd = [
             "accelerate",
@@ -218,28 +338,18 @@ def merge_sharded_fsdp_weights(config: str, accelerate: bool, **kwargs):
 
 @cli.command()
 @click.argument("config", type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str))
-@click.option(
-    "--lora-model-dir",
-    type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str),
-    help="Directory containing the LoRA model to merge",
-)
-@click.option(
-    "--output-dir",
-    type=click.Path(path_type=str),
-    help="Directory to save the merged model",
-)
-def merge_lora(
-    config: str,
-    lora_model_dir: Optional[str] = None,
-    output_dir: Optional[str] = None,
-):
-    """Merge a trained LoRA into a base model"""
-    kwargs = {}
-    if lora_model_dir:
-        kwargs["lora_model_dir"] = lora_model_dir
-    if output_dir:
-        kwargs["output_dir"] = output_dir
+@add_options_from_dataclass(TrainerCliArgs)
+@add_options_from_config(AxolotlInputConfig)
+@filter_none_kwargs
+def merge_lora(config: str, **kwargs) -> None:
+    """
+    Merge trained LoRA adapters into a base model.
 
+    Args:
+        config: Path to `axolotl` config YAML file.
+        kwargs: Additional keyword arguments which correspond to CLI args or `axolotl`
+            config options.
+    """
     from axolotl.cli.merge_lora import do_cli
 
     do_cli(config=config, **kwargs)
@@ -248,17 +358,24 @@ def merge_lora(
 @cli.command()
 @click.argument("directory", type=click.Choice(["examples", "deepspeed_configs"]))
 @click.option("--dest", help="Destination directory")
-def fetch(directory: str, dest: Optional[str]):
+def fetch(directory: str, dest: Optional[str]) -> None:
     """
     Fetch example configs or other resources.
 
     Available directories:
     - examples: Example configuration files
     - deepspeed_configs: DeepSpeed configuration files
+
+    Args:
+        directory: One of `examples`, `deepspeed_configs`.
+        dest: Optional destination directory.
     """
     fetch_from_github(f"{directory}/", dest)
 
 
+cli.add_command(lm_eval)
+
+
 def main():
     cli()
 

src/axolotl/cli/merge_lora.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-"""
-CLI to run merge a trained LoRA into a base model
-"""
+"""CLI to merge a trained LoRA into a base model."""
+
+import logging
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Union
 
@@ -8,14 +8,58 @@ import fire
 import transformers
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
 
-from axolotl.cli import do_merge_lora, load_cfg, print_axolotl_text_art
-from axolotl.common.cli import TrainerCliArgs
+from axolotl.cli.args import TrainerCliArgs
+from axolotl.cli.art import print_axolotl_text_art
+from axolotl.cli.config import load_cfg
+from axolotl.cli.utils import load_model_and_tokenizer
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs):
-    # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
+def do_merge_lora(*, cfg: DictDefault) -> None:
+    """
+    Calls `transformers`' `merge_and_unload` on the model given in the `axolotl` config
+    along with the LoRA adapters to combine them into a single base model.
+
+    Args:
+        cfg: Dictionary mapping `axolotl` config keys to values.
+    """
     print_axolotl_text_art()
-    parser = transformers.HfArgumentParser((TrainerCliArgs))
+
+    model, tokenizer = load_model_and_tokenizer(cfg=cfg)
+    safe_serialization = cfg.save_safetensors is True
+
+    LOG.info("Running merge of LoRA with base model...")
+    model = model.merge_and_unload(progressbar=True)
+    model.to(dtype=cfg.torch_dtype)
+    model.generation_config.do_sample = True
+
+    if cfg.local_rank == 0:
+        LOG.info(f"Saving merged model to: {str(Path(cfg.output_dir) / 'merged')}...")
+        model.save_pretrained(
+            str(Path(cfg.output_dir) / "merged"),
+            safe_serialization=safe_serialization,
+            progressbar=True,
+        )
+        tokenizer.save_pretrained(str(Path(cfg.output_dir) / "merged"))
+
+
+def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs) -> None:
+    """
+    Parses `axolotl` config, CLI args, and calls `do_merge_lora`. Note that various
+    config values will be overwritten to allow the LoRA merge logic to work as expected
+    (`load_in_8bit=False`, `load_in4bit=False`, `flash_attention=False`, etc.).
+
+    Args:
+        config: Path to `axolotl` config YAML file.
+        kwargs: Additional keyword arguments to override config file values.
+
+    Raises:
+        ValueError: If target directory for LoRA merged model does not exist.
+    """
+    # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
+    parser = transformers.HfArgumentParser(TrainerCliArgs)
     parsed_cli_args, _ = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses(
         return_remaining_strings=True
     )
@@ -46,7 +90,7 @@ def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs):
     parsed_cfg.fsdp = None
     parsed_cfg.fsdp_config = None
 
-    do_merge_lora(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args)
+    do_merge_lora(cfg=parsed_cfg)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":

src/axolotl/cli/merge_sharded_fsdp_weights.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-"""
-This module provides a CLI to merge sharded FSDP model checkpoints into a single combined checkpoint
-"""
+"""CLI to merge sharded FSDP model checkpoints into a single combined checkpoint."""
+
 import json
 import logging
 import os
@@ -25,16 +24,15 @@ from huggingface_hub import split_torch_state_dict_into_shards
 from safetensors.torch import save_file as safe_save_file
 from torch.distributed.checkpoint.format_utils import _EmptyStateDictLoadPlanner
 
-from axolotl.cli import load_cfg, print_axolotl_text_art
-from axolotl.common.cli import TrainerCliArgs
+from axolotl.cli.args import TrainerCliArgs
+from axolotl.cli.art import print_axolotl_text_art
+from axolotl.cli.config import load_cfg
 
-LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.cli.merge_sharded_fsdp_weights")
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 class BFloat16CastPlanner(_EmptyStateDictLoadPlanner):
-    """
-    A custom planner to cast tensors to bfloat16 on the fly during loading.
-    """
+    """A custom planner to cast tensors to bfloat16 on the fly during loading."""
 
     def commit_tensor(self, read_item, tensor):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
         tensor.copy_(tensor.to(torch.bfloat16))
@@ -45,11 +43,19 @@ def _distributed_checkpoint_to_merged_weights(
     save_path: str,
     safe_serialization: bool = False,
     max_shard_size: str = "5GB",
-):
+) -> Path:
     """
-    Passthrough to `torch.distributed.checkpoint.format_utils.dcp_to_torch_save`
+    Passthrough to `torch.distributed.checkpoint.format_utils.dcp_to_torch_save`. Will
+    save under `save_path` as either `model.safetensors` or `pytorch_model.bin`.
 
-    Will save under `save_path` as either `model.safetensors` or `pytorch_model.bin`.
+    Args:
+        checkpoint_dir: Directory where distributed checkpoint is saved.
+        save_path: Path to save model to.
+        safe_serialization: Whether to save in safetensors format.
+        max_shard_size: Max size of model shards to save.
+
+    Returns:
+        Path where model is saved.
     """
 
     state_dict: Dict = {}
@@ -79,6 +85,7 @@ def _distributed_checkpoint_to_merged_weights(
     state_dict_split = split_torch_state_dict_into_shards(
         state_dict, filename_pattern=filename_pattern, max_shard_size=max_shard_size
     )
+
     # Save index if sharded
     index = None
     if state_dict_split.is_sharded:
@@ -135,6 +142,9 @@ def merge_fsdp_weights(
             Whether to save the merged weights with safetensors (recommended).
         remove_checkpoint_dir (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `False`):
             Whether to remove the checkpoint directory after merging.
+
+    Raises:
+        ValueError: If torch version < 2.3.0, or if `checkpoint_dir` does not exist.
     """
     checkpoint_dir_ = Path(checkpoint_dir)
     from accelerate.state import PartialState
@@ -178,18 +188,21 @@ def merge_fsdp_weights(
 
 
 def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs):
+    """
+    Parses `axolotl` config, CLI args, and calls `merge_fsdp_weights`.
+
+    Args:
+        config: Path to `axolotl` config YAML file.
+        kwargs: Additional keyword arguments to override config file values.
+    """
     # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
     print_axolotl_text_art()
-    parser = transformers.HfArgumentParser((TrainerCliArgs))
+    parser = transformers.HfArgumentParser(TrainerCliArgs)
     parsed_cli_args, _ = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses(
         return_remaining_strings=True
     )
     parsed_cli_args.merge_lora = True
-
-    parsed_cfg = load_cfg(
-        config,
-        **kwargs,
-    )
+    parsed_cfg = load_cfg(config, **kwargs)
 
     fsdp_dir = Path(parsed_cfg.output_dir) / "pytorch_model_fsdp_0"
     merge_fsdp_weights(

src/axolotl/cli/preprocess.py

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-"""
-CLI to run training on a model
-"""
+"""CLI to run preprocessing of a dataset."""
+
 import logging
 import warnings
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Optional, Union
+from typing import Union
 
 import fire
 import transformers
@@ -13,40 +12,31 @@ from colorama import Fore
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
 from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
 
-from axolotl.cli import (
-    check_accelerate_default_config,
-    check_user_token,
-    load_cfg,
-    load_datasets,
-    load_rl_datasets,
-    print_axolotl_text_art,
-)
-from axolotl.common.cli import PreprocessCliArgs
+from axolotl.cli.args import PreprocessCliArgs
+from axolotl.cli.art import print_axolotl_text_art
+from axolotl.cli.checks import check_accelerate_default_config, check_user_token
+from axolotl.cli.config import load_cfg
 from axolotl.common.const import DEFAULT_DATASET_PREPARED_PATH
+from axolotl.common.datasets import load_datasets, load_preference_datasets
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
 from axolotl.utils.trainer import disable_datasets_caching
 
-LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.cli.preprocess")
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def do_cli(
-    config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"),
-    iterable: Optional[bool] = False,
-    **kwargs,
-):
-    # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
+def do_preprocess(cfg: DictDefault, cli_args: PreprocessCliArgs) -> None:
+    """
+    Preprocesses dataset specified in axolotl config.
+
+    Args:
+        cfg: Dictionary mapping `axolotl` config keys to values.
+        cli_args: Preprocessing-specific CLI arguments.
+    """
     print_axolotl_text_art()
-    parsed_cfg = load_cfg(config, **kwargs)
-    parsed_cfg.is_preprocess = True
-    if iterable:
-        parsed_cfg.preprocess_iterable = iterable
     check_accelerate_default_config()
     check_user_token()
-    parser = transformers.HfArgumentParser((PreprocessCliArgs))
-    parsed_cli_args, _ = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses(
-        return_remaining_strings=True
-    )
 
-    if not parsed_cfg.dataset_prepared_path:
+    if not cfg.dataset_prepared_path:
         msg = (
             Fore.RED
             + "preprocess CLI called without dataset_prepared_path set, "
@@ -54,16 +44,16 @@ def do_cli(
             + Fore.RESET
         )
         LOG.warning(msg)
-        parsed_cfg.dataset_prepared_path = DEFAULT_DATASET_PREPARED_PATH
+        cfg.dataset_prepared_path = DEFAULT_DATASET_PREPARED_PATH
 
     with disable_datasets_caching():
-        if parsed_cfg.rl:  # and parsed_cfg.rl != "orpo":
-            load_rl_datasets(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args)
+        if cfg.rl:
+            load_preference_datasets(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
         else:
-            load_datasets(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args)
+            load_datasets(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
 
-    if parsed_cli_args.download:
-        model_name = parsed_cfg.base_model
+    if cli_args.download:
+        model_name = cfg.base_model
         with warnings.catch_warnings():
             # there are a bunch of useless UserWarnings about
             # "copying from a non-meta parameter in the checkpoint to a meta parameter in the current model"
@@ -80,11 +70,33 @@ def do_cli(
 
     LOG.info(
         Fore.GREEN
-        + f"Success! Preprocessed data path: `dataset_prepared_path: {parsed_cfg.dataset_prepared_path}`"
+        + f"Success! Preprocessed data path: `dataset_prepared_path: {cfg.dataset_prepared_path}`"
         + Fore.RESET
     )
 
 
+def do_cli(
+    config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"),
+    **kwargs,
+) -> None:
+    """
+    Parses `axolotl` config, CLI args, and calls `do_preprocess`.
+
+    Args:
+        config: Path to `axolotl` config YAML file.
+        kwargs: Additional keyword arguments to override config file values.
+    """
+    # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
+    parsed_cfg = load_cfg(config, **kwargs)
+    parsed_cfg.is_preprocess = True
+    parser = transformers.HfArgumentParser(PreprocessCliArgs)
+    parsed_cli_args, _ = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses(
+        return_remaining_strings=True
+    )
+
+    do_preprocess(parsed_cfg, parsed_cli_args)
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     load_dotenv()
     fire.Fire(do_cli)

src/axolotl/cli/shard.py

@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-"""
-CLI to shard a trained model into 10GiB chunks
-"""
-import logging
-from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Union
-
-import fire
-import transformers
-from dotenv import load_dotenv
-
-from axolotl.cli import load_cfg, print_axolotl_text_art
-from axolotl.common.cli import TrainerCliArgs, load_model_and_tokenizer
-from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
-
-LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.scripts")
-
-
-def shard(
-    *,
-    cfg: DictDefault,
-    cli_args: TrainerCliArgs,
-):
-    model, _ = load_model_and_tokenizer(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
-    safe_serialization = cfg.save_safetensors is True
-    LOG.debug("Re-saving model w/ sharding")
-    model.save_pretrained(cfg.output_dir, safe_serialization=safe_serialization)
-
-
-def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs):
-    # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
-    print_axolotl_text_art()
-    parsed_cfg = load_cfg(config, **kwargs)
-    parser = transformers.HfArgumentParser((TrainerCliArgs))
-    parsed_cli_args, _ = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses(
-        return_remaining_strings=True
-    )
-    parsed_cli_args.shard = True
-
-    shard(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args)
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    load_dotenv()
-    fire.Fire(do_cli)

src/axolotl/cli/train.py

@@ -1,50 +1,47 @@
-"""
-CLI to run training on a model
-"""
+"""CLI to run training on a model."""
+
 import logging
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Union
 
 import fire
+from accelerate import Accelerator
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
 from transformers.hf_argparser import HfArgumentParser
 
-from axolotl.cli import (
-    check_accelerate_default_config,
-    check_user_token,
-    load_cfg,
-    load_datasets,
-    load_rl_datasets,
-    print_axolotl_text_art,
-)
-from axolotl.common.cli import TrainerCliArgs
+from axolotl.cli.args import TrainerCliArgs
+from axolotl.cli.art import print_axolotl_text_art
+from axolotl.cli.checks import check_accelerate_default_config, check_user_token
+from axolotl.cli.config import load_cfg
+from axolotl.common.datasets import load_datasets, load_preference_datasets
 from axolotl.integrations.base import PluginManager
 from axolotl.train import train
+from axolotl.utils.config import normalize_config, resolve_dtype
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
 
-LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.cli.train")
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs):
-    # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
-    parsed_cfg = load_cfg(config, **kwargs)
-    parser = HfArgumentParser((TrainerCliArgs))
-    parsed_cli_args, _ = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses(
-        return_remaining_strings=True
-    )
-    return do_train(parsed_cfg, parsed_cli_args)
+def do_train(cfg: DictDefault, cli_args: TrainerCliArgs) -> None:
+    """
+    Trains a `transformers` model by first loading the dataset(s) specified in the
+    `axolotl` config, and then calling `axolotl.train.train`. Also runs the plugin
+    manager's `post_train_unload` once training completes.
 
-
-def do_train(cfg, cli_args) -> None:
+    Args:
+        cfg: Dictionary mapping `axolotl` config keys to values.
+        cli_args: Training-specific CLI arguments.
+    """
     print_axolotl_text_art()
     check_accelerate_default_config()
     check_user_token()
 
-    if cfg.rl:  # and cfg.rl != "orpo":
-        dataset_meta = load_rl_datasets(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
+    if cfg.rl:
+        dataset_meta = load_preference_datasets(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
     else:
         dataset_meta = load_datasets(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
 
-    model, tokenizer = train(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args, dataset_meta=dataset_meta)
+    model, tokenizer = train(cfg=cfg, dataset_meta=dataset_meta)
     plugin_manager = PluginManager.get_instance()
 
     del model
@@ -53,6 +50,64 @@ def do_train(cfg, cli_args) -> None:
     plugin_manager.post_train_unload(cfg)
 
 
+def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs) -> None:
+    """
+    Parses `axolotl` config, CLI args, and calls `do_train`.
+
+    Args:
+        config: Path to `axolotl` config YAML file.
+        kwargs: Additional keyword arguments to override config file values.
+    """
+    # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
+    parsed_cfg = load_cfg(config, **kwargs)
+    parser = HfArgumentParser(TrainerCliArgs)
+    parsed_cli_args, _ = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses(
+        return_remaining_strings=True
+    )
+
+    if parsed_cfg.use_ray:
+        from ray.train import RunConfig, ScalingConfig
+        from ray.train.torch import TorchTrainer
+
+        train_loop_config = {"cfg": parsed_cfg.to_dict(), "cli_args": parsed_cli_args}
+        trainer = TorchTrainer(
+            ray_train_func,
+            train_loop_config=train_loop_config,
+            scaling_config=ScalingConfig(
+                num_workers=parsed_cfg.ray_num_workers,
+                resources_per_worker=parsed_cfg.resources_per_worker.to_dict(),
+                use_gpu=True,
+            ),
+            run_config=RunConfig(
+                name=parsed_cfg.ray_run_name,
+                storage_path=Path(parsed_cfg.output_dir).absolute().as_posix(),
+            ),
+        )
+        return trainer.fit()
+    return do_train(parsed_cfg, parsed_cli_args)
+
+
+def ray_train_func(kwargs: dict):
+    # cast `cfg` back to DictDefault (ray tune deepcopy has issues with DictDefault so needed it to be dict)
+    # also renormalize the config now that TorchTrainer has spawned distributed workers
+    cfg = DictDefault(kwargs["cfg"])
+    normalize_config(cfg)
+
+    # now that we are on the worker node, we can check `is_torch_bf16_gpu_available` to resolve dtype
+    resolve_dtype(cfg)
+
+    # ray serializing objects gets rid of frozen attribute - HF expects dict not DefaultDict
+    if cfg.deepspeed:
+        cfg.deepspeed = cfg.deepspeed.to_dict()
+
+    # initialize accelerator before model instantiation
+    Accelerator(gradient_accumulation_steps=cfg.gradient_accumulation_steps)
+
+    kwargs["cfg"] = cfg
+
+    do_train(**kwargs)
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     load_dotenv()
     fire.Fire(do_cli)

src/axolotl/cli/utils.py

@@ -1,32 +1,84 @@
-"""Utility methods for axoltl CLI."""
+"""Utility methods for axolotl CLI."""
+
 import concurrent.futures
 import dataclasses
 import hashlib
 import json
 import logging
+import typing
+from functools import wraps
 from pathlib import Path
 from types import NoneType
-from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Type, Union, get_args, get_origin
+from typing import Any, Callable, Type, Union, get_args, get_origin
 
 import click
 import requests
 from pydantic import BaseModel
+from transformers import PreTrainedModel, PreTrainedTokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerFast
 
-LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.cli.utils")
+from axolotl.logging_config import configure_logging
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
+from axolotl.utils.models import load_model, load_tokenizer
+
+configure_logging()
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-def add_options_from_dataclass(config_class: Type[Any]):
-    """Create Click options from the fields of a dataclass."""
+def strip_optional_type(field_type: type | typing._SpecialForm | None):
+    """
+    Extracts the non-`None` type from an `Optional` / `Union` type.
 
-    def decorator(function):
+    Args:
+        field_type: Type of field for Axolotl CLI command.
+
+    Returns:
+        If the input type is `Union[T, None]` or `Optional[T]`, returns `T`. Otherwise
+            returns the input type unchanged.
+    """
+    if get_origin(field_type) is Union and type(None) in get_args(field_type):
+        field_type = next(
+            t for t in get_args(field_type) if not isinstance(t, NoneType)
+        )
+
+    return field_type
+
+
+def filter_none_kwargs(func: Callable) -> Callable:
+    """
+    Wraps function to remove `None`-valued `kwargs`.
+
+    Args:
+        func: Function to wrap.
+
+    Returns:
+        Wrapped function.
+    """
+
+    @wraps(func)
+    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs) -> Callable:
+        """Filters out `None`-valued `kwargs`."""
+        filtered_kwargs = {k: v for k, v in kwargs.items() if v is not None}
+
+        return func(*args, **filtered_kwargs)
+
+    return wrapper
+
+
+def add_options_from_dataclass(config_class: Type[Any]) -> Callable:
+    """
+    Create Click options from the fields of a dataclass.
+
+    Args:
+        config_class: Dataclass with fields to parse from the CLI.
+
+    Returns:
+        Function decorator for Axolotl CLI command.
+    """
+
+    def decorator(function: Callable) -> Callable:
         # Process dataclass fields in reverse order for correct option ordering
         for field in reversed(dataclasses.fields(config_class)):
-            field_type = field.type
-
-            if get_origin(field_type) is Union and type(None) in get_args(field_type):
-                field_type = next(
-                    t for t in get_args(field_type) if not isinstance(t, NoneType)
-                )
+            field_type = strip_optional_type(field.type)
 
             if field_type == bool:
                 field_name = field.name.replace("_", "-")
@@ -44,18 +96,29 @@ def add_options_from_dataclass(config_class: Type[Any]):
                     default=field.default,
                     help=field.metadata.get("description"),
                 )(function)
+
         return function
 
     return decorator
 
 
-def add_options_from_config(config_class: Type[BaseModel]):
-    """Create Click options from the fields of a Pydantic model."""
+def add_options_from_config(config_class: Type[BaseModel]) -> Callable:
+    """
+    Create Click options from the fields of a Pydantic model.
 
-    def decorator(function):
+    Args:
+        config_class: PyDantic model with fields to parse from the CLI
+
+    Returns:
+        Function decorator for Axolotl CLI command.
+    """
+
+    def decorator(function: Callable) -> Callable:
         # Process model fields in reverse order for correct option ordering
         for name, field in reversed(config_class.model_fields.items()):
-            if field.annotation in (bool, Optional[bool]):
+            field_type = strip_optional_type(field.annotation)
+
+            if field_type == bool:
                 field_name = name.replace("_", "-")
                 option_name = f"--{field_name}/--no-{field_name}"
                 function = click.option(
@@ -66,13 +129,23 @@ def add_options_from_config(config_class: Type[BaseModel]):
                 function = click.option(
                     option_name, default=None, help=field.description
                 )(function)
+
         return function
 
     return decorator
 
 
-def build_command(base_cmd: List[str], options: Dict[str, Any]) -> List[str]:
-    """Build command list from base command and options."""
+def build_command(base_cmd: list[str], options: dict[str, Any]) -> list[str]:
+    """
+    Build command list from base command and options.
+
+    Args:
+        base_cmd: Command without options.
+        options: Options to parse and append to base command.
+
+    Returns:
+        List of strings giving shell command.
+    """
     cmd = base_cmd.copy()
 
     for key, value in options.items():
@@ -92,18 +165,18 @@ def build_command(base_cmd: List[str], options: Dict[str, Any]) -> List[str]:
 
 def download_file(
     file_info: tuple, raw_base_url: str, dest_path: Path, dir_prefix: str
-) -> Tuple[str, str]:
+) -> tuple[str, str]:
     """
     Download a single file and return its processing status.
 
     Args:
-        file_info: Tuple of (file_path, remote_sha)
-        raw_base_url: Base URL for raw GitHub content
-        dest_path: Local destination directory
-        dir_prefix: Directory prefix to filter files
+        file_info: Tuple of (file_path, remote_sha).
+        raw_base_url: Base URL for raw GitHub content.
+        dest_path: Local destination directory.
+        dir_prefix: Directory prefix to filter files.
 
     Returns:
-        Tuple of (file_path, status) where status is 'new', 'updated', or 'unchanged'
+        Tuple of (file_path, status) where status is 'new', 'updated', or 'unchanged'.
     """
     file_path, remote_sha = file_info
     raw_url = f"{raw_base_url}/{file_path}"
@@ -145,16 +218,17 @@ def download_file(
 
 
 def fetch_from_github(
-    dir_prefix: str, dest_dir: Optional[str] = None, max_workers: int = 5
+    dir_prefix: str, dest_dir: str | None = None, max_workers: int = 5
 ) -> None:
     """
     Sync files from a specific directory in the GitHub repository.
     Only downloads files that don't exist locally or have changed.
 
     Args:
-        dir_prefix: Directory prefix to filter files (e.g., 'examples/', 'deepspeed_configs/')
-        dest_dir: Local destination directory
-        max_workers: Maximum number of concurrent downloads
+        dir_prefix: Directory prefix to filter files (e.g., 'examples/',
+            'deepspeed_configs/').
+        dest_dir: Local destination directory.
+        max_workers: Maximum number of concurrent downloads.
     """
     api_url = "https://api.github.com/repos/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/git/trees/main?recursive=1"
     raw_base_url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/main"
@@ -179,7 +253,7 @@ def fetch_from_github(
     dest_path = Path(dest_dir) if dest_dir else default_dest
 
     # Keep track of processed files for summary
-    files_processed: Dict[str, List[str]] = {
+    files_processed: dict[str, list[str]] = {
         "new": [],
         "updated": [],
         "unchanged": [],
@@ -216,3 +290,28 @@ def fetch_from_github(
     LOG.info(f"Unchanged files: {len(files_processed['unchanged'])}")
     if files_processed["error"]:
         LOG.info(f"Failed files: {len(files_processed['error'])}")
+
+
+def load_model_and_tokenizer(
+    *,
+    cfg: DictDefault,
+    inference: bool = False,
+) -> tuple[PreTrainedModel, PreTrainedTokenizer | PreTrainedTokenizerFast | Any]:
+    """
+    Helper function for loading a model and tokenizer specified in the given `axolotl`
+    config.
+
+    Args:
+        cfg: Dictionary mapping `axolotl` config keys to values.
+        inference: Boolean denoting inference mode.
+
+    Returns:
+        `transformers` model and tokenizer.
+    """
+    LOG.info(f"loading tokenizer... {cfg.tokenizer_config or cfg.base_model_config}")
+    tokenizer = load_tokenizer(cfg)
+
+    LOG.info("loading model...")
+    model, _ = load_model(cfg, tokenizer, inference=inference)
+
+    return model, tokenizer

src/axolotl/common/cli.py

@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-"""
-shared module for cli specific things
-"""
-
-import logging
-from dataclasses import dataclass, field
-from typing import Optional
-
-import axolotl.monkeypatch.data.batch_dataset_fetcher  # pylint: disable=unused-import  # noqa: F401
-from axolotl.logging_config import configure_logging
-from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
-from axolotl.utils.models import load_model, load_tokenizer
-
-configure_logging()
-LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.common.cli")
-
-
-@dataclass
-class PreprocessCliArgs:
-    """
-    dataclass representing arguments for preprocessing only
-    """
-
-    debug: bool = field(default=False)
-    debug_text_only: bool = field(default=False)
-    debug_num_examples: int = field(default=1)
-    prompter: Optional[str] = field(default=None)
-    download: Optional[bool] = field(default=True)
-
-
-@dataclass
-class TrainerCliArgs:
-    """
-    dataclass representing the various non-training arguments
-    """
-
-    debug: bool = field(default=False)
-    debug_text_only: bool = field(default=False)
-    debug_num_examples: int = field(default=0)
-    inference: bool = field(default=False)
-    merge_lora: bool = field(default=False)
-    prompter: Optional[str] = field(default=None)
-    shard: bool = field(default=False)
-
-
-@dataclass
-class EvaluateCliArgs:
-    """
-    dataclass representing the various evaluation arguments
-    """
-
-    debug: bool = field(default=False)
-    debug_text_only: bool = field(default=False)
-    debug_num_examples: int = field(default=0)
-
-
-def load_model_and_tokenizer(
-    *,
-    cfg: DictDefault,
-    cli_args: TrainerCliArgs,
-):
-    LOG.info(f"loading tokenizer... {cfg.tokenizer_config or cfg.base_model_config}")
-    tokenizer = load_tokenizer(cfg)
-
-    LOG.info("loading model and (optionally) peft_config...")
-    inference = getattr(cli_args, "inference", False)
-    model, _ = load_model(cfg, tokenizer, inference=inference)
-
-    return model, tokenizer

src/axolotl/common/datasets.py

@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+"""Dataset loading utilities."""
+
+import logging
+import math
+import random
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Optional, Union
+
+from datasets import Dataset
+
+import axolotl.monkeypatch.data.batch_dataset_fetcher  # pylint: disable=unused-import  # noqa: F401
+from axolotl.cli.args import PreprocessCliArgs, TrainerCliArgs
+from axolotl.utils.data import prepare_dataset
+from axolotl.utils.data.rl import load_prepare_preference_datasets
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
+from axolotl.utils.models import load_processor, load_tokenizer
+from axolotl.utils.tokenization import check_dataset_labels
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class TrainDatasetMeta:
+    """Dataclass with fields for training and validation datasets and metadata."""
+
+    train_dataset: Dataset
+    eval_dataset: Optional[Dataset] = None
+    total_num_steps: Optional[int] = None
+
+
+def sample_dataset(dataset: Dataset, num_samples: int) -> Dataset:
+    """
+    Randomly sample `num_samples` samples from `dataset`.
+
+    Args:
+        dataset: Dataset.
+        num_samples: Number of samples to return.
+
+    Returns:
+        Random sample (with replacement) of examples in `dataset`.
+    """
+    return dataset.select(
+        [random.randrange(0, len(dataset) - 1) for _ in range(num_samples)]  # nosec
+    )
+
+
+def load_datasets(
+    *,
+    cfg: DictDefault,
+    cli_args: Union[PreprocessCliArgs, TrainerCliArgs],
+) -> TrainDatasetMeta:
+    """
+    Loads one or more training or evaluation datasets, calling
+    `axolotl.utils.data.prepare_dataset`. Optionally, logs out debug information.
+
+    Args:
+        cfg: Dictionary mapping `axolotl` config keys to values.
+        cli_args: Command-specific CLI arguments.
+
+    Returns:
+        Dataclass with fields for training and evaluation datasets and the computed
+        `total_num_steps`.
+    """
+    tokenizer = load_tokenizer(cfg)
+    processor = load_processor(cfg, tokenizer=tokenizer) if cfg.processor_type else None
+    preprocess_iterable = (
+        hasattr(cli_args, "iterable")
+        and cli_args.iterable is not None
+        and cli_args.iterable
+    )
+
+    train_dataset, eval_dataset, total_num_steps, prompters = prepare_dataset(
+        cfg,
+        tokenizer,
+        processor=processor,
+        preprocess_iterable=preprocess_iterable,
+    )
+
+    if (
+        cli_args.debug
+        or cfg.debug
+        or cli_args.debug_text_only
+        or int(cli_args.debug_num_examples) > 0
+    ):
+        LOG.info("check_dataset_labels...")
+
+        train_samples = sample_dataset(train_dataset, cli_args.debug_num_examples)
+        check_dataset_labels(
+            train_samples,
+            tokenizer,
+            num_examples=cli_args.debug_num_examples,
+            text_only=cli_args.debug_text_only,
+        )
+
+        LOG.info("printing prompters...")
+        for prompter in prompters:
+            LOG.info(prompter)
+
+    return TrainDatasetMeta(
+        train_dataset=train_dataset,
+        eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
+        total_num_steps=total_num_steps,
+    )
+
+
+def load_preference_datasets(
+    *,
+    cfg: DictDefault,
+    cli_args: Union[PreprocessCliArgs, TrainerCliArgs],
+) -> TrainDatasetMeta:
+    """
+    Loads one or more training or evaluation datasets for RL training using paired
+    preference data, calling `axolotl.utils.data.rl.load_prepare_preference_datasets`.
+    Optionally, logs out debug information.
+
+    Args:
+        cfg: Dictionary mapping `axolotl` config keys to values.
+        cli_args: Command-specific CLI arguments.
+
+    Returns:
+        Dataclass with fields for training and evaluation datasets and the computed
+        `total_num_steps`.
+    """
+    train_dataset, eval_dataset = load_prepare_preference_datasets(cfg)
+    total_num_steps = int(
+        math.ceil(len(train_dataset) * cfg.num_epochs / cfg.batch_size)
+    )
+
+    if cli_args.debug or cfg.debug:
+        LOG.info("check_dataset_labels...")
+
+        tokenizer = load_tokenizer(cfg)
+        train_samples = sample_dataset(train_dataset, cli_args.debug_num_examples)
+        check_dataset_labels(
+            train_samples,
+            tokenizer,
+            num_examples=cli_args.debug_num_examples,
+            text_only=cli_args.debug_text_only,
+            rl_mode=True,
+        )
+
+    return TrainDatasetMeta(
+        train_dataset=train_dataset,
+        eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
+        total_num_steps=total_num_steps,
+    )

src/axolotl/core/trainer_builder.py

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ from axolotl.core.trainers.base import (
     AxolotlKTOTrainer,
     AxolotlMambaTrainer,
     AxolotlORPOTrainer,
+    AxolotlPRMTrainer,
     AxolotlRewardTrainer,
     AxolotlTrainer,
     ReLoRATrainer,
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ from axolotl.core.training_args import (
     AxolotlDPOConfig,
     AxolotlKTOConfig,
     AxolotlORPOConfig,
+    AxolotlPRMConfig,
     AxolotlRewardConfig,
     AxolotlTrainingArguments,
 )
@@ -224,7 +226,8 @@ class TrainerBuilderBase(abc.ABC):
 
 class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
     """
-    Build the HuggingFace training args/trainer for Causal models
+    Build the HuggingFace training args/trainer for causal models
+    and reward modelling using TRL.
     """
 
     def get_callbacks(self):
@@ -304,6 +307,8 @@ class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
             return AxolotlMambaTrainer
         if self.cfg.reward_model:
             return AxolotlRewardTrainer
+        if self.cfg.process_reward_model:
+            return AxolotlPRMTrainer
         return AxolotlTrainer
 
     def build(self, total_num_steps):
@@ -560,6 +565,7 @@ class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
         ] = self.cfg.loraplus_lr_embedding
         training_arguments_kwargs["embedding_lr"] = self.cfg.embedding_lr
         training_arguments_kwargs["embedding_lr_scale"] = self.cfg.embedding_lr_scale
+        training_arguments_kwargs["lr_groups"] = self.cfg.lr_groups
 
         if self.cfg.lr_scheduler in ["one_cycle", "log_sweep"]:
             training_arguments_kwargs["lr_scheduler_type"] = "cosine"
@@ -697,12 +703,23 @@ class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
             training_arguments_kwargs["kd_ce_alpha"] = self.cfg.kd_ce_alpha
         if self.cfg.kd_alpha is not None:
             training_arguments_kwargs["kd_alpha"] = self.cfg.kd_alpha
+        if self.cfg.kd_temperature is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs["kd_temperature"] = self.cfg.kd_temperature
+        if self.cfg.kd_zscore_base_temp is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs[
+                "kd_zscore_base_temp"
+            ] = self.cfg.kd_zscore_base_temp
+        if self.cfg.kd_top_k_before_softmax is not None:
+            training_arguments_kwargs[
+                "kd_top_k_before_softmax"
+            ] = self.cfg.kd_top_k_before_softmax
 
-        training_args_cls = (
-            AxolotlTrainingArguments
-            if not self.cfg.reward_model
-            else AxolotlRewardConfig
-        )
+        if self.cfg.reward_model:
+            training_args_cls = AxolotlRewardConfig
+        elif self.cfg.process_reward_model:
+            training_args_cls = AxolotlPRMConfig
+        else:
+            training_args_cls = AxolotlTrainingArguments
         training_args = training_args_cls(  # pylint: disable=unexpected-keyword-arg
             **training_arguments_kwargs,
         )
@@ -736,9 +753,9 @@ class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
         if eval_data_collator := self.build_collator(
             training_args, is_eval=True, **data_collator_kwargs
         ):
-            if not self.cfg.reward_model:
+            if not (self.cfg.reward_model or self.cfg.process_reward_model):
                 trainer_kwargs["eval_data_collator"] = eval_data_collator
-        if not self.cfg.reward_model:
+        if not (self.cfg.reward_model or self.cfg.process_reward_model):
             trainer_kwargs["bench_data_collator"] = transformers.DataCollatorForSeq2Seq(
                 self.tokenizer,
                 return_tensors="pt",
@@ -749,8 +766,10 @@ class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
             trainer_kwargs["processing_class"] = self.tokenizer
         else:
             trainer_kwargs["tokenizer"] = self.tokenizer
-
-        if (trainer_cls is not AxolotlRewardTrainer) and self.cfg.datasets is not None:
+        if (
+            not (trainer_cls in [AxolotlRewardTrainer, AxolotlPRMTrainer])
+            and self.cfg.datasets is not None
+        ):
             trainer_kwargs["dataset_tags"] = [
                 d["path"] for d in self.cfg.datasets if not Path(d["path"]).is_dir()
             ]
@@ -778,6 +797,10 @@ class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
         self, training_args: AxolotlTrainingArguments, is_eval=False, **kwargs
     ):
         if training_args.pretraining:
+            if self.cfg.pretraining_sample_concatenation is False:
+                return DataCollatorForSeq2Seq(self.tokenizer, **kwargs)
+            if self.cfg.micro_batch_size > 1:
+                return DataCollatorForSeq2Seq(self.tokenizer, **kwargs)
             return None
 
         if self.cfg.model_config_type == "mamba":
@@ -846,7 +869,7 @@ class HFCausalTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
 
 class HFRLTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
     """
-    Trainer factory class for DPO Trainer
+    Trainer factory class for TRL-based RLHF trainers (e.g. DPO)
     """
 
     def get_callbacks(self):

src/axolotl/core/trainers/base.py

@@ -21,7 +21,14 @@ from torch.utils.data import BatchSampler, DataLoader, RandomSampler, Sequential
 from transformers import Trainer
 from transformers.trainer_utils import PREFIX_CHECKPOINT_DIR, seed_worker
 from transformers.utils import is_sagemaker_mp_enabled
-from trl import CPOTrainer, DPOTrainer, KTOTrainer, ORPOTrainer, RewardTrainer
+from trl import (
+    CPOTrainer,
+    DPOTrainer,
+    KTOTrainer,
+    ORPOTrainer,
+    PRMTrainer,
+    RewardTrainer,
+)
 from trl.trainer.utils import pad_to_length
 
 from axolotl.monkeypatch.relora import ReLoRAScheduler
@@ -194,11 +201,95 @@ class AxolotlTrainer(SchedulerMixin, Trainer):
             )
         return super()._wrap_model(model, training=training, dataloader=dataloader)
 
+    def create_optimizer_grouped_parameters(self, opt_model, optimizer_kwargs):
+        decay_parameters = self.get_decay_parameter_names(opt_model)
+        params = {
+            "to_weight_decay": {},  # LayerNorm and bias
+            "embeddings": {},  # lm_head, embed_tokens,
+            "no_weight_decay": {},
+        }
+        lr_groups_lookup = {}
+        lr_groups_learning_rates = {}
+        if self.args.lr_groups:
+            for lr_group in self.args.lr_groups:
+                group_name = lr_group["name"]
+                group_modules = lr_group["modules"]
+                for module in group_modules:
+                    lr_groups_lookup[module] = group_name
+                lr_groups_learning_rates[group_name] = lr_group["lr"]
+                params[f"to_weight_decay_{group_name}"] = {}
+
+        for name, param in opt_model.named_parameters():
+            if not param.requires_grad:
+                continue
+            if name.endswith("modules_to_save.default.weight") or any(
+                embed_name in name for embed_name in ["embed_tokens", "lm_head"]
+            ):
+                params["embeddings"][name] = param
+            elif name in decay_parameters:
+                lr_group_modules = [
+                    group_modules
+                    for group_modules in lr_groups_lookup
+                    if group_modules in name
+                ]
+                if lr_groups_lookup and any(lr_group_modules):
+                    lr_group_module = lr_group_modules[0]
+                    group_name = lr_groups_lookup[lr_group_module]
+                    params[f"to_weight_decay_{group_name}"][name] = param
+                else:
+                    params["to_weight_decay"][name] = param
+            else:
+                params["no_weight_decay"][name] = param
+        optimizer_grouped_parameters = []
+        if params["to_weight_decay"]:
+            optimizer_grouped_parameters.append(
+                {
+                    "params": list(params["to_weight_decay"].values()),
+                    "weight_decay": self.args.weight_decay,
+                    "lr": optimizer_kwargs["lr"],
+                }
+            )
+        if params["embeddings"]:
+            lr = optimizer_kwargs["lr"]  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+            if self.args.embedding_lr_scale:
+                lr *= self.args.embedding_lr_scale  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+            elif self.args.embedding_lr:
+                lr = self.args.embedding_lr  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+            optimizer_grouped_parameters.append(
+                {
+                    "params": list(params["embeddings"].values()),
+                    "weight_decay": 0.0,
+                    "lr": lr,
+                }
+            )
+        if params["no_weight_decay"]:
+            optimizer_grouped_parameters.append(
+                {
+                    "params": list(params["no_weight_decay"].values()),
+                    "weight_decay": 0.0,
+                    "lr": optimizer_kwargs["lr"],
+                }
+            )
+        for group_name, group_lr in lr_groups_learning_rates.items():
+            if params[f"to_weight_decay_{group_name}"]:
+                optimizer_grouped_parameters.append(
+                    {
+                        "params": list(
+                            params[f"to_weight_decay_{group_name}"].values()
+                        ),
+                        "weight_decay": self.args.weight_decay,
+                        "lr": group_lr,
+                    }
+                )
+
+        return optimizer_grouped_parameters
+
     def create_optimizer(self):
         if (
             self.args.loraplus_lr_ratio is None
             and self.args.embedding_lr_scale is None
             and self.args.embedding_lr is None
+            and self.args.lr_groups is None
             and self.args.alternate_optimizer
             not in [
                 "optimi_adamw",
@@ -212,59 +303,13 @@ class AxolotlTrainer(SchedulerMixin, Trainer):
 
         opt_model = self.model_wrapped if is_sagemaker_mp_enabled() else self.model
         if self.optimizer is None:  # pylint: disable=access-member-before-definition
-            decay_parameters = self.get_decay_parameter_names(opt_model)
-            params = {
-                "to_weight_decay": {},  # LayerNorm and bias
-                "embeddings": {},  # lm_head, embed_tokens,
-                "no_weight_decay": {},
-            }
-
             optimizer_cls, optimizer_kwargs = Trainer.get_optimizer_cls_and_kwargs(
                 self.args,
                 opt_model,
             )
-
-            for name, param in opt_model.named_parameters():
-                if not param.requires_grad:
-                    continue
-                if name.endswith("modules_to_save.default.weight") or any(
-                    embed_name in name for embed_name in ["embed_tokens", "lm_head"]
-                ):
-                    params["embeddings"][name] = param
-                elif name in decay_parameters:
-                    params["to_weight_decay"][name] = param
-                else:
-                    params["no_weight_decay"][name] = param
-            optimizer_grouped_parameters = []
-            if params["to_weight_decay"]:
-                optimizer_grouped_parameters.append(
-                    {
-                        "params": list(params["to_weight_decay"].values()),
-                        "weight_decay": self.args.weight_decay,
-                        "lr": optimizer_kwargs["lr"],
-                    }
-                )
-            if params["embeddings"]:
-                lr = optimizer_kwargs["lr"]  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
-                if self.args.embedding_lr_scale:
-                    lr *= self.args.embedding_lr_scale  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
-                elif self.args.embedding_lr:
-                    lr = self.args.embedding_lr  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
-                optimizer_grouped_parameters.append(
-                    {
-                        "params": list(params["embeddings"].values()),
-                        "weight_decay": 0.0,
-                        "lr": lr,
-                    }
-                )
-            if params["no_weight_decay"]:
-                optimizer_grouped_parameters.append(
-                    {
-                        "params": list(params["no_weight_decay"].values()),
-                        "weight_decay": 0.0,
-                        "lr": optimizer_kwargs["lr"],
-                    }
-                )
+            optimizer_grouped_parameters = self.create_optimizer_grouped_parameters(
+                opt_model, optimizer_kwargs
+            )
 
             if self.args.loraplus_lr_ratio is not None:
                 loraplus_lr_ratio = getattr(self.args, "loraplus_lr_ratio", None)
@@ -281,6 +326,7 @@ class AxolotlTrainer(SchedulerMixin, Trainer):
             elif (
                 self.args.embedding_lr_scale is not None
                 or self.args.embedding_lr is not None
+                or self.args.lr_groups is not None
             ):
                 self.optimizer = (  # pylint: disable=attribute-defined-outside-init
                     optimizer_cls(optimizer_grouped_parameters, **optimizer_kwargs)
@@ -812,6 +858,7 @@ class AxolotlDPOTrainer(SchedulerMixin, DPOTrainer):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
         self.dataset_tags = dataset_tags
         self.optimizer = None
+        self.model_accepts_loss_kwargs = False
 
     def create_optimizer(self):
         if self.args.loraplus_lr_ratio is None:
@@ -931,3 +978,11 @@ class AxolotlRewardTrainer(SchedulerMixin, RewardTrainer):
     """
 
     tag_names = ["axolotl", "reward"]
+
+
+class AxolotlPRMTrainer(SchedulerMixin, PRMTrainer):
+    """
+    Extend the base trl.PRMTrainer for axolotl helpers
+    """
+
+    tag_names = ["axolotl", "prm"]

src/axolotl/core/training_args.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from typing import Optional
 
 from transformers import TrainingArguments
-from trl import CPOConfig, DPOConfig, KTOConfig, ORPOConfig, RewardConfig
+from trl import CPOConfig, DPOConfig, KTOConfig, ORPOConfig, PRMConfig, RewardConfig
 
 
 @dataclass
@@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ class AxolotlTrainingMixins:
         default=None,
         metadata={"help": "Scale the learning rate for the embedding layers."},
     )
+    lr_groups: Optional[list[dict]] = field(
+        default=None,
+        metadata={"help": "Specify learning rate groups for with different LRs."},
+    )
     embedding_lr: Optional[float] = field(
         default=None,
         metadata={"help": "absolute learning rate for the embedding layers."},
@@ -188,6 +192,20 @@ class AxolotlTrainingMixins:
         },
     )
 
+    kd_zscore_base_temp: Optional[float] = field(
+        default=None,
+        metadata={
+            "help": "the base temperature parameter for KL divergence with z-score when using KD"
+        },
+    )
+
+    kd_top_k_before_softmax: Optional[bool] = field(
+        default=None,
+        metadata={
+            "help": "Whether to apply top_k_before_softmax to the logits when using KD"
+        },
+    )
+
 
 @dataclass
 class AxolotlTrainingArguments(AxolotlTrainingMixins, TrainingArguments):
@@ -237,3 +255,10 @@ class AxolotlRewardConfig(AxolotlTrainingMixins, RewardConfig):
     """
     Reward config for Reward training
     """
+
+
+@dataclass
+class AxolotlPRMConfig(AxolotlTrainingMixins, PRMConfig):
+    """
+    PRM config for PRM training
+    """

src/axolotl/datasets.py

@@ -52,12 +52,17 @@ class TokenizedPromptDataset(Dataset):
         if self.prompt_tokenizer.supports_batched:
             map_kwargs["batched"] = True
             map_kwargs["batch_size"] = 1_000
-        if self.prompt_tokenizer.filter_rows:
+
+        if (
+            hasattr(self.prompt_tokenizer, "filter_rows")
+            and self.prompt_tokenizer.filter_rows
+        ):
             dataset = dataset.filter(
                 self.prompt_tokenizer.filter_rows,
                 num_proc=num_proc,
                 desc="Strategy Filtering Rows",
             )
+
         return dataset.map(
             self.prompt_tokenizer.tokenize_prompt,
             num_proc=num_proc,

src/axolotl/evaluate.py

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ from typing import Dict, Optional
 import torch
 from accelerate.logging import get_logger
 
-from axolotl.common.cli import TrainerCliArgs
 from axolotl.logging_config import configure_logging
 from axolotl.train import TrainDatasetMeta
 from axolotl.utils import set_pytorch_cuda_alloc_conf
@@ -62,16 +61,13 @@ def evaluate_dataset(
     return metrics
 
 
-def evaluate(
-    *, cfg: DictDefault, cli_args: TrainerCliArgs, dataset_meta: TrainDatasetMeta
-) -> Dict[str, float]:
+def evaluate(*, cfg: DictDefault, dataset_meta: TrainDatasetMeta) -> Dict[str, float]:
     """
     Evaluate a model on training and validation datasets
 
     Args:
-        cfg: Configuration dictionary
-        cli_args: Command line arguments
-        dataset_meta: Dataset metadata containing training and evaluation datasets
+        cfg: Dictionary mapping `axolotl` config keys to values.
+        dataset_meta: Dataset metadata containing training and evaluation datasets.
 
     Returns:
         Tuple containing:
@@ -102,9 +98,7 @@ def evaluate(
 
     # Load model
     LOG.debug("loading model for evaluation...")
-    model, _ = load_model(
-        cfg, tokenizer, processor=processor, inference=cli_args.inference
-    )
+    model, _ = load_model(cfg, tokenizer, processor=processor)
 
     # Set up trainer
     trainer = setup_trainer(

src/axolotl/integrations/kd/args.py

@@ -31,3 +31,7 @@ class KDArgs(BaseModel):
     ] = None  # loss coefficient for cross-entropy loss during KD
     kd_alpha: Optional[float] = None  # loss coefficient for KD loss
     kd_temperature: Optional[float] = None  # temperature for sampling during KD
+    kd_zscore_base_temp: Optional[float] = None  # base temperature for zscore scaling
+    kd_top_k_before_softmax: Optional[
+        bool
+    ] = None  # whether to sample top k before softmax during KD

src/axolotl/integrations/kd/chat_template.py

@@ -52,26 +52,62 @@ class ChatTemplateStrategyWithKD(ChatTemplateStrategy):
             train_on_eos=train_on_eos,
         )
 
+    @property
+    def supports_batched(self) -> bool:
+        # batching doesn't work well for logprob data
+        return False
+
     def transform_logprobs(self, sample):
+        """
+        Transform logprobs to target format for KD training
+        """
+
         logprobs = sample.pop(self.logprobs_field)
         target_seq_len = len(logprobs)
         input_seq_len = len(sample["input_ids"])
         input_padding_len = input_seq_len - target_seq_len
-        top_k = len(logprobs[0])
+        # get non-zero top-k (prune None logprobs from vllm data step)
+        top_k_vals = [
+            len(logprobs[i])
+            for i in range(len(logprobs))
+            if logprobs[i] is not None and len(logprobs[i])
+        ]
+        max_top_k = max(set(top_k_vals), key=top_k_vals.count)
+        min_top_k = min(set(top_k_vals), key=top_k_vals.count)
+        top_k = min(max_top_k, min_top_k)
+        if top_k == 0:
+            raise ValueError("No non-zero top-k logprobs found.")
+
         target_logprobs = []
         target_token_ids = []
         target_mask = []
 
+        if input_padding_len < 0:
+            # logprobs is longer than target_seq_len,
+            # so we need to slice from the left/beginning of logprobs
+            logprobs = logprobs[:-input_seq_len]
+            input_padding_len = 0
+            # target_seq_len = input_seq_len
+
+        # truncate the second dimension of the logprobs to top_k
+        logprobs = [row[:top_k] for row in logprobs]
+
         # fill with -inf for padding_len tokens for top_k tokens
         # extend target_logprobs with a padding_len x top_k 2D list filled with -inf
-        for _ in range(1, input_padding_len):  # start at 1 since this is causal
+
+        # for causal models, if we start the range at 1, then we don't need to shift in the trainer
+        # otherwise, we need to shift in the trainer
+        shift = 0
+        for _ in range(shift, input_padding_len):
             target_logprobs.append([-float("inf")] * top_k)
             target_token_ids.append(list(range(top_k)))
             target_mask.append([0] * top_k)
 
-        for _ in range(target_seq_len):
-            # TODO also check against sample["labels"]
-            target_mask.append([1] * top_k)
+        for position in range(input_padding_len, input_seq_len):
+            if sample["labels"][position] == -100:
+                target_mask.append([0] * top_k)
+            else:
+                target_mask.append([1] * top_k)
 
         for _, token_pos_logprobs in enumerate(logprobs):
             # Initialize collections for logprobs and token_ids
@@ -91,28 +127,28 @@ class ChatTemplateStrategyWithKD(ChatTemplateStrategy):
                 position_token_ids.append(token_id)
 
             # Convert to a tensor for easier manipulation
-            # Convert to tensor
             position_logprobs_tensor = torch.tensor(
                 position_logprobs, dtype=torch.float
             )
 
+            # Now we have distribution at T1 in log form, i.e. log p_{T1}(k).
+            # Next, re-scale to T2 = self.kd_temperature via exponent-based trick
+            # p_{T2}(k) = [p_{T1}(k)]^(T1 / T2) / Z
+            #
+            # Convert from log to probability
+            teacher_probs_t1 = position_logprobs_tensor.exp()
             if self.kd_temperature != self.gen_temperature:
-                #
-                # Now we have distribution at T1 in log form, i.e. log p_{T1}(k).
-                # Next, re-scale to T2 = self.kd_temperature via exponent-based trick
-                # p_{T2}(k) = [p_{T1}(k)]^(T1 / T2) / Z
-                #
-                # Convert from log to probability
-                teacher_probs_t1 = position_logprobs_tensor.exp()
                 # Exponentiate by factor (T1 / T2)
                 exponent = self.gen_temperature / self.kd_temperature
                 teacher_probs_t2 = teacher_probs_t1**exponent
-                # Re-normalize
-                teacher_probs_t2 = teacher_probs_t2 / teacher_probs_t2.sum(
-                    dim=0, keepdim=True
-                )
-                # Convert back to log
-                position_logprobs_tensor = torch.log(teacher_probs_t2)
+            else:
+                teacher_probs_t2 = teacher_probs_t1
+            # Re-normalize
+            teacher_probs_t2 = teacher_probs_t2 / teacher_probs_t2.sum(
+                dim=0, keepdim=True
+            )
+            # Convert back to log
+            position_logprobs_tensor = torch.log(teacher_probs_t2)
 
             # Now we have log p_{teacher, T2}(k) stored in position_logprobs_tensor
             position_logprobs_scaled = position_logprobs_tensor.tolist()
@@ -120,10 +156,11 @@ class ChatTemplateStrategyWithKD(ChatTemplateStrategy):
             target_logprobs.append(position_logprobs_scaled)
             target_token_ids.append(position_token_ids)
 
-        # since we started at index 1 for causal, we need one more padding token
-        target_logprobs.append([-float("inf")] * top_k)
-        target_token_ids.append(list(range(top_k)))
-        target_mask.append([0] * top_k)
+        if shift == 1:
+            # since we started at index 1 for causal, we need one more padding token
+            target_logprobs.append([-float("inf")] * top_k)
+            target_token_ids.append(list(range(top_k)))
+            target_mask.append([0] * top_k)
 
         # Update sample with transformed logprobs
         sample["target_logprobs"] = target_logprobs

src/axolotl/integrations/kd/topk_logprob/forward_kl.py

@@ -16,6 +16,40 @@ loss for top_k KL divergence
 import torch
 
 
+def zscore_standardize(
+    logits: torch.Tensor,
+    mask: torch.Tensor = None,
+    base_temperature: float = 1.0,
+    eps: float = 1e-9,
+):
+    """
+    Z-score standardize along the last dimension of `logits`.
+    i.e., for each [B, seq_len] row, across K entries:
+        z = (logits - mean) / std,
+    then scale by 1 / base_temperature if desired.
+
+    mask can be broadcastable or None. If None, we standardize all elements.
+    """
+    if mask is None:
+        # shape: [B, seq_len, K]
+        # Mean and std over dim=-1
+        mean = logits.mean(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+        var = logits.var(dim=-1, unbiased=False, keepdim=True)
+    else:
+        # If you have to exclude some tokens, multiply by mask, etc.
+        float_mask = mask.to(logits.dtype)
+        count = float_mask.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1.0)
+        mean = (logits * float_mask).sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True) / count
+        var = (float_mask * (logits - mean) ** 2).sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True) / count
+
+    std = torch.sqrt(var.clamp_min(eps))
+    z = (logits - mean) / std
+
+    # Scale by 1 / base_temperature
+    z = z / base_temperature
+    return z
+
+
 @torch.jit.script
 def loss(
     student_logits: torch.Tensor,
@@ -24,34 +58,74 @@ def loss(
     target_mask: torch.Tensor,
     num_items_in_batch: int = -1,  # Use -1 to indicate "None"
     kd_temperature: float = 1.0,
+    top_k_before_softmax: int = 0,
 ) -> torch.Tensor:
     """
     A KD loss function that is TorchScript-friendly.
+
+    Arguments:
+        student_logits (torch.Tensor): The logits of the student model.
+            Shape: [B, student_seq_len, vocab_size]
+        target_token_ids (torch.Tensor): The top-k teacher/target token IDs
+            Shape: [B, teacher_seq_len, top_k]
+        target_logprobs (torch.Tensor): The top-k teacher/target logprobs, these should already be re-normalized.
+            Shape: [B, teacher_seq_len, top_k]
+        target_mask (torch.Tensor): The mask for valid tokens.
+            Shape: [B, teacher_seq_len, top_k]
+        num_items_in_batch (int, optional): The number of items in the batch.
+        kd_temperature (float, optional): The temperature for KD.
+            Default: 1.0
+        top_k_before_softmax (int, optional): Flag of whether to apply softmax before gathering student top-k logits
+            Default: 0
     """
 
+    target_logprobs = target_logprobs.float()
+
     # Determine the teacher sequence length
     # target_token_ids shape: [B, teacher_seq_len, K]
     # student_logits shape:   [B, student_seq_len, vocab_size]
     teacher_seq_len = target_token_ids.shape[1]
 
-    # Slice student logits to match teacher-provided sequence length
-    student_logits_for_kd = student_logits[
-        :, :teacher_seq_len, :
-    ]  # [B, teacher_seq_len, vocab_size]
+    if top_k_before_softmax:
+        # Slice student logits to match teacher-provided sequence length
+        student_logits_for_kd = student_logits[
+            :, :teacher_seq_len, :
+        ]  # [B, teacher_seq_len, vocab_size]
 
-    # Gather student logits for teacher's top-K tokens
-    student_logits_topk = torch.gather(
-        student_logits_for_kd, dim=-1, index=target_token_ids
-    )  # [B, teacher_seq_len, K]
+        # Gather student logits for teacher's top-K tokens
+        student_logits_topk = torch.gather(
+            student_logits_for_kd, dim=-1, index=target_token_ids
+        )  # [B, teacher_seq_len, K]
 
-    # Apply KD temperature to student’s logits
-    if kd_temperature != 1.0:
-        student_logits_topk = student_logits_topk / kd_temperature
+        student_logits_topk = student_logits_topk.float()
 
-    # Convert student top-k logits to logprobs
-    student_logprobs_topk = student_logits_topk - torch.logsumexp(
-        student_logits_topk, dim=-1, keepdim=True
-    )  # [B, teacher_seq_len, K]
+        # Apply KD temperature to student’s logits
+        if kd_temperature != 1.0:
+            student_logits_topk = student_logits_topk / kd_temperature
+
+        # Convert student top-k logits to logprobs
+        student_logprobs_topk = student_logits_topk - torch.logsumexp(
+            student_logits_topk, dim=-1, keepdim=True
+        )  # [B, teacher_seq_len, K]
+    else:
+        # Slice student logits to match teacher-provided sequence length
+        student_logits_for_kd = (
+            student_logits[:, :teacher_seq_len, :] / kd_temperature
+        )  # [B, teacher_seq_len, vocab_size]
+
+        # keep in full precision for numerical stability of loss
+        student_logits_for_kd = student_logits_for_kd.float()
+
+        # Gather student logits for teacher's top-K tokens
+        student_logits_topk = torch.gather(
+            student_logits_for_kd, dim=-1, index=target_token_ids
+        )  # [B, teacher_seq_len, K]
+
+        # Compute logsumexp across full vocabulary
+        student_lse = torch.logsumexp(student_logits_for_kd, dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+
+        #  Convert just the top-k logits to logprobs
+        student_logprobs_topk = student_logits_topk - student_lse
 
     # Convert teacher_mask to boolean for indexing
     # In TorchScript, .bool() is sometimes unsupported, so we do:
@@ -80,3 +154,82 @@ def loss(
         kd_loss = kd_loss / float(kd_loss_per_token.size(0))
 
     return kd_loss
+
+
+def topk_kd_loss_with_zscore(
+    student_logits: torch.Tensor,  # [B, seq_len, vocab_size]
+    target_token_ids: torch.Tensor,  # [B, seq_len, K]
+    target_logprobs: torch.Tensor,  # [B, seq_len, K], sums to 1.0 in prob space
+    target_mask: torch.Tensor,  # [B, seq_len, K] or [B, seq_len]
+    kd_temperature: float = 1.0,  # classic KD temperature
+    zscore_base_temp: float = 1.0,  # from the paper
+    num_items_in_batch: int = -1,
+):
+    """
+    A variant of top_k KL divergence with Z-score scaling
+    from "Logit Standardization in Knowledge Distillation".
+    """
+
+    target_logprobs = target_logprobs.float()
+
+    B, teacher_seq_len, K = target_logprobs.shape  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
+    # 1) Gather the student's top-k logits to match teacher
+    student_logits_for_kd = student_logits[
+        :, :teacher_seq_len, :
+    ]  # [B, seq_len, vocab]
+    student_topk_logits = torch.gather(
+        student_logits_for_kd, dim=-1, index=target_token_ids
+    )  # [B, seq_len, K]
+
+    student_topk_logits = student_topk_logits.float()
+
+    # 2) If you want to keep the "classical" T scaling, apply it first
+    if kd_temperature != 1.0:
+        student_topk_logits = student_topk_logits / kd_temperature
+
+    # 3) Convert teacher logprobs -> treat them as “logits” for z-score
+    #    (They differ by +some_constant from real logits, but in z-score
+    #     that constant is subtracted out anyway.)
+    teacher_logits_for_zscore = target_logprobs  # rename variable for clarity
+
+    # 4) Z-score teacher and student
+    #    If target_mask is 2D, expand to 3D for the K dimension
+    if target_mask.dim() == 2 and target_mask.shape[:2] == (B, teacher_seq_len):
+        target_mask = target_mask.unsqueeze(-1).expand(-1, -1, K)
+
+    teacher_z = zscore_standardize(
+        teacher_logits_for_zscore, mask=target_mask, base_temperature=zscore_base_temp
+    )
+    student_z = zscore_standardize(
+        student_topk_logits, mask=target_mask, base_temperature=zscore_base_temp
+    )
+
+    # 5) Convert to log-probs for KL
+    teacher_logprobs_z = teacher_z - torch.logsumexp(teacher_z, dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+    student_logprobs_z = student_z - torch.logsumexp(student_z, dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+
+    # 6) Restrict to valid tokens if needed
+    valid_mask = target_mask.bool()  # shape [B, seq_len, K]
+    teacher_probs_z = teacher_logprobs_z.exp()
+    teacher_probs_z = teacher_probs_z[valid_mask]
+    teacher_logprobs_z = teacher_logprobs_z[valid_mask]
+    student_logprobs_z = student_logprobs_z[valid_mask]
+
+    # 7) forward KL:  sum( p_teacher * [log(p_teacher) - log(p_student)] )
+    kd_loss_per_token = teacher_probs_z * (teacher_logprobs_z - student_logprobs_z)
+    kd_loss = kd_loss_per_token.sum()
+
+    # 8) If using classical KD scaling by T^2
+    if kd_temperature != 1.0:
+        kd_loss = kd_loss * (kd_temperature**2)
+
+    # Optionally scale by zscore_base_temp**2 if you want (paper might differ).
+    # kd_loss = kd_loss * (zscore_base_temp**2)
+
+    # 9) Normalize
+    if num_items_in_batch is not None and num_items_in_batch > 0:
+        kd_loss = kd_loss / float(num_items_in_batch)
+    else:
+        kd_loss = kd_loss / float(kd_loss_per_token.size(0))
+
+    return kd_loss

src/axolotl/integrations/kd/trainer.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ KD trainer
 from axolotl.core.trainers.base import AxolotlTrainer
 
 from .topk_logprob.forward_kl import loss as topk_kd_loss
+from .topk_logprob.forward_kl import topk_kd_loss_with_zscore
 
 
 class AxolotlKDTrainer(AxolotlTrainer):
@@ -45,7 +46,6 @@ class AxolotlKDTrainer(AxolotlTrainer):
         inputs,
         return_outputs=False,
         num_items_in_batch=None,
-        shift_targets=False,
     ):
         """
         How the loss is computed by Trainer. By default, all models return the loss in the first element.
@@ -67,27 +67,33 @@ class AxolotlKDTrainer(AxolotlTrainer):
         outputs = model(**inputs)
 
         # FIXME: account for tokenizer.padding_side
-        student_logits = outputs["logits"][:, :seq_len, :].contiguous()
+        student_logits = outputs["logits"][:, : seq_len - 1, :].contiguous()
 
-        if shift_targets:
-            shift_logits = student_logits[..., :-1, :].contiguous()
-            target_logprobs_for_loss = target_logprobs[..., 1:, :].contiguous()
-            target_token_ids_for_loss = target_token_ids[..., 1:, :].contiguous()
-            target_mask_for_loss = target_mask[..., 1:, :].contiguous()
+        shift_logits = student_logits.contiguous()
+        target_logprobs_for_loss = target_logprobs[..., 1:, :].contiguous()
+        target_token_ids_for_loss = target_token_ids[..., 1:, :].contiguous()
+        target_mask_for_loss = target_mask[..., 1:, :].contiguous()
+
+        if self.args.kd_zscore_base_temp:
+            loss_kd = topk_kd_loss_with_zscore(
+                shift_logits,
+                target_token_ids_for_loss,
+                target_logprobs_for_loss,
+                target_mask_for_loss,
+                kd_temperature=self.args.kd_temperature,
+                zscore_base_temp=self.args.kd_zscore_base_temp,
+                num_items_in_batch=num_items_in_batch,
+            )
         else:
-            shift_logits = student_logits.contiguous()
-            target_logprobs_for_loss = target_logprobs.contiguous()
-            target_token_ids_for_loss = target_token_ids.contiguous()
-            target_mask_for_loss = target_mask.contiguous()
-
-        loss_kd = topk_kd_loss(
-            shift_logits,
-            target_token_ids_for_loss,
-            target_logprobs_for_loss,
-            target_mask_for_loss,
-            num_items_in_batch=num_items_in_batch,
-            kd_temperature=self.args.kd_temperature,
-        )
+            loss_kd = topk_kd_loss(
+                shift_logits,
+                target_token_ids_for_loss,
+                target_logprobs_for_loss,
+                target_mask_for_loss,
+                num_items_in_batch=num_items_in_batch,
+                kd_temperature=self.args.kd_temperature,
+                top_k_before_softmax=1 if self.args.kd_top_k_before_softmax else 0,
+            )
 
         if self.args.kd_ce_alpha > 0:
             kd_alpha = self.args.kd_alpha

src/axolotl/integrations/lm_eval/__init__.py

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 Module for the Plugin for LM Eval Harness
 """
 import subprocess  # nosec
-from datetime import datetime
 
 from axolotl.integrations.base import BasePlugin
+from axolotl.integrations.lm_eval.cli import build_lm_eval_command
 
 from .args import LMEvalArgs  # pylint: disable=unused-import. # noqa: F401
 
@@ -18,25 +18,20 @@ class LMEvalPlugin(BasePlugin):
         return "axolotl.integrations.lm_eval.LMEvalArgs"
 
     def post_train_unload(self, cfg):
-        tasks = ",".join(cfg.lm_eval_tasks)
-        fa2 = ",attn_implementation=flash_attention_2" if cfg.flash_attention else ""
-        dtype = ",dtype=bfloat16" if cfg.bf16 else ",dtype=float16"
-        output_path = cfg.output_dir
-        output_path += "" if cfg.output_dir.endswith("/") else "/"
-        output_path += "lm_eval_results/" + datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
-        subprocess.run(  # nosec
-            [
-                "lm_eval",
-                "--model",
-                "hf",
-                "--model_args",
-                f"pretrained={cfg.output_dir}{fa2}{dtype}",
-                "--tasks",
-                tasks,
-                "--batch_size",
-                str(cfg.lm_eval_batch_size),
-                "--output_path",
-                output_path,
-            ],
-            check=True,
-        )
+        if cfg.lm_eval_post_train:
+            # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
+            for lm_eval_args in build_lm_eval_command(
+                cfg.lm_eval_tasks,
+                bfloat16=cfg.bfloat16 or cfg.bf16,
+                flash_attention=cfg.flash_attention,
+                output_dir=cfg.output_dir,
+                batch_size=cfg.lm_eval_batch_size,
+                wandb_project=cfg.wandb_project,
+                wandb_entity=cfg.wandb_entity,
+                wandb_name=cfg.wandb_name,
+                model=cfg.lm_eval_model or cfg.hub_model_id,
+            ):
+                subprocess.run(  # nosec
+                    lm_eval_args,
+                    check=True,
+                )

src/axolotl/integrations/lm_eval/args.py

@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ class LMEvalArgs(BaseModel):
 
     lm_eval_tasks: List[str] = []
     lm_eval_batch_size: Optional[int] = 8
+    lm_eval_post_train: Optional[bool] = True
+    lm_eval_model: Optional[str] = None

src/axolotl/integrations/lm_eval/cli.py

@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+"""
+axolotl CLI for running lm_eval tasks
+"""
+import subprocess  # nosec
+from collections import defaultdict
+from datetime import datetime
+from typing import Optional
+
+import click
+import yaml
+
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
+
+
+def build_lm_eval_command(
+    tasks: list[str],
+    bfloat16=True,
+    flash_attention=False,
+    output_dir="./",
+    batch_size=8,
+    wandb_project=None,
+    wandb_entity=None,
+    wandb_name=None,
+    model=None,
+    revision=None,
+    apply_chat_template=None,
+    fewshot_as_multiturn=None,
+):
+    tasks_by_num_fewshot: dict[str, list] = defaultdict(list)
+    if isinstance(tasks, str):
+        tasks = [tasks]
+    for task in tasks:
+        num_fewshot = "-1"
+        task_parts = task.split(":")
+        task_name = task_parts[0]
+        if len(task_parts) == 2:
+            task_name, num_fewshot = task_parts
+        tasks_by_num_fewshot[str(num_fewshot)].append(task_name)
+
+    for num_fewshot, tasks_list in tasks_by_num_fewshot.items():
+        tasks_str = ",".join(tasks_list)
+        num_fewshot_val = num_fewshot if num_fewshot != "-1" else None
+        pretrained = "pretrained="
+        pretrained += model if model else output_dir
+        fa2 = ",attn_implementation=flash_attention_2" if flash_attention else ""
+        dtype = ",dtype=bfloat16" if bfloat16 else ",dtype=float16"
+        revision = f",revision={revision}" if revision else ""
+        output_path = output_dir
+        output_path += "" if output_dir.endswith("/") else "/"
+        output_path += "lm_eval_results/" + datetime.now().strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
+        lm_eval_args = [
+            "lm_eval",
+            "--model",
+            "hf",
+            "--model_args",
+            f"{pretrained}{fa2}{dtype}{revision}",
+            "--tasks",
+            tasks_str,
+            "--batch_size",
+            str(batch_size),
+            "--output_path",
+            output_path,
+        ]
+        wandb_args = []
+        if wandb_project:
+            wandb_args.append(f"project={wandb_project}")
+        if wandb_entity:
+            wandb_args.append(f"entity={wandb_entity}")
+        if wandb_name:
+            wandb_args.append(f"name={wandb_name}")
+        if wandb_args:
+            lm_eval_args.append("--wandb_args")
+            lm_eval_args.append(",".join(wandb_args))
+        if apply_chat_template:
+            lm_eval_args.append("--apply_chat_template")
+        if num_fewshot_val:
+            lm_eval_args.append("--num_fewshot")
+            lm_eval_args.append(str(num_fewshot_val))
+            if apply_chat_template and fewshot_as_multiturn:
+                lm_eval_args.append("--fewshot_as_multiturn")
+
+        yield lm_eval_args
+
+
+@click.command()
+@click.argument("config", type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str))
+@click.option("--cloud", default=None, type=click.Path(exists=True, path_type=str))
+def lm_eval(config: str, cloud: Optional[str] = None):
+    """
+    use lm eval to evaluate a trained language model
+    """
+
+    if cloud:
+        from axolotl.cli.cloud import do_cli_lm_eval
+
+        do_cli_lm_eval(cloud_config=cloud, config=config)
+    else:
+        with open(config, encoding="utf-8") as file:
+            cfg: DictDefault = DictDefault(yaml.safe_load(file))
+
+        # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
+        for lm_eval_args in build_lm_eval_command(
+            cfg.lm_eval_tasks,
+            bfloat16=cfg.bfloat16 or cfg.bf16,
+            flash_attention=cfg.flash_attention,
+            output_dir=cfg.output_dir,
+            batch_size=cfg.lm_eval_batch_size,
+            wandb_project=cfg.wandb_project,
+            wandb_entity=cfg.wandb_entity,
+            wandb_name=cfg.wandb_name,
+            model=cfg.lm_eval_model or cfg.hub_model_id,
+            revision=cfg.revision,
+            apply_chat_template=cfg.apply_chat_template,
+            fewshot_as_multiturn=cfg.fewshot_as_multiturn,
+        ):
+            subprocess.run(  # nosec
+                lm_eval_args,
+                check=True,
+            )