axolotl/examples/voxtral/README.md

Finetune Voxtral with Axolotl

Voxtral is a 3B/24B parameter opensource model from MistralAI found on HuggingFace. This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl.

Thanks to the team at MistralAI for giving us early access to prepare for this release.

Getting started

1. Install Axolotl following the installation guide.

   Here is an example of how to install from pip:

# Ensure you have Pytorch installed (Pytorch 2.9.1 min)
uv pip install --no-build-isolation 'axolotl>=0.16.1'

2. Please install the below.

# audio
uv pip install librosa==0.11.0
uv pip install 'mistral_common[audio]==1.8.3'

# Install CCE https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#cut-cross-entropy
python scripts/cutcrossentropy_install.py | sh

3. Download sample dataset files

# for text + audio only
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/Nanobit/text-audio-2k-test/resolve/main/En-us-African_elephant.oga

4. Run the finetuning example:

# text only
axolotl train examples/voxtral/voxtral-mini-qlora.yml

# text + audio
axolotl train examples/voxtral/voxtral-mini-audio-qlora.yml

These configs use about 4.8 GB VRAM.

Let us know how it goes. Happy finetuning! 🚀

TIPS

• For inference, the official MistralAI team recommends temperature: 0.2 and top_p: 0.95 for audio understanding and temperature: 0.0 for transcription.
• You can run a full finetuning by removing the adapter: qlora and load_in_4bit: true from the config.
• Read more on how to load your own dataset at docs.
• The text dataset format follows the OpenAI Messages format as seen here.
• The multimodal dataset format follows the OpenAI multi-content Messages format as seen here.

Optimization Guides

• Multi-GPU Training
• Multi-Node Training
• LoRA Optimizations

Limitations

We only support the mistral-common tokenizer for Supervised Fine-tuning at the moment and for type: chat_template only.

In addition, we do not support overriding tokens yet.

Related Resources

• MistralAI Magistral Blog
• Axolotl Docs
• Axolotl Website
• Axolotl GitHub
• Axolotl Discord

Future Work

• Add parity to Preference Tuning, RL, etc.
• Add parity to other tokenizer configs like overriding tokens.