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# Finetune Z.ai's GLM-4.5-Air with Axolotl
[GLM-4.5-Air](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air) is a MoE model by Z.ai.
This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl.
## Getting started
1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
2. Install [Cut Cross Entropy](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#cut-cross-entropy) to reduce training VRAM usage.
3. Run the finetuning example:
```bash
# QLoRA (1x80GB @ ~63.4GiB/GPU)
axolotl train examples/glm45/glm-45-air-qlora.yaml
```
### Dataset
In addition to the standard OpenAI Messages format, GLM-4.5 supports an extra parameter for thinking in the assistant section.
```json
{
"role": "assistant",
"reasoning_content": "...", // or have </think>...</think> in `content`
"content": "..."
}
```
Make sure you set the below extra attributes if needed:
```yaml
datasets:
- path: ...
type: chat_template
message_property_mappings:
role: role
content: content
# tool_calls: tool_calls # uncomment if using tools
# reasoning_content: reasoning_content # uncomment if have reasoning
# Uncomment if training on tool role (you would rarely if ever need this)
# eot_tokens:
# - <|observation|>
```
### Tips
- The role name for tools in this template is `tool`.
- You will see this Axolotl WARNING — this is expected as the template does not use EOS:
```
EOS token '<|endoftext|>' not found in chat_template. Please check if your template/EOS token is correct.
```
- You can run a full finetuning by removing `adapter: qlora`, `load_in_4bit: true`, and `quantize_moe_experts: true` from the config.
- **LoRA kernels**: Incompatible with this model. Must be explicitly disabled (`lora_*_kernel: false`).
- Read more on how to load your own dataset at [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
### GGUF / llama.cpp loading error (missing tensors)
If you see `missing tensor 'blk.X.attn_norm.weight'` when loading a GLM-4 / GLM4-MoE model in llama.cpp, this is likely
caused by `num_nextn_predict_layers` being set to `1` in `config.json` while the MTP weights were not exported (possible
after PEFT/QLoRA training).
**Fix:** Set `"num_nextn_predict_layers": 0` in your `config.json` before converting to GGUF.
## Optimization Guides
Please check the [Optimizations doc](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/optimizations.html).
## Related Resources
- [GLM-4.5-Air on HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air)
- [GLM-4.5 Blog](https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.5)
- [Axolotl Docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai)
- [Axolotl Website](https://axolotl.ai)
- [Axolotl GitHub](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl)
- [Axolotl Discord](https://discord.gg/7m9sfhzaf3)