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# Finetune Voxtral with Axolotl
Voxtral is a [3B](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507)/[24B](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Small-24B-2507) 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](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html).
Here is an example of how to install from pip:
```bash
# Ensure you have Pytorch installed (Pytorch 2.6.0 min)
uv pip install --no-build-isolation 'axolotl[flash-attn]>=0.12.0'
```
2. Please install the below.
```bash
# 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
```bash
# for text + audio only
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/Nanobit/text-audio-2k-test/resolve/main/En-us-African_elephant.oga
```
4. Run the finetuning example:
```bash
# 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](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
- The text dataset format follows the OpenAI Messages format as seen [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset-formats/conversation.html#chat_template).
- The multimodal dataset format follows the OpenAI multi-content Messages format as seen [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multimodal.html#dataset-format).
## Optimization Guides
- [Multi-GPU Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-gpu.html)
- [Multi-Node Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-node.html)
- [LoRA Optimizations](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/lora_optims.html)
## 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](https://mistral.ai/news/magistral/)
- [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)
## Future Work
- Add parity to Preference Tuning, RL, etc.
- Add parity to other tokenizer configs like overriding tokens.