Open-source alternatives to OpenRLHF

verl is a distributed training system designed for large language model alignment and reinforcement learning. It provides a framework for executing post-training pipelines, including supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback, to refine model behavior and agentic capabilities. The system utilizes a hybrid training and inference engine that optimizes memory and communication when switching between model generation and gradient updates. It supports multi-modal reinforcement learning for models processing both image and text data, and implements algorithms such as PPO

Axolotl is a configuration-driven framework designed for the fine-tuning, evaluation, and quantization of large language models. It functions as a comprehensive orchestrator for distributed training, enabling users to manage complex workflows across multi-node and multi-GPU environments. By utilizing structured configuration files, the platform streamlines the setup of training parameters, dataset paths, and hardware distribution strategies. The project distinguishes itself through its support for diverse training methodologies, including full-parameter tuning, parameter-efficient adaptation,

This library provides a comprehensive framework for fine-tuning, aligning, and distilling transformer-based language models. It serves as a toolkit for adapting models to specialized domains through supervised learning, while offering advanced methodologies to improve output quality and reasoning capabilities. The project distinguishes itself through specialized alignment and optimization techniques, including direct preference optimization and reinforcement learning, which allow models to be tuned against human preferences without complex reward modeling. It further supports training efficie

This project is a fine-tuning framework and training pipeline designed to optimize and adapt large language and vision models. It provides a specialized toolkit for parameter-efficient tuning and supervised learning, serving as both a trainer for multimodal models and a deployment tool for serving fine-tuned models via high-performance inference engines. The framework focuses on reducing memory and compute requirements by updating a small subset of model parameters. It supports a wide range of adaptation strategies, including vision-language model training to align text, image, video, and aud

AReaL is a system for agent orchestration, distributed model training, and parameter-efficient tuning. It provides a framework for developing multi-turn reasoning agents and training large models using reinforcement learning from human feedback. The project implements a toolkit for improving the visual reasoning and geometry problem solving capabilities of vision-language models. It utilizes a memory-efficient tuning system to optimize mathematical and reasoning models across different inference backends. The infrastructure supports large-scale training through tensor, pipeline, and expert p

Tinker Cookbook is an open-source framework for fine-tuning large language models, supporting supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and parameter-efficient techniques like LoRA adapters. It provides a complete pipeline for aligning models with human preferences through multi-stage RLHF workflows, from supervised fine-tuning through preference optimization to reinforcement learning. The framework distinguishes itself through recipe-based training orchestration, where fine-tuning workflows are defined as composable recipe files that chain data loading, model configuration, and training l

RLinf is a distributed reinforcement learning orchestrator and embodied AI training framework. It provides the infrastructure to train vision-language-action models and robotic policies using a combination of reinforcement learning and supervised fine-tuning. The system is designed for scaling workloads across GPU clusters, managing the placement of actors, rollout workers, and environment components. It features a specialized robotics data collection pipeline for gathering teleoperated demonstrations and simulation trajectories into standardized replay buffers, alongside a hardware interface

This project provides a Chinese large language model based on the LLaMA architecture. It is an instruction-tuned model optimized for natural language processing and multi-turn conversations in Chinese. The system includes a framework for parameter-efficient fine-tuning using low-rank adaptation and quantization to reduce memory requirements. It also implements retrieval augmented generation for local document question answering and supports long-context processing for sequences up to 64K tokens. The project covers a broad set of capabilities including supervised instruction tuning, reinforce

Torchtune is a PyTorch-native library for fine-tuning, aligning, and quantizing large language models. It provides a configurable training pipeline orchestrated through YAML recipes, with CLI overrides and component swapping, distributed training via FSDP2, memory optimizations, and parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods like LoRA, DoRA, and QLoRA. The library distinguishes itself through its YAML-driven configuration system that defines all training parameters and instantiates components from config files, with full CLI override capability for any field or component at launch time. It suppo

Swift is a toolkit for the full-parameter and parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language and multimodal models. It functions as a multimodal model trainer for text, image, video, and audio data, and includes specialized tools for model compression and reinforcement learning from human feedback. The framework provides an alignment toolkit for optimizing model behavior using preference learning algorithms and reinforcement learning. It integrates parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods to adapt models with minimal memory and compute requirements, alongside utilities for reducing hardware

rllm is an asynchronous reinforcement learning framework for training language agents. It provides a unified pipeline that runs the same agent code for both evaluation and training, automatically capturing traces for gradient computation. The framework supports distributed reinforcement learning across multiple GPUs and nodes using pluggable backends, and executes agents in isolated sandboxes—either locally or in the cloud—for safe and scalable rollout collection. It trains agents built with LangGraph, SmolAgents, OpenAI Agents SDK, or custom frameworks without requiring core logic changes. T

llm-foundry is a training framework for large language models, providing a system for foundation model pre-training and supervised fine-tuning. It includes a distributed trainer for scaling workloads across multiple nodes and GPUs, a dataset streaming pipeline for loading data from cloud storage, and a parameter-efficient fine-tuning implementation. The framework distinguishes itself through its use of parameter sharding and high-throughput data streaming to maintain stability during large-scale training. It incorporates low-rank adaptation to reduce computational costs and uses eight-bit flo

Axolotl is a distributed training orchestrator and fine-tuning framework for large language models, multimodal systems, and quantized models. It provides a structured environment for specializing pre-trained models through full parameter updates or low-rank adaptation, as well as aligning model outputs with human expectations via preference tuning pipelines and reward modeling. The system distinguishes itself through a configuration-driven pipeline that manages preprocessing and training workflows via a single file for reproducibility. It implements high-throughput optimizations such as multi

This project is a transformer post-training toolkit and reinforcement learning library designed to align language model behavior with human preferences. It provides a framework for managing the transition from supervised fine-tuning to reinforcement learning and preference optimization. The library distinguishes itself through a specialized focus on preference optimization and reward modeling, enabling the adjustment of model outputs based on preferred versus rejected examples. It also includes capabilities for training agents within controlled sandbox environments using task suites and verif

This project is an alignment framework and suite of pipelines for training language models using supervised fine-tuning and preference optimization. It provides tools for executing large-scale distributed training across multiple GPUs and compute nodes, alongside a system for measuring model helpfulness and dialogue quality through single-turn and multi-turn benchmarks. The framework includes specialized tools for direct preference optimization to refine model behavior using paired data without a separate reward model. It also supports constitutional AI alignment and the training of reward mo

This is a PyTorch implementation of reinforcement learning from human feedback designed to align large language models with human values and preferences. It provides a framework for the PaLM architecture and incorporates parameter-efficient fine-tuning to adapt models while minimizing the number of updated weights. The system enables the development of reward models that act as scoring mechanisms built from human preference data. These models evaluate generative outputs to guide the alignment process. The workflow covers policy optimization using a clipped objective, reward modeling based on

Firefly is a training framework and inference engine for large language models. It functions as a toolkit for pre-training and fine-tuning various open-weight architectures, providing a system for model alignment and parameter-efficient fine-tuning. The project includes utilities for merging adapter weights back into base models to create standalone files. It also provides a model alignment toolkit to format training data according to specific prompt templates, ensuring conversational consistency across different models. The framework supports distributed model training and preference-based

This repository is a collection of frameworks and guides for Llama models, functioning as a fine-tuning framework, an inference pipeline, and an AI workflow orchestrator. It provides tools for adapting large language models to specific datasets and domains. The project includes a parameter-efficient fine-tuning toolkit that utilizes techniques like low-rank adaptation to reduce memory and compute requirements. It also serves as an implementation guide for retrieval-augmented generation, combining model inference with external data retrieval to improve response accuracy. The capability surfac

This project is a quantized fine-tuning framework for large language models. It implements a low-rank adaptation library and a four-bit quantizer to reduce the GPU memory requirements needed to train large models. The framework utilizes four-bit quantization and low-rank adapters to enable model training on consumer-grade hardware. It further reduces the memory footprint through double quantization and a paged optimizer that offloads states to system RAM. The system supports distributed training across multiple GPUs to handle larger parameter scales and includes utilities for custom dataset

This project is a comprehensive technical course study guide and reference for learning the architectures and training methods of Transformers and large language models. It serves as a technical overview for understanding how neural networks process data and how to align model behavior with specific performance goals. The repository provides specialized guides on several key areas of model development. This includes detailed references for transformer architectures, implementation frameworks for retrieval-augmented generation and agentic workflows, and technical guides for model optimization

zero_nlp is a distributed framework for training and fine-tuning large language models and multimodal architectures. It provides a specialized toolkit for distributed model parallelism, allowing neural network layers and weights to be partitioned across multiple GPU devices to train models that exceed the memory capacity of a single processor. The project distinguishes itself through a combination of high-throughput data pipelines and parameter-efficient tuning. It utilizes multi-threading and memory mapping to preprocess and stream datasets exceeding 100GB and implements memory-saving adapta

ChatGLM-Efficient-Tuning is a fine-tuning framework and toolkit designed to optimize large language models using parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques. It provides a pipeline for adjusting model behavior and reducing the memory and compute requirements necessary for training. The project features a web-based trainer and orchestration interface for configuring and executing the fine-tuning process on a single GPU. It supports quantized training in lower precision formats to enable fine-tuning on hardware with limited memory, as well as reinforcement learning from human feedback for model

LLaMA-Factory is a comprehensive suite for dataset preparation, model fine-tuning, memory optimization, and standardized API deployment. It provides a unified platform for the supervised and reward-based fine-tuning of large language models and vision-language models. The framework includes a specialized toolkit for training vision-language models and a model serving interface that deploys trained models through high-performance APIs. It utilizes precision tuning and quantization techniques to reduce the hardware requirements and memory footprint of large models. The system covers data pipel

Megatron-LM is a distributed transformer training library and large language model training framework designed to scale models across thousands of GPUs. It functions as a GPU-optimized deep learning toolkit and a scaling engine for mixture-of-experts architectures, enabling the training of models with hundreds of billions of parameters. The project implements multi-dimensional model parallelism, combining tensor, pipeline, data, expert, and context-based workload distribution. It specifically optimizes mixture-of-experts architectures through integrated memory and communication improvements t

SmolLM is a project dedicated to the development of small language models. It focuses on training and fine-tuning compact models that maintain high performance while utilizing fewer parameters. The project emphasizes efficient AI inference and on-device text generation, aiming to enable the deployment of lightweight models on edge devices with limited memory and processing power. It utilizes synthetic data generation to produce artificial datasets that improve the reasoning and training of these AI systems. The system supports a variety of optimization and training capabilities, including we

Intel XPU LLM Acceleration Library is a toolkit designed to accelerate large language model inference and finetuning on Intel CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs. It provides a distributed inference engine for scaling models across multiple accelerators, a multimodal model runtime for vision and speech tasks, and a low-bit model quantization tool for converting weights into INT4, FP8, and GGUF formats. The project features a parameter-efficient finetuning framework that enables model adaptation using QLoRA and DPO on Intel hardware. It distinguishes itself by providing specialized optimizations for Intel XP

This library provides a framework for parameter-efficient fine-tuning, enabling the adaptation of large pretrained models by training only a small subset of parameters. It functions as a distributed model training system and optimization toolkit, designed to reduce the computational and memory requirements typically associated with full model fine-tuning. The project distinguishes itself through a suite of methods for modular adapter composition, including low-rank matrix decomposition and activation-based scaling. It supports the integration of multiple task-specific adapter modules, allowin