Projects sharing features with Tinker Cookbook

xtuner is a comprehensive training engine for large language models, offering a toolkit for pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, and the optimization of vision-language multimodal models. It serves as a distributed training accelerator and a specialized framework for scaling Mixture-of-Experts models and aligning model behavior through reinforcement learning from human feedback. The project distinguishes itself through advanced memory and compute optimizations, such as sequence parallelism for ultra-long context windows and interleaved pipeline parallelism to reduce GPU idle time. It provide

LLM-RL-Visualized is a visual reference library and collection of knowledge maps designed to explain Large Language Model and Reinforcement Learning algorithms. It provides a structured system of conceptual diagrams and taxonomies covering the intersection of language model alignment and reinforcement learning. The project distinguishes itself through detailed visual mappings of complex workflows, such as the coordination of reward models and policy optimization in reinforcement learning from human feedback. It contrasts different preference optimization architectures, such as RLHF and Direct

OpenRLHF is a training framework and alignment library designed for reinforcement learning from human feedback across distributed GPU clusters. It provides tools for aligning large language models and multimodal vision-language models using algorithms such as PPO, GRPO, and DPO. The framework distinguishes itself through a distributed inference engine that overlaps sample rollout with training to increase throughput. It supports scaling to models exceeding 70 billion parameters via parameter sharding and handles long-context sequences through ring-attention sequence parallelism. The project

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

This project provides a foundational framework and reference implementation for executing causal language modeling and multimodal reasoning on local systems. It includes a set of core components for managing model assets, a fine-tuning framework, and structural definitions required to instantiate transformer-based architectures. The system is distinguished by its ability to process combined text and image inputs through multimodal transformer models for visual reasoning and document analysis. It also supports the deployment of quantized models, reducing memory footprints through low-precision

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

Open-Instruct is a distributed training and instruction tuning framework for large language models. It functions as a coordinator for supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning from human feedback pipelines, and tool-use training, providing specialized roles for dataset curation and model alignment. The project distinguishes itself through a high-performance training architecture that utilizes actor-based distributed coordination and hybrid sharding to manage large GPU clusters. It implements advanced alignment techniques including direct preference optimization, group relative policy opt

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

UltraChat is a collection of large-scale conversational datasets and instruction-tuning data designed for training and evaluating generative AI models. It provides structured JSON data consisting of complex, multi-round dialogue sequences intended to refine the performance of large language models in chat tasks. The project focuses on improving reasoning and response quality through a diverse set of interactions across multiple sectors. These datasets are used for supervised fine-tuning and instruction tuning workflows to improve how models follow complex directions and maintain context acros

This project is a collection of educational resources and technical guides focused on the development and implementation of large language models. It provides a comprehensive curriculum covering transformer architectures, training methods, and deployment strategies. The materials provide detailed instructions for building autonomous agents using reasoning loops and tool integration, as well as guides for fine-tuning models through supervised learning and preference optimization. It also includes tutorials for constructing retrieval augmented generation pipelines and implementing transformer m

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

This project is an educational course and learning curriculum for implementing and fine-tuning transformer models using the Hugging Face ecosystem. It serves as a structured guide and technical walkthrough for processing multimodal data, adapting pre-trained neural networks, and deploying models. The material includes a guide for managing, versioning, and distributing model weights and datasets through a centralized asset hub. It also provides a practical tutorial on adapting models to specific datasets using parameter-efficient methods and an implementation guide for solving natural language

Oumi is a comprehensive large language model development platform designed for synthesizing data, fine-tuning models, and running performance evaluations. It serves as a unified environment for the entire model lifecycle, encompassing a training and fine-tuning suite, an evaluation framework, and tools for synthetic data generation and model distillation. The platform is distinguished by its iterative, failure-driven synthesis approach, which analyzes model weaknesses during evaluation to generate targeted training data. It utilizes an LLM-based judge framework to programmatically score respo

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

This project is an educational collection of Jupyter notebooks and guides focused on building applications with the LangChain framework. It serves as a practical resource for developers learning to implement prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and autonomous agent workflows to create intelligent, context-aware systems. The repository distinguishes itself by providing hands-on tutorials for connecting language models to private datasets and external tools. It covers the end-to-end process of designing structured input templates, orchestrating multi-step task sequences, and main

This project is a framework for fine-tuning large language models using parameter-efficient training techniques. It provides a structured pipeline for adapting pre-trained transformer models to specific tasks while minimizing the computational resources and memory required during the training process. The system distinguishes itself by utilizing low-rank adaptation, which injects trainable rank-decomposition matrices into frozen transformer layers. By updating only this small subset of injected parameters rather than the entire model, the framework reduces the overhead associated with gradien

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

This project is a comprehensive toolkit for adapting large language models to the Chinese language, providing a specialized framework for fine-tuning, inference, and local deployment. It serves as a coordinated suite for language-specific adaptation, including tools for expanding tokenizers and implementing retrieval-augmented generation. The project distinguishes itself through a complete pipeline for model adaptation, featuring multilingual tokenizer expansion and a fine-tuning framework that supports instruction-based supervised training and adapter merging. It also includes a dedicated de

This project provides an end-to-end framework for adapting large language models to follow user instructions through supervised fine-tuning. It functions as a comprehensive training pipeline that enables the creation of specialized assistant models by minimizing the difference between predicted outputs and target responses within structured instruction datasets. The framework distinguishes itself by integrating synthetic data generation with memory-efficient training techniques. It utilizes powerful language models to iteratively expand small sets of human-written seeds into diverse, high-qua

This project is an educational program focused on the alignment of small language models. It provides a technical curriculum and a series of courses designed to teach how to align models with human preferences and behaviors. The material covers the implementation of preference optimization algorithms and the adaptation of vision-language models to process both text and image data simultaneously. It also includes instructional guides on synthetic data generation to improve model performance in specialized domains. The curriculum encompasses supervised fine-tuning workflows, the use of chat te

This project is a multimodal model trainer and machine learning fine-tuning tool that provides a containerized workflow for adapting pre-trained models to specific tasks. It features a no-code web interface and a dashboard for training large language models and other machine learning datasets without writing code. The system distinguishes itself by integrating a no-code interface with remote GPU orchestration, allowing users to deploy containerized training environments on cloud infrastructure or local hardware. It includes a dedicated integrator for uploading trained model weights and config

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

OpenChat is a framework for the training, fine-tuning, and deployment of large language models optimized for conversational and mathematical reasoning tasks. It provides a comprehensive lifecycle for these models, ranging from training pipelines and deployment stacks to a web-based chat interface. The project focuses on enabling high-performance model execution on consumer-grade hardware without the need for enterprise-grade accelerators. It includes a production-ready inference server that implements the OpenAI chat completion protocol and utilizes dynamic request batching to optimize hardwa

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

This project is a collection of reference implementations and recipes for deploying, fine-tuning, and running inference with Llama large language models. It serves as a toolkit and implementation guide for adapting pre-trained models to specific tasks and domain-specific datasets. The repository provides frameworks for developing retrieval augmented generation pipelines to ground model responses in external data. It includes guides for executing quantized inference to reduce memory usage and increase processing speed. The toolkit covers a broad range of capabilities including parameter-effic

This project is a comprehensive learning resource and set of demonstrations focused on large language model integration, deployment, and fine-tuning. It provides educational content and practical guides for working with artificial intelligence models. The resource includes specific tutorials and courses on adapting pre-trained models to specialized datasets using parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques. It also provides instructional content for running quantized models on consumer hardware and building retrieval augmented generation pipelines using vector databases and document indexing.