Projects sharing features with Llm Foundry

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

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

h2o-llmstudio is a language model training framework that provides a no-code graphical interface for fine-tuning large language models on custom datasets. It functions as a specialized tool for managing the training lifecycle, from configuring hyperparameters to monitoring performance metrics. The project distinguishes itself through a multi-GPU training orchestrator that distributes workloads via data parallel processing and a low-rank adaptation tool for memory-efficient fine-tuning. It also includes a model evaluation dashboard featuring an interactive chat interface to verify conversation

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

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

ART is a platform for agentic training, providing a reinforcement learning framework, training environment, and compute orchestrator. It enables the improvement of multi-step agent reasoning and tool usage through group relative policy optimization and a judge-based reward modeling system. The project features tools for model distillation to transfer capabilities from large teacher models to smaller architectures, as well as a system for capturing execution trajectories to generate synthetic training data. It supports specialized training workflows including supervised fine-tuning for baselin

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

Unsloth is a high-performance training and inference platform designed to optimize the lifecycle of large language and multimodal models. It provides a comprehensive engine for fine-tuning, executing, and managing models locally, with a focus on reducing memory consumption and increasing compute speed on consumer-grade hardware. The platform distinguishes itself through hand-optimized kernels and automated computational graph techniques that maximize hardware throughput. It supports advanced training methodologies, including reinforcement learning for reasoning and efficient adapter-based fin

DeepSpeed is a distributed deep learning optimization library and framework designed for the training and inference of massive AI models. It serves as a model parallelism orchestrator and a toolkit for scaling large language models across multiple GPUs and compute nodes. The project distinguishes itself through 3D parallelism orchestration, which combines data, pipeline, and tensor parallelism. It utilizes ZeRO-based memory partitioning to eliminate redundant storage and employs CPU-offload memory management to move weights and optimizer states to system RAM. Additionally, it provides special

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

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

DeepSpeedExamples is a collection of reference implementations and scripts for training, fine-tuning, and executing inference on large-scale AI models using DeepSpeed optimization. It provides a distributed model training guide and practical workflows for adapting large language models through memory-efficient techniques. The repository includes specialized implementations for pipeline parallelism to handle models exceeding single GPU memory and a suite of examples for ZeRO memory optimization to reduce per-device overhead. It also features standardized test suites for benchmarking the throug

Ludwig is a multimodal machine learning platform and low-code framework designed for building, training, and deploying neural networks. It enables the construction of models that process text, images, audio, and tabular data through a unified interface using declarative configuration files rather than custom code. The system features a specialized low-code framework for large language models, supporting supervised fine-tuning, preference alignment, and a constrained decoding tool to force structured data output via logit extraction. It also includes an automated model architecture search to i

Metaseq is a transformer sequence modeling toolkit designed for training, fine-tuning, and deploying sequence-to-sequence models using open pre-trained weights. It provides a comprehensive framework for large language model training, including dedicated tools for sequence dataset processing and a standalone inference server for generating text via API requests. The project features specialized utilities for model quantization to reduce parameter precision to eight bits, which lowers memory usage and increases inference speed. It also includes a checkpoint conversion pipeline to transform mode

This repository provides a collection of reference implementations and code examples for training and deploying machine learning models using the MLX framework. It serves as a practical guide for executing distributed training, fine-tuning large language models, converting model weights, and implementing multimodal generative workflows. The project distinguishes itself through specialized examples for local hardware execution, featuring weight quantization to reduce memory usage and low-rank adaptation for parameter-efficient fine-tuning. It also includes scripts for transforming external mod

gpt-neox is a distributed training system and framework for building large-scale autoregressive language models. It implements the transformer architecture and provides a toolkit for training models with billions of parameters by distributing weights across compute clusters. The framework distinguishes itself through extensive support for distributed model parallelism, including pipeline and sequence parallelism, to overcome single-device memory limits. It further supports sparse model architectures using a mixture of experts system with Sinkhorn-based routing. The project covers a broad ran

Accelerate is a PyTorch distributed training library that abstracts the boilerplate required to run models across multiple GPUs, TPUs, and CPUs. It functions as a deep learning model scaler and distributed hardware orchestrator, allowing the same training script to run on different hardware backends without modifying the core logic. The project provides a distributed training command line interface for configuring compute environments and launching jobs across single or multi-node clusters. It includes a mixed precision training framework to implement FP16 and BF16 precision, reducing memory

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

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

This project is a comprehensive educational curriculum and structured learning path covering the full lifecycle of large language models. It provides a guided progression through the theory, architecture, training, and deployment of these models. The curriculum includes specialized guides on transformer architecture, model training tutorials, and frameworks for designing autonomous agents. It also provides dedicated resources for studying model safety and ethics. The material covers a wide range of technical capabilities, including distributed training strategies, parameter-efficient fine-tu

FastChat is a training and serving platform for large language models that provides an integrated toolkit for fine-tuning, hosting, and benchmarking chatbots. It functions as an inference server capable of hosting multiple models and exposing them via a standardized API for chat applications. The platform distinguishes itself through a distributed model controller that manages worker nodes and routes requests across a hardware-agnostic inference layer supporting various accelerators. It includes a dedicated evaluation framework for assessing model quality using automated judges, multi-turn di

TinyLlama is a compact 1.1B parameter language model pretrained on a dataset of 3 trillion tokens. It is an edge AI model designed for high-performance text generation on memory-constrained devices. The project provides a distributed pretraining framework for training small language models across multiple GPUs and nodes. It also includes a finetuning toolkit for full-parameter weight adjustments to adapt the base model for chat and specific tasks. The system supports distributed large language model training and on-device text generation. Its architectural components include rotary positiona

Kiln is an LLM development workbench and evaluation framework designed for designing, testing, and optimizing prompts and AI agents. It functions as a multi-agent orchestrator and a RAG optimization tool, providing a visual interface for the iterative development of AI systems. The project distinguishes itself through a comprehensive fine-tuning pipeline that supports zero-code model training and reasoning distillation. It enables the creation of hierarchical multi-agent systems where specialized actors coordinate via tool calling, and it implements a Model Context Protocol server to expose t

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

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

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

This project is a comprehensive framework for the training, fine-tuning, and deployment of large language models. It functions as a distributed deep learning platform that enables users to scale model workflows across multiple hardware nodes while providing tools for model evaluation and performance benchmarking. The platform distinguishes itself by offering specialized utilities for model compression and weight transformation, allowing users to reduce memory footprints and latency through quantization and pruning. It supports the adaptation of large models for consumer-grade hardware, facili