Projects sharing features with Open Instruct

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 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

LMFlow is a comprehensive suite for large language model fine-tuning, context extension, multimodal processing, and inference execution. It provides a toolkit for updating model parameters through full tuning or memory-efficient adapter algorithms, alongside an inference engine for executing tuned models via command-line or web-based interfaces. The framework includes a dedicated alignment suite for supervised tuning and reward model training to refine model behavior. It features a context window extender to increase maximum input lengths and a multimodal framework for building chatbots that

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

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

MedicalGPT is an open-source framework for fine-tuning large language models, with a dedicated focus on adapting general models to the medical domain. It provides a complete pipeline that covers continued pretraining on domain-specific corpora, supervised instruction tuning, tokenizer vocabulary extension with medical terminology, and alignment to clinician preferences through direct preference optimization, reinforcement learning, or knowledge distillation. The framework also supports training models to invoke external tools and functions in multi-turn clinical conversations. The platform di

Fairseq is a PyTorch toolkit for sequence-to-sequence modeling, specializing in neural machine translation, automatic speech recognition, and large-scale language model training. It provides a framework for processing and aligning diverse data sources, including text, audio, and video, to support tasks such as speech-to-text conversion and multimodal sequence learning. The project is distinguished by its distributed training capabilities, which utilize parameter sharding, mixed-precision training, and CPU offloading to handle models that exceed single-device memory. It also includes specializ

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

Torchtune is a PyTorch-native library for fine-tuning, aligning, and quantizing large language models. It provides a config-driven system for instantiating components, orchestrating distributed training, and managing parameter-efficient fine-tuning with quantization support, all through YAML-based configurations and command-line overrides. The library distinguishes itself through its comprehensive post-training workflow orchestration, combining supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization (DPO, PPO, GRPO), knowledge distillation, and quantization-aware training in a single configurable pip

Sglang is a high-performance inference engine and serving system designed for large language and multimodal models. It provides a programmable interface for orchestrating complex generation workflows, enabling developers to coordinate multi-turn dialogues, tool invocations, and reasoning chains through a domain-specific language. The platform is built to support production-scale deployments, offering an OpenAI-compatible API that allows for integration with existing application ecosystems. The system distinguishes itself through a disaggregated architecture that separates compute-intensive pr

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

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 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

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

OpenManus-RL is a reinforcement learning framework and distributed training pipeline designed to train large language models as agents. It serves as an agentic reasoning optimizer and reward model trainer, providing the infrastructure to improve model decision-making through reward-based policy optimization. The project distinguishes itself through a distributed architecture that supports parameter sharding across multiple compute nodes and a coordinated rollout system for collecting interaction trajectories. It incorporates advanced reasoning strategies, such as Tree-of-Thoughts and Monte Ca

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

Self-instruct is a framework for generating synthetic instruction datasets and fine-tuning large language models to improve their instruction-following capabilities. It provides a pipeline for aligning pretrained models with human intentions through a supervised fine-tuning workflow. The system utilizes a synthetic data generator that uses a seed set of tasks to prompt a model to create new instructional data. It includes an instruction dataset curator to remove redundant or low-quality entries, maintaining dataset diversity through a filtered task pool. The framework covers the full alignme

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 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

OpenClaw-RL is a reinforcement learning framework for training large language model agents. It provides a system for optimizing agent policies using natural language instructions, reward-based optimization, and a pipeline for refining model behavior through human or judge feedback. The framework utilizes low-rank adaptation to update model weights efficiently without full parameter tuning. It features a local-first infrastructure that allows the policy model, judge, and trainer to run on private hardware to maintain data locality. The system covers a range of optimization capabilities, inclu

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

Qwen2.5 is a suite of large language model foundation models designed for natural language generation, code production, and complex mathematical reasoning. The project encompasses a multilingual language model capable of processing dozens of languages and a specialized code generation model for technical problem solving and debugging. The framework is distinguished by its long context capabilities, enabling the analysis of massive inputs ranging from 256K up to 1 million tokens. It further functions as an agentic framework, utilizing standardized templates and parsers to execute autonomous wo

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,

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

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

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