30 open-source projects similar to thunlp/ultrachat, ranked by shared indexed features. Tags may describe platforms or build tools rather than the same primary purpose. Check each project’s use case, license, and deployment requirements before treating it as a replacement.
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
Dolly is an instruction-tuned large language model designed to follow complex natural language directions. It operates as a causal language model that predicts the next token in a sequence to generate coherent conversational responses and perform tasks such as brainstorming, classification, and question answering. The project focuses on the development of models using open datasets suitable for commercial application. It enables the creation of instruction-following models by utilizing curated collections of human-generated instruction-response pairs. The repository provides capabilities for
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
InternLM is a large language model and a comprehensive suite of weights designed for text generation and complex reasoning. It functions as an inference engine for serving responses, a fine-tuning framework for adjusting model weights, and a platform for building autonomous AI agents. The system is capable of processing long-context input sequences up to one million tokens for document analysis. It employs chain-of-thought reasoning to solve knowledge-intensive tasks by generating intermediate logic steps before producing a final answer. The project covers model weight optimization through s
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
WizardLM is a large language model and instruction-tuning framework designed to execute sophisticated coding, mathematical, and conversational tasks. It functions as an AI system for mathematical reasoning and code generation, as well as a synthetic dataset generator used to train other language models. The project is distinguished by its evolutionary instruction tuning, which uses a method to rewrite simple instructions into complex tasks. This process expands training dataset difficulty and produces a high volume of open-domain tasks across various difficulty levels. The system covers capa
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 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
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
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 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
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 project is a JAX-based transformer framework and large language model trainer designed for building and training distributed models on TPU hardware accelerators. It provides a system for pretraining and fine-tuning autoregressive models by splitting weights and computations across a mesh of devices to reduce memory overhead and increase processing speed. The framework includes a TPU compute orchestrator for provisioning resources and automating dependency installation across remote distributed nodes. It also features a model weight converter capable of transforming and resharding checkpo
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
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
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 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
MiniCPM is a collection of small language models designed for local, on-device deployment in resource-constrained environments. The project focuses on running dense Transformer models on consumer hardware, including GPUs, CPUs, and Apple Silicon, without requiring custom code forks. The project distinguishes itself through heavy optimization for edge hardware, utilizing quantized weight compression in GGUF and MLX formats to reduce memory overhead. It implements advanced inference techniques such as speculative sampling and radix-tree prefix caching to accelerate generation speed and throughp
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 provides a collection of processed Chinese conversational datasets and preprocessing workflows designed for training and instruction tuning of large language models. It functions as a training corpus of cleaned, standardized Chinese text formatted as query-answer pairs. The repository includes a preprocessing pipeline and dataset aggregator that combine multiple public chat sources into unified files. These tools normalize text by converting traditional Chinese characters to simplified characters and transforming complex dialogue threads into a standardized sequence of single tur
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
Qwen-7B is a pretrained causal language model designed for natural language generation, text processing, and complex reasoning tasks. It is available as an instruction-tuned model optimized for conversational interactions and a tool-use model capable of executing function calls and interacting with external APIs. The project provides a quantized version of the model to reduce GPU memory usage and supports the development of autonomous agents that can execute code and perform functions to complete complex goals. The system covers a wide range of capabilities including model fine-tuning throug
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
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
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
Starcoder is a large language model and associated framework designed to generate, complete, and evaluate source code across multiple programming languages. It functions as a source code model that can produce complete function implementations and predict subsequent characters in a line of code based on provided prompts. The project provides a specialized toolkit for adapting base models to specific coding tasks and instruction-following behaviors. This includes a conversational code assistant framework for training models to generate code via natural language chat, as well as a parameter-eff
OpenCompass is an open-source framework for standardized benchmarking of large language models. It provides a configurable evaluation pipeline that supports both objective and subjective assessment, using a dual-engine architecture to handle closed-form answer comparison and open-ended response rating. The framework is designed as a modular platform where datasets, models, and metrics are composed through declarative YAML configuration files. The framework distinguishes itself through its extensible model integration layer, which supports custom models, HuggingFace models, and third-party API
MOSS is a conversational AI API server and framework designed to manage stateful multi-turn dialogues via session identifiers for remote interaction. It functions as a tool-augmented language model framework and a quantized inference engine. The project integrates external plugins, such as search engines and calculators, to provide factual and computed data within model responses. It also includes a supervised fine-tuning toolkit for adapting base language models to specific conversational datasets and behavioral instructions. The system supports inference optimization through 4-bit and 8-bi
Chinese-Vicuna is a Chinese large language model and instruction-following AI based on the LLaMA architecture. It is specifically designed for natural language understanding and generation in the Chinese language, utilizing an instruction-tuned model to follow complex user prompts across conversations. The project provides a LoRA fine-tuning framework and quantization systems to enable model adaptation and inference on consumer hardware. It implements quantized inference to reduce memory usage on both CPUs and GPUs, supported by a low-level C++ implementation to minimize system resource requi
Huatuo-Llama-Med-Chinese is a medical large language model specialized in processing and generating natural language text in Chinese. It is an instruction-tuned system designed to answer professional healthcare questions by leveraging a dedicated medical knowledge base. The model integrates structured medical literature and knowledge graphs to ensure clinical accuracy during response generation. It employs knowledge-graph augmented inference to combine structured entity relationships with neural network outputs. The system is developed through domain-specific weight adaptation, cross-lingual