unsloth

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Unsloth is a toolkit and training library for researchers and engineers who want to fine-tune, pretrain and run transformer-style models more efficiently. The README shows it targets practical model training workflows: full fine-tuning, 4-bit/8-bit/16-bit quantization, reinforcement learning methods (DPO, GRPO, PPO), TTS and STT, multimodal and diffusion models, and compatibility with many popular LLMs such as gpt-oss, Gemma, Qwen, Llama, Mistral and Phi. The project provides notebooks, example code and integration points for Hugging Face TRL and Trainer-based workflows. It also emphasizes long-context training and memory reductions so larger context windows and bigger models can be trained on commodity NVIDIA GPUs. Packaging and installation guidance is provided for pip and conda on Linux and Windows, and the repo includes examples for using FastModel/FastLanguageModel and SFT/DPO trainer configurations.

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Unsloth documents a set of technical features focused on speed, memory savings and broad model support. It supports full-finetuning, pretraining, 4-bit, 8-bit and 16-bit training and 4-bit pre-quantized model downloads. All kernels are implemented in Triton with a manual backprop engine and the project claims exact training without accuracy loss. It supports many transformer families including TTS, STT, multimodal and BERT, plus LoRA patching and fast PEFT workflows. Reinforcement learning workflows (DPO, GRPO, PPO, reward modeling) are included with example notebooks. Performance features include 2x faster training in many cases, large VRAM reductions (50–80% reported) and dramatically extended context lengths for long-context training. The README also covers Windows/Linux install instructions, advanced pip/conda install variants and export options such as GGUF, vLLM and Ollama.
Use Cases
Unsloth helps practitioners reduce hardware barriers for training and fine-tuning large models by lowering VRAM usage and increasing throughput, enabling experiments that would otherwise require much larger GPUs. The provided notebooks and examples make it easier for beginners to run finetuning jobs and for researchers to run RL workflows like DPO and GRPO. Integration with Hugging Face TRL and Trainer APIs and example code for FastModel/FastLanguageModel and SFT/DPO trainers streamlines adoption into existing pipelines. Users can export finetuned models to common formats and run long-context experiments thanks to optimized kernels and quantization strategies. The README also documents installation, troubleshooting tips and benchmarking numbers so teams can plan GPU requirements and reproduce reported performance gains.

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