torchtune

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📣 Recent updates 📣

• May 2025: torchtune has added support for Qwen3 models! Check out all the configs here
• April 2025: Llama4 is now available in torchtune! Try out our full and LoRA finetuning configs here
• February 2025: Multi-node training is officially open for business in torchtune! Full finetune on multiple nodes to take advantage of larger batch sizes and models.
• December 2024: torchtune now supports Llama 3.3 70B! Try it out by following our installation instructions here, then run any of the configs here.
• November 2024: torchtune has released v0.4.0 which includes stable support for exciting features like activation offloading and multimodal QLoRA
• November 2024: torchtune has added Gemma2 to its models!
• October 2024: torchtune added support for Qwen2.5 models - find the configs here
• September 2024: torchtune has support for Llama 3.2 11B Vision, Llama 3.2 3B, and Llama 3.2 1B models! Try them out by following our installation instructions here, then run any of the text configs here or vision configs here.

Overview 📚

torchtune is a PyTorch library for easily authoring, post-training, and experimenting with LLMs. It provides:

• Hackable training recipes for SFT, knowledge distillation, DPO, PPO, GRPO, and quantization-aware training
• Simple PyTorch implementations of popular LLMs like Llama, Gemma, Mistral, Phi, Qwen, and more
• Best-in-class memory efficiency, performance improvements, and scaling, utilizing the latest PyTorch APIs
• YAML configs for easily configuring training, evaluation, quantization or inference recipes

Post-training recipes

torchtune supports the entire post-training lifecycle. A successful post-trained model will likely utilize several of the below methods.

Supervised Finetuning (SFT)

| Type of Weight Update | 1 Device | >1 Device | >1 Node | |-----------------------|:--------:|:---------:|:-------:| | Full | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | LoRA/QLoRA | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |

Example: tune run lora_finetune_single_device --config llama3_2/3B_lora_single_device
You can also run e.g. tune ls lora_finetune_single_device for a full list of available configs.

Knowledge Distillation (KD)

| Type of Weight Update | 1 Device | >1 Device | >1 Node | |-----------------------|:--------:|:---------:|:-------:| | Full | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | | LoRA/QLoRA | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |

Example: tune run knowledge_distillation_distributed --config qwen2/1.5B_to_0.5B_KD_lora_distributed
You can also run e.g. tune ls knowledge_distillation_distributed for a full list of available configs.

Reinforcement Learning / Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)

| Method | Type of Weight Update | 1 Device | >1 Device | >1 Node | |------------------------------|-----------------------|:--------:|:---------:|:-------:| | DPO | Full | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | | | LoRA/QLoRA | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | | PPO | Full | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | | LoRA/QLoRA | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | | GRPO | Full | 🚧 | ✅ | ✅ | | | LoRA/QLoRA | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |

Example: tune run lora_dpo_single_device --config llama3_1/8B_dpo_single_device
You can also run e.g. tune ls full_dpo_distributed for a full list of available configs.

Quantization-Aware Training (QAT)

| Type of Weight Update | 1 Device | >1 Device | >1 Node | |-----------------------|:--------:|:---------:|:-------:| | Full | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | | LoRA/QLoRA | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |

Example: tune run qat_distributed --config llama3_1/8B_qat_lora
You can also run e.g. tune ls qat_distributed or tune ls qat_single_device for a full list of available configs.

The above configs are just examples to get you started. The full list of recipes can be found here. If you'd like to work on one of the gaps you see, please submit a PR! If there's a entirely new post-training method you'd like to see implemented in torchtune, feel free to open an Issue.

Models

For the above recipes, torchtune supports many state-of-the-art models available on the Hugging Face Hub or Kaggle Hub. Some of our supported models:

| Model | Sizes | |-----------------------------------------------|-----------| | Llama4 | Scout (17B x 16E) [models, configs] | | Llama3.3 | 70B [models, configs] | | Llama3.2-Vision | 11B, 90B [models, configs] | | Llama3.2 | 1B, 3B [models, configs] | | Llama3.1 | 8B, 70B, 405B [models, configs] | | Mistral | 7B [models, configs] | | Gemma2 | 2B, 9B, 27B [models, configs] | | Microsoft Phi4 | 14B [models, configs] | Microsoft Phi3 | Mini [models, configs] | Qwen3 | 0.6B, 1.7B, 4B, 8B, 14B, 32B [models, configs] | Qwen2.5 | 0.5B, 1.5B, 3B, 7B, 14B, 32B, 72B [models, configs] | Qwen2 | 0.5B, 1.5B, 7B [models, configs]

We're always adding new models, but feel free to file an issue if there's a new one you would like to see in torchtune.

Memory and training speed

Below is an example of the memory requirements and training speed for different Llama 3.1 models.

[!NOTE] For ease of comparison, all the below numbers are provided for batch size 2 (without gradient accumulation), a dataset packed to sequence length 2048, and torch compile enabled.

If you are interested in running on different hardware or with different models, check out our documentation on memory optimizations here to find the right setup for you.

| Model | Finetuning Method | Runnable On | Peak Memory per GPU | Tokens/sec * | |:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:| | Llama 3.1 8B | Full finetune | 1x 4090 | 18.9 GiB | 1650 | | Llama 3.1 8B | Full finetune | 1x A6000 | 37.4 GiB | 2579| | Llama 3.1 8B | LoRA | 1x 4090 | 16.2 GiB | 3083 | | Llama 3.1 8B | LoRA | 1x A6000 | 30.3 GiB | 4699 | | Llama 3.1 8B | QLoRA | 1x 4090 | 7.4 GiB | 2413 | | Llama 3.1 70B | Full finetune | 8x A100 | 13.9 GiB ** | 1568 | | Llama 3.1 70B | LoRA | 8x A100 | 27.6 GiB | 3497 | | Llama 3.1 405B | QLoRA | 8x A100 | 44.8 GB | 653 |

= Measured over one full training epoch
*= Uses CPU offload with fused optimizer

Optimization flags

torchtune exposes a number of levers for memory efficiency and performance. The table below demonstrates the effects of applying some of these techniques sequentially to the Llama 3.2 3B model. Each technique is added on top of the previous one, except for LoRA and QLoRA, which do not use optimizer_in_bwd or AdamW8bit optimizer.

Baseline uses Recipe=fullfinetunesingle_device, Model=Llama 3.2 3B, Batch size=2, Max sequence length=4096, Precision=bf16, Hardware=A100

| Technique | Peak Memory Active (GiB) | % Change Memory vs Previous | Tokens Per Second | % Change Tokens/sec vs Previous| |:--|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:| | Baseline | 25.5 | - | 2091 | - | | + Packed Dataset | 60.0 | +135.16% | 7075 | +238.40% | | + Compile | 51.0 | -14.93% | 8998 | +27.18% | | + Chunked Cross Entropy | 42.9 | -15.83% | 9174 | +1.96% | | + Activation Checkpointing | 24.9 | -41.93% | 7210 | -21.41% | | + Fuse optimizer step into backward | 23.1 | -7.29% | 7309 | +1.38% | | + Activation Offloading | 21.8 | -5.48% | 7301 | -0.11% | | + 8-bit AdamW | 17.6 | -19.63% | 6960 | -4.67% | | LoRA | 8.5 | -51.61% | 8210 | +17.96% | | QLoRA | 4.6 | -45.71% | 8035 | -2.13% |

The final row in the table vs baseline + Packed Dataset uses 81.9% less memory with a 284.3% increase in tokens per second.

Installation 🛠️

torchtune is only tested with the latest stable PyTorch release (currently 2.6.0) as well as the preview nightly version, and leverages torchvision for finetuning multimodal LLMs and torchao for the latest in quantization techniques; you should install these as well.

Install stable release

```bash

Install stable PyTorch, torchvision, torchao stable releases

pip install torch torchvision torchao pip install torchtune ```

Install nightly release

```bash

Install PyTorch, torchvision, torchao nightlies.

pip install --pre --upgrade torch torchvision torchao --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu126 # full options are cpu/cu118/cu124/cu126/xpu/rocm6.2/rocm6.3/rocm6.4 pip install --pre --upgrade torchtune --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cpu ```

You can also check out our install documentation for more information, including installing torchtune from source.

To confirm that the package is installed correctly, you can run the following command:

bash tune --help

And should see the following output:

```bash usage: tune [-h] {ls,cp,download,run,validate} ...

Welcome to the torchtune CLI!

options: -h, --help show this help message and exit

... ```

Get Started 🚀

To get started with torchtune, see our First Finetune Tutorial. Our End-to-End Workflow Tutorial will show you how to evaluate, quantize, and run inference with a Llama model. The rest of this section will provide a quick overview of these steps with Llama3.1.

Downloading a model

Follow the instructions on the official meta-llama repository to ensure you have access to the official Llama model weights. Once you have confirmed access, you can run the following command to download the weights to your local machine. This will also download the tokenizer model and a responsible use guide.

To download Llama3.1, you can run:

bash tune download meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct \ --output-dir /tmp/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct \ --ignore-patterns "original/consolidated.00.pth" \ --hf-token <HF_TOKEN> \

[!Tip] Set your environment variable HF_TOKEN or pass in --hf-token to the command in order to validate your access. You can find your token at https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens

Running finetuning recipes

You can finetune Llama3.1 8B with LoRA on a single GPU using the following command:

bash tune run lora_finetune_single_device --config llama3_1/8B_lora_single_device

For distributed training, tune CLI integrates with torchrun. To run a full finetune of Llama3.1 8B on two GPUs:

bash tune run --nproc_per_node 2 full_finetune_distributed --config llama3_1/8B_full

[!Tip] Make sure to place any torchrun commands before the recipe specification. Any CLI args after this will override the config and not impact distributed training.

Modify Configs

There are two ways in which you can modify configs:

Config Overrides

You can directly overwrite config fields from the command line:

bash tune run lora_finetune_single_device \ --config llama2/7B_lora_single_device \ batch_size=8 \ enable_activation_checkpointing=True \ max_steps_per_epoch=128

Update a Local Copy

You can also copy the config to your local directory and modify the contents directly:

bash tune cp llama3_1/8B_full ./my_custom_config.yaml Copied to ./my_custom_config.yaml

Then, you can run your custom recipe by directing the tune run command to your local files:

bash tune run full_finetune_distributed --config ./my_custom_config.yaml

Check out tune --help for all possible CLI commands and options. For more information on using and updating configs, take a look at our config deep-dive.

Custom Datasets

torchtune supports finetuning on a variety of different datasets, including instruct-style, chat-style, preference datasets, and more. If you want to learn more about how to apply these components to finetune on your own custom dataset, please check out the provided links along with our API docs.

Custom Devices

torchtune supports finetuning on a variety of devices, including NVIDIA GPU, Intel XPU, AMD ROCm, Apple MPS, and Ascend NPU. If you're interested in running recipes on a custom device, such as Intel XPU, follow the steps below.

Step 1: Refer to the Getting Started on Intel GPU guide to configure your environment.

Step 2: Update device information via either CLI override or config changes. You can directly overwrite config fields from the command line:

bash tune run lora_finetune_single_device --config llama3_1/8B_lora_single_device device=xpu Or edit your local copy of configuration files and replace device: cuda with device: xpu

Community 🌍

torchtune focuses on integrating with popular tools and libraries from the ecosystem. These are just a few examples, with more under development:

• Hugging Face Hub for accessing model weights
• EleutherAI's LM Eval Harness for evaluating trained models
• Hugging Face Datasets for access to training and evaluation datasets
• PyTorch FSDP2 for distributed training
• torchao for lower precision dtypes and post-training quantization techniques
• Weights & Biases for logging metrics and checkpoints, and tracking training progress
• Comet as another option for logging
• ExecuTorch for on-device inference using finetuned models
• bitsandbytes for low memory optimizers for our single-device recipes
• PEFT for continued finetuning or inference with torchtune models in the Hugging Face ecosystem

Community Contributions

We really value our community and the contributions made by our wonderful users. We'll use this section to call out some of these contributions. If you'd like to help out as well, please see the CONTRIBUTING guide.

• @SalmanMohammadi for adding a comprehensive end-to-end recipe for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) finetuning with PPO to torchtune
• @fyabc for adding Qwen2 models, tokenizer, and recipe integration to torchtune
• @solitude-alive for adding the Gemma 2B model to torchtune, including recipe changes, numeric validations of the models and recipe correctness
• @yechenzhi for adding Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to torchtune, including the recipe and config along with correctness checks
• @Optimox for adding all the Gemma2 variants to torchtune!

Acknowledgements 🙏

The transformer code in this repository is inspired by the original Llama2 code. We also want to give a huge shout-out to EleutherAI, Hugging Face and Weights & Biases for being wonderful collaborators and for working with us on some of these integrations within torchtune. In addition, we want to acknowledge some other awesome libraries and tools from the ecosystem:

• gpt-fast for performant LLM inference techniques which we've adopted out-of-the-box
• llama recipes for spring-boarding the llama2 community
• bitsandbytes for bringing several memory and performance based techniques to the PyTorch ecosystem
• @winglian and axolotl for early feedback and brainstorming on torchtune's design and feature set.
• lit-gpt for pushing the LLM finetuning community forward.
• HF TRL for making reward modeling more accessible to the PyTorch community.

Citing torchtune 📝

If you find the torchtune library useful, please cite it in your work as below.

bibtex @software{torchtune, title = {torchtune: PyTorch's finetuning library}, author = {torchtune maintainers and contributors}, url = {https//github.com/pytorch/torchtune}, license = {BSD-3-Clause}, month = apr, year = {2024} }

License

torchtune is released under the BSD 3 license. However you may have other legal obligations that govern your use of other content, such as the terms of service for third-party models.