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Axolotl: LLM fine-tuning toolkit, README overview

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The README presents Axolotl as a toolkit for fine-tuning LLMs from config files.

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What it supplies: The README presents Axolotl as a toolkit for fine-tuning LLMs from config files. Useful for: - Fine-tune models with LoRA or QLoRA and DeepSpeed. - Export results to GGUF for llama.cpp or Ollama. First action: - Create a Python 3.12 virtual environment with uv and install torch. - Install axolotl[deepspeed] and run axolotl fetch examples. Prerequisites and limits: An NVIDIA GPU (Ampere or newer for bf16 and Flash Attention) or AMD GPU, Python 3.12 or later and a recent PyTorch per the README. - It needs a capable GPU. - Model-specific configs are in docs that were not read. Source-documented: Apache 2.0. Base models and datasets carry their own licences. Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run. Based on updates, quick start, installation and licence README text only; other sections were not read. Nothing was installed or run. Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/620c1efca4470c1bc2e4a5f46b4b106341e9dc41/README.md ; 21710 bytes ; sha256 159d380744a976ba8dd0e9d02d331f2ef6b79ff78132f1fa89ca526de59a56f8 ; 6 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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