# 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.

Source: https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl

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.

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