# axolotl train config.yaml

# Prevent NCCL timeout
ddp_timeout: 7200  # 2 hours timeout instead of 10 minutes

# Load model from local models directory first, fallback to HuggingFace if not found
base_model: AiForgeMaster/Qwen3-4B-P3-TC-1  # Local path - will fallback to Qwen/Qwen3-4B if not found locally
# Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF
hub_model_id: AiForgeMaster/Qwen3-4B-P3-TC-RSSFT-1

load_in_8bit: false
load_in_4bit: false
strict: false

# SFT dataset configuration - using HuggingFace datasets
datasets:
  - path: AiForgeMaster/glaiceai-natural-reasoning-10k  # Private HF dataset - requires API key
    type: alpaca_chat.load_qa
    # skip: 0 # number of rows of data to skip over from the beginning

# Local paths relative to working directory
dataset_prepared_path: ./data/prepared
val_set_size: 0.0  # Set to 0 for SFT (no validation split)
output_dir: ./outputs

# Cache directories for HuggingFace downloads (relative to working dir)
# This ensures models and datasets are downloaded to local directories
hf_use_auth_token: true  # Use HF token for private repos if needed

sequence_len: 8192
sample_packing: false  # Standard for SFT
eval_sample_packing: false  # Disable for SFT

# WandB configuration - fill in your details
wandb_project: ngpt-cpt
wandb_entity: null
wandb_watch: gradients
wandb_name: qwen3_4b_p3_tc_rssft_1
wandb_log_model: end

# Batch size configuration (total effective batch size = micro_batch_size * gradient_accumulation_steps * num_gpus)
# For batch size 8-16: micro_batch_size=2, gradient_accumulation_steps=4 gives effective batch size of 8 per GPU
gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
micro_batch_size: 8  # Adjust based on your GPU memory
optimizer: adamw_torch_fused
lr_scheduler: cosine
learning_rate: 2e-5  # Good learning rate for SFT

bf16: auto
tf32: true

max_grad_norm: 1.0

gradient_checkpointing: true
gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
  use_reentrant: false
logging_steps: 10  # Log every 10 steps
flash_attention: true

warmup_steps: 150  # Good warmup for SFT
# Checkpoint saving configuration - save every 50 steps
save_steps: 50
save_strategy: steps
save_total_limit: 5  # Keep only 5 most recent checkpoints
save_only_model: false  # Save full checkpoint including optimizer state

# Evaluation configuration removed for pure SFT (val_set_size: 0.0)
# eval_steps: 2000  # Not supported when val_set_size == 0
# eval_strategy: steps  # Not supported when val_set_size == 0
weight_decay: 0.01  # Good weight decay for SFT

# Liger optimizations for memory efficiency and speed
plugins:
  - axolotl.integrations.liger.LigerPlugin

liger_rope: true
liger_rms_norm: true
liger_glu_activation: true
liger_layer_norm: true
liger_fused_linear_cross_entropy: true

# Additional SFT optimizations
# Enable for first run to validate checkpoint saving works
save_first_step: true

# Memory optimizations
dataloader_pin_memory: true
dataloader_num_workers: 4
remove_unused_columns: true

# Advanced training settings for SFT
# Calculate max_steps for full epoch: dataset_size / (micro_batch_size * gradient_accumulation_steps * num_gpus)
# max_steps: 175  # Set for one full epoch with your dataset size
num_epochs: 1
group_by_length: true  # Good for SFT efficiency
train_on_inputs: true  # train on user inputs in SFT

# Loss monitoring
loss_watchdog_threshold: 10.0  # Stop if loss exceeds this value
loss_watchdog_patience: 3

# Garbage collection to manage memory
gc_steps: 100  # Run garbage collection every 100 steps

Visualize in Weights & Biases

Qwen3-4B-P3-TC-RSSFT-1

This model is a fine-tuned version of AiForgeMaster/Qwen3-4B-P3-TC-1 on the AiForgeMaster/glaiceai-natural-reasoning-10k dataset.

Model description

More information needed

Intended uses & limitations

More information needed

Training and evaluation data

More information needed

Training procedure

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

learning_rate: 2e-05
train_batch_size: 8
eval_batch_size: 8
seed: 42
gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
total_train_batch_size: 32
optimizer: Use OptimizerNames.ADAMW_TORCH_FUSED with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08 and optimizer_args=No additional optimizer arguments
lr_scheduler_type: cosine
lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 150
training_steps: 312

Training results

Framework versions

Transformers 4.55.4
Pytorch 2.7.1+cu126
Datasets 4.0.0
Tokenizers 0.21.4