Getting Started with our Friendly Open Source Community is Fast and Fun

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Join the Network: Learn from the growing Axolotl community – with over 170 contributors and 500+ active Discord members, we have answers to every kind of question

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No Hardware Needed: Start training models right away with pre-existing configurations (in YAML) in the OSS repo without having to tweak any settings

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Ask the Experts: Axolotl users integrate with Runpod, Latitude, Modal, and Jarvislabs with recent product updates allowing GRPO support, direct to Modal pushes and more...

LLM Best Practices and Speed

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From FSDP+qLoRA fixes, LoRA+, Multipack, PEFT/LoRA, you can rely on Axolotl for quick integration of high performance fine-tuning techniques

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Leverage the latest technologies to quickly and efficiently fine-tune models – sometimes 3-5x faster than elsewhere with new product updates every few weeks

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We support a wide range of model architectures by Huggingface transformers as well as the ability to compose techniques quickly with new model structures

AI platforms, researchers, and enterprises all trust Axolotl for fine-tuning at scale

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You can run Axolotl anywhere – in your own cloud, with your own Docker and k8s setup, whatever you need. Enterprises use Axolotl on their own terms with massive results

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BYOD: Bring your own data – Your data doesn’t have to be uploaded to the internet ex. OpenAI for robust compliance and data governance. Axolotl allows full control

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Trust: Axolotl is used by research companies, model builders, Gen AI platforms, and practitioners like Teknium/Nous Research, Modal, Replicate, OpenPipe