* feat(studio): add Continued Pretraining (CPT) support
Implements CPT as a first-class training method in Unsloth Studio,
resolving feature request #4565.
Changes:
- frontend/src/types/training.ts: add 'cpt' to TrainingMethod union
- frontend/src/lib/vram.ts: add 'cpt' to VramTrainingMethod (fp16 footprint)
- frontend/src/features/export/constants.ts: add CPT to METHOD_LABELS
- frontend/src/features/training/api/mappers.ts: map 'cpt' -> 'Continued Pretraining',
force packing=true and train_on_completions=false for CPT payloads
- frontend/src/features/studio/sections/model-section.tsx: add 'Continued Pretraining'
option (purple dot) to Method selector; update tooltip
- frontend/src/features/onboarding/.../model-selection-step.tsx: add CPT to
onboarding wizard method dropdown
- backend/models/training.py: update training_type field description
- backend/core/training/worker.py: detect is_cpt flag, force packing=True,
train_on_completions=False, pass is_cpt to _train_worker
- backend/core/training/trainer.py: _train_worker reads is_cpt kwarg, forces
packing on, skips train_on_responses_only for raw-text pretraining
CPT behaviour:
- Full model weights (no LoRA adapters), same as Full Finetuning
- Sequence packing always enabled for GPU efficiency
- Trains on every token (no chat-format masking)
- VRAM estimated at fp16 (2.0 bytes/param)
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subdir written by HF's official path.
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* fix(studio): change default weight_decay from 0.01 to 0.001
The default weight decay across Studio was 0.01 but should be 0.001.
Updated the default in all backend fallbacks, the Pydantic model, the
frontend config, and every YAML preset/model-default config.
* fix(studio): auto-set learning rate based on training method
Default LR should be 2e-4 for LoRA/QLoRA and 2e-5 for full fine-tuning.
Frontend: track whether the user has manually edited the LR field via a
_learningRateManuallySet flag (same pattern as trainOnCompletions).
When switching training method and the user has not touched the LR,
auto-set it to the appropriate default. Reset the flag on model load.
Backend: change trainer.py start_training default from 5e-5 to 2e-4,
update default.yaml fallback from 5e-5 to 2e-4, and fix
full_finetune.yaml from 0.0002 (2e-4) to 2e-5.
* refactor(studio): centralize weight_decay and learning rate defaults
Create studio/backend/core/training/constants.py as the single source of
truth for DEFAULT_WEIGHT_DECAY (0.001), DEFAULT_LEARNING_RATE (2e-4),
DEFAULT_LEARNING_RATE_FULL (2e-5), and DEFAULT_LEARNING_RATE_STR ("2e-4").
All backend modules (trainer.py, training.py, worker.py, models/training.py)
now import from constants.py instead of hardcoding values.
On the frontend, add LR_DEFAULT_LORA and LR_DEFAULT_FULL to
config/training.ts and use them in the store instead of magic numbers.
A comment cross-references the backend constants file.
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* Fix model-specific LR override, persist migration, and flag resets
- Preserve model-specific learning rates from YAML configs when the
async autoSelectTrainingMethod callback fires (fixes Qwen2.5-1.5B
getting 2e-4 instead of its configured 1e-5, etc.)
- Bump zustand persist version to 9 with migration so existing users
with weightDecay=0.01 get updated to 0.001
- Clear _learningRateManuallySet in reset() and applyConfigPatch()
for consistency with trainOnCompletions flag behavior
- Add DEFAULT_LEARNING_RATE_FULL_STR to constants.py
* Refine applyConfigPatch to only clear LR flag when patch includes LR
Only reset _learningRateManuallySet when the applied config patch
actually provides a learningRate value. This prevents unrelated config
patches from silently disarming the manual-edit guard, which would
cause a subsequent setTrainingMethod call to overwrite the user's
custom LR.
* Preserve model-specific LR when switching between qlora and lora
Only auto-switch the learning rate when the training category changes
(adapter <-> full fine-tuning). Switching between qlora and lora keeps
the current LR since both methods share the same learning rate range.
This preserves curated per-model defaults (e.g. 1e-5 for
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct) when the user toggles between adapter methods.
* Remove constants.py, use YAML configs as the source of truth
The YAML config files (model-specific + default.yaml) are the intended
config layer for training defaults. The Python backend fallbacks now use
inline values that match the YAML configs, rather than importing from a
separate constants module. This keeps the config architecture simple:
YAML files are the single source of truth, and the inline Python
fallbacks are just safety nets that mirror them.
* fix(studio): preserve model-specific LR when switching training method
Stash YAML-provided learning rate and use it to restore the correct
value when switching between adapter and full fine-tune modes.
- qlora <-> lora no longer overwrites the model's LR
- full -> adapter restores the YAML LR instead of a hardcoded constant
- selecting a model while on full fine-tune uses LR_DEFAULT_FULL
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- _get_backend_visible_gpu_info() set() or None bug: empty set is falsy so
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=-1 would disable filtering and report all GPUs
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* support for non cuda gpus
* Fix multi-GPU auto-selection memory accounting
The multi_gpu_factor was applied uniformly to all GPUs including the
first one, which unfairly penalizes single-GPU capacity when
transitioning to multi-GPU. This created a discontinuity where a model
that barely fits 1 GPU would suddenly require 2 GPUs because the first
GPU's free memory was discounted by 20%.
Now the first GPU keeps its full free memory, and only additional GPUs
have an overhead factor (0.85) applied to account for inter-GPU
communication and sharding overhead. This gives more accurate
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24 tests covering model size estimation, memory requirements, automatic
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overhead accounting. All tests use mocks so they run without GPUs on
Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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* Fix reviewer findings: 4bit inference estimate, fallback, GGUF gpu_ids, retry
1. 4-bit inference now uses reduced memory estimate (model_size/3 + buffer)
instead of the FP16 1.3x multiplier. This prevents over-sharding
quantized models across unnecessary GPUs.
2. When model size estimation fails, auto_select_gpu_ids now falls back to
all visible GPUs instead of returning None (which could default to
single-GPU loading for an unknown-size model).
3. GGUF inference route now treats gpu_ids=[] as auto-selection (same as
None) instead of rejecting it as an unsupported explicit request.
4. Training retry path for "could not get source code" now preserves the
gpu_ids parameter so the retry lands on the same GPUs.
5. Updated sandbox tests to cover the new 4-bit inference estimate branch.
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* Fix UUID/MIG visibility and update test expectations
1. nvidia.py: When CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES uses UUID/MIG tokens, the
visibility APIs now return "unresolved" with empty device lists instead
of exposing all physical GPUs. This prevents the UI from showing GPUs
that the backend process cannot actually use.
2. test_gpu_selection.py: Updated test expectations to match the new
multi-GPU overhead accounting (first GPU at full capacity, 0.85x for
additional GPUs) and 4-bit inference memory estimation formula.
All 60 tests now pass.
* Add CPU/disk offload guard to audio inference path
The audio model loading branch returned before the common
get_offloaded_device_map_entries() check, so audio models loaded with a
multi-GPU device_map that spilled layers to CPU/disk would be accepted
instead of rejected. Now audio loads also verify no modules are offloaded.
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1. nvidia.py: Wrap int() casts for GPU index and memory in try/except
so MIG slices, N/A values, or unexpected nvidia-smi output skip the
unparseable row instead of aborting the entire GPU list.
2. nvidia.py: Handle GPU names containing commas by using the last
field as memory instead of a fixed positional index.
3. hardware.py: fallback_all now uses gpu_candidates (GPUs with verified
VRAM data) instead of raw devices list, which could include GPUs
with null VRAM that were excluded from the ranking.
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* Fix shared-expert LoRA undercount, torch VRAM fallback, and apply_gpu_ids edge case
1. vram_estimation.py: compute_lora_params now includes shared experts
(n_shared_experts) alongside routed experts when computing MoE LoRA
adapter parameters. Previously only n_experts were counted, causing
the estimator to undercount adapter, optimizer, and gradient memory
for DeepSeek/GLM-style models with shared experts.
2. hardware.py: _torch_get_per_device_info now uses mem_get_info (which
reports system-wide VRAM usage) instead of memory_allocated (which
only reports this process's PyTorch allocations). This prevents
auto-selection from treating a GPU as mostly free when another
process is consuming VRAM. Falls back to memory_allocated when
mem_get_info is unavailable.
3. hardware.py: apply_gpu_ids([]) now returns early instead of setting
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="" which would disable CUDA entirely. Empty
list inherits the parent visibility, same as None.
4. hardware.py: Upgraded fallback_all GPU selection log from debug to
warning so operators are notified when the model likely will not fit
in available VRAM.
* Guard nvidia-smi subprocess calls against OSError and TimeoutExpired
get_visible_gpu_utilization and get_backend_visible_gpu_info now catch
OSError (nvidia-smi not found) and TimeoutExpired internally instead
of relying on callers to wrap every invocation. Returns the standard
available=False sentinel on failure so the torch-based fallback in
hardware.py can take over.
* Guard get_primary_gpu_utilization and reset GPU caches between tests
1. nvidia.py: get_primary_gpu_utilization now catches OSError and
TimeoutExpired internally, matching the pattern already used in
get_visible_gpu_utilization and get_backend_visible_gpu_info. All
three nvidia-smi callers are now self-contained.
2. test_gpu_selection.py: Added _GpuCacheResetMixin that resets the
module-level _physical_gpu_count and _visible_gpu_count caches in
tearDown. Applied to all test classes that exercise GPU selection,
device map, or visibility functions. This prevents stale cache
values from leaking between tests and causing flaky results on
machines with real GPUs.
* Fix nvidia-smi fallback regression and physical GPU count validation
1. hardware.py: get_gpu_utilization, get_visible_gpu_utilization, and
get_backend_visible_gpu_info now check result.get("available") before
returning the nvidia-smi result. When nvidia-smi is unavailable or
returns no data (e.g., containers without nvidia-smi, UUID/MIG masks),
the functions fall through to the torch-based fallback instead of
returning an empty result. This fixes a regression where the internal
exception handling in nvidia.py prevented the caller's except block
from triggering the fallback.
2. hardware.py: resolve_requested_gpu_ids now separates negative-ID
validation from physical upper-bound validation. The physical count
check is only enforced when it is plausibly a true physical count
(i.e., higher than the largest parent-visible ID), since
torch.cuda.device_count() under CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES returns the
visible count, not the physical total. The parent-visible-set check
remains authoritative in all cases. This prevents valid physical IDs
like [2, 3] from being rejected as "out of range" when nvidia-smi is
unavailable and CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="2,3" makes torch report only
2 devices.
* Fix UUID/MIG torch fallback to enumerate devices by ordinal
When CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES uses UUID or MIG identifiers,
get_parent_visible_gpu_ids() returns [] because the tokens are
non-numeric. The torch fallback in get_visible_gpu_utilization() and
get_backend_visible_gpu_info() previously passed that empty list to
_torch_get_per_device_info(), getting nothing back.
Now both functions detect the empty-list case and fall back to
enumerating torch-visible ordinals (0..device_count-1) with
index_kind="relative". This means the UI and auto-selection still
see real device data in Kubernetes, MIG, and Slurm-style UUID
environments where nvidia-smi output cannot be mapped to physical
indices.
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path returns available=True with relative ordinals.
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* feat(db): add SQLite storage layer for training history
* feat(api): add training history endpoints and response models
* feat(training): integrate DB persistence into training event loop
* feat(ui): add training history views and card grid
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* fix(studio): address review issues in training history persistence
- Strip hf_token/wandb_token from config before SQLite storage
- Add UUID suffix to job_id for collision resistance
- Use isfinite() for 0.0 metric handling throughout
- Respect _should_stop in error event finalization
- Run schema DDL once per process, not per connection
- Close connection on schema init failure
- Guard cleanup_orphaned_runs at startup
- Cap _metric_buffer at 500 entries
- Make FLUSH_THRESHOLD a class constant
- Map 'running' to 'training' phase in historical view
- Derive LR/GradNorm from history arrays in historical view
- Fix nested button with div[role=button] in history cards
- Guard String(value) against null/undefined in config popover
- Clear selectedHistoryRunId on auto tab switch
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* fix(studio): address round-2 review findings across training backend and frontend
Backend (training.py):
- Move state mutation after proc.start() so a failed spawn does not wedge
the backend with is_training=True
- Create DB run row eagerly after proc.start() so runs appear in history
during model loading, not after first metric event
- Rewrite _flush_metrics_to_db() with snapshot-before-insert pattern to
preserve metrics arriving during the write and retain buffer on failure
- Guard eval_loss with float() coercion and math.isfinite(), matching the
existing grad_norm guard
- Increase pump thread join timeout from 3s to 8s to cover SQLite's
default 5s lock timeout
Frontend (studio-page.tsx):
- Fix history navigation: check isTrainingRunning instead of
showTrainingView in onSelectRun so completed runs are not misrouted
- Replace activeTab state + auto-switch useEffect with derived tab to
eliminate react-hooks/set-state-in-effect lint violation
Frontend (historical-training-view.tsx):
- Add explicit "running" branch to message ternary so running runs no
longer fall through to "Training errored"
- Derive loading from detail/error state and move cleanup to effect
return to eliminate react-hooks/set-state-in-effect lint violation
Frontend (progress-section.tsx):
- Derive stopRequested from isTrainingRunning && stopRequestedLocal to
eliminate react-hooks/set-state-in-effect lint violation and remove
unused useEffect import
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* fix(studio): resolve 3 remaining bugs from round-2 review
1. Stuck on Current Run tab [12/20]: Only force "current-run" tab when
isTrainingRunning is true, not when stale completed-run data exists.
After training ends, users can freely navigate to Configure.
2. Incomplete metric sanitization [7/20]: Apply float() coercion and
isfinite() guards to loss and learning_rate, matching the existing
pattern used by grad_norm and eval_loss. Prevents TypeError from
string values and NaN leaks into history arrays.
3. Stop button state leak across runs [10/20]: Add key={runtime.jobId}
to ProgressSection so React remounts it when a new run starts,
resetting stopRequestedLocal state.
* fix(studio): deduplicate loss/lr sanitization in training event handler
Reuse _safe_loss/_safe_lr from the progress update block instead of
re-sanitizing the same raw event values for metric history.
* fix(studio): restore loss > 0 guard to prevent eval steps injecting 0.0 into metric histories
Round-2/3 fixes relaxed the history append guard from `loss > 0` to
`loss is not None`, which let eval-only log events (where loss defaults
to 0.0) append fake zeros into loss_history and lr_history. Restore the
`loss > 0` check to match the worker's own has_train_loss gate. The
float() coercion and isfinite() sanitization from round-3 remain intact.
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Add end-to-end embedding/sentence-transformer training pipeline using
FastSentenceTransformer, SentenceTransformerTrainer, and
MultipleNegativesRankingLoss with BatchSamplers.NO_DUPLICATES.
Backend:
- Add is_embedding_model() detection via HF tags + pipeline_tag
- Add /check-embedding/ API route and EmbeddingCheckResponse
- Extend derive_model_type() to return "embeddings"
- Add _run_embedding_training() in worker.py with progress callbacks,
stop handling, LoRA (task_type=FEATURE_EXTRACTION), and model saving
- Add is_embedding field to TrainingStartRequest and ModelDetails
- Add YAML configs for 5 models: all-MiniLM-L6-v2, bge-m3,
embeddinggemma-300m, gte-modernbert-base, Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B
Frontend:
- Wire isEmbeddingModel flag through store, API types, and mappers
- Force packing=false, train_on_completions=false, warmup_ratio=0.03
- Hide packing and train_on_completions checkboxes for embedding models
- Auto-set modelType to "embeddings" from backend model_type response
Non-conversational HF datasets (e.g. stanfordnlp/snli) were naively mapped
column→role, producing poor training results. The AI Assist button now runs
a 3-pass advisor using Qwen 7B that:
1. Fetches the HF dataset card/README to understand the dataset purpose
2. Classifies the dataset type and determines if conversion is needed
3. Generates a system prompt, user/assistant templates with {column}
placeholders, and label mappings (e.g. 0→entailment)
4. Validates the conversion quality (score ≥7/10 required)
Architecture: advisor metadata flows as __-prefixed keys in
custom_format_mapping (e.g. __system_prompt, __user_template,
__assistant_template, __label_mapping). The existing _apply_user_mapping()
detects these keys and routes to template-based conversation construction.
No __ keys = existing simple mode (backwards compatible).
Backend: upgraded llm_assist.py (7B default, multi-pass advisor,
HF card fetching), extended API models, added _apply_template_mapping()
to dataset_utils.py.
Frontend: extended store with advisor state fields, wired AI Assist
to store templates/system prompt, inject __ metadata in training request,
show advisor notification banner in mapping card.
Add Start/End index inputs under Advanced in the dataset card,
allowing users to slice a dataset by row range before training.
Wired end-to-end: frontend store, API payload, backend Pydantic
model, and trainer dataset loading (inclusive on both ends).
Add Start/End index inputs under Advanced in the dataset card,
allowing users to slice a dataset by row range before training.
Wired end-to-end: frontend store, API payload, backend Pydantic
model, and trainer dataset loading (inclusive on both ends).
- Changed default eval_steps from 0.01 to 0.0 across backend and frontend
- Fixed UI to allow eval_steps=0 (removed min=0.001 constraint)
- Added conditional eval logic with helpful console messages
- Updated tooltip to explain how to disable evaluation
- Tested: confirmed eval disabled by default with eval_steps=0.0
