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studio/ci: harden HF_HOME cache against actions/cache v5 silent restore failures (#5396)
* studio/ci: harden HF_HOME/GGUF cache against actions/cache@v5 silent restore failures

actions/cache@v5 has a recurring flake where it logs "Cache hit for: <key>"
and then exits non-zero in well under a second without actually extracting
the archive (see actions/cache#1621 and github community discussion
#163260). When that happens to the JSON, images job the cache step is
marked failure, all downstream steps are skipped (only the if: always()
ones run), and the job never even tries to install Studio. Example:
run 25713577488 / job 75498714730 took 23 s total and bailed at the cache
step despite the cache having been written successfully ~30 min earlier.

Replace the single-step actions/cache usage in all three jobs with the
documented restore + save split:

  - actions/cache/restore with continue-on-error: true on the way in
  - Prime/Download step gated on cache-hit != 'true' OR outcome != 'success'
    so the silent-failure path re-downloads from HF instead of skipping
  - actions/cache/save on the way out, gated on the Prime step's outcome
    so we only write a fresh entry when we actually rebuilt the directory

Same SHA-pinned action (v5.0.5), same cache keys, same paths -- so existing
cache entries keep matching. Only behavior change is that a transient
restore-side failure now falls through to a re-download instead of failing
the job.

* studio/ci: add continue-on-error to the new actions/cache/save steps

Per review of PR 5396: a save-side flake (upload timeout, 5xx from the
cache backend, future-fatal ReserveCacheError) is strictly recoverable
because next run just re-downloads, so it should never fail the job.

Today actions/cache/save@v5.0.5 already swallows ReserveCacheError as a
non-fatal warning, so this is defense in depth. Aligns the save steps
with their matching restore steps which already mask transient failures
via continue-on-error.

* studio/ci: drop continue-on-error from cache/save steps

Reverting the save-side continue-on-error addition from the previous
commit. cache/save@v5.0.5 already swallows ReserveCacheError (the most
common save flake) as a non-fatal core.info, so the mask was rarely
doing anything in practice. A real save-side failure (cache backend
outage, blob server 5xx storm) is signal we want to keep -- without it
we would see slow CI for days without knowing the cache layer is
broken. If save flakes start showing up in practice we add this back
with concrete evidence.

The restore-side continue-on-error stays -- that is the actual fix
for the actions/cache#1621 silent-restore-failure mode. Also strip
the now-stale "continue-on-error" comments above the three save
blocks.

* studio/ci: clarify cache split header comment

Per re-review: the prior wording "the Save step re-uploads on the way out"
implied actions/cache/save would replace a broken existing cache entry,
which is wrong -- cache keys are immutable, so save logs a warning when
the key already exists and the corrupted entry stays until the -v1
suffix is bumped. Rewrite to spell out the actual behavior and the
escape hatch (bump the suffix).
2026-05-12 05:47:44 -07:00
.github studio/ci: harden HF_HOME cache against actions/cache v5 silent restore failures (#5396) 2026-05-12 05:47:44 -07:00
images Add files via upload 2026-04-02 03:00:10 -07:00
scripts studio/ci: npm tarball content scanner (no-install, hostile-input safe) (#5393) 2026-05-11 20:37:05 -07:00
studio Add Studio web update banner and release version display (#5308) 2026-05-11 18:24:01 +04:00
tests studio/tests: AbortSignal-bound in-page fetches and wall-clock watchdog for Playwright probes (#5391) 2026-05-11 20:37:24 -07:00
unsloth CI: scope GITHUB_TOKEN permissions, add MLX CI, unblock ~60 skipped tests (#5312) 2026-05-11 03:19:13 -07:00
unsloth_cli CI: scope GITHUB_TOKEN permissions, add MLX CI, unblock ~60 skipped tests (#5312) 2026-05-11 03:19:13 -07:00
.gitattributes EOL LF (unix line endings) normalization (#3478) 2025-10-17 16:22:42 -07:00
.gitignore CI: scope GITHUB_TOKEN permissions, add MLX CI, unblock ~60 skipped tests (#5312) 2026-05-11 03:19:13 -07:00
.pre-commit-ci.yaml pre-commit CI config (#3565) 2025-11-07 14:44:18 -08:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#5204) 2026-04-27 14:17:03 -07:00
build.sh Add Studio web update banner and release version display (#5308) 2026-05-11 18:24:01 +04:00
cli.py Rename cli/ to unsloth_cli/ to fix namespace collision with stringzilla (#4393) 2026-03-17 20:40:21 -07:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md Update CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md 2025-10-25 19:31:05 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Revert "Improve documentation on how to export model from Colab" 2026-03-13 22:38:41 -07:00
COPYING Rename cli/ to unsloth_cli/ to fix namespace collision with stringzilla (#4393) 2026-03-17 20:40:21 -07:00
install.ps1 install: support STUDIO_HOME / UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME for custom install paths (#5190) 2026-05-05 23:17:40 -07:00
install.sh feat(studio): MLX training tab on Apple Silicon (LoRA / full FT, VLM, export) (#5265) 2026-05-05 23:54:58 -07:00
LICENSE Rename cli/ to unsloth_cli/ to fix namespace collision with stringzilla (#4393) 2026-03-17 20:40:21 -07:00
pyproject.toml feat(studio): MLX training tab on Apple Silicon (LoRA / full FT, VLM, export) (#5265) 2026-05-05 23:54:58 -07:00
README.md Add API Inference endpoint 2026-05-05 06:13:35 -07:00
unsloth-cli.py Merge pull request #3612 from Vangmay/feature/raw-text-dataprep 2026-01-08 03:38:15 -08:00

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Unsloth Studio lets you run and train models locally.

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Get started

macOS, Linux, WSL:

curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh

Windows:

irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Community:

Features

Unsloth Studio (Beta) lets you run and train text, audio, embedding, vision models on Windows, Linux and macOS.

Inference

Training

  • Train and RL 500+ models up to 2x faster with up to 70% less VRAM, with no accuracy loss.
  • Custom Triton and mathematical kernels. See some collabs we did with PyTorch and Hugging Face.
  • Data Recipes: Auto-create datasets from PDF, CSV, DOCX etc. Edit data in a visual-node workflow.
  • Reinforcement Learning (RL): The most efficient RL library, using 80% less VRAM for GRPO, FP8 etc.
  • Supports full fine-tuning, RL, pretraining, 4-bit, 16-bit and, FP8 training.
  • Observability: Monitor training live, track loss and GPU usage and customize graphs.
  • Multi-GPU training is supported, with major improvements coming soon.

📥 Install

Unsloth can be used in two ways: through Unsloth Studio, the web UI, or through Unsloth Core, the code-based version. Each has different requirements.

Unsloth Studio (web UI)

Unsloth Studio (Beta) works on Windows, Linux, WSL and macOS.

  • CPU: Supported for Chat and Data Recipes currently
  • NVIDIA: Training works on RTX 30/40/50, Blackwell, DGX Spark, Station and more
  • macOS: Currently supports chat and Data Recipes. MLX training is coming very soon
  • AMD: Chat + Data works. Train with Unsloth Core. Studio support is out soon.
  • Coming soon: Training support for Apple MLX, AMD, and Intel.
  • Multi-GPU: Available now, with a major upgrade on the way

macOS, Linux, WSL:

curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | sh

Windows:

irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Launch

unsloth studio -p 8888

For cloud VMs or LAN access, add -H 0.0.0.0 to bind on all interfaces.

Update

To update, use the same install commands as above. Or run (does not work on Windows):

unsloth studio update

Docker

Use our Docker image unsloth/unsloth container. Run:

docker run -d -e JUPYTER_PASSWORD="mypassword" \
  -p 8888:8888 -p 8000:8000 -p 2222:22 \
  -v $(pwd)/work:/workspace/work \
  --gpus all \
  unsloth/unsloth

Developer, Nightly, Uninstall

To see developer, nightly and uninstallation etc. instructions, see advanced installation.

Unsloth Core (code-based)

Linux, WSL:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
uv venv unsloth_env --python 3.13
source unsloth_env/bin/activate
uv pip install unsloth --torch-backend=auto

Windows:

winget install -e --id Python.Python.3.13
winget install --id=astral-sh.uv  -e
uv venv unsloth_env --python 3.13
.\unsloth_env\Scripts\activate
uv pip install unsloth --torch-backend=auto

For Windows, pip install unsloth works only if you have PyTorch installed. Read our Windows Guide. You can use the same Docker image as Unsloth Studio.

AMD, Intel:

For RTX 50x, B200, 6000 GPUs: uv pip install unsloth --torch-backend=auto. Read our guides for: Blackwell and DGX Spark.
To install Unsloth on AMD and Intel GPUs, follow our AMD Guide and Intel Guide.

📒 Free Notebooks

Train for free with our notebooks. You can use our new free Unsloth Studio notebook to run and train models for free in a web UI. Read our guide. Add dataset, run, then deploy your trained model.

Model Free Notebooks Performance Memory use
Gemma 4 (E2B) ▶️ Start for free 1.5x faster 50% less
Qwen3.5 (4B) ▶️ Start for free 1.5x faster 60% less
gpt-oss (20B) ▶️ Start for free 2x faster 70% less
Qwen3.5 GSPO ▶️ Start for free 2x faster 70% less
gpt-oss (20B): GRPO ▶️ Start for free 2x faster 80% less
Qwen3: Advanced GRPO ▶️ Start for free 2x faster 70% less
embeddinggemma (300M) ▶️ Start for free 2x faster 20% less
Mistral Ministral 3 (3B) ▶️ Start for free 1.5x faster 60% less
Llama 3.1 (8B) Alpaca ▶️ Start for free 2x faster 70% less
Llama 3.2 Conversational ▶️ Start for free 2x faster 70% less
Orpheus-TTS (3B) ▶️ Start for free 1.5x faster 50% less

🦥 Unsloth News

  • API inference endpoint: Deploy and run local LLMs in Claude Code, Codex tools. Guide
  • Qwen3.6: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B can now be trained and run in Unsloth Studio. Blog
  • Gemma 4: Run and train Googles new models directly in Unsloth. Blog
  • Introducing Unsloth Studio: our new web UI for running and training LLMs. Blog
  • Qwen3.5 - 0.8B, 2B, 4B, 9B, 27B, 35-A3B, 112B-A10B are now supported. Guide + notebooks
  • Train MoE LLMs 12x faster with 35% less VRAM - DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen and gpt-oss. Blog
  • Embedding models: Unsloth now supports ~1.8-3.3x faster embedding fine-tuning. BlogNotebooks
  • New 7x longer context RL vs. all other setups, via our new batching algorithms. Blog
  • New RoPE & MLP Triton Kernels & Padding Free + Packing: 3x faster training & 30% less VRAM. Blog
  • 500K Context: Training a 20B model with >500K context is now possible on an 80GB GPU. Blog
  • FP8 & Vision RL: You can now do FP8 & VLM GRPO on consumer GPUs. FP8 BlogVision RL

📥 Advanced Installation

The below advanced instructions are for Unsloth Studio. For Unsloth Core advanced installation, view our docs.

Developer installs: macOS, Linux, WSL:

git clone https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth
cd unsloth
./install.sh --local
unsloth studio -p 8888

Then to update :

unsloth studio update

Developer installs: Windows PowerShell:

git clone https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git
cd unsloth
Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass
.\install.ps1 --local
unsloth studio -p 8888

Then to update :

unsloth studio update

Nightly: MacOS, Linux, WSL:

git clone https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth
cd unsloth
git checkout nightly
./install.sh --local
unsloth studio -p 8888

Then to launch every time:

unsloth studio -p 8888

Nightly: Windows:

Run in Windows Powershell:

git clone https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git
cd unsloth
git checkout nightly
Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass
.\install.ps1 --local
unsloth studio -p 8888

Then to launch every time:

unsloth studio -p 8888

Uninstall

You can uninstall Unsloth Studio by deleting its install folder usually located under $HOME/.unsloth/studio on Mac/Linux/WSL and %USERPROFILE%\.unsloth\studio on Windows. Using the rm -rf commands will delete everything, including your history, cache:

  • MacOS, WSL, Linux: rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio
  • Windows (PowerShell): Remove-Item -Recurse -Force "$HOME\.unsloth\studio"

For more info, see our docs.

Deleting model files

You can delete old model files either from the bin icon in model search or by removing the relevant cached model folder from the default Hugging Face cache directory. By default, HF uses:

  • MacOS, Linux, WSL: ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/
  • Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.cache\huggingface\hub\
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Citation

You can cite the Unsloth repo as follows:

@software{unsloth,
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  year = {2023}
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License

Unsloth uses a dual-licensing model of Apache 2.0 and AGPL-3.0. The core Unsloth package remains licensed under Apache 2.0, while certain optional components, such as the Unsloth Studio UI are licensed under the open-source license AGPL-3.0.

This structure helps support ongoing Unsloth development while keeping the project open source and enabling the broader ecosystem to continue growing.

Thank You to

  • The llama.cpp library that lets users run and save models with Unsloth
  • The Hugging Face team and their libraries: transformers and TRL
  • The Pytorch and Torch AO team for their contributions
  • NVIDIA for their NeMo DataDesigner library and their contributions
  • And of course for every single person who has contributed or has used Unsloth!