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Installer: GPU detection follow-ups after #6174 (poisoned venv repair, llama.cpp routing, probe bounds) (#6183)
* Installer: harden GPU detection follow-ups after #6174

Ports the NVIDIA-priority and /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus hardening from #6174
to the remaining pathways and adds recovery for already-poisoned venvs:

- install_python_stack.py: add _ensure_cuda_torch so 'unsloth studio update'
  force-reinstalls CUDA torch when the venv carries a ROCm build on an NVIDIA
  Linux host (the pre-#6174 poisoning signature). Honors UNSLOTH_TORCH_BACKEND,
  UNSLOTH_ROCM_TORCH_INSTALLED, and CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=-1/'' opt-outs; never
  touches healthy CUDA, deliberate CPU wheels, macOS, or Windows.
- install_llama_prebuilt.py: detect_host gains the /proc NVIDIA fallback and
  skips ROCm probes when NVIDIA is usable; forwarded --rocm-gfx/--has-rocm
  overrides still win.
- setup.sh: GPU summary classifies NVIDIA first through a timeout-bounded
  probe with the /proc fallback; AMD probes are bounded and gain a KFD
  vendor_id 4098 fallback; the llama.cpp source build only selects
  GGML_CUDA/GGML_HIP when the matching GPU is actually detected.
- install.sh: bound both nvidia-smi calls with a 10s timeout (no behavior
  change when healthy or when the timeout binary is absent); classify the
  exported UNSLOTH_TORCH_BACKEND on the final index path segment so custom
  mirrors containing 'rocm'/'gfx' in their base path are not mislabeled.
- install.ps1 + setup.ps1: NVIDIA probes now require a real 'GPU N:' row from
  nvidia-smi -L under a 10s bound instead of bare exit code 0; later CUDA
  version and compute_cap queries are bounded too.

Tests: 3 new test files (50+ tests), suite at 788 passed.

* [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks

for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci

* Fix Resolve-CudaToolkit driver probe for extracted-function unit test

tests/studio/test_resolve_cuda_toolkit.ps1 extracts Resolve-CudaToolkit alone
into a child pwsh and stubs nvidia-smi with a .ps1 script. The bounded runner
is not in scope there (and ProcessStartInfo cannot dispatch .ps1 stubs), so
the DriverMaxCuda parse silently returned nothing and the major-mismatch
scenarios failed. Fall back to direct invocation when Invoke-NvidiaSmiBounded
is unavailable; production setup.ps1 always has it defined and keeps the
10s bound.

* Treat CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES empty or -1 as hidden in NVIDIA-first guards

The NVIDIA-first guards added in this branch only special-cased
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=-1 at two setup.sh gates and ignored the empty-string
form entirely, while the Python detector (install_llama_prebuilt.py)
already treats both as hidden. On a mixed AMD+NVIDIA host steered to the
AMD card via CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES, the guards suppressed the AMD probes,
so setup.sh fell to a CPU llama.cpp build and install.sh picked CUDA
wheels instead of ROCm.

Move the policy into the helpers so every consumer agrees:

- install.sh: new _cvd_hides_nvidia checked first in _has_usable_nvidia_gpu
- studio/setup.sh: same via _setup_cvd_hides_nvidia; the two ad-hoc
  CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=-1 gate conditions are now redundant and removed
- studio/install_python_stack.py: _has_usable_nvidia_gpu returns False
  when CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES is set to  or -1 (whitespace tolerated)

Tests: 5 new sh scenarios (hidden via , -1, padded -1, visible device,
and mixed host with hidden NVIDIA restoring the ROCm route) plus a pytest
class covering all three implementations behaviourally.

Addresses the review comment on the NVIDIA-first setup.sh block.

* [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks

for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci

* Retrigger CI after PyPI 503 outage during the previous run

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Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-11 05:06:02 -07:00
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images images: use narrower Discord button and drop duplicate (#5552) 2026-05-18 05:00:59 -07:00
scripts Windows/WSL installer: fix winget msstore cert failure, amd-smi DiskPart prompt, and enable AMD GPU (Strix Halo gfx1151) (#5940) 2026-06-10 04:24:49 -07:00
studio Installer: GPU detection follow-ups after #6174 (poisoned venv repair, llama.cpp routing, probe bounds) (#6183) 2026-06-11 05:06:02 -07:00
tests Installer: GPU detection follow-ups after #6174 (poisoned venv repair, llama.cpp routing, probe bounds) (#6183) 2026-06-11 05:06:02 -07:00
unsloth Add FastDiffusionModel slow path for text-diffusion models (DiffusionGemma) (#6158) 2026-06-11 04:02:56 -07:00
unsloth_cli Windows/WSL installer: fix winget msstore cert failure, amd-smi DiskPart prompt, and enable AMD GPU (Strix Halo gfx1151) (#5940) 2026-06-10 04:24:49 -07:00
.gitattributes Normalize shell scripts to LF in .gitattributes (#5997) 2026-06-04 00:39:29 -07:00
.gitignore ci: advisory lockfile supply-chain audit (no install-script changes) (#5604) 2026-05-19 05:56:56 -07:00
.pre-commit-ci.yaml pre-commit CI config (#3565) 2025-11-07 14:44:18 -08:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml Studio: auto-sync allowScripts pins after dependency bumps (#6136) 2026-06-10 02:35:37 -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 Installer: GPU detection follow-ups after #6174 (poisoned venv repair, llama.cpp routing, probe bounds) (#6183) 2026-06-11 05:06:02 -07:00
install.sh Installer: GPU detection follow-ups after #6174 (poisoned venv repair, llama.cpp routing, probe bounds) (#6183) 2026-06-11 05:06:02 -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 Update pyproject.toml 2026-06-10 11:10:51 -07:00
README.md Document install env vars in README advanced launch options (#5972) 2026-06-03 05:39:38 -07:00
unsloth-cli.py Reduce and tighten code comments and docstrings repo-wide (#6095) 2026-06-08 23:09:51 -07:00

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Unsloth Studio lets you run and train models locally.

FeaturesQuickstartNotebooksDocumentation


unsloth studio ui homepage

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: Training, MLX and GGUF inference are ALL supported.
  • AMD: Chat + Data works. Train with Unsloth Core. Studio support is out soon.
  • Multi-GPU: Available now, with a major upgrade on the way

macOS, Linux, WSL:

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

Use the same command to update.

Windows:

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

Use the same command to update.

Launch

unsloth studio -p 8888

For cloud or global access, add -H 0.0.0.0. By default, Unsloth is accessible only locally.

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

  • Connections: Connect any API provider (OpenAI, Anthropic) or server (vLLM, Ollama). Guide
  • MTP: Run Qwen3.6 MTP in Unsloth. MTP settings are autoset specific to your hardware. Guide
  • 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 :

cd unsloth && git pull
./install.sh --local
unsloth studio -p 8888

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 :

cd unsloth && git pull
./install.sh --local
unsloth studio -p 8888

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

Advanced launch options

Installer options can be passed as environment variables. On macOS, Linux and WSL place the variable after the pipe so the shell passes it to sh; on Windows set it with $env: before piping to iex.

Skip PyTorch (GGUF-only mode):

curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | UNSLOTH_NO_TORCH=1 sh
$env:UNSLOTH_NO_TORCH=1; irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Pin the Python version:

curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | UNSLOTH_PYTHON=3.12 sh
$env:UNSLOTH_PYTHON='3.12'; irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Install to a custom location with UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME:

curl -fsSL https://unsloth.ai/install.sh | UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME=/abs/path sh
$env:UNSLOTH_STUDIO_HOME='C:\path'; irm https://unsloth.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Cap Studio's native CPU thread pools on high-core hosts: UNSLOTH_CPU_THREADS=8 unsloth studio -p 8888.

Uninstall

The recommended way to fully remove Unsloth Studio is the matching uninstall script for your OS. It stops any running servers, removes the install dir, the launcher data dir, the desktop shortcut, and any platform-specific entries (macOS .app bundle + Launch Services on Mac; Start Menu, HKCU\Software\Unsloth registry key and user PATH entries on Windows):

  • MacOS, WSL, Linux: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unslothai/unsloth/main/scripts/uninstall.sh | sh
  • Windows (PowerShell): irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unslothai/unsloth/main/scripts/uninstall.ps1 | iex

If you only want to drop the install dir and keep the launcher/shortcut for a later reinstall, you can instead run rm -rf ~/.unsloth/studio (Mac/Linux/WSL) or Remove-Item -Recurse -Force "$HOME\.unsloth\studio" (Windows). The model cache at ~/.cache/huggingface is not touched by any of these.

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,
  author = {Daniel Han, Michael Han and Unsloth team},
  title = {Unsloth},
  url = {https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth},
  year = {2023}
}

If you trained a model with 🦥Unsloth, you can use this cool sticker!  

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!