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Make Studio shortcuts launch in a visible terminal (#4638)
* Make Studio shortcuts launch in a visible terminal

Studio shortcuts (Desktop/Start Menu) previously launched the server as a
hidden background process. Closing the browser tab did not stop the server,
leaving users with no obvious way to shut it down. This change makes shortcuts
open a visible terminal window so users can see server output and close the
terminal to stop Studio.

Launcher changes (install.sh):
- Add TTY detection in the launcher's main section. When a TTY is present
  (foreground mode), the launcher spawns a background browser-opener and then
  exec's the studio process directly. This means closing the terminal sends
  SIGHUP to studio, stopping it cleanly. When no TTY is present (background
  mode, e.g. macOS .app or headless), the existing _spawn_terminal behavior
  is preserved.
- Add _open_browser_when_ready helper that polls health on the specific
  launch port and opens the browser once ready.
- Add WSL fallback in _open_browser: uses powershell.exe Start-Process or
  cmd.exe /c start instead of unreliable xdg-open under WSL.

Linux .desktop shortcut:
- Change Terminal=false to Terminal=true so the desktop environment opens
  the user's default terminal emulator for the launcher.

WSL support:
- Remove the early-return that skipped WSL entirely. WSL now gets the
  launcher script and studio.conf written.
- Add WSL shortcut creation: generates Windows Desktop and Start Menu .lnk
  files via a temp PowerShell script. Targets wt.exe (Windows Terminal) with
  automatic fallback to wsl.exe. Uses WSL_DISTRO_NAME for multi-distro setups.

Windows launcher (install.ps1):
- Add Find-FreeLaunchPort function that mirrors the Unix _find_launch_port
  logic, scanning Get-NetTCPConnection for busy ports and returning the first
  free port in the configured range.
- Replace the hardcoded $basePort with the dynamic port result, with a
  MessageBox error dialog if no free port is found.

* Fix review findings: lock race, WSL quoting, Windows port fallback

Foreground lock race (10/10 reviewers):
The foreground mode released the single-instance lock before exec,
allowing a second launcher to acquire the lock and race for the same
port during startup. Move lock release into the background subshell
so it only happens after the health check passes.

WSL shortcut quoting (10/10 reviewers):
WSL_DISTRO_NAME values with spaces (e.g. "Ubuntu Preview", "Fedora
Remix for WSL") were not quoted, causing the distro name to be split
across multiple arguments. Add double-quoting around the distro name
and launcher path in the generated shortcut arguments.

Windows port fallback (3/10 reviewers):
Find-FreeLaunchPort silently assumed no ports were listening when
Get-NetTCPConnection was unavailable, which could return 8888 even
when busy. Add a Test-PortBusy fallback that probes ports with
TcpListener when Get-NetTCPConnection fails. Also scope the
Get-NetTCPConnection query to only the port range we care about.

* Skip powershell.exe shortcut creation if wslpath fails

If wslpath -w fails (returns empty), do not attempt to pass a Linux-style
path to powershell.exe -- it would always fail. Only run powershell.exe
when we have a valid Windows path for the temp PS1 script.

* Remove dead code and fix background health poll target

- Remove unused _open_browser_when_ready function
- Background mode now polls only the specific _launch_port instead of
  scanning all ports via _find_healthy_port, matching foreground behavior
- Add launcher test harness (22 unit + 19 integration tests)

* Fix port probe scope, lock ownership, and T4 test coverage

- Test-PortBusy: bind on Any instead of Loopback to match Studio's
  0.0.0.0 bind scope (prevents false-free in fallback path)
- _release_lock: verify PID ownership before removing lock dir
  (prevents a timed-out subshell from deleting another launcher's lock)
- T4 test: fail first curl call so the test actually exercises the
  lock-contention wait path instead of short-circuiting via fast path

* Temporarily remove launcher test scripts

Tests will be re-added in a follow-up PR to keep this diff focused
on the launcher changes.
2026-03-27 03:12:26 -07:00
.github Remove advanced CodeQL workflow in favor of default setup (#4584) 2026-03-25 03:34:21 -07:00
images Add files via upload 2026-03-17 06:42:25 -07:00
scripts Formatting & bug fixes (#3563) 2025-11-07 06:00:22 -08:00
studio fix: use unsloth[huggingfacenotorch] instead of --no-deps in no-torch mode (#4647) 2026-03-27 02:38:11 -07:00
tests tests: add no-torch / Intel Mac test suite (#4646) 2026-03-27 02:33:45 -07:00
unsloth Fix missing num_items_in_batch in unsloth_prediction_step (#4616) 2026-03-27 03:06:59 -07:00
unsloth_cli Add PID file tracking and unsloth studio stop command (#4598) 2026-03-25 08:27:27 -07:00
.gitattributes EOL LF (unix line endings) normalization (#3478) 2025-10-17 16:22:42 -07:00
.gitignore Improve AI Assist: Update default model, model output parsing, logging, and dataset mapping UX (#4323) 2026-03-16 16:04:35 +04:00
.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 (#4542) 2026-03-23 14:55:27 -07:00
build.sh perf(studio): upgrade to Vite 8 + auto-install bun for faster frontend builds (#4522) 2026-03-25 04:27:41 -07:00
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 Make Studio shortcuts launch in a visible terminal (#4638) 2026-03-27 03:12:26 -07:00
install.sh Make Studio shortcuts launch in a visible terminal (#4638) 2026-03-27 03:12:26 -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 Remove duplicate frontend assets from wheel to reduce package size (#4567) 2026-03-24 23:48:49 -07:00
README.md Update Install instructions.md 2026-03-27 03:04:07 -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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Run and train AI models with a unified local interface.

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

Features

Unsloth provides several key features for both inference and training:

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.

Quickstart

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 -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

Update

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. Read our guide. Add dataset, run, then deploy your trained model.

Model Free Notebooks Performance Memory use
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
Gemma 3 (4B) Vision ▶️ Start for free 1.7x faster 60% 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

  • 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
  • gpt-oss by OpenAI: Read our RL blog, Flex Attention blog and Guide.

📥 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 -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

Then to update :

unsloth studio update --local

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 -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

Then to update :

unsloth studio update --local

Nightly: MacOS, Linux, WSL:

git clone https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth
cd unsloth
git checkout nightly
./install.sh --local
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

Then to launch every time:

unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -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 -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

Then to launch every time:

unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -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,
  author = {Daniel Han, Michael Han and Unsloth team},
  title = {Unsloth},
  url = {https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth},
  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!