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Installer: repair stale/CPU-only PyTorch and warn on silent CPU fallback (NVIDIA + AMD, Win/Linux/Mac/WSL) (#5942)
* Windows installer: repair a stale CPU PyTorch instead of looping forever

A Windows machine with an NVIDIA CUDA 13 driver (e.g. RTX 6000 Pro on enterprise
drivers) could get permanently stuck at:

  Stale venv detected (torch cpu != required cu130).
  [ERROR] The existing Studio environment needs repair.
          Re-run install.ps1 so it can replace the environment safely with rollback.

Re-running install.ps1 did not help. install.ps1 installs torch with
"torch>=2.4,<2.11.0" --index-url .../cu130 but no --force-reinstall, so when a
torch==X+cpu is already present uv treats it as satisfying the range (PEP 440
ignores the +cpu/+cuXXX local label) and makes no change -- the CPU wheel is
never replaced. setup.ps1 then rejects the venv as cpu != cu130 and exits, but it
cannot create a venv or install torch, so the loop never resolves. The migrated-
venv branch also preserves existing torch and never reinstalls it.

After the install step, detect the installed torch flavor (cuXXX/cpu/rocm) and,
when it does not match the tag implied by the selected index, force-reinstall the
torch/torchvision/torchaudio triplet from the correct index via three
--reinstall-package flags. No-op on a healthy matching venv; skipped for
--no-torch, ROCm (already --force-reinstalls), and CPU-only machines.

Adds two pure helpers (ConvertTo-TorchFlavorTag, Get-ExpectedTorchFlavorTag), a
PowerShell unit test (tests/studio/test_torch_flavor.ps1), and a CI parse gate for
install.ps1 (previously unparsed).

* install.sh: repair a stale CPU PyTorch on Linux too (parity with install.ps1)

install.sh has the same latent bug as the Windows installer: the CUDA torch
install uses "torch>=2.4,<2.11.0" --index-url .../cuXXX with no
--force-reinstall, so an already-present torch==X+cpu satisfies the version
range (PEP 440 ignores the +cpu/+cuXXX local label) and uv leaves it in place.
The migrated-venv branch also preserves existing torch. Unlike Windows there is
no stale-venv check in setup.sh, so on Linux the symptom is silent CPU training
rather than a hard loop -- same root cause.

Mirror the install.ps1 fix: after the install block, detect the installed torch
flavor (_torch_flavor_tag) and, when it does not match the index tag
(_expected_torch_flavor_tag), force-reinstall the torch/torchvision/torchaudio
triplet from the selected index via --reinstall-package. No-op on a healthy
matching venv; skipped for --no-torch, ROCm (its own repair force-reinstalls),
and CPU-only / macOS hosts. Adds tests/sh/test_torch_flavor.sh (run in
studio-backend-ci and run_all.sh).

* Installer: catch CPU-fallback on AMD/WSL too (repair ROCm, warn when unfixable)

Extend the torch-flavor safety net beyond NVIDIA:

- install.sh now auto-repairs a stale CPU torch on standard pytorch.org ROCm
  indexes too (the rocm-index install path lacked --force-reinstall, unlike the
  Windows ROCm install). Reuses the rocm-adjusted $TORCH_CONSTRAINT + rocm index,
  so it pulls the correct ROCm wheels.
- Both installers gain a universal post-install warning: when a GPU build was
  expected (cuXXX / rocm, including the repo.amd.com gfx* arch indexes) but torch
  is still CPU-only, warn loudly instead of silently training on CPU. This catches
  the cases auto-repair cannot safely fix (AMD gfx arch indexes that need
  --find-links, a migrated AMD venv on Windows where the ROCm install was skipped).
- Mac / Intel / CPU-only hosts resolve to the cpu index -> expected == installed
  -> no-op, no false warning. WSL uses install.sh, so the NVIDIA repair + warning
  apply there.

Adds Get-InstalledTorchTag (ps1) and _torch_index_repairable (sh) helpers and
extends both unit tests. gfx*/AMD indexes now map to the 'rocm' expected flavor.

* Installer: tighten torch-flavor comments (no logic change)

Condense the rationale comments added for the stale/CPU PyTorch repair in
install.ps1, install.sh and the two helper unit tests; same intent, fewer
lines. Comment-only: AST parse of install.ps1/setup.ps1 clean, helper unit
tests (15 ps1, 24 sh under bash and dash) and the integration sims
(24 ps1, 28 sh) still pass, banner markers the sims slice on are unchanged.

* Installer: bound torch probe, auto-repair gfx, fix ROCm gate parity

install.ps1: in Get-InstalledTorchTag, call WaitForExit(30000) and drain stdout
and stderr asynchronously instead of reading stdout synchronously first, so a
hung or noisy "import torch" (a wedged CUDA/driver, the exact failure this PR
targets) can no longer block the probe past the timeout.

install.sh and install.ps1: treat the repo.amd.com gfx* indexes as plain
--index-url reinstallable. They are PEP 503 simple indexes uv resolves in full
(torch plus every transitive dep) via --index-url, the same URLs the fresh
ROCm install paths already use, so a stale CPU torch on AMD Strix now auto-repairs
to the correct ROCm build instead of only warning.

install.sh: include */gfx* alongside */rocm* in the bitsandbytes install and
ROCm torch repair gates, so a custom UNSLOTH_AMD_ROCM_MIRROR whose path lacks
/rocm/ still installs the AMD bitsandbytes build and repairs ROCm torch.

tests/sh/test_torch_flavor.sh: gfx indexes now assert repairable, plus a
gfx1151 case and an unknown-mirror not-repairable case.

* install.ps1: guard Get-InstalledTorchTag against an empty python path

Make the early return explicit for an empty $PythonExe instead of relying on
Test-Path -LiteralPath '' returning false, so the probe stays safe under
Set-StrictMode or a future refactor that drops the [string] annotation.
2026-06-18 08:57:17 -07:00
.github Installer: repair stale/CPU-only PyTorch and warn on silent CPU fallback (NVIDIA + AMD, Win/Linux/Mac/WSL) (#5942) 2026-06-18 08:57:17 -07:00
images images: use narrower Discord button and drop duplicate (#5552) 2026-05-18 05:00:59 -07:00
scripts Package scanners: close fail-open gaps in the sdist fallback and hidden-payload paths (#6359) 2026-06-18 06:50:16 -07:00
studio Studio: polish Bypass permissions toggle and add it to chat menu settings (#6442) 2026-06-18 08:53:38 -07:00
tests Installer: repair stale/CPU-only PyTorch and warn on silent CPU fallback (NVIDIA + AMD, Win/Linux/Mac/WSL) (#5942) 2026-06-18 08:57:17 -07:00
unsloth Load DeepSeek-OCR and other VLMs that register AutoModel in auto_map (#6421) 2026-06-18 07:03:43 -07:00
unsloth_cli Keep server-side tools enabled under --secure (#6403) 2026-06-18 05:52:40 -07:00
.git-blame-ignore-revs chore(studio/frontend): normalize line endings to LF (#6012) 2026-06-12 03:51:59 -07:00
.gitattributes chore(studio/frontend): normalize line endings to LF (#6012) 2026-06-12 03:51:59 -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 [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#6343) 2026-06-15 12:43:26 -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 docs: repository cleanup (#5617) 2026-06-12 11:07:04 +01:00
COPYING Rename cli/ to unsloth_cli/ to fix namespace collision with stringzilla (#4393) 2026-03-17 20:40:21 -07:00
install.ps1 Installer: repair stale/CPU-only PyTorch and warn on silent CPU fallback (NVIDIA + AMD, Win/Linux/Mac/WSL) (#5942) 2026-06-18 08:57:17 -07:00
install.sh Installer: repair stale/CPU-only PyTorch and warn on silent CPU fallback (NVIDIA + AMD, Win/Linux/Mac/WSL) (#5942) 2026-06-18 08:57:17 -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 Bug fixes 2026-06-13 04:43:27 -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 fix(unsloth-cli): route hub_path/hub_token correctly in --push_model save block (#6346) 2026-06-17 03:05:30 -07:00

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macOS, Linux, WSL:

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

Windows:

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

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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.
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  • 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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You can cite the Unsloth repo as follows:

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Thank You to

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