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fix: auto-retry stalled HF downloads with HF_HUB_DISABLE_XET=1 (#4712)
* fix: auto-retry stalled HF downloads with HF_HUB_DISABLE_XET=1

The heartbeat thread now monitors the HF Hub cache directory for
file-size growth. If no bytes are written for 3 minutes, it sends a
"stall" message to the orchestrator, which kills the subprocess and
retries with HF_HUB_DISABLE_XET=1 (falling back from Xet to standard
HTTPS). If the retry also stalls, it errors out with a clear message.

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

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

* fix: include transport type (xet/https) in heartbeat and stall log messages

Makes it clear in backend logs whether the download is using xet or
https transport, and which transport stalled — helpful for debugging.

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

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

* fix: monitor HF Hub .tmp dir to avoid false stall detections

huggingface_hub downloads into .tmp/ before atomically moving to
blobs/. Without monitoring .tmp, a large shard actively downloading
for several minutes would show zero blob growth and trigger a false
stall.

* fix: scope HF cache size check to specific model being loaded

Instead of scanning every models--*/blobs directory (O(N) with cached
models), only check the specific model's blobs dir plus the global
.tmp dir. Much faster on systems with many cached models.

* Fix false stall detection on cached/local models and cleanup issues

- Only fire stall if download activity was observed (cache size changed
  at least once). Previously, any model load taking >180s would trigger
  a false stall, even for already-cached or local models where no
  download is happening.
- Return -1 from _get_hf_cache_size on exception to distinguish
  "unable to measure" from "genuinely zero bytes". Skip stall logic
  when measurement fails.
- Add _shutdown_subprocess before raising on terminal stall path to
  prevent leaking a stuck subprocess.
- Detect pre-existing HF_HUB_DISABLE_XET=1 in the parent environment
  to avoid a redundant retry cycle when Xet is already disabled.
- Remove global .tmp directory scanning (not used by modern
  huggingface_hub; in-progress downloads use .incomplete files in
  blobs/ which are already captured by iterdir).
- Add f.is_file() guard in cache size calculation.
- Replace em dashes with ASCII dashes for Windows terminal compat.

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

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

* Harden stall detection edge cases

- Guard -1 to valid value transition: when initial _get_hf_cache_size
  returns -1 (error) and later recovers to a real value, do not count
  that as download activity. Only set saw_download_activity when the
  previous measurement was also valid (>= 0).
- Move os import to top-level in orchestrator.py instead of inline
  import os as _os.
- Fix misleading comment about post-download protection.

* Use .incomplete files to detect active downloads for stall detection

Replace the saw_download_activity heuristic with direct .incomplete file
detection. huggingface_hub creates *.incomplete files in blobs/ during
active downloads and removes them on completion. This gives a reliable
signal for whether a download is actually in progress.

Benefits:
- Cached models: no .incomplete files -> no stall fired even after 180s
- Post-download init (quantization, GPU loading): .incomplete files gone
  so stall timer resets, long init phases are not killed
- Pre-download hangs (XET handshake stall): .incomplete files are
  created at download start, so zero-byte stalls are now detected
- No more false positives from -1 to valid measurement transitions

The _get_hf_download_state function now returns (total_bytes,
has_incomplete) tuple or None on error, replacing _get_hf_cache_size.

* Add debug logging to download state exception handler

Log the exception at debug level when _get_hf_download_state fails,
instead of silently returning None. Helps with troubleshooting cache
measurement issues.

* Watch both adapter and base model repos for LoRA stall detection

When loading a LoRA adapter, the actual download bottleneck is often
the base model, not the adapter itself. Update the heartbeat to watch
both mc.identifier and mc.base_model cache directories so stall
detection works for LoRA loads where the base model stalls on Xet.

Also update _get_hf_download_state to accept multiple model names and
skip names without "/" (local paths) since those do not have HF cache
directories.

* Fix model name filtering for official HF models without org prefix

Models like gpt2 and bert-base-uncased do not contain a slash but are
still valid HF Hub models with cache directories. Replace the "/" check
with a proper local-path detection that checks for path separators and
path-like prefixes instead.

Also fix the base_model watch list to not require "/" in the base model
name, so official models used as LoRA bases are also monitored.

* Fix local path detection that broke all org/model names on Linux

The os.path.sep check matched "/" in HF model IDs like "org/model" on
Linux, causing the stall detector to skip ALL standard HF models.

Replace with a check that only skips names starting with "/" (absolute
paths), "." (relative paths), "~" (home-relative), or containing "\"
(Windows paths). HF model IDs like "org/model" or "gpt2" pass through
correctly on all platforms.

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Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Han <danielhanchen@gmail.com>
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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

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. 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

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

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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You can cite the Unsloth repo as follows:

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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!