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Use prebuilt llama.cpp for unsloth studio setup (#4562)
* Use prebuilt llama.cpp for unsloth studio setup

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

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

* Fix 3 issues that cause unnecessary fallback to source build

1. Make filelock import optional -- environments without filelock
   (e.g. minimal installs) crashed at import time instead of
   gracefully skipping the lock.

2. Use already-verified converter script from the hydrated source
   tree instead of re-downloading from raw.githubusercontent.com
   with no checksum. Adds symlink with copy fallback for the
   legacy filename.

3. Initialize $SkipPrebuiltInstall in setup.ps1 before first use
   to prevent potential uninitialized variable errors.

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

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

* Keep network fallback in ensure_converter_scripts

Prefer the local verified copy from the hydrated source tree, but
retain the original network download as a fallback if the file is
missing. Create the legacy hyphenated filename as a symlink with a
copy fallback instead of writing a second full copy.

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

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

* Fix 4 bugs in source-build fallback and binary_env paths

- setup.ps1: Replace git pull + checkout FETCH_HEAD with fetch + checkout -B
  to avoid detached HEAD state that breaks re-runs. Use pinned tag in both
  fetch and clone paths.
- setup.sh: Move rm -rf after cmake/git prerequisite checks so a missing
  tool no longer deletes the existing install. Add --branch tag to clone.
- install_llama_prebuilt.py: Add binary_path.parent to Linux LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  in binary_env() so bundled .so files in build/bin are found even without
  RPATH, matching the existing Windows PATH logic.
- Add test for binary_env LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Linux.

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

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

* Handle unresolved "latest" tag in source-build fallback clone

When tag resolution fails and the requested tag is "latest", both
setup scripts now omit --branch from git clone so the default branch
is cloned instead of failing on a nonexistent "latest" branch/tag.
Similarly, the PS1 fetch path fetches the default ref when the tag
is "latest".

* Resolve actual latest ggml-org tag instead of using literal "latest"

When both Python tag resolution attempts fail and the requested tag
is "latest", query the GitHub API for the actual latest release tag
from ggml-org/llama.cpp (e.g. b8508) instead of passing the literal
string "latest" to git clone --branch, which would fail since no
such branch/tag exists.

setup.sh uses curl + python json parsing; setup.ps1 uses
Invoke-RestMethod. Both fall back to the raw requested tag if the
API call also fails.

* Try Unsloth release repo before ggml-org when resolving latest tag

When falling back to the GitHub API to resolve "latest", query the
Unsloth release repo (unslothai/llama.cpp) first since it has the
prebuilt binaries pinned to tested tags. Only fall back to
ggml-org/llama.cpp if the Unsloth repo query fails.

* Add comprehensive sandbox tests for PR #4562 bug fixes

35 tests covering all fixes across platforms:
- binary_env cross-platform (Linux LD_LIBRARY_PATH, Windows PATH,
  macOS DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH) with edge cases (dedup, ordering, existing paths)
- resolve_requested_llama_tag (concrete, latest, None, empty)
- setup.sh logic via subprocess: prereq check ordering (cmake/git missing
  preserves install), pinned tag in clone, fetch+checkout -B pattern,
  fetch failure warns instead of aborting
- "latest" tag resolution fallback chain (Unsloth API -> ggml-org ->
  raw) with mock curl: success, failure, malformed JSON, empty body,
  empty tag_name, env overrides
- Source code pattern verification for both .sh and .ps1 files

All 138 tests pass in isolated uv venv.

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

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

* Add binary_path.parent to macOS DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in binary_env

macOS prebuilt .dylib files are overlaid into build/bin (same as
Linux), but binary_env only added install_dir to DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Add binary_path.parent so the loader can find sibling dylibs even
without embedded loader paths.

Mirrors the existing fix for Linux LD_LIBRARY_PATH and the Windows
PATH pattern.

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

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

* Guard --branch when resolved tag is "latest"; fix broken test assertion

When all API fallbacks fail and the tag stays as literal "latest",
omit --branch from git clone (clones default branch instead of
failing). Both setup.sh and setup.ps1 now check for "latest" before
passing --branch to git clone/fetch.

Also fix test_setup_ps1_clone_uses_branch_tag which used Python
tuple syntax (assert "x", "y" in z) that always passes. Changed to
assert "x" in z and "y" in z.

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

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

* Fix macOS DYLD trailing colon, install_lock no-op, and debug log

- binary_env macOS: use dedupe_existing_dirs instead of raw string
  concatenation. Eliminates trailing colon in DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
  (which causes dyld to search CWD for libraries) and deduplicates
  when binary_path.parent == install_dir. Now consistent with the
  Linux and Windows branches.
- install_lock: when filelock is not installed, use os.O_CREAT|O_EXCL
  as a fallback exclusive file lock with timeout, instead of yielding
  with no locking. Prevents concurrent installs from corrupting each
  other's staging directories.
- setup.ps1: remove [DEBUG] log line that printed to every user on
  every Windows setup run.

* Add stale-lock detection and atomic clone-then-swap

install_lock fallback (no filelock): write PID to lock file and
check if the holder process is still alive on contention. Dead PIDs
(ProcessLookupError) and unreadable lock files trigger immediate
cleanup. Live processes owned by other users (PermissionError) are
correctly recognized as alive -- the lock is not removed.

setup.sh/setup.ps1 source-build: clone into a temporary directory
first, then swap into place only on success. If git clone fails,
the existing install is preserved instead of being deleted by the
premature rm -rf.

* Remove redundant upstream_tag != release_tag check

load_approved_release_checksums compared checksums.upstream_tag
against the Unsloth release_tag, which are different namespaces
(upstream ggml-org tag vs Unsloth published tag). This only worked
because both happened to be "b8508" by convention. Would break if
Unsloth ever uses a different release naming scheme.

The existing check at parse_approved_release_checksums (line 950)
already validates the release_tag field correctly.

* Fix lock TOCTOU race and build-in-temp-dir swap

install_lock fallback: add os.fsync(fd) after writing PID to ensure
the PID is visible to racing processes before they check. Treat
empty lock files (PID not yet written) as "wait and retry" instead
of stale, closing the window where two processes could both see an
empty file, both unlink it, and both acquire the lock.

setup.sh/setup.ps1 source-build: clone AND build in a temp directory
(LLAMA_CPP_DIR.build.$$). Only swap into the final LLAMA_CPP_DIR
after the build succeeds. If clone or cmake or build fails, the temp
dir is cleaned up and the existing working install is preserved.
Previously, rm -rf ran after clone but before build, destroying the
existing install even if the build later failed.

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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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tests Use prebuilt llama.cpp for unsloth studio setup (#4562) 2026-03-25 05:42:43 -07:00
unsloth feat(tokenizer): add get_tokenizer_info() diagnostic helper (#4436) 2026-03-25 04:29:01 -07:00
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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

If you don't have curl, use wget. Launch after setup via:

source unsloth_studio/bin/activate
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

Windows:

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

Launch after setup via:

& .\unsloth_studio\Scripts\unsloth.exe studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

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

macOS, Linux, WSL developer installs:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
uv venv unsloth_studio --python 3.13
source unsloth_studio/bin/activate
uv pip install unsloth --torch-backend=auto
unsloth studio setup
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

Windows PowerShell developer installs:

winget install -e --id Python.Python.3.13
winget install --id=astral-sh.uv  -e
uv venv unsloth_studio --python 3.13
.\unsloth_studio\Scripts\activate
uv pip install unsloth --torch-backend=auto
unsloth studio setup
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

Nightly - MacOS, Linux, WSL:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
git clone --filter=blob:none https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git unsloth_studio
cd unsloth_studio
uv venv --python 3.13
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install -e . --torch-backend=auto
unsloth studio setup
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

Then to launch every time:

cd unsloth_studio
source .venv/bin/activate
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

Nightly - Windows:

Run in Windows Powershell:

winget install -e --id Python.Python.3.13
winget install --id=astral-sh.uv  -e
git clone --filter=blob:none https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git unsloth_studio
cd unsloth_studio
uv venv --python 3.13
.\.venv\Scripts\activate
uv pip install -e . --torch-backend=auto
unsloth studio setup
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

Then to launch every time:

cd unsloth_studio
.\.venv\Scripts\activate
unsloth studio -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8888

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.
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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!