An extensible, convenient, and efficient toolbox for finetuning large machine learning models, designed to be user-friendly, speedy and reliable, and accessible to the entire community.

• [2023-09-11] 🚀 Support speculative decoding. Check out speculative_decoding for the usage and acceleration details. 🚀
• [2023-08-14] Support long context inference with position interpolation (Linear & NTK scaling ) for LLaMA models. Check out postion_interpolation for more details.
• [2023-08-07] Support Flash Attention-2. Check out flash_attention for more details.
• [2023-08-02] Support Llama2, ChatGLM2, and Baichuan models.
• [2023-07-23] LMFlow multimodal chatbot is now available! Support multimodal inputs of images and texts. Online Demo is also provided (We hold the service on a single GPU, hence one may experience "queuing" or "application busy" sometimes when multiple users are accessing at the same time, please wait and attempt again later when such event happens)
• [2023-06-22] LMFlow paper is out! Check out our implementation details at https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12420
• [2023-06-16] Our finetuned Robin-33B-V2 scored an impressive 64.1 on the Huggingface LLM leaderboard in our offline evaluation, outperforming major open-source LLMs! All checkpoints (7B, 13B, 33B, and 65B) are released! Checkout the performance here.
• [2023-06-07] LMFlow is now officially available on PyPI! Install it with pip install lmflow-finetune!
• [2023-05-30] Release Robin-13B-v2 and Robin-33B-v2!

• Quick Start

  • Setup
  • Prepare Dataset
  • Finetuning
  • Inference
  • Deployment
  • Evaluation

• Supported Features

  • Finetune Acceleration & Memory Optimization
  • Inference Acceleration
  • Long Context
  • Model Customization
  • Multimodal

• Support

• License

• Citation

Our package has been fully tested on Linux OS (Ubuntu 20.04). Other OS platforms (MacOS, Windows) are not fully tested. You may encounter some unexpected errors. You may try it first on a Linux machine or use Google Colab to experience it. CUDA versions 10.3-11.7 are supported in our stable branch v0.0.5. For CUDA versions greater than 11.7, one can use our unstable branch main first.

git clone -b v0.0.5 https://github.com/OptimalScale/LMFlow.git
cd LMFlow
conda create -n lmflow python=3.9 -y
conda activate lmflow
conda install mpi4py
bash install.sh

Please refer to our doc.

Full training updates all the parameters to finetune a language model. Here is an example to finetune a GPT-2 base model

cd data && ./download.sh alpaca && cd -

./scripts/run_finetune.sh \
  --model_name_or_path gpt2 \
  --dataset_path data/alpaca/train \
  --output_model_path output_models/finetuned_gpt2

LoRA is a parameter-efficient finetuning algorithm and is more efficient than full finetuning.

cd data && ./download.sh alpaca && cd -

# Saves lora only
./scripts/run_finetune_with_lora.sh \
  --model_name_or_path facebook/galactica-1.3b \
  --dataset_path data/alpaca/train \
  --output_lora_path output_models/finetuned_galactica_lora

# Saves lora and merges into original model
./scripts/run_finetune_with_lora_save_aggregated_weights.sh \
  --model_name_or_path facebook/galactica-1.3b \
  --dataset_path data/alpaca/train \
  --output_model_path output_models/finetuned_galactica

After finetuning, you can run the following command to chat with the model.

./scripts/run_chatbot.sh output_models/finetuned_gpt2

If you want to deploy your own model locally, we provide a gradio-based UI for building chatbots. Running the following command will launch the demo for robin-7b:

pip install gradio
python ./examples/chatbot_gradio.py --deepspeed configs/ds_config_chatbot.json --model_name_or_path YOUR-LLAMA  --lora_model_path ./robin-7b --prompt_structure "A chat between a curious human and an artificial intelligence assistant. The assistant gives helpful, detailed, and polite answers to the human's questions.###Human: {input_text}###Assistant:"       --end_string "#" --max_new_tokens 200

We also hosted it on Hugging Face Space.

LMFlow Benchmark is an automatic evaluation framework for open-source large language models. We use negative log likelihood (NLL) as the metric to evaluate different aspects of a language model: chitchat, commonsense reasoning, and instruction following abilities.

You can directly run the LMFlow benchmark evaluation to obtain the results to participate in the LLM comparision. For example, to run GPT2 XL, one may execute

./scripts/run_benchmark.sh --model_name_or_path gpt2-xl

--model_name_or_path is required, you may fill in huggingface model name or local model path here.

To check the evaluation results, you may check benchmark.log in ./output_dir/gpt2-xl_lmflow_chat_nll_eval, ./output_dir/gpt2-xl_all_nll_eval and ./output_dir/gpt2-xl_commonsense_qa_eval.

If you need any help, please submit a Github issue.

The code included in this project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. If you wish to use the codes and models included in this project for commercial purposes, please sign this document to obtain authorization.

If you find this repository useful, please consider giving ⭐ and citing our paper:

@article{diao2023lmflow,
  title={Lmflow: An extensible toolkit for finetuning and inference of large foundation models},
  author={Diao, Shizhe and Pan, Rui and Dong, Hanze and Shum, Ka Shun and Zhang, Jipeng and Xiong, Wei and Zhang, Tong},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.12420},
  year={2023}
}

@article{dong2023raft,
  title={Raft: Reward ranked finetuning for generative foundation model alignment},
  author={Dong, Hanze and Xiong, Wei and Goyal, Deepanshu and Pan, Rui and Diao, Shizhe and Zhang, Jipeng and Shum, Kashun and Zhang, Tong},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.06767},
  year={2023}
}