cyberneticlibrary

Fine-tune LLMs with TRL

fine-tuning-with-trlskillsetup L39,423
Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs
What it does

Fine-tune LLMs using TRL frameworks

Best for

Multi-phase RLHF pipelines (SFT→Reward→PPO) where you control each alignment stage.

Inputs
  • · Base model path
  • · Training dataset (instruction pairs)
  • · Config parameters (lr, epochs)
Outputs
  • · Trained/aligned model checkpoint
  • · Training logs/metrics
Requires
  • · trl
  • · transformers
  • · torch
  • · peft
  • · accelerate
Preconditions

GPU with sufficient VRAM (8GB+); HuggingFace Transformers compatible model

Failure modes
  • · OOM on large models
  • · Divergence with poor hyperparameters
  • · Dataset format incompatibility
Trust signals
  • · Used by Orchestra Research
  • · Supports SFT, DPO, PPO, GRPO
  • · HuggingFace Transformers integration