Why it matters

Axolotl simplifies FT for community. Understanding shapes tooling.

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The architecture

YAML config declares model + data + method.

Wraps HF + PEFT + DeepSpeed / FSDP.

Axolotl stackYAML configmodel + data + methodWraps HF + PEFTFSDP + DeepSpeedMulti-model supportLlama + Mistral + moreWidely-used community FT framework; recipes shared for many popular models
Axolotl.
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How it works end to end

OpenAccess-AI-Collective.

SFT + DPO + ORPO + KTO.

QLoRA + full FT + FSDP variants.