Feat: add devstral model support

examples/devstral/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+# Finetune Devstral with Axolotl
+
+Devstral Small is a 24B parameter opensource model from MistralAI found on HuggingFace [Devstral-Small-2505](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Devstral-Small-2505). This guide shows how to fine-tune it with Axolotl with multi-turn conversations with proper masking.
+
+The model was fine-tuned ontop of [Mistral-Small-3.1](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Base-2503) without the vision layer and has a context of upto 128k tokens.
+
+## Getting started
+
+1. Install Axolotl following the [installation guide](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/installation.html). You need to install from main as Devstral is only on nightly or use our latest [Docker images](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/docker.html).
+
+    Here is an example of how to install from main for pip:
+
+```bash
+# Ensure you have Pytorch installed (Pytorch 2.6.0+)
+git clone https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl.git
+cd axolotl
+
+pip3 install packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel ninja
+pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn]'
+
+# Install the latest mistral-common from source
+pip3 uninstall mistral-common
+pip3 install git+https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-common.git@039465d
+
+```
+
+2. Run the finetuning example:
+
+```bash
+axolotl train examples/devstral/devstral-small-qlora.yml
+```
+
+This config uses about 21GB VRAM.
+
+Let us know how it goes. Happy finetuning! 🚀
+
+### TIPS
+
+- You can run a full finetuning by removing the `adapter: qlora` and `load_in_4bit: true` from the config.
+- Read more on how to load your own dataset at [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
+- The dataset format follows the OpenAI Messages format as seen [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset-formats/conversation.html#chat_template).
+
+## Optimization Guides
+
+- [Multi-GPU Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-gpu.html)
+- [Multi-Node Training](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/multi-node.html)
+- [LoRA Optimizations](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/lora_optims.html)
+- [Cut Cross Entropy](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#cut-cross-entropy)
+- [Liger Kernel](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/custom_integrations.html#liger-kernels)
+
+## Limitations
+
+We only support the `mistral-common` tokenizer for Supervised Fine-tuning at the moment and for `type: chat_template` only.
+
+In addition, we do not support overriding tokens yet.
+
+## Related Resources
+
+- [MistralAI Devstral Blog](https://mistral.ai/news/devstral)
+- [Axolotl Docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai)
+- [Axolotl GitHub](https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl)
+- [Axolotl Website](https://axolotl.ai)
+- [Axolotl Discord](https://discord.gg/7m9sfhzaf3)
+
+
+## Future Work
+
+- Add parity to Preference Tuning, RL, Multi-modal, etc.
+- Add parity to other tokenizer configs like overriding tokens.

examples/devstral/devstral-small-qlora.yml

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+base_model: mistralai/Devstral-Small-2505
+
+# Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF
+# hub_model_id: username/custom_model_name
+
+# Enable to use mistral-common tokenizer
+tokenizer_use_mistral_common: true
+
+load_in_8bit: false
+load_in_4bit: true
+
+plugins:
+  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
+
+datasets:
+  - path: fozziethebeat/alpaca_messages_2k_test
+    type: chat_template
+
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0.1
+output_dir: ./outputs/qlora-out
+
+adapter: qlora
+lora_model_dir:
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: true
+pad_to_sequence_len: true
+
+lora_r: 32
+lora_alpha: 16
+lora_dropout: 0
+lora_target_linear: true
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 2
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_torch
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+bf16: auto
+tf32: false
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+logging_steps: 1
+flash_attention: true
+
+loss_watchdog_threshold: 5.0
+loss_watchdog_patience: 3
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.05
+evals_per_epoch: 4
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+
+weight_decay: 0.0
+special_tokens:

examples/magistral/README.md

@@ -18,16 +18,10 @@ git clone https://github.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl.git
 cd axolotl
 
 pip3 install packaging==23.2 setuptools==75.8.0 wheel ninja
-pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn,mistral]'
+pip3 install --no-build-isolation -e '.[flash-attn]'
 ```
 
-2. Download the example config:
-
-```bash
-axolotl fetch examples
-```
-
-3. Run the finetuning example:
+2. Run the finetuning example:
 
 ```bash
 axolotl train examples/magistral/magistral-small-qlora.yaml
@@ -42,7 +36,7 @@ Let us know how it goes. Happy finetuning! 🚀
 - For inference, the official MistralAI team recommends `top_p: 0.95` and `temperature: 0.7` with `max_tokens: 40960`.
 - You can run a full finetuning by removing the `adapter: qlora` and `load_in_4bit: true` from the config.
 - Read more on how to load your own dataset at [docs](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset_loading.html).
-- The dataset format is the OpenAI Messages format as seen [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset-formats/conversation.html#chat_template).
+- The dataset format follows the OpenAI Messages format as seen [here](https://docs.axolotl.ai/docs/dataset-formats/conversation.html#chat_template).
 
 ## Optimization Guides
 
@@ -54,7 +48,7 @@ Let us know how it goes. Happy finetuning! 🚀
 
 We only support the `mistral-common` tokenizer for Supervised Fine-tuning at the moment and for `type: chat_template` only.
 
-The tokenizer does not work with `dataset.map` with multiprocessing, so we had to disable it. In addition, we do not support overriding tokens yet.
+In addition, we do not support overriding tokens yet.
 
 ## Related Resources
 

src/axolotl/datasets.py

@@ -48,13 +48,6 @@ def process(self, dataset):
         features = dataset.features.keys()
         num_proc = min(64, self.process_count if self.process_count else os.cpu_count())
 
-        # Disable multiprocessing if the tokenizer doesn't support it (e.g., mistral_common)
-        if not getattr(self.prompt_tokenizer, "supports_multiprocessing", True):
-            LOG.info(
-                "Disabling multiprocessing for tokenizer as it doesn't support it (e.g., mistral_common)"
-            )
-            num_proc = 1
-
         map_kwargs = {}
         if self.prompt_tokenizer.supports_batched:
             map_kwargs["batched"] = True

src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/chat_template.py

@@ -681,13 +681,14 @@ def get_conversation_thread(self, prompt):
         for message in messages:
             transformed_message = self.transform_message(message)
 
-            turn = {
-                **transformed_message,
-                "training": message.get(self.prompter.message_field_training),
-                "training_detail": message.get(
-                    self.prompter.message_field_training_detail
-                ),
-            }
+            turn = transformed_message
+
+            training = message.get(self.prompter.message_field_training)
+            training_detail = message.get(self.prompter.message_field_training_detail)
+            if training is not None:
+                turn["training"] = training
+            if training_detail is not None:
+                turn["training_detail"] = training_detail
 
             turns.append(turn)
 
@@ -859,15 +860,6 @@ def __init__(
         # TODO: address this in the future with mistral-specific checks
         # self._validate_eot_and_eos_tokens()
 
-    @property
-    def supports_multiprocessing(self) -> bool:
-        """
-        Whether this tokenizing strategy supports multiprocessing.
-        mistral_common tokenizers cannot be pickled for multiprocessing.
-        """
-
-        return False
-
     def find_first_eot_token(self, input_ids, start_idx):
         """Find the first EOT token in the input_ids starting from start_idx."""
         # mistral-common tokenizer does not support eot_tokens

src/axolotl/prompt_tokenizers.py

@@ -70,14 +70,6 @@ def tokenize_prompt(self, prompt):
     def supports_batched(self):
         return False
 
-    @property
-    def supports_multiprocessing(self):
-        """
-        Whether this tokenizing strategy supports multiprocessing.
-        Should return False if the tokenizer has unpicklable objects.
-        """
-        return True
-
     def _tokenize(
         self, prompt: str, add_eos_token: bool = True, strip_bos_token: bool = False
     ) -> BatchEncoding:

src/axolotl/utils/collators/batching.py

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def __call__(self, features, return_tensors=None):
             pad_to_multiple_of=self.pad_to_multiple_of,
             return_tensors=return_tensors,
         )
-        if not has_attn_mask:
+        if not has_attn_mask and "attention_mask" in features:
             del features["attention_mask"]
 
         # prepare decoder_input_ids