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docs/source/bco_trainer.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # BCO Trainer
 
-[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/All_models-BCO-blue)](https://huggingface.co/models?other=bco,trl)
+[![model badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/All_models-BCO-blue)](https://huggingface.co/models?other=bco,trl)
 
 TRL supports the Binary Classifier Optimization (BCO).
 The [BCO](https://huggingface.co/papers/2404.04656) authors train a binary classifier whose logit serves as a reward so that the classifier maps {prompt, chosen completion} pairs to 1 and {prompt, rejected completion} pairs to 0.
@@ -12,17 +12,16 @@ The [`BCOTrainer`] requires an [unpaired preference dataset](dataset_formats#unp
 The [`BCOTrainer`] supports both [conversational](dataset_formats#conversational) and [standard](dataset_formats#standard) dataset formats. When provided with a conversational dataset, the trainer will automatically apply the chat template to the dataset.
 
 ## Expected model format
+
 The BCO trainer expects a model of `AutoModelForCausalLM`, compared to PPO that expects `AutoModelForCausalLMWithValueHead` for the value function.
 
 ## Using the `BCOTrainer`
 
-For a detailed example have a look at the `examples/scripts/bco.py` script. At a high level we need to initialize the `BCOTrainer` with a `model` we wish to train and a reference `ref_model` which we will use to calculate the implicit rewards of the preferred and rejected response. 
+For a detailed example have a look at the `examples/scripts/bco.py` script. At a high level we need to initialize the `BCOTrainer` with a `model` we wish to train and a reference `ref_model` which we will use to calculate the implicit rewards of the preferred and rejected response.
 
 The `beta` refers to the hyperparameter of the implicit reward, and the dataset contains the 3 entries listed above. Note that the `model` and `ref_model` need to have the same architecture (ie decoder only or encoder-decoder).
 
-
-
-```py
+```python
 training_args = BCOConfig(
     beta=0.1,
 )
@@ -35,9 +34,10 @@ bco_trainer = BCOTrainer(
     processing_class=tokenizer,
 )
 ```
+
 After this one can then call:
 
-```py
+```python
 bco_trainer.train()
 ```
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ If the prompts in your desired and undesired datasets differ a lot, it is useful
 
 Choose an embedding model and tokenizer:
 
-```py
+```python
 embedding_model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(your_model_id)
 embedding_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(your_model_id)
 
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ embedding_func = partial(embed_prompt, model=embedding_model)
 
 Set `prompt_sample_size` to define how many prompts are selected to train the UDM classifier and start the training with the provided embedding function:
 
-```py
+```python
 training_args = BCOConfig(
     beta=0.1,
     prompt_sample_size=512,

docs/source/best_of_n.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Best of N sampling: Alternative ways to get better model output without RL based fine-tuning 
+# Best of N sampling: Alternative ways to get better model output without RL based fine-tuning
 
 Within the extras module is the `best-of-n` sampler class that serves as an alternative method of generating better model output.
 As to how it fares against the RL based fine-tuning, please look in the `examples` directory for a comparison example
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ As to how it fares against the RL based fine-tuning, please look in the `example
 To get started quickly, instantiate an instance of the class with a model, a length sampler, a tokenizer and a callable that serves as a proxy reward pipeline that outputs reward scores for input queries
 
 ```python
-
 from transformers import pipeline, AutoTokenizer
 from trl import AutoModelForCausalLMWithValueHead
 from trl.core import LengthSampler
@@ -19,37 +18,29 @@ reward_pipe = pipeline("sentiment-analysis", model=reward_model, device=device)
 tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(ref_model_name)
 tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token
 
-
 # callable that takes a list of raw text and returns a list of corresponding reward scores
 def queries_to_scores(list_of_strings):
   return [output["score"] for output in reward_pipe(list_of_strings)]
 
 best_of_n = BestOfNSampler(model, tokenizer, queries_to_scores, length_sampler=output_length_sampler)
-
-
 ```
 
 And assuming you have a list/tensor of tokenized queries, you can generate better output by calling the `generate` method
 
 ```python
-
 best_of_n.generate(query_tensors, device=device, **gen_kwargs)
-
 ```
+
 The default sample size is 4, but you can change it at the time of instance initialization like so
 
 ```python
-
 best_of_n = BestOfNSampler(model, tokenizer, queries_to_scores, length_sampler=output_length_sampler, sample_size=8)
-
 ```
 
 The default output is the result of taking the top scored output for each query, but you can change it to top 2 and so on by passing the `n_candidates` argument at the time of instance initialization
 
 ```python
-
 best_of_n = BestOfNSampler(model, tokenizer, queries_to_scores, length_sampler=output_length_sampler, n_candidates=2)
-
 ```
 
 There is the option of setting the generation settings (like `temperature`, `pad_token_id`) at the time of instance creation as opposed to when calling the `generate` method.

docs/source/clis.md

@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 
 TRL provides a powerful command-line interface (CLI) to fine-tune large language models (LLMs) using methods like Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and more. The CLI abstracts away much of the boilerplate, letting you launch training jobs quickly and reproducibly.
 
+## Commands
+
 Currently supported commands are:
 
-#### Training Commands
+### Training Commands
 
 - `trl dpo`: fine-tune a LLM with DPO
 - `trl grpo`: fine-tune a LLM with GRPO
@@ -13,7 +15,7 @@ Currently supported commands are:
 - `trl rloo`: fine-tune a LLM with RLOO
 - `trl sft`: fine-tune a LLM with SFT
 
-#### Other Commands
+### Other Commands
 
 - `trl env`: get the system information
 - `trl vllm-serve`: serve a model with vLLM
@@ -197,22 +199,22 @@ trl reward --config reward_config.yaml
 
 The `--accelerate_config` flag lets you easily configure distributed training with [🤗 Accelerate](https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate). This flag accepts either:
 
-* the name of a predefined config profile (built into TRL), or
-* a path to a custom Accelerate YAML config file.
+- the name of a predefined config profile (built into TRL), or
+- a path to a custom Accelerate YAML config file.
 
 #### Predefined Config Profiles
 
 TRL provides several ready-to-use Accelerate configs to simplify common training setups:
 
-| Name         | Description                         |
-| ------------ | ----------------------------------- |
-| `fsdp1`      | Fully Sharded Data Parallel Stage 1 |
-| `fsdp2`      | Fully Sharded Data Parallel Stage 2 |
-| `zero1`      | DeepSpeed ZeRO Stage 1              |
-| `zero2`      | DeepSpeed ZeRO Stage 2              |
-| `zero3`      | DeepSpeed ZeRO Stage 3              |
-| `multi_gpu`  | Multi-GPU training                  |
-| `single_gpu` | Single-GPU training                 |
+| Name | Description |
+| --- | --- |
+| `fsdp1` | Fully Sharded Data Parallel Stage 1 |
+| `fsdp2` | Fully Sharded Data Parallel Stage 2 |
+| `zero1` | DeepSpeed ZeRO Stage 1 |
+| `zero2` | DeepSpeed ZeRO Stage 2 |
+| `zero3` | DeepSpeed ZeRO Stage 3 |
+| `multi_gpu` | Multi-GPU training |
+| `single_gpu` | Single-GPU training |
 
 To use one of these, just pass the name to `--accelerate_config`. TRL will automatically load the corresponding config file from `trl/accelerate_config/`.
 

docs/source/community_tutorials.md

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ Community tutorials are made by active members of the Hugging Face community who
 | Preference Optimization | [`ORPOTrainer`] | Fine-tuning Llama 3 with ORPO combining instruction tuning and preference alignment | [Maxime Labonne](https://huggingface.co/mlabonne) | [Link](https://mlabonne.github.io/blog/posts/2024-04-19_Fine_tune_Llama_3_with_ORPO.html) | [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1eHNWg9gnaXErdAa8_mcvjMupbSS6rDvi) |
 | Instruction tuning | [`SFTTrainer`] | How to fine-tune open LLMs in 2025 with Hugging Face | [Philipp Schmid](https://huggingface.co/philschmid) | [Link](https://www.philschmid.de/fine-tune-llms-in-2025) | [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/philschmid/deep-learning-pytorch-huggingface/blob/main/training/fine-tune-llms-in-2025.ipynb) |
 
-
 ### Videos
 
 | Task | Title | Author | Video |
@@ -32,6 +31,7 @@ Community tutorials are made by active members of the Hugging Face community who
 
 > [!WARNING]
 > The tutorial uses two deprecated features:
+>
 > - `SFTTrainer(..., tokenizer=tokenizer)`: Use `SFTTrainer(..., processing_class=tokenizer)` instead, or simply omit it (it will be inferred from the model).
 > - `setup_chat_format(model, tokenizer)`: Use `SFTConfig(..., chat_template_path="Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B")`, where `chat_template_path` specifies the model whose chat template you want to copy.
 

docs/source/cpo_trainer.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # CPO Trainer
 
-[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/All_models-CPO-blue)](https://huggingface.co/models?other=cpo,trl)
+[![model badge](https://img.shields.io/badge/All_models-CPO-blue)](https://huggingface.co/models?other=cpo,trl)
 
 ## Overview
 
@@ -98,15 +98,13 @@ To use this loss as described in the paper, we can set the `loss_type="alphapo"`
 
 The CPO algorithm supports several loss functions. The loss function can be set using the `loss_type` parameter in the [`CPOConfig`]. The following loss functions are supported:
 
-| `loss_type=`                           | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
-| -------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `"sigmoid"` (default)                  | Given the preference data, we can fit a binary classifier according to the Bradley-Terry model, and in fact, the [DPO](https://huggingface.co/papers/2305.18290) authors propose the sigmoid loss on the normalized likelihood via the `logsigmoid` to fit a logistic regression.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
-| `"hinge"`                              | The [RSO](https://huggingface.co/papers/2309.06657) authors propose to use a hinge loss on the normalized likelihood from the [SLiC](https://huggingface.co/papers/2305.10425) paper. In this case, the `beta` is the reciprocal of the margin.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
-| `"ipo"`                                | The [IPO](https://huggingface.co/papers/2310.12036) authors provide a deeper theoretical understanding of the DPO algorithms and identify an issue with overfitting and propose an alternative loss. In this case, the `beta` is the reciprocal of the gap between the log-likelihood ratios of the chosen vs the rejected completion pair, and thus the smaller the `beta`, the larger this gap is. As per the paper, the loss is averaged over log-likelihoods of the completion (unlike DPO, which is summed only).                                                                                                                        |
-| `"simpo"`                              | The [SimPO](https://huggingface.co/papers/2405.14734) method is also implemented in the [`CPOTrainer`]. SimPO is an alternative loss that adds a reward margin, allows for length normalization, and does not use BC regularization. To use this loss, simply set `loss_type="simpo"` and `cpo_alpha=0.0` in the [`CPOConfig`] and `simpo_gamma` to a recommended value.  |
-| `"alphapo"`                            | The [AlphaPO](https://huggingface.co/papers/2501.03884) method is also implemented in the [`CPOTrainer`]. This is syntactic sugar that automatically sets `loss_type="simpo"` and `cpo_alpha=0.0`. AlphaPO applies a transformation to the reward function shape in the context of SimPO loss when the `alpha` parameter is non-zero.  |
-
-
+| `loss_type=` | Description |
+| --- | --- |
+| `"sigmoid"` (default) | Given the preference data, we can fit a binary classifier according to the Bradley-Terry model, and in fact, the [DPO](https://huggingface.co/papers/2305.18290) authors propose the sigmoid loss on the normalized likelihood via the `logsigmoid` to fit a logistic regression. |
+| `"hinge"` | The [RSO](https://huggingface.co/papers/2309.06657) authors propose to use a hinge loss on the normalized likelihood from the [SLiC](https://huggingface.co/papers/2305.10425) paper. In this case, the `beta` is the reciprocal of the margin. |
+| `"ipo"` | The [IPO](https://huggingface.co/papers/2310.12036) authors provide a deeper theoretical understanding of the DPO algorithms and identify an issue with overfitting and propose an alternative loss. In this case, the `beta` is the reciprocal of the gap between the log-likelihood ratios of the chosen vs the rejected completion pair, and thus the smaller the `beta`, the larger this gap is. As per the paper, the loss is averaged over log-likelihoods of the completion (unlike DPO, which is summed only). |
+| `"simpo"` | The [SimPO](https://huggingface.co/papers/2405.14734) method is also implemented in the [`CPOTrainer`]. SimPO is an alternative loss that adds a reward margin, allows for length normalization, and does not use BC regularization. To use this loss, simply set `loss_type="simpo"` and `cpo_alpha=0.0` in the [`CPOConfig`] and `simpo_gamma` to a recommended value. |
+| `"alphapo"` | The [AlphaPO](https://huggingface.co/papers/2501.03884) method is also implemented in the [`CPOTrainer`]. This is syntactic sugar that automatically sets `loss_type="simpo"` and `cpo_alpha=0.0`. AlphaPO applies a transformation to the reward function shape in the context of SimPO loss when the `alpha` parameter is non-zero. |
 
 ### For Mixture of Experts Models: Enabling the auxiliary loss
 

docs/source/customization.md

@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 TRL is designed with modularity in mind so that users are able to efficiently customize the training loop for their needs. Below are some examples on how you can apply and test different techniques.  Note: Although these examples use the DPOTrainer, the customization applies to most (if not all) trainers.
 
-
-
 ## Use different optimizers and schedulers
 
 By default, the `DPOTrainer` creates a `torch.optim.AdamW` optimizer. You can create and define a different optimizer and pass it to `DPOTrainer` as follows:
@@ -84,11 +82,11 @@ trainer = DPOTrainer(
 trainer.train()
 ```
 
-## Pass 8-bit reference models 
- 
+## Pass 8-bit reference models
+
 Since `trl` supports all keyword arguments when loading a model from `transformers` using `from_pretrained`, you can also leverage `load_in_8bit` from `transformers` for more memory efficient fine-tuning.
 
-Read more about 8-bit model loading in `transformers` [here](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/peft#load-in-8bit-or-4bit).
+Read more about 8-bit model loading in `transformers` [Load in 8bit or 4bit](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/peft#load-in-8bit-or-4bit).
 
 ```python
 from datasets import load_dataset