Fine-Tuning Frameworks for Open-Source LLMs in Production: Comparing Unsloth, Axolotl, LLaMA-Factory, and Torchtune
Open-source large language model post-training has fragmented into distinct engineering philosophies. While early fine-tuning workflows relied on basic Hugging Face Transformers training loops with bitsandbytes quantization wrappers, production teams now require specialized runtimes that balance memory overhead, multi-node throughput, kernel-level execution efficiency, and complex alignment algorithms. Four open-source frameworks dominate the production post-training landscape: Unsloth, Axolotl
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