""" Prepare training data for MLX-LM. MLX-LM expects a directory containing: train.jsonl - chat-format training data valid.jsonl - chat-format validation data (optional) test.jsonl - chat-format test data (optional) Each line is a JSON object with one of: {"messages": [...]} (chat format, our existing format) {"prompt": ..., "completion": ...} {"text": "..."} This script splits our existing corpus into train/valid splits and writes them into the MLX-LM expected directory layout. Usage: python scripts/prepare_mlx_data.py \ --input data/synthetic/corpus_50k.jsonl \ --output data/mlx_dataset \ --valid-count 100 \ --seed 42 """ import argparse import json import random from pathlib import Path def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Prepare MLX-LM training data") parser.add_argument("--input", type=Path, required=True) parser.add_argument("--output", type=Path, required=True) parser.add_argument("--valid-count", type=int, default=100) parser.add_argument("--max-samples", type=int, default=None) parser.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=42) args = parser.parse_args() random.seed(args.seed) rows = [] with args.input.open("r", encoding="utf-8") as f: for line in f: line = line.strip() if not line: continue rows.append(line) if args.max_samples: rows = rows[: args.max_samples] random.shuffle(rows) valid_rows = rows[: args.valid_count] train_rows = rows[args.valid_count :] args.output.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) train_path = args.output / "train.jsonl" valid_path = args.output / "valid.jsonl" with train_path.open("w", encoding="utf-8") as f: f.write("\n".join(train_rows) + "\n") with valid_path.open("w", encoding="utf-8") as f: f.write("\n".join(valid_rows) + "\n") print(f"Wrote {len(train_rows)} train rows to {train_path}") print(f"Wrote {len(valid_rows)} valid rows to {valid_path}") if __name__ == "__main__": main()