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"""
Modal QLoRA fine-tune: Qwen3-8B → ai-sherpa/Qwen3-8B-Kintsugi.
Plan reference: subagent ad6ef461338cb47b6 §3 (Training compute), §4
(Publishing artifacts), §7 (Risks & time estimate).
WHAT IT DOES (in order):
1. Mount Modal volumes (HF cache + checkpoints).
2. Load Qwen3-8B base in 4-bit NF4 (BitsAndBytes).
3. Apply QLoRA adapters (r=16, α=32) to attention + MLP projections.
4. Build a `datasets.Dataset` from docs/finetune/training-data/{train,eval}.jsonl
using the existing chat-message format from build_training_data.py.
5. Train with TRL SFTTrainer, 3 epochs, ~90 min on H100.
6. Merge LoRA into base, copy tokenizer_config.json from the base repo
(per plan §7 risk #2 — prevents chat_template drift), push merged
model to HF Hub as `ai-sherpa/Qwen3-8B-Kintsugi`.
WHAT IT DOES NOT DO:
- Convert merged model to GGUF Q4_K_M — that's a separate llama.cpp
convert + quantize step on a CPU machine (no GPU needed).
- Publish the dataset card — that's a separate `huggingface-cli` step
or a Python helper, run after the training data is final.
- Run the QA acceptance harness — that's local-CPU work via
scripts/qa_acceptance_harness.py once LLAMA_REPO is flipped.
PREREQUISITES (one-time setup):
1. `pip install modal && modal setup` — set up Modal account locally.
2. Create the HF Hub repos (do this from a browser to confirm
namespace ownership; modal can't create them):
- https://huggingface.co/new (model) → ai-sherpa/Qwen3-8B-Kintsugi
3. Set the HF token as a Modal Secret:
modal secret create huggingface HF_TOKEN=hf_xxxxxxxx
4. Generate training data locally:
python3.10 scripts/build_training_data.py \\
--input docs/finetune/seed-examples.jsonl
(Plus the 150 self-distilled rows when ready, per plan §2.)
USAGE:
# Dry-run: validate env + show config, no GPU spend.
modal run scripts/modal_qlora_train.py::main --dry-run
# Real training run (~$8, ~90 min on H100).
modal run scripts/modal_qlora_train.py::main
DRAFT STATUS:
This is a draft. Verify against current library docs before launching
a paid run:
- Modal API: https://modal.com/docs
- TRL SFTTrainer: https://huggingface.co/docs/trl/sft_trainer
- PEFT LoraConfig: https://huggingface.co/docs/peft/package_reference/lora
The pinned library versions in IMAGE below were the stable set as of
2026-Q2; if Modal's pre-built CUDA image diverges, expect to adjust
bitsandbytes/torch combos. Run `--dry-run` first to surface any
version mismatch before paying for GPU.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import os
import sys
from pathlib import Path
import modal
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Constants — from plan §3
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
BASE_MODEL_ID = "Qwen/Qwen3-8B"
HUB_MODEL_ID = "ai-sherpa/Qwen3-8B-Kintsugi"
# QLoRA hyperparameters (plan §3)
LORA_R = 16
LORA_ALPHA = 32
LORA_DROPOUT = 0.05
# Apply LoRA to attention + MLP — covers the projections that matter for
# style transfer without ballooning trainable params.
LORA_TARGET_MODULES = [
"q_proj", "k_proj", "v_proj", "o_proj",
"gate_proj", "up_proj", "down_proj",
]
# Training hyperparameters
NUM_EPOCHS = 3
PER_DEVICE_BATCH_SIZE = 2
GRAD_ACCUMULATION = 4 # effective batch = 8
LEARNING_RATE = 2e-4
WARMUP_RATIO = 0.03
MAX_SEQ_LENGTH = 4096 # the OUTPUT_FORMAT + lexicon scaffold + assistant
# turn together fit comfortably under this
WEIGHT_DECAY = 0.01
# Modal config
GPU_TYPE = "H100" # ~$6/hr × 90 min ≈ $9; A100 (~$3/hr) is fine
# for cost-sensitive runs at slower wall time
TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 60 * 60 * 2 # 2-hour ceiling
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Modal app + image
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Qwen3 architecture support was added in transformers 4.51. TRL's
# SFTTrainer API also shifted in this window (tokenizer→processing_class,
# max_seq_length → SFTConfig). These pins are the post-shift compatible
# set as of 2026-Q2 — see the SFTTrainer call below for the new API
# this script relies on.
IMAGE = (
modal.Image.debian_slim(python_version="3.11")
.pip_install(
"torch==2.5.1",
"transformers>=4.52.0,<5.0",
"peft>=0.15.0",
"accelerate>=1.5.0",
"bitsandbytes>=0.45.0",
"trl>=0.18.0,<0.20",
"datasets>=3.2.0",
"huggingface_hub>=0.28.0",
"sentencepiece",
"protobuf",
)
.env({
# HF_HOME points at the persistent volume so the 5GB base download
# is paid once across all runs.
"HF_HOME": "/hf_cache",
# TRL has been moving the chat-template assembly between
# tokenizers and the trainer; setting this avoids the deprecation
# warning and is a no-op when not relevant.
"TRL_USE_RICH": "0",
})
)
app = modal.App(name="kintsugi-qlora-train", image=IMAGE)
# Volumes — survive across runs.
hf_cache = modal.Volume.from_name("kintsugi-hf-cache", create_if_missing=True)
checkpoints = modal.Volume.from_name("kintsugi-checkpoints", create_if_missing=True)
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Remote function: the train run
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@app.function(
gpu=GPU_TYPE,
timeout=TIMEOUT_SECONDS,
volumes={"/hf_cache": hf_cache, "/checkpoints": checkpoints},
secrets=[modal.Secret.from_name("huggingface")],
)
def train_qlora(
train_jsonl: bytes,
eval_jsonl: bytes,
num_epochs: int = NUM_EPOCHS,
push_to_hub: bool = True,
run_tag: str = "v1",
) -> dict:
"""Train Qwen3-8B with QLoRA on the supplied (train, eval) JSONL bytes.
Returns a dict with hub_model_id (if pushed) and final losses.
"""
import torch
from transformers import (
AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer,
BitsAndBytesConfig,
)
from peft import LoraConfig, get_peft_model, prepare_model_for_kbit_training, PeftModel
from trl import SFTConfig, SFTTrainer
from datasets import Dataset
hf_token = os.environ["HF_TOKEN"]
print(f"[train] CUDA available: {torch.cuda.is_available()}")
print(f"[train] device: {torch.cuda.get_device_name(0) if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu'}")
# ---- 1. Tokenizer ----
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
BASE_MODEL_ID, token=hf_token, trust_remote_code=True,
)
if tokenizer.pad_token is None:
# Qwen3 ships an explicit pad token; this is belt-and-braces.
tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token
# ---- 2. Base model, 4-bit NF4 ----
bnb_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
load_in_4bit=True,
bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4",
bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
bnb_4bit_use_double_quant=True,
)
base = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
BASE_MODEL_ID,
quantization_config=bnb_config,
device_map="auto",
token=hf_token,
trust_remote_code=True,
)
base = prepare_model_for_kbit_training(base)
# ---- 3. LoRA config ----
lora_config = LoraConfig(
r=LORA_R,
lora_alpha=LORA_ALPHA,
target_modules=LORA_TARGET_MODULES,
lora_dropout=LORA_DROPOUT,
bias="none",
task_type="CAUSAL_LM",
)
model = get_peft_model(base, lora_config)
model.print_trainable_parameters()
# ---- 4. Datasets ----
def parse_jsonl(blob: bytes) -> Dataset:
rows = []
for line in blob.decode("utf-8").splitlines():
line = line.strip()
if not line:
continue
row = json.loads(line)
# SFTTrainer with chat-format expects a 'messages' field.
rows.append({"messages": row["messages"]})
return Dataset.from_list(rows)
train_ds = parse_jsonl(train_jsonl)
eval_ds = parse_jsonl(eval_jsonl)
print(f"[train] train rows: {len(train_ds)} eval rows: {len(eval_ds)}")
# ---- 5. SFTConfig (TRL ≥0.18 — replaces TrainingArguments for SFT) ----
output_dir = f"/checkpoints/{run_tag}"
training_args = SFTConfig(
output_dir=output_dir,
num_train_epochs=num_epochs,
per_device_train_batch_size=PER_DEVICE_BATCH_SIZE,
per_device_eval_batch_size=PER_DEVICE_BATCH_SIZE,
gradient_accumulation_steps=GRAD_ACCUMULATION,
learning_rate=LEARNING_RATE,
warmup_ratio=WARMUP_RATIO,
weight_decay=WEIGHT_DECAY,
bf16=True,
optim="paged_adamw_8bit", # bitsandbytes optimizer — keeps memory low
logging_steps=2,
eval_strategy="epoch",
save_strategy="epoch",
save_total_limit=2, # keep last 2 checkpoints only
report_to="none", # no wandb/etc unless you set it up
gradient_checkpointing=True,
gradient_checkpointing_kwargs={"use_reentrant": False},
load_best_model_at_end=False, # eval set is small; best-loss is noisy here
max_seq_length=MAX_SEQ_LENGTH, # moved from SFTTrainer kwarg into SFTConfig in TRL 0.13+
# NOTE: assistant_only_loss=True would be ideal for voice transfer
# (train on assistant turn only, not the static lexicon scaffold in
# the user turn). But it requires the tokenizer's chat template to
# mark assistant spans with {% generation %} jinja tags, which
# Qwen3's stock template does not. Adding a custom template is
# possible but invasive — for a 30-row dataset over 3 epochs the
# extra gradient cost from training on the (static) user turn is
# minimal. Leave full-sequence loss for now.
)
# ---- 6. SFTTrainer ----
# TRL ≥0.13: tokenizer= → processing_class=.
# With messages-format datasets, SFTTrainer auto-applies the tokenizer's
# chat_template. Qwen3 ships a Qwen3-formatted template producing
# <|im_start|>role<|im_end|> markers.
trainer = SFTTrainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=train_ds,
eval_dataset=eval_ds,
processing_class=tokenizer,
)
# ---- 7. Train ----
train_result = trainer.train()
metrics = train_result.metrics
trainer.save_model(output_dir)
checkpoints.commit()
print(f"[train] final train loss: {metrics.get('train_loss')}")
if not push_to_hub:
return {"hub_model_id": None, "metrics": metrics, "output_dir": output_dir}
# ---- 8. Merge LoRA into base + push ----
# Reload the base in fp16 (not 4-bit) for merge; merging into a
# quantized base would lose precision in the adapter direction.
print("[merge] reloading base in bf16 for merge...")
del model, base, trainer
torch.cuda.empty_cache()
base_fp = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
BASE_MODEL_ID,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device_map="auto",
token=hf_token,
trust_remote_code=True,
)
peft_model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base_fp, output_dir, token=hf_token)
merged = peft_model.merge_and_unload()
merged_dir = f"/checkpoints/{run_tag}-merged"
merged.save_pretrained(merged_dir, safe_serialization=True)
# ---- 9. Copy tokenizer config from base (plan §7 risk #2) ----
# tokenizer.save_pretrained() captures the chat_template; without
# this step the merged repo may lack the field that transformers
# fallback / Gradio inference rely on.
tokenizer.save_pretrained(merged_dir)
checkpoints.commit()
# ---- 10. Push to hub ----
print(f"[push] pushing merged model to {HUB_MODEL_ID}...")
merged.push_to_hub(
HUB_MODEL_ID,
token=hf_token,
private=False,
commit_message=f"QLoRA fine-tune from {BASE_MODEL_ID} ({run_tag})",
)
tokenizer.push_to_hub(HUB_MODEL_ID, token=hf_token)
print(f"[push] done.")
return {
"hub_model_id": HUB_MODEL_ID,
"metrics": metrics,
"output_dir": merged_dir,
"run_tag": run_tag,
}
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Local entrypoint
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@app.local_entrypoint()
def main(
train_path: str = "docs/finetune/training-data/train.jsonl",
eval_path: str = "docs/finetune/training-data/eval.jsonl",
epochs: int = NUM_EPOCHS,
push: bool = True,
run_tag: str = "v1",
dry_run: bool = False,
):
"""Local entrypoint — reads JSONL from disk and dispatches to Modal.
Modal's CLI passes args as keyword strings, so booleans accept "true"/"false".
"""
repo_root = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
train_file = repo_root / train_path
eval_file = repo_root / eval_path
if not train_file.exists():
print(f"ERROR: train file not found: {train_file}", file=sys.stderr)
print(" Generate it first with:", file=sys.stderr)
print(" python3.10 scripts/build_training_data.py "
"--input docs/finetune/seed-examples.jsonl", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
if not eval_file.exists():
print(f"ERROR: eval file not found: {eval_file}", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
train_bytes = train_file.read_bytes()
eval_bytes = eval_file.read_bytes()
train_rows = train_bytes.decode("utf-8").count("\n")
eval_rows = eval_bytes.decode("utf-8").count("\n")
print(f"Train: {train_rows} rows ({len(train_bytes)} bytes)")
print(f"Eval: {eval_rows} rows ({len(eval_bytes)} bytes)")
print(f"Epochs: {epochs}")
print(f"GPU: {GPU_TYPE}")
print(f"Push to hub: {push} ({HUB_MODEL_ID if push else 'skipped'})")
print(f"Run tag: {run_tag}")
# Cost estimate
est_minutes = 30 if GPU_TYPE == "H100" else 75
est_minutes *= max(1, epochs / NUM_EPOCHS)
est_cost = (est_minutes / 60) * (6.0 if GPU_TYPE == "H100" else 3.0)
print(f"\nEstimate: ~{est_minutes:.0f} min wall, ~${est_cost:.2f}")
if dry_run:
print("\n--dry-run: not dispatching to Modal.")
return 0
print("\nDispatching to Modal...")
result = train_qlora.remote(
train_jsonl=train_bytes,
eval_jsonl=eval_bytes,
num_epochs=epochs,
push_to_hub=push,
run_tag=run_tag,
)
print("\nResult:")
print(json.dumps(result, indent=2, default=str))
if result.get("hub_model_id"):
print(f"\nNext steps:")
print(f" 1. Verify the model card at "
f"https://huggingface.co/{result['hub_model_id']}")
print(f" 2. Convert to GGUF Q4_K_M (separate llama.cpp step).")
print(f" 3. Publish GGUF as ai-sherpa/Qwen3-8B-Kintsugi-GGUF.")
print(f" 4. Flip LLAMA_REPO in app.py and re-run the QA harness.")
return 0