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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ This folder contains examples of running different training mode with IPEX-LLM o
 - [DPO](DPO): examples of running DPO finetuning
 - [common](common): common templates and utility classes in finetuning examples
 - [HF-PEFT](HF-PEFT): run finetuning on Intel GPU using Hugging Face PEFT code without modification
+- [axolotl](axolotl): LLM finetuning on Intel GPU using axolotl without writing code
 
 
 ## Troubleshooting
diff --git a/python/llm/example/GPU/LLM-Finetuning/axolotl/README.md b/python/llm/example/GPU/LLM-Finetuning/axolotl/README.md
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+# Finetune LLM on Intel GPU using axolotl without writing code
+
+This example demonstrates how to easily run LLM finetuning application using axolotl and IPEX-LLM 4bit optimizations with [Intel GPUs](../../../README.md). By applying IPEX-LLM patch, you could use axolotl on Intel GPUs using IPEX-LLM optimization without writing code.
+
+Note, this example is just used for illustrating related usage and don't guarantee convergence of training.
+
+### 0. Requirements
+
+To run this example with IPEX-LLM on Intel GPUs, we have some recommended requirements for your machine, please refer to [here](../../README.md#requirements) for more information.
+
+### 1. Install
+
+```bash
+conda create -n llm python=3.11
+conda activate llm
+# below command will install intel_extension_for_pytorch==2.1.10+xpu as default
+pip install --pre --upgrade ipex-llm[xpu] --extra-index-url https://pytorch-extension.intel.com/release-whl/stable/xpu/us/
+pip install transformers==4.34.0 datasets
+pip install fire peft==0.5.0
+# install axolotl v0.3.0
+git clone https://github.com/OpenAccess-AI-Collective/axolotl
+cd axolotl
+git checkout v0.3.0
+# replace default requirements.txt in axolotl to avoid conflict
+cp ../requirements.txt .
+pip install -e .
+```
+
+### 2. Configures OneAPI environment variables and accelerate
+
+```bash
+source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
+```
+
+Config `accelerate`
+
+```bash
+accelerate config
+```
+
+Ensure `use_cpu` is disable in config (`~/.cache/huggingface/accelerate/default_config.yaml`).
+
+### 3. Finetune
+
+This example shows how to run [Alpaca QLoRA finetune on Llama-2](https://github.com/artidoro/qlora) directly on Intel GPU, based on [axolotl Llama-2 qlora example](https://github.com/OpenAccess-AI-Collective/axolotl/blob/v0.3.0/examples/llama-2/qlora.yml).
+
+Modify parameters in `qlora.yml` based on your requirements.
+
+```
+accelerate launch finetune.py qlora.yml
+```
+
+Output in console
+
+```
+{'eval_loss': 0.9382301568984985, 'eval_runtime': 6.2513, 'eval_samples_per_second': 3.199, 'eval_steps_per_second': 3.199, 'epoch': 0.36}
+{'loss': 0.944, 'learning_rate': 0.00019752490425051743, 'epoch': 0.38}
+{'loss': 1.0179, 'learning_rate': 0.00019705675197106016, 'epoch': 0.4}
+{'loss': 0.9346, 'learning_rate': 0.00019654872959986937, 'epoch': 0.41}
+{'loss': 0.9747, 'learning_rate': 0.0001960010458282326, 'epoch': 0.43}
+{'loss': 0.8928, 'learning_rate': 0.00019541392564000488, 'epoch': 0.45}
+{'loss': 0.9317, 'learning_rate': 0.00019478761021918728, 'epoch': 0.47}
+{'loss': 1.0534, 'learning_rate': 0.00019412235685085035, 'epoch': 0.49}
+{'loss': 0.8777, 'learning_rate': 0.00019341843881544372, 'epoch': 0.5}
+{'loss': 0.9447, 'learning_rate': 0.00019267614527653488, 'epoch': 0.52}
+{'loss': 0.9651, 'learning_rate': 0.00019189578116202307, 'epoch': 0.54}
+{'loss': 0.9067, 'learning_rate': 0.00019107766703887764, 'epoch': 0.56}
+```
+
+### 4. Other examples
+
+Please refer to [axolotl examples](https://github.com/OpenAccess-AI-Collective/axolotl/tree/v0.3.0/examples) for more models. Download `xxx.yml` and replace `qlora.yml` with new `xxx.yml`.
+
+```
+accelerate launch finetune.py xxx.yml
+```
diff --git a/python/llm/example/GPU/LLM-Finetuning/axolotl/finetune.py b/python/llm/example/GPU/LLM-Finetuning/axolotl/finetune.py
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+"""Prepare and train a model on a dataset. Can also infer from a model or merge lora"""
+
+import importlib
+import logging
+import os
+import random
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union
+
+from ipex_llm import llm_patch
+llm_patch(train=True)
+import fire
+import torch
+import transformers
+import yaml
+
+# add src to the pythonpath so we don't need to pip install this
+from art import text2art
+from transformers import GenerationConfig, TextStreamer
+
+from axolotl.common.cli import TrainerCliArgs, load_model_and_tokenizer
+from axolotl.logging_config import configure_logging
+from axolotl.train import TrainDatasetMeta, train
+from axolotl.utils.config import normalize_config, validate_config
+from axolotl.utils.data import prepare_dataset
+from axolotl.utils.dict import DictDefault
+from axolotl.utils.distributed import is_main_process
+from axolotl.utils.models import load_tokenizer
+from axolotl.utils.tokenization import check_dataset_labels
+from axolotl.utils.wandb import setup_wandb_env_vars
+
+project_root = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".."))
+src_dir = os.path.join(project_root, "src")
+sys.path.insert(0, src_dir)
+
+configure_logging()
+LOG = logging.getLogger("axolotl.scripts")
+
+os.environ["HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER"] = "1"
+
+
+def print_axolotl_text_art(suffix=None):
+    font = "nancyj"
+    ascii_text = "  axolotl"
+    if suffix:
+        ascii_text += f"  x  {suffix}"
+    ascii_art = text2art(" axolotl", font=font)
+
+    if is_main_process():
+        print(ascii_art)
+
+
+def get_multi_line_input() -> Optional[str]:
+    print("Give me an instruction (Ctrl + D to finish): ")
+    instruction = ""
+    for line in sys.stdin:
+        instruction += line  # pylint: disable=consider-using-join
+    # instruction = pathlib.Path("/proc/self/fd/0").read_text()
+    return instruction
+
+
+def do_merge_lora(
+    *,
+    cfg: DictDefault,
+    cli_args: TrainerCliArgs,
+):
+    model, tokenizer = load_model_and_tokenizer(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
+    safe_serialization = cfg.save_safetensors is True
+
+    LOG.info("running merge of LoRA with base model")
+    model = model.merge_and_unload()
+    model.to(dtype=torch.float16)
+
+    if cfg.local_rank == 0:
+        LOG.info("saving merged model")
+        model.save_pretrained(
+            str(Path(cfg.output_dir) / "merged"),
+            safe_serialization=safe_serialization,
+        )
+        tokenizer.save_pretrained(str(Path(cfg.output_dir) / "merged"))
+
+
+def shard(
+    *,
+    cfg: DictDefault,
+    cli_args: TrainerCliArgs,
+):
+    model, _ = load_model_and_tokenizer(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
+    safe_serialization = cfg.save_safetensors is True
+    LOG.debug("Re-saving model w/ sharding")
+    model.save_pretrained(cfg.output_dir, safe_serialization=safe_serialization)
+
+
+def do_inference(
+    *,
+    cfg: DictDefault,
+    cli_args: TrainerCliArgs,
+):
+    model, tokenizer = load_model_and_tokenizer(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
+    prompter = cli_args.prompter
+    default_tokens = {"unk_token": "<unk>", "bos_token": "<s>", "eos_token": "</s>"}
+
+    for token, symbol in default_tokens.items():
+        # If the token isn't already specified in the config, add it
+        if not (cfg.special_tokens and token in cfg.special_tokens):
+            tokenizer.add_special_tokens({token: symbol})
+
+    prompter_module = None
+    if prompter:
+        prompter_module = getattr(
+            importlib.import_module("axolotl.prompters"), prompter
+        )
+
+    if cfg.landmark_attention:
+        from axolotl.monkeypatch.llama_landmark_attn import set_model_mem_id
+
+        set_model_mem_id(model, tokenizer)
+        model.set_mem_cache_args(
+            max_seq_len=255, mem_freq=50, top_k=5, max_cache_size=None
+        )
+
+    model = model.to(cfg.device)
+
+    while True:
+        print("=" * 80)
+        # support for multiline inputs
+        instruction = get_multi_line_input()
+        if not instruction:
+            return
+        if prompter_module:
+            prompt: str = next(
+                prompter_module().build_prompt(instruction=instruction.strip("\n"))
+            )
+        else:
+            prompt = instruction.strip()
+        batch = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt", add_special_tokens=True)
+
+        print("=" * 40)
+        model.eval()
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            generation_config = GenerationConfig(
+                repetition_penalty=1.1,
+                max_new_tokens=1024,
+                temperature=0.9,
+                top_p=0.95,
+                top_k=40,
+                bos_token_id=tokenizer.bos_token_id,
+                eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
+                pad_token_id=tokenizer.pad_token_id,
+                do_sample=True,
+                use_cache=True,
+                return_dict_in_generate=True,
+                output_attentions=False,
+                output_hidden_states=False,
+                output_scores=False,
+            )
+            streamer = TextStreamer(tokenizer)
+            generated = model.generate(
+                inputs=batch["input_ids"].to(cfg.device),
+                generation_config=generation_config,
+                streamer=streamer,
+            )
+        print("=" * 40)
+        print(tokenizer.decode(generated["sequences"].cpu().tolist()[0]))
+
+
+def choose_config(path: Path):
+    yaml_files = list(path.glob("*.yml"))
+
+    if not yaml_files:
+        raise ValueError(
+            "No YAML config files found in the specified directory. Are you using a .yml extension?"
+        )
+
+    if len(yaml_files) == 1:
+        print(f"Using default YAML file '{yaml_files[0]}'")
+        return yaml_files[0]
+
+    print("Choose a YAML file:")
+    for idx, file in enumerate(yaml_files):
+        print(f"{idx + 1}. {file}")
+
+    chosen_file = None
+    while chosen_file is None:
+        try:
+            choice = int(input("Enter the number of your choice: "))
+            if 1 <= choice <= len(yaml_files):
+                chosen_file = yaml_files[choice - 1]
+            else:
+                print("Invalid choice. Please choose a number from the list.")
+        except ValueError:
+            print("Invalid input. Please enter a number.")
+
+    return chosen_file
+
+
+def check_not_in(list1: List[str], list2: Union[Dict[str, Any], List[str]]) -> bool:
+    return not any(el in list2 for el in list1)
+
+
+def load_cfg(config: Path = Path("examples/"), **kwargs):
+    if Path(config).is_dir():
+        config = choose_config(config)
+
+    # load the config from the yaml file
+    with open(config, encoding="utf-8") as file:
+        cfg: DictDefault = DictDefault(yaml.safe_load(file))
+    # if there are any options passed in the cli, if it is something that seems valid from the yaml,
+    # then overwrite the value
+    cfg_keys = cfg.keys()
+    for k, _ in kwargs.items():
+        # if not strict, allow writing to cfg even if it's not in the yml already
+        if k in cfg_keys or not cfg.strict:
+            # handle booleans
+            if isinstance(cfg[k], bool):
+                cfg[k] = bool(kwargs[k])
+            else:
+                cfg[k] = kwargs[k]
+
+    validate_config(cfg)
+
+    normalize_config(cfg)
+
+    setup_wandb_env_vars(cfg)
+    return cfg
+
+
+def load_datasets(
+    *,
+    cfg: DictDefault,
+    cli_args: TrainerCliArgs,
+) -> TrainDatasetMeta:
+    tokenizer = load_tokenizer(cfg)
+
+    train_dataset, eval_dataset, total_num_steps = prepare_dataset(cfg, tokenizer)
+
+    if cli_args.debug or cfg.debug:
+        LOG.info("check_dataset_labels...")
+        check_dataset_labels(
+            train_dataset.select(
+                [
+                    random.randrange(0, len(train_dataset) - 1)  # nosec
+                    for _ in range(cli_args.debug_num_examples)
+                ]
+            ),
+            tokenizer,
+            num_examples=cli_args.debug_num_examples,
+            text_only=cli_args.debug_text_only,
+        )
+
+    return TrainDatasetMeta(
+        train_dataset=train_dataset,
+        eval_dataset=eval_dataset,
+        total_num_steps=total_num_steps,
+    )
+
+
+def do_cli(config: Path = Path("examples/"), **kwargs):
+    print_axolotl_text_art()
+    parsed_cfg = load_cfg(config, **kwargs)
+    parser = transformers.HfArgumentParser((TrainerCliArgs))
+    parsed_cli_args, _ = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses(
+        return_remaining_strings=True
+    )
+    if parsed_cli_args.inference:
+        do_inference(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args)
+    elif parsed_cli_args.merge_lora:
+        do_merge_lora(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args)
+    elif parsed_cli_args.shard:
+        shard(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args)
+    else:
+        dataset_meta = load_datasets(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args)
+        if parsed_cli_args.prepare_ds_only:
+            return
+        train(cfg=parsed_cfg, cli_args=parsed_cli_args, dataset_meta=dataset_meta)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    fire.Fire(do_cli)
diff --git a/python/llm/example/GPU/LLM-Finetuning/axolotl/qlora.yml b/python/llm/example/GPU/LLM-Finetuning/axolotl/qlora.yml
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+base_model: meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf
+base_model_config: meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf
+model_type: LlamaForCausalLM
+tokenizer_type: LlamaTokenizer
+is_llama_derived_model: true
+
+load_in_8bit: false
+load_in_4bit: true
+strict: false
+
+datasets:
+  - path: mhenrichsen/alpaca_2k_test
+    type: alpaca
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0.01
+output_dir: ./qlora-out
+
+adapter: qlora
+lora_model_dir:
+
+sequence_len: 4096
+sample_packing: true
+pad_to_sequence_len: true
+
+lora_r: 8
+lora_alpha: 16
+lora_dropout: 0.05
+lora_target_modules:
+lora_target_linear: true
+lora_fan_in_fan_out:
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_run_id:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 2
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 3
+# change optimizer from paged_adamw_32bit to adamw_torch
+# due to bitsandbytes issue https://github.com/TimDettmers/bitsandbytes/issues/244
+# optimizer: paged_adamw_32bit
+optimizer: adamw_torch
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+train_on_inputs: false
+group_by_length: false
+bf16: true
+fp16: false
+tf32: false
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+early_stopping_patience:
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+local_rank:
+logging_steps: 1
+xformers_attention:
+flash_attention: false
+
+warmup_steps: 10
+eval_steps: 20
+save_steps:
+debug:
+deepspeed:
+weight_decay: 0.0
+fsdp:
+fsdp_config:
+special_tokens:
+  bos_token: "<s>"
+  eos_token: "</s>"
+  unk_token: "<unk>"
diff --git a/python/llm/example/GPU/LLM-Finetuning/axolotl/requirements.txt b/python/llm/example/GPU/LLM-Finetuning/axolotl/requirements.txt
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@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+--extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
+--extra-index-url https://huggingface.github.io/autogptq-index/whl/cu118/
+# torch==2.1.0
+#auto-gptq
+packaging
+peft==0.5.0
+transformers==4.34.0
+bitsandbytes>=0.41.1
+accelerate==0.23.0
+addict
+evaluate
+fire
+PyYAML>=6.0
+datasets
+flash-attn>=2.2.1
+sentencepiece
+wandb
+einops
+#xformers
+optimum
+hf_transfer
+colorama
+numba
+numpy>=1.24.4
+# qlora things
+bert-score==0.3.13
+evaluate==0.4.0
+rouge-score==0.1.2
+scipy
+scikit-learn==1.2.2
+pynvml
+art