# Copyright 2020-2026 The HuggingFace Team. All rights reserved. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. # /// script # dependencies = [ # "trl", # "peft", # "trackio", # "kernels", # ] # /// # docstyle-ignore """ # Full training (off-policy only, lmbda=0): ``` python examples/scripts/distillation.py \ --model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct \ --teacher_model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct \ --dataset_name trl-lib/chatbot_arena_completions \ --learning_rate 2e-5 \ --per_device_train_batch_size 4 \ --gradient_accumulation_steps 8 \ --lmbda 0.0 \ --output_dir distilled-model \ --num_train_epochs 1 ``` # Mixed on/off-policy (lmbda=0.5): ``` python examples/scripts/distillation.py \ --model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct \ --teacher_model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct \ --dataset_name trl-lib/chatbot_arena_completions \ --learning_rate 2e-5 \ --per_device_train_batch_size 4 \ --gradient_accumulation_steps 8 \ --lmbda 0.5 \ --beta 0.5 \ --output_dir distilled-model \ --num_train_epochs 1 ``` # LoRA: ``` python examples/scripts/distillation.py \ --model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct \ --teacher_model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct \ --dataset_name trl-lib/chatbot_arena_completions \ --learning_rate 2e-4 \ --per_device_train_batch_size 4 \ --gradient_accumulation_steps 8 \ --lmbda 0.0 \ --output_dir distilled-model \ --num_train_epochs 1 \ --use_peft \ --lora_r 64 \ --lora_alpha 16 ``` """ import argparse import os # Enable logging in a Hugging Face Space os.environ.setdefault("TRACKIO_SPACE_ID", "trl-trackio") def main(script_args, training_args, model_args): from datasets import load_dataset from transformers import GenerationConfig from trl import ( LogCompletionsCallback, get_kbit_device_map, get_peft_config, get_quantization_config, ) from trl.experimental.distillation import DistillationTrainer ################ # Model init kwargs ################ quantization_config = get_quantization_config(model_args) model_kwargs = dict( revision=model_args.model_revision, attn_implementation=model_args.attn_implementation, dtype=model_args.dtype, use_cache=False if training_args.gradient_checkpointing else True, device_map=get_kbit_device_map() if quantization_config is not None else None, quantization_config=quantization_config, ) training_args.model_init_kwargs = model_kwargs teacher_model_kwargs = dict( revision=training_args.teacher_model_revision, attn_implementation=model_args.attn_implementation, dtype=model_args.dtype, use_cache=True, device_map=get_kbit_device_map() if quantization_config is not None else None, quantization_config=quantization_config, ) if training_args.teacher_model_init_kwargs is not None: teacher_model_kwargs.update(training_args.teacher_model_init_kwargs) training_args.teacher_model_init_kwargs = teacher_model_kwargs ################ # Dataset ################ dataset = load_dataset(script_args.dataset_name, name=script_args.dataset_config) ################ # Training ################ eval_dataset = None if training_args.eval_strategy != "no": if script_args.dataset_test_split in dataset: eval_dataset = dataset[script_args.dataset_test_split] elif "validation" in dataset: eval_dataset = dataset["validation"] elif "dev" in dataset: eval_dataset = dataset["dev"] trainer = DistillationTrainer( model=model_args.model_name_or_path, teacher_model=training_args.teacher_model_name_or_path, args=training_args, train_dataset=dataset[script_args.dataset_train_split], eval_dataset=eval_dataset, peft_config=get_peft_config(model_args), ) if training_args.eval_strategy != "no": generation_config = GenerationConfig( max_new_tokens=training_args.max_completion_length, do_sample=True, temperature=training_args.temperature ) completions_callback = LogCompletionsCallback(trainer, generation_config, num_prompts=8) trainer.add_callback(completions_callback) trainer.train() # Save and push to Hub trainer.save_model(training_args.output_dir) if training_args.push_to_hub: trainer.push_to_hub(dataset_name=script_args.dataset_name) def make_parser(subparsers: argparse._SubParsersAction | None = None, prog: str | None = None): from trl import ModelConfig, ScriptArguments, TrlParser from trl.experimental.distillation import DistillationConfig dataclass_types = (ScriptArguments, DistillationConfig, ModelConfig) if subparsers is not None: parser = subparsers.add_parser( "distillation", help="Run the distillation training script", dataclass_types=dataclass_types ) else: parser = TrlParser(dataclass_types, prog=prog) return parser if __name__ == "__main__": parser = make_parser() script_args, training_args, model_args = parser.parse_args_and_config(fail_with_unknown_args=False) main(script_args, training_args, model_args)