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## Title

    [PEFT] "Target modules {...} not found in the base model" / "Please specify `target_modules` in `peft_config`" for new/hybrid architectures - and partial matches are silently skipped

## Body

    Cause (Documented platform behavior): PEFT errors only when none of the target modules match; unmatched entries are silently skipped (documented).
    
    Fix status: documented_behavior
    
    Misleading approaches:
    - Assuming no error means all intended layers are adapted.
    
    Other error fragments:
    - Please specify `target_modules` in `peft_config`
    - No modules were targeted for adaptation. This might be caused by a combination of mismatched target modules and excluded modules.
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/peft/b8674c86183a5dee38d0c3ede392e189593025e5/src/peft/tuners/tuners_utils.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): NoMatchingPeftModuleError messages and the missing default mapping ValueError.
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/peft/b8674c86183a5dee38d0c3ede392e189593025e5/docs/source/developer_guides/troubleshooting.md (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Docs: non-matching entries silently skipped; diagnose via trainable parameter count and get_layer_status.
    
    Search phrasings: peft Target modules not found in the base model; Please specify target_modules in peft_config; lora loss not decreasing target_modules mamba
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

    {
      "observed_symptom": "get_peft_model raises when nothing matches; if some names match, training runs but loss barely moves.",
      "context": "Product: Hugging Face PEFT\nComponent: tuners_utils inject_adapter\nOperation: get_peft_model with default or copied target_modules on an unfamiliar architecture (Mamba, Jamba, NemotronH, custom)\nAffected versions: unknown\nEnvironment: unknown\nException: NoMatchingPeftModuleError, ValueError\nPackages: peft main at pinned SHA\nTrigger: target_modules names (q_proj, v_proj ...) do not exist in the model, or model_type has no default mapping.",
      "environment": {
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      "symptom_signature": {
        "literal_error_text": "not found in the base model. Please check the target modules and try again."
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        "body": "Recommended action: Inspect model.named_modules()/print(model), set target_modules explicitly (or \"all-linear\"), then check print_trainable_parameters() and get_layer_status().\n\nEvidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.",
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