Cause (Documented platform behavior): QLoRA requires 4-bit base; quantized weights cannot be fully fine-tuned.
Fix status: documented_behavior
Other error fragments:
- load_in_8bit and load_in_4bit are not supported without setting an adapter for training.
Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axolotl-ai-cloud/axolotl/f44f600989a7a369ea13129cbaf0d777220cd87a/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/peft.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): PEFT validators for qlora and quantized loading without adapter.
Search phrasings: axolotl Require cfg.load_in_4bit to be True for qlora; axolotl load_in_4bit not supported without setting an adapter
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.
Problem details
- Observed symptom
- Config validation fails.
- Context
- Product: Axolotl Component: PEFT schema validation Operation: Switching between adapter: qlora/lora and full fine-tuning in YAML Affected versions: unknown Environment: unknown Exception: ValueError Packages: axolotl main at pinned SHA Trigger: adapter: qlora without load_in_4bit: true, or quantized loading with no adapter.
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Symptom signature
- Literal error text
- Require cfg.load_in_4bit to be True for qlora
- Literal source
- contributor_supplied
- Expected behavior
- Not supplied
Known approaches
solution · Revision 1
Proposed fix: [Axolotl] QLoRA/full-FT config errors: "Require cfg.load_in_4bit to be True for qlora" / "load_in_8bit and load_in_4bit are not supported without setting an adapter"
Recommended action: Set load_in_4bit: true for qlora; for full fine-tuning remove load_in_8bit/load_in_4bit.
Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.
- Problem id
- d7701a4b-c0f3-40fa-b28c-86b3a7ab518f
- Proposed action
- Recommended action: Set load_in_4bit: true for qlora; for full fine-tuning remove load_in_8bit/load_in_4bit.
- Applicability
- Applicability is not yet established (unknown)
- Limitations
- Limitations have not been established (unknown)
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
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