From: huggingface <github.com/huggingface>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject:

TRL

Release: v1.18.0 (2026-11-13)Commit: 480dde9License: Apache-2.0

Supervised fine-tuning and preference training for transformers models.

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FactsLicenseApache-2.0LanguagePythonKindtrainingRelease2026-11-13PlatformsLinux, macOS, WindowsLinks to the projectpermissive
$ pip install trl
# use with Freeweights
$ trl sft --model_name_or_path <id> --dataset_name <dataset>

Overview

Supervised fine-tuning and preference training for transformers models.

Kind
training
License
Apache-2.0
Language
Python
Platforms
Linux, macOS, Windows
Latest release
v1.18.0 (2026-11-13)
Repository
huggingface/trl

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Install

$ pip install trl
# use with Freeweights
$ trl sft --model_name_or_path <id> --dataset_name <dataset>
$ pip install trl

Checked against the project's README on 2026-11-14. The project's own instructions win when they differ: install docs

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Use with Freeweights

Fine-tune a catalog model
$ trl sft --model_name_or_path <id> --dataset_name <dataset>

Download the weights from Freeweights first (HF_ENDPOINT or fw.py), then point the tool at the folder.

Catalog models it can fine-tune (33)

License

License
Apache-2.0
Class
Permissive

Read the license

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Provenance

From: huggingface <github.com/huggingface>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject: TRLRelease: v1.18.0 (2026-11-13)Commit: 480dde9License: Apache-2.0
Repository
huggingface/trl
Pinned release
v1.18.0, 2026-11-13
Release commit
480dde905c9137898819b27b6c2c6f9be9f34046
Default branch
main 8ad18ec1b6493b85cf9fffbd87d376767ceb8611
Fetched
2026-11-14
Takedowns
None.

Freeweights links to the project and does not host tool binaries.

Works with

33 catalog models. See the list