Tao Finetune Huggingface Model
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This skill provides a structured, six-step workflow for fine-tuning HuggingFace CV, VLM, and LLM models on local NVIDIA GPUs. It leverages NGC PyTorch containers to ensure environment consistency and reproducibility. The workflow includes automated preflight checks, live research of model-specific recipes, smoke testing on real data, and optional integration with HuggingFace Hub for model sharing. It is designed to be the fallback for models not covered by dedicated TAO skills, ensuring a rigorous, documented path from inspection to deployment.
What it does
- Inspects and qualifies models and datasets for compatibility.
- Audits local hardware and selects the appropriate NGC PyTorch container.
- Performs live research to fetch model-specific training recipes and configurations.
- Generates a complete, reproducible project structure including training and evaluation scripts.
- Executes a mandatory smoke test on real data before full-scale training.
- Pushes fine-tuned models to the HuggingFace Hub and emits a self-contained rerun skill.
When to use it
- When you need to fine-tune a HuggingFace model and no dedicated TAO skill exists for it.
- When you require a reproducible, containerized training pipeline on local NVIDIA hardware.
- When you need to smoke-test a model locally before scaling to larger infrastructure.
- When you want to automate the generation of model cards and training reports.
Advantages
- Ensures environment consistency using NVIDIA-optimized NGC containers.
- Prevents common training failures through mandatory smoke testing and preflight checks.
- Reduces manual configuration by automating script generation and recipe research.
- Provides a clear, auditable path from initial inspection to final model deployment.
Usage examples
- “Fine-tune google/vit-base-patch16-224 on my local image dataset.”
- The agent will inspect the model and dataset, verify hardware, generate the training project, run a smoke test, and initiate the fine-tuning process.
- “Train a Llama-3-8B model using LoRA on my local GPU.”
- The agent will research the appropriate LoRA configuration, set up the NGC environment, and execute the training pipeline with the specified parameters.
Install
Download the skill as a ZIP:
https://autogineer.com/agent-skills/nvidia/tao-finetune-huggingface-model/downloadUnzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:
mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip tao-finetune-huggingface-model.zip -d .agents/skills
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tao-finetune-huggingface-model
Standalone install? If this session was not initialized by the TAO skill bank plugin, run the
tao-setupskill first (host preflight, credentials, cross-skill discovery).
Local NVIDIA GPU fine-tuning for HuggingFace models, grounded in live-fetched documentation with curated references as a fallback safety net. One NGC container, a few focused scripts, one push to HF Hub. Follow the rules in this file; don't improvise.
Dedicated-model routing gate
Before Step 1 or any probe, image selection, package install, venv creation, or
training-code generation, resolve model_id against the packaged model-owner
registry. Use the absolute skill-bank root from which this file was loaded:
python <bank-root>/scripts/resolve_tao_model.py \
--skill-bank <bank-root> \
--model "$MODEL_ID" \
--format jsonThe resolver matches model metadata, including huggingface_model_ids,
network_arch, skill names, and legacy aliases. Routing is internal: a model ID
and task are enough. Never require prompt boilerplate about skills, containers,
or checkpoint formats.
Exit
0: stop this workflow and follow the owning model skill's environment, action metadata, preflight, and checkpoint preparation.Exit
3: no packaged model skill owns the ID. This is the only result that permits Step 1 of the generic workflow.Any other nonzero exit: ownership discovery is broken or ambiguous. Stop and resolve that error; do not silently fall back to generic Hugging Face training.
Hugging Face hosting never overrides ownership. Do not use this workflow to
bypass a matched skill or ask the user to prescribe its internal preparation.
For example, nvidia/Cosmos3-Nano routes to tao-finetune-cosmos-reason.
Do not create a host training venv in this workflow. Its default execution path is the NGC container documented below; any venv-based training path requires an explicit user request.
Order of authority (highest first):
User input — explicit
model_id,dataset_id,training_method,config.yamloverrides.Live research — model card, HF repo example, author finetune script, HF task docs, paper; always fetched (Step 3 +
references/research-priorities.md).Curated references (
references/*.md) — fallback when live research is silent/ambiguous.Your training-data memory — last resort; suspect, cross-check against (2)/(3).
Conflict resolution between (2) and (3) and the source-line discrepancy note are
in references/research-priorities.md.
Inputs
Required:
model_id— HuggingFace model ID, e.g.google/vit-base-patch16-224
Conditional credentials (read from the session environment — exported before launching or sourced from a user-approved env file):
HF_TOKEN— only when the model/dataset is gated (read) orpush_to_hubis on (write); public + public +push_to_hub: falseneeds none. Value never read — presence-only via[ -n "$HF_TOKEN" ].WANDB_API_KEY,WANDB_PROJECT— only when WandB is enabled;WANDB_MODE=disabledopts out.
Dataset — exactly one:
dataset_id— HuggingFace dataset ID (source:hf)local_dataset_path— local folder or file (source:local); optionallocal_dataset_format∈ {auto, imagefolder, coco, voc, jsonl, arrow, parquet, csv} (default: auto-detect).(omit) — agent recommends popular datasets (source:
recommend)
Optional (have defaults):
task_type— auto-detected from config + model cardn_train=10000,n_eval=1000,n_epochs=3,lora_r=16output_dir=./output/<model_short_name>hf_model_repo— push target; if unset and HF_TOKEN has write access, auto-derived as<whoami>/<model_short_name>-finetuned.push_to_hub=True— set toFalseto skipskip_baseline=False— skip zero-shot baseline eval
Optional deliverables (off by default):
emit_progress_log: false # output_dir/PROGRESS.md (per-step journal)
emit_report: false # reports/report.{pdf,html} with curves & samples
emit_unit_tests: false # tests/ with fake-data heterogeneous-batch testsAll values live in output_dir/config.yaml. Never hardcode in Python.
Execution platform
This skill orchestrates what to run; the platform skills own how to run it on a GPU host — read them first.
| Concern | Authoritative skill |
|---|---|
| GPU host runtime (driver 580, CUDA Toolkit 13.0, NVIDIA Container Toolkit 1.19.0) | tao-skill-bank:tao-setup-nvidia-gpu-host |
docker run flags, NGC auth, mounts, env passthrough, local/remote Docker job preflight (daemon, GPU smoke) | tao-skill-bank:tao-run-on-docker |
Default platform: local-docker — build a one-off image (run-<short>:latest)
and run it on the local Docker daemon. Ask only when the user explicitly needs a
different backend (Brev remote GPU, SLURM/Kubernetes); then run that platform's
Preflight first and route the Steps 4–5 docker run commands through it. The
GPU-runtime and presence-only credential preflights (values never read), the
canonical docker run flag set, discovery of the execution platforms from the
installed platform skills (tao-run-on-docker / -slurm / -kubernetes / -brev, plus
any external one; on a runtime that surfaces only the core router skills, read
skills/platform/tao-run-on-*/SKILL.md frontmatter), and
the workflow-specific flags (--entrypoint /bin/bash -lc, PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF,
--name hft_train) are in references/workflow-intake-preflight.md.
References — fallback safety net
Consulted only when live research is silent, ambiguous, or unavailable; live
docs always win for the specific model and current API. Each step links the
references it needs; full catalog in references/detailed-workflow.md.
Always-on: core-rules.md, error-playbook.md, compat-workarounds.md,
model-discovery.md, dataset-recommendations.md, dataset-sources.md,
dataset-patterns.md, hardware-container.md, research-priorities.md,
cv-scripts.md, vlm-scripts.md, docker-runs.md, hub-push.md,
pipeline-skill-template.md, deliverables.md. Opt-in (when their flag/need
applies): progress-tracking.md, testing.md, reporting.md,
workflow-intake-preflight.md, workflow-generate-train.md, workflow-push-rerun.md.
Rule: before falling back, log the live source you tried and why it was
insufficient (config.yaml notes:, and PROGRESS.md if enabled). [FETCH LIVE]
markers in cv-scripts.md / vlm-scripts.md are a research checklist, not code to
inline — refetch the listed URL if a block has no Step 3 finding.
Core rules
Non-negotiable behaviors. Short version (full enumeration —
hallucinated-imports list, never-without-approval list, full error-recovery and
hardware-sizing tables — in references/core-rules.md, consult before any
training-time decision):
Your HF-library knowledge is outdated. Fetch live docs (model card, HF repo example, task doc) before writing any ML code — don't generate trainer args / collator / transforms from memory (Step 3).
Smoke-test on real data with
--max_steps 1before any full run; no batch launches without a verified smoke.Never silently substitute model_id, dataset_id, or training_method — if what the user asked for doesn't load, stop and ask.
Error recovery is minimal-change. OOM → halve batch, double grad_accum, enable gradient checkpointing (no LoRA switch without approval); NaN → reduce LR 10×; flat loss → inspect collator; same error 3× → stop and ask. Don't loop.
Dataset columns verified BEFORE the collator — rename in
prepare_data.py; restructuring needed → stop and ask.Hardware-sizing thumb (bf16): ≤3B → 24 GB, 7–13B → 80 GB, 30B+ → multi-GPU or LoRA on 1× 80 GB, 70B+ → 8× 80 GB or LoRA. Full finetune won't fit and no LoRA requested → ask before switching.
Workflow — 6 steps
Single pass, sequential; each step has a clear gate before the next begins.
Step 1 — Inspect & qualify
Goal: decide whether to proceed. Probe model + dataset, apply accept/reject,
register applicable compat fixes, write the initial config.yaml.
Prerequisites: MODEL_ID, optional DATASET_ID / local_dataset_path,
optional HF_TOKEN, OUTPUT_DIR (default ./output/<model_short_name>). Probes
run in a CPU-only python:3.12-slim Docker container (bind-mounted .probe/
scratch) so the host needs no virtualenv — Docker must exist first. Docker-presence
guard, container env, full probe invocation, and the model/dataset probe scripts
are in references/workflow-intake-preflight.md, references/model-discovery.md,
and references/dataset-sources.md.
Probe requirements:
Model: load
AutoConfig, read model-card tags, detect task fromarchitectures+ tags + card examples (fallback logging inmodel-discovery.md).Dataset: for recommended datasets, first present 3-5 choices from
dataset-recommendations.md; for local data, bind-mount read-only and usedataset-sources.mdformat detection.Reject early if the model config fails, the task is out of scope, no recipe source exists, or the dataset cannot load / match the task schema.
Evaluate
compat-workarounds.mdagainst the model/task; defer hardware-dependent rules to Step 2.
Write the initial config.yaml (model_id, task, dataset_id or
local_dataset_path, research_sources: [] filled in Step 3,
applicable_workarounds: from Step 1, notes: [] for reference fallbacks,
push_to_hub: true default — annotated template in
references/workflow-intake-preflight.md). Optionally rm -rf "$OUTPUT_DIR/.probe"
once the gate is met.
Gate: config.yaml exists with model, dataset, task, applicable_workarounds;
do not proceed if any field is missing.
Step 2 — Hardware audit & NGC image
Goal: verify Docker + GPU + disk, pick the NGC PyTorch image live, finalize hardware-dependent compat rules.
2a. Audit (hard gate) — three checks (commands in
references/workflow-intake-preflight.md):
GPU host runtime —
tao-setup-nvidia-gpu-host'ssetup-nvidia-gpu-host.sh --backend docker --check-only; on fail, ask approval then re-run with--install --yes.Free-disk soft-warn — override via
MIN_DISK_GB(default 100 GB); recommend ≥ 100 GB for NGC base (~20 GB) + HF cache + checkpoints + data.Conditional credential presence (values never read) —
HF_TOKENonly when gated orpush_to_hubis on;WANDB_*only when WandB is on.
Do not proceed to Step 4 on a hard-fail — Step 4's docker build pulls a
20+ GB NGC base, and a missing nvidia-container-toolkit only surfaces later as
could not select device driver "" with capabilities: [[gpu]]. Record gpu_count,
gpu_name, driver_major, vram_gb_per_gpu in config.yaml.
2b. Pick NGC image (live): from the NVIDIA Deep Learning Frameworks support
matrix (https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/frameworks/support-matrix/index.html),
PyTorch NGC container section, pick the highest-versioned image where
Min driver ≤ detected driver_major and container CUDA ≤ host CUDA Toolkit
(match closely so cuDNN / TensorRT line up). Do not reject an image for an
aN/bN/rcN PyTorch tag — NGC validates the full image; pick the newest
CUDA-aligned one and let compat-workarounds.md handle per-version issues. If the
matrix is unreachable, use the fallbacks in references/hardware-container.md;
default nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:24.09-py3 <!-- unpinned: documented fallback --> (driver ≥ 545; SDPA+GQA bug — if
num_key_value_heads < num_attention_heads, set attn_implementation: "eager").
Record ngc_image in config.yaml.
2c. Re-evaluate hardware-dependent compat rules: re-run the
compat-workarounds.md walk for entries whose detect needs hw; update
applicable_workarounds: in place.
2d. Model-fit check: estimate param_bytes ≈ 2×param_count (bf16); if
60% of
vram_gb_per_gpu × 1e9, recommend LoRA in the user-facing summary.
Gate: config.yaml has ngc_image, gpu_count, gpu_name, driver_major,
vram_gb_per_gpu; hardware-dependent compat fixes recorded.
Step 3 — Research the recipe
Goal: fetch the live recipe — training-data knowledge of
transformers/trl/peft is suspect, so Step 3 is non-negotiable. Walk
references/research-priorities.md in priority order (Priority 1 → 6); stop once
you have, for the detected task:
AutoModel/ processor classTrain + eval transforms
Collator
compute_metricsHyperparameter hints (LR, batch size, epochs, scheduler)
Record findings in meta/recipe.md, append source URLs to
config.yaml: research_sources:. A slot with no live finding falls back to the
matching scaffold (cv-scripts.md / vlm-scripts.md), logged as "fallback to
scaffold — no live source for <slot>" under notes:. Conflict-resolution rules
are in references/research-priorities.md.
Gate: every required slot filled, with a source URL or scaffold-fallback note.
Step 4 — Generate project & smoke-test
Goal: write all scripts, build the image, prepare data, run a 1-step smoke on
real data (one docker build, two docker runs).
4a. Generate project files in output_dir/: config.yaml, Dockerfile,
requirements.txt, prepare_data.py, train.py, run_eval.py, infer.py,
optional merge_lora.py, optional tests/, .gitignore. Live Step 3 research is
authority; cv-scripts.md / vlm-scripts.md give scaffold shape only. Apply every
applicable_workarounds entry as a Dockerfile block, requirement pin, config
override, or runtime env var. Hard rules: run_eval.py keeps that exact filename
(avoids colliding with the HF evaluate package); every generated .py starts
with the NVIDIA Apache-2.0 copyright header and any emitter fails when it is
missing; emit_unit_tests: true generates and runs tests per
references/testing.md. Script bodies, Dockerfile shape, and the emitter contract
are in references/workflow-generate-train.md.
4b. Build, prepare, smoke — docker build -t run-<short>:latest ., then
prepare_data and the --smoke --max_steps 1 run (references/docker-runs.md
§1-3). Smoke pass criteria (in logs/smoke.log):
No exception
Loss is finite (not
0.0, notNaN)grad_norm > 0at step 1
If emit_unit_tests: true, also run pytest tests/ in the container. Any failure → STOP.
4c. Preflight summary — before full training, print and verify: reference URL, dataset columns, Hub target, monitoring target, NGC image, hardware, smoke loss/grad norm.
Gate: project files written, image built, smoke PASSED, preflight has no blank fields.
Step 5 — Train, evaluate, infer
Goal: baseline eval, full training, post-train eval, optional LoRA merge, 5
inference samples (all commands: references/docker-runs.md §4-8).
| Sub-step | docker-runs.md | Skip if |
|---|---|---|
| 5a. Baseline eval (zero-shot) | §4 | skip_baseline: true |
| 5b. Full training (detached) | §5 | — |
| 5c. LoRA merge | §6 | not VLM+LoRA |
| 5d. Post-train eval | §7 | — |
| 5e. Inference (5 samples) | §8 | — |
Multi-GPU: prepend torchrun --nproc_per_node=$gpu_count to python train.py.
While training streams, watch docker logs -f hft_train: loss should drop within
10-20 steps; flat loss (collator/label-masking bug), NaN (LR too high), and OOM
all stop the run — recovery in references/core-rules.md. If emit_report: true,
run report.py after Step 5e per references/reporting.md.
Gate: all of:
checkpoints/final/(orcheckpoints/merged/for LoRA) existsreports/eval_results.jsonhas a numeric primary metricreports/baseline_results.jsonexists (unless skipped)reports/inference_samples/has 5 sampleswandb URL shows descending loss
Step 6 — Push & emit rerun skill
Goal: publish the run and make it reproducible without re-research.
Push per references/hub-push.md (weights, model card, eval/baseline JSONs,
config.yaml, Dockerfile, requirements.txt, inference samples, reports when
emitted) unless push_to_hub: false is explicit. Emit
<output_dir>/skills/run-<short>/SKILL.md from
references/pipeline-skill-template.md — substitute every placeholder, include
full YAML metadata + the NVIDIA copyright HTML comment, and make any emitter fail
if those are missing.
Gate (Done criteria): all of:
Step 5 gate met
HF Hub repo exists at the resolved URL with weights + card +
results/(unlesspush_to_hub: false)<output_dir>/skills/run-<short>/SKILL.mdexists, no<placeholder>left, with metadata + copyright HTML comment perpipeline-skill-template.md
Final message: wandb URL, HF Hub URL, baseline -> fine-tuned primary metric,
reports/inference_samples/, and the rerun skill path.
Error playbook
On a known runtime error, consult the symptom → minimal-fix table in
references/error-playbook.md (NGC entrypoint, PyTorch/Transformers regressions,
numpy ABI, Albumentations bbox, PEFT/checkpointing, LoRA target breadth, CV
augmentation gaps, OOM at step 0) before redesigning anything. When a row there
fires twice across runs, lift it into compat-workarounds.md with a detect rule
— auto-applied in Step 1 before the error can fire.
Communication style
Terse. No filler, no restating the request; one-word answers when appropriate.
Always include direct Hub and wandb URLs when referencing artifacts.
On error: state what went wrong, why, what you changed — no menus.
Never present "Option A/B/C" for a request with a clear answer. Act.
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references/reporting.md
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Report Generation Reference
Use this reference only when the parent SKILL.md points here for the current task. If this file conflicts with current SKILL.md, skill_info.yaml, schemas, or platform/model skills, the current authoritative source wins.
Contents
report.py — Full Template
Install Requirements for Report
Expected Report Structure
wandb Artifacts Integration
Report Gotcha: Log parsing depends on HF Trainer format
Used in Phase 10 of tao-finetune-huggingface-model skill. Generates report.pdf and report.html with training curves, eval metrics (including baseline vs post-training delta), sample predictions, and a summary table.
Data source: HF Trainer writes a canonical trainer_state.json into the output directory
(e.g., checkpoints/checkpoint-N/trainer_state.json and the final checkpoints/final/trainer_state.json).
This file contains all logged metrics as structured JSON — far more reliable than regex-parsing
the text log.
report.py — Full Template
"""
report.py — Generate PDF + HTML training report with charts.
Usage:
python report.py --config config.yaml \
--eval_results reports/eval_results.json \
--inference_samples reports/inference_samples/ \
--log_file logs/train.log \
--output reports/
"""
import argparse
import json
import os
import re
import yaml
from datetime import datetime
from pathlib import Path
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use("Agg")
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.gridspec as gridspec
from matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf import PdfPages
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image as PILImage
# ── Arg parsing ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
def parse_args():
p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
p.add_argument("--config", default="config.yaml")
p.add_argument("--eval_results", default="reports/eval_results.json")
p.add_argument("--baseline_results", default="reports/baseline_results.json")
p.add_argument("--inference_samples", default="reports/inference_samples")
p.add_argument("--trainer_state", default="checkpoints/final/trainer_state.json",
help="Path to HF Trainer's trainer_state.json")
p.add_argument("--output", default="reports/")
return p.parse_args()
# ── Training metrics parsing (trainer_state.json — canonical) ───────────────
def parse_trainer_state(trainer_state_path: str):
"""Load HF Trainer's canonical log_history from trainer_state.json.
log_history is a list of dicts like:
{"loss": 0.42, "learning_rate": 1e-5, "epoch": 0.5, "step": 50}
{"eval_loss": 0.38, "eval_accuracy": 0.71, "epoch": 1.0, "step": 100}
"""
steps, losses, lrs = [], [], []
eval_steps, eval_losses, eval_metrics = [], [], [] # eval_metrics: {metric_name: [values]}
if not os.path.exists(trainer_state_path):
# Fallback — search for trainer_state.json in checkpoint subdirs
parent = Path(trainer_state_path).parent.parent
candidates = sorted(parent.glob("checkpoint-*/trainer_state.json"))
if candidates:
trainer_state_path = str(candidates[-1]) # most recent checkpoint
else:
print(f"WARN: no trainer_state.json at {trainer_state_path}; charts will be empty")
return steps, losses, lrs, eval_steps, eval_losses, {}
with open(trainer_state_path) as f:
state = json.load(f)
eval_series = {}
for entry in state.get("log_history", []):
step = entry.get("step")
if "loss" in entry and step is not None:
steps.append(step)
losses.append(entry["loss"])
lrs.append(entry.get("learning_rate", 0))
if "eval_loss" in entry and step is not None:
eval_steps.append(step)
eval_losses.append(entry["eval_loss"])
# Capture all eval_* metrics
for k, v in entry.items():
if k.startswith("eval_") and k != "eval_loss" and isinstance(v, (int, float)):
eval_series.setdefault(k, []).append((step, v))
return steps, losses, lrs, eval_steps, eval_losses, eval_series
# ── Chart helpers ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
def fig_loss_curve(steps, losses, eval_steps, eval_losses, title="Training Loss"):
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 4))
if steps:
ax.plot(steps, losses, label="Train loss", color="#76b900", linewidth=1.5, alpha=0.8)
if eval_steps:
ax.plot(eval_steps, eval_losses, label="Eval loss", color="#ff6b35",
linewidth=2, marker="o", markersize=5)
ax.set_xlabel("Step")
ax.set_ylabel("Loss")
ax.set_title(title)
ax.legend()
ax.grid(True, alpha=0.3)
fig.tight_layout()
return fig
def fig_lr_schedule(steps, lrs):
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 3))
if steps:
ax.plot(steps, lrs, color="#1f77b4", linewidth=1.5)
ax.set_xlabel("Step")
ax.set_ylabel("Learning Rate")
ax.set_title("Learning Rate Schedule")
ax.grid(True, alpha=0.3)
fig.tight_layout()
return fig
def fig_metrics_bar(eval_results: dict, task: str):
metrics = {k: v for k, v in eval_results.items()
if isinstance(v, float) and k not in ("n_eval",)}
if not metrics:
return None
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 4))
keys = list(metrics.keys())
vals = [metrics[k] * 100 if metrics[k] <= 1.0 else metrics[k] for k in keys]
colors = ["#76b900" if v >= 60 else "#ff6b35" if v >= 40 else "#cc0000" for v in vals]
bars = ax.barh(keys, vals, color=colors)
ax.bar_label(bars, fmt="%.2f%%", padding=4, fontsize=10)
ax.set_xlabel("Score (%)")
ax.set_title(f"Evaluation Metrics — {task}")
ax.set_xlim(0, max(vals) * 1.2)
ax.grid(True, alpha=0.3, axis="x")
fig.tight_layout()
return fig
def fig_inference_samples(samples_dir: str, n: int = 5, task: str = "image-classification"):
"""Create a grid of inference samples."""
samples_path = Path(samples_dir)
input_imgs = sorted(samples_path.glob("sample_*_input.jpg"))[:n]
pred_imgs = sorted(samples_path.glob("sample_*_pred.jpg"))[:n]
metas = sorted(samples_path.glob("sample_*_meta.json"))[:n]
if not input_imgs:
return None
n_cols = min(n, len(input_imgs))
has_pred = len(pred_imgs) > 0
n_rows = 2 if has_pred else 1
fig, axes = plt.subplots(n_rows, n_cols, figsize=(4 * n_cols, 4 * n_rows))
if n_rows == 1 and n_cols == 1:
axes = np.array([[axes]])
elif n_rows == 1:
axes = axes.reshape(1, -1)
elif n_cols == 1:
axes = axes.reshape(-1, 1)
for j, img_path in enumerate(input_imgs):
img = PILImage.open(img_path).convert("RGB")
axes[0, j].imshow(img)
axes[0, j].axis("off")
title = f"Sample {j}"
if metas and j < len(metas):
try:
meta = json.loads(metas[j].read_text())
if task == "image-classification":
pred = meta.get("top_predictions", [{}])[0]
title = f"{pred.get('label','?')} ({pred.get('score',0):.2f})"
elif task == "image-text-to-text":
title = meta.get("predicted", "")[:40]
except Exception:
pass
axes[0, j].set_title(title, fontsize=8, wrap=True)
if has_pred:
for j, img_path in enumerate(pred_imgs):
img = PILImage.open(img_path).convert("RGB")
axes[1, j].imshow(img)
axes[1, j].axis("off")
axes[1, j].set_title("Prediction", fontsize=8)
plt.suptitle("Inference Samples", fontsize=12, fontweight="bold")
fig.tight_layout()
return fig
def fig_config_table(cfg: dict):
"""Render key config values as a matplotlib table."""
keys_to_show = [
"model_id", "task", "training_method", "num_train_epochs",
"per_device_train_batch_size", "learning_rate", "lr_scheduler_type",
"bf16", "use_lora", "lora_r", "max_seq_length", "n_train", "n_eval",
]
rows = [[k, str(cfg.get(k, "N/A"))] for k in keys_to_show if k in cfg]
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, max(3, len(rows) * 0.35 + 1)))
ax.axis("off")
tbl = ax.table(
cellText=rows,
colLabels=["Parameter", "Value"],
loc="center",
cellLoc="left",
)
tbl.auto_set_font_size(False)
tbl.set_fontsize(9)
tbl.scale(1, 1.4)
# Header styling
for (row, col), cell in tbl.get_celld().items():
if row == 0:
cell.set_facecolor("#76b900")
cell.set_text_props(color="white", fontweight="bold")
elif row % 2 == 0:
cell.set_facecolor("#f5f5f5")
ax.set_title("Training Configuration", fontsize=11, fontweight="bold", pad=12)
fig.tight_layout()
return fig
# ── HTML report ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
def write_html(output_dir: str, cfg: dict, eval_results: dict, chart_paths: list, date_str: str):
model_id = cfg.get("model_id", "unknown")
task = cfg.get("task", "unknown")
method = cfg.get("training_method", "sft")
metric_rows = "".join(
f"<tr><td>{k}</td><td><b>{v:.4f}</b> ({v*100:.2f}%)</td></tr>"
if isinstance(v, float) and v <= 1.0
else f"<tr><td>{k}</td><td><b>{v}</b></td></tr>"
for k, v in eval_results.items() if k != "n_eval"
)
charts_html = "".join(
f'<div class="chart"><img src="{Path(p).name}" style="max-width:100%;"></div>'
for p in chart_paths if p and os.path.exists(p)
)
html = f"""<!DOCTYPE html>
<html><head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Training Report — {model_id}</title>
<style>
body {{ font-family: Arial, sans-serif; max-width: 1200px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 20px; }}
h1 {{ color: #76b900; }} h2 {{ color: #333; border-bottom: 2px solid #76b900; padding-bottom: 5px; }}
table {{ border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; margin: 10px 0; }}
th {{ background: #76b900; color: white; padding: 8px; text-align: left; }}
td {{ padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #ddd; }}
tr:nth-child(even) {{ background: #f9f9f9; }}
.chart {{ margin: 20px 0; text-align: center; }}
.meta {{ background: #f0f7e6; padding: 15px; border-radius: 5px; margin: 10px 0; }}
</style>
</head><body>
<h1>Training Report</h1>
<div class="meta">
<b>Model:</b> {model_id} |
<b>Task:</b> {task} |
<b>Method:</b> {method} |
<b>Date:</b> {date_str} |
<b>N eval:</b> {eval_results.get("n_eval", "N/A")}
</div>
<h2>Evaluation Results</h2>
<table><tr><th>Metric</th><th>Value</th></tr>{metric_rows}</table>
<h2>Charts</h2>
{charts_html}
<footer><p style="color:#999;font-size:12px;">Generated by tao-finetune-huggingface-model skill — {date_str}</p></footer>
</body></html>"""
html_path = Path(output_dir) / "report.html"
html_path.write_text(html)
print(f"HTML report: {html_path}")
# ── Main ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
def fig_baseline_vs_finetuned(baseline: dict, finetuned: dict, task: str):
"""Grouped bar chart comparing pre- vs post-training metrics."""
common = [k for k in finetuned if k in baseline
and isinstance(finetuned[k], (int, float))
and isinstance(baseline[k], (int, float))
and k != "n_eval"]
if not common:
return None
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 4.5))
x = np.arange(len(common))
width = 0.35
baseline_vals = [baseline[k] * 100 if baseline[k] <= 1.0 else baseline[k] for k in common]
finetuned_vals = [finetuned[k] * 100 if finetuned[k] <= 1.0 else finetuned[k] for k in common]
b1 = ax.bar(x - width/2, baseline_vals, width, label="Zero-shot baseline", color="#888")
b2 = ax.bar(x + width/2, finetuned_vals, width, label="Fine-tuned", color="#76b900")
ax.bar_label(b1, fmt="%.1f", padding=3, fontsize=8)
ax.bar_label(b2, fmt="%.1f", padding=3, fontsize=8)
ax.set_xticks(x)
ax.set_xticklabels(common, rotation=15, ha="right")
ax.set_ylabel("Score")
ax.set_title(f"Baseline vs Fine-tuned — {task}")
ax.legend()
ax.grid(True, alpha=0.3, axis="y")
fig.tight_layout()
return fig
def main():
args = parse_args()
with open(args.config) as f:
cfg = yaml.safe_load(f)
with open(args.eval_results) as f:
eval_results = json.load(f)
# Load baseline if available
baseline_results = None
if os.path.exists(args.baseline_results):
with open(args.baseline_results) as f:
baseline_results = json.load(f)
out_dir = Path(args.output)
out_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
date_str = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
steps, losses, lrs, eval_steps, eval_losses, eval_series = parse_trainer_state(args.trainer_state)
task = cfg.get("task", "unknown")
# Save charts as PNGs (for HTML embedding)
chart_paths = []
def save_fig(fig, name):
if fig is None:
return None
path = str(out_dir / name)
fig.savefig(path, dpi=150, bbox_inches="tight")
plt.close(fig)
chart_paths.append(path)
return path
save_fig(fig_config_table(cfg), "chart_config.png")
save_fig(fig_loss_curve(steps, losses, eval_steps, eval_losses,
title=f"Loss — {cfg.get('model_id','')}"), "chart_loss.png")
save_fig(fig_lr_schedule(steps, lrs), "chart_lr.png")
save_fig(fig_metrics_bar(eval_results, task), "chart_metrics.png")
if baseline_results:
save_fig(fig_baseline_vs_finetuned(baseline_results, eval_results, task),
"chart_baseline_vs_finetuned.png")
save_fig(fig_inference_samples(args.inference_samples, n=5, task=task), "chart_samples.png")
# PDF
pdf_path = out_dir / "report.pdf"
with PdfPages(str(pdf_path)) as pdf:
# Cover page
fig_cover, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(11, 8.5))
ax.axis("off")
ax.text(0.5, 0.7, "Training Report", ha="center", fontsize=28, fontweight="bold",
color="#76b900", transform=ax.transAxes)
ax.text(0.5, 0.58, cfg.get("model_id", "unknown"), ha="center", fontsize=18,
color="#333", transform=ax.transAxes)
ax.text(0.5, 0.48, f"Task: {task} | Method: {cfg.get('training_method','sft')}",
ha="center", fontsize=14, color="#555", transform=ax.transAxes)
ax.text(0.5, 0.38, f"Dataset: {cfg.get('dataset_id','')} | n_train={cfg.get('n_train','')}",
ha="center", fontsize=12, color="#777", transform=ax.transAxes)
ax.text(0.5, 0.28, date_str, ha="center", fontsize=11, color="#999", transform=ax.transAxes)
pdf.savefig(fig_cover)
plt.close(fig_cover)
for path in chart_paths:
if path and os.path.exists(path):
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(11, 7))
img = PILImage.open(path)
ax.imshow(img)
ax.axis("off")
pdf.savefig(fig, bbox_inches="tight")
plt.close(fig)
print(f"PDF report: {pdf_path}")
write_html(str(out_dir), cfg, eval_results, chart_paths, date_str)
print(f"\nReport complete. Assets in {out_dir}/")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()Install Requirements for Report
The report.py requires matplotlib, seaborn, Pillow. These are in requirements.txt.
If running report outside the training container (e.g. on the host):
pip install matplotlib seaborn pillow pyyamlOr run inside the training container:
docker run --rm \
-v $(pwd)/output_dir:/workspace \
$NGC_IMAGE \
"cd /workspace && python report.py --config config.yaml \
--eval_results reports/eval_results.json \
--inference_samples reports/inference_samples/ \
--log_file logs/train.log \
--output reports/"Expected Report Structure
reports/
├── report.pdf ← Multi-page PDF with all charts
├── report.html ← Standalone HTML (embeds PNG charts)
├── chart_config.png ← Training config table
├── chart_loss.png ← Train + eval loss curve
├── chart_lr.png ← Learning rate schedule
├── chart_metrics.png ← Eval metrics bar chart
├── chart_samples.png ← Inference sample grid
├── eval_results.json ← Raw metrics (from Phase 8)
└── inference_samples/ ← Per-sample images + meta.json (from Phase 9)wandb Artifacts Integration
If wandb tracking was used, supplement the report with wandb run URL:
import wandb
# In report.py, after writing PDF:
run_name = os.environ.get("WANDB_RUN_NAME")
project = os.environ.get("WANDB_PROJECT")
entity = os.environ.get("WANDB_ENTITY", "your-entity")
if run_name and project:
print(f"\nwandb run: https://wandb.ai/{entity}/{project}/runs/{run_name}")
print("Charts and metrics are also available in the wandb dashboard.")Add the wandb URL to the HTML report cover section.
Report Gotcha: Log parsing depends on HF Trainer format
HF Trainer logs metrics as JSON-like dicts:
{'loss': 0.4523, 'learning_rate': 1.2e-05, 'epoch': 0.5, 'step': 50}If you see No training metrics found in the report, check:
logs/train.logexists and is non-emptyTraining actually ran (check checkpoint exists)
logging_stepsis not too high (default 10 is fine)
TRL SFTTrainer uses the same logging format as HF Trainer — parsing is identical.
Requirements and compatibility
Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta
“Works with” means the tool reads the open Agent Skills format; a skill written for one tool may use features others lack.
Needs: Declares allowed tools, Needs an API key, Needs Python
The author says: Requires docker + nvidia-container-toolkit, NVIDIA GPU (driver ≥ 545, ≥ 24 GB VRAM for ≤3B models), ~40 GB free disk. Optional credentials (read from the session environment) — HF_TOKEN is read only when the model/dataset is gated or `push_to_hub` is on; WANDB_API_KEY and WANDB_PROJECT only when WandB logging is enabled.
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- NVIDIA (Official)
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