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

Megatron-LM

Release: core_v0.20.0 (2026-10-29)Commit: 685fb8bLicense: BSD-3-Clause

NVIDIA's library for training transformer models across thousands of GPUs.

trainingcore_v0.20.0releaseMegatron-LMPythonBSD-3-Clause

FactsLicenseBSD-3-ClauseLanguagePythonKindtrainingRelease2026-10-29PlatformsLinux (NVIDIA)Links to the projectpermissive

$ pip install megatron-core

Overview Install Use with Freeweights License Provenance

Overview

NVIDIA's library for training transformer models across thousands of GPUs.

Kind: training
License: BSD-3-Clause
Language: Python
Platforms: Linux (NVIDIA)
Latest release: core_v0.20.0 (2026-10-29)
Repository: NVIDIA/Megatron-LM

Topicslarge-language-modelsmodel-paratransformers

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Install

$ pip install megatron-core

$ pip install megatron-core

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

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

Catalog models it can fine-tune (3137)

135M-lc-100k-rope-12B a2-rl-e2egit_large-50-32B AesCode-32B AesCode-8B AFM-4.5B AFM-4.5B-Base AgentCPM-Report Agents-A1-4B AI21-Jamba-Reasoning-3B AI21-Jamba2-Mini AlchemistCoder-L-7B Alexandria-Gemma-4-12B-it-Ornith9-Summaries-LoRA-r128 Alexandria-Gemma-4-12B-it-Ornith9-Summaries-LoRA-r64 Alexandria-Gemma-4-12B-it-Qwen27-Knowledge-Units-LoRA-r128 Alexandria-Gemma-4-12B-it-Qwen27-Summaries-LoRA-r128 Alexandria-Gemma-4-12B-it-Qwen27-Summaries-LoRA-r64 Alexandria-Gemma-4-E4B-it-Qwen27-Knowledge-Units-LoRA-r128 ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview AM-Thinking-v1 AMD-OLMo-1B AMD-OLMo-1B-SFT AMD-OLMo-1B-SFT-DPO Apertus-70B-2509 Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509 Apertus-8B-2509 Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509 Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509-unsloth-bnb-4bit Apertus-v1.1-0.5B Apertus-v1.1-0.5B-Instruct Apertus-v1.1-1.5B Apertus-v1.1-1.5B-Instruct Apertus-v1.1-4B Apertus-v1.1-4B-Instruct Apex-35B-V1.0 Apodex-1.1-mini Apriel-1.5-15b-Thinker Apriel-1.6-15b-Thinker Apriel-Nemotron-15b-Thinker Aquila-135M-Intermediate Aquila-VL-2B-Intermediate AquilaDense-16B AquilaMoE AquilaMoE-SFT Arcee-Maestro-7B-Preview Arete-27B AREX-2 AREX-2-6bit AREX-Base AREX-Turbo AstaBrief_8B AstaBrief_8B_SFT Aurora-Code-1 Baguettotron Baichuan-M2-32B BAR-2x7B-Base BAR-2x7B-Code BAR-2x7B-Code-SFT BAR-2x7B-Math BAR-2x7B-Math-SFT BAR-2x7B-Safety

and 3077 more.

License

License: BSD-3-Clause
Class: Permissive

Read the license

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Provenance

From: NVIDIA <github.com/NVIDIA>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.toolsSubject: Megatron-LMRelease: core_v0.20.0 (2026-10-29)Commit: 685fb8bLicense: BSD-3-Clause

Repository: NVIDIA/Megatron-LM
Pinned release: core_v0.20.0, 2026-10-29
Release commit: 685fb8bd970185e9ac3283fe32a5d6667bf4b268
Default branch: main 1c3539e6e95b39f3cab215988f143ddf4dd8a9c3
Fetched: 2026-11-14
Takedowns: None.

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

Get it

Install Project repository

Works with

3137 catalog models. See the list