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

nanotron

Release: v0.4 (2024-03-04)Commit: f2c8383License: Apache-2.0

Minimal library for large-scale pretraining of transformer models.

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$ uv pip install -e .

Overview

Minimal library for large-scale pretraining of transformer models.

Kind
training
License
Apache-2.0
Language
Python
Platforms
Linux (GPU)
Latest release
v0.4 (2024-03-04)
Repository
huggingface/nanotron

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

Install

$ uv pip install -e .
$ uv pip install -e .

Checked against the project's README on 2026-11-15. 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)

and 3077 more.

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: nanotronRelease: v0.4 (2024-03-04)Commit: f2c8383License: Apache-2.0
Repository
huggingface/nanotron
Pinned release
v0.4, 2024-03-04
Release commit
f2c83832cc787621388bc54afbc0f003ac2af9fc
Default branch
main a1d47c7ef0f2442a25871e9d5aa4105313d1c37a
Fetched
2026-11-15
Takedowns
None.

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

Works with

3137 catalog models. See the list