LLaMA-Factory

Unified efficient fine-tuning of 100+ LLMs — SFT, DPO, PPO, KTO, ORPO with LoRA/QLoRA/full; CLI + WebUI. Popular in the Chinese OSS scene.

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At a glance

Type: Unified LLM fine-tuning toolbox repo fix
Tier: T2
Section: Training infrastructure
Created: 2023 repo fix
Latest release: v0.9.5 (2026-05-30) registry fix
License: Apache-2.0 repo fix
GitHub: hiyouga/LlamaFactory — ~75.7k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo fix
Pricing: searched not found fix
Funding: searched not found fix
Freshness: 2026-10-28 fix
Layer: model-infra repo fix
Licensing: open-source repo fix
Deployment locus: local repo fix
Platform vs product: platform repo fix
Developer activity: OpenRank 6.82 (12-mo avg 29.34) · 58 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
Maintainer health: 18 issues in 90 days, 22% answered or closed · 2 releases in 12 months (latest 2026-05-30) · bus factor 1 — as of 2026-11-01 · concern: 22% of the 18 issues opened in 90 days got a reply or were closed repo

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Supports 100+ models, full FT/LoRA/QLoRA/DPO/PPO/KTO/ORPO; widely used in Chinese AI community; Apache-2.0.

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2026-10-28
- Homepage “https://github.com/hiyouga/LLaMA-Factory” → “https://github.com/hiyouga/LlamaFactory”
#291
2026-10-27
- Latest release first recorded as “v0.9.5 (2026-05-30)” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Self-hosted only — library with CLI and WebUI” source
#271