PEFT

Hugging Face’s LoRA/QLoRA library that makes big-model tuning fit one GPU.

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Platforms: Linux, Macos, Windows
Operating systems: Linux, macOS, Windows
Ram floor: 16 GB
Gpu: Required · 8 GB VRAM
Docker: No
Setup: Advanced
Deploy as: Local, Self-hosted
Commercial use: Allowed

QLoRA fits a 7B tune on a single 8–12 GB card.

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Fetched Sep 12, 2026¹

License: Apache 2.0
Stars: 21.7k¹
Forks: 2.5k¹
Open issues: 37¹
Language: Python¹
Last commit: Sep 11, 2026¹
Tags: loraqloraadapters

About.

PEFT is the parameter-efficient fine-tuning library: LoRA, QLoRA, prefix tuning, and more as composable adapters instead of full weight updates. It is what makes single-GPU fine-tuning of big models affordable. Apache-2.0.

LoRA and QLoRA · adapters for 100+ models · peft-config recipes · HF integration

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