---
language:
- en
library_name: transformers
license: llama3.1
tags:
- llama-3
- llama
- meta
- facebook
- unsloth
- transformers
base_model: meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
---

# Finetune Llama 3.1, Gemma 2, Mistral 2-5x faster with 70% less memory via Unsloth!

We have a free Google Colab Tesla T4 notebook for Llama 3.1 (8B) here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ys44kVvmeZtnICzWz0xgpRnrIOjZAuxp?usp=sharing

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## ✨ Finetune for Free

All notebooks are **beginner friendly**! Add your dataset, click "Run All", and you'll get a 2x faster finetuned model which can be exported to GGUF, vLLM or uploaded to Hugging Face.

| Unsloth supports          |    Free Notebooks                                                                                           | Performance | Memory use |
|-----------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------|----------|
| **Llama-3.2 (3B)**      | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ys44kVvmeZtnICzWz0xgpRnrIOjZAuxp?usp=sharing)               | 2.4x faster | 58% less |
| **Llama-3.2 (11B vision)**      | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1j0N4XTY1zXXy7mPAhOC1_gMYZ2F2EBlk?usp=sharing)               | 2x faster | 60% less |
| **Llama-3.1 (8B)**      | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ys44kVvmeZtnICzWz0xgpRnrIOjZAuxp?usp=sharing)               | 2.4x faster | 58% less |
| **Qwen2 VL (7B)**      | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1whHb54GNZMrNxIsi2wm2EY_-Pvo2QyKh?usp=sharing)               | 1.8x faster | 60% less |
| **Qwen2.5 (7B)**      | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Kose-ucXO1IBaZq5BvbwWieuubP7hxvQ?usp=sharing)               | 2x faster | 60% less |
| **Phi-3.5 (mini)** | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1lN6hPQveB_mHSnTOYifygFcrO8C1bxq4?usp=sharing)               | 2x faster | 50% less |
| **Gemma 2 (9B)**      | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1vIrqH5uYDQwsJ4-OO3DErvuv4pBgVwk4?usp=sharing)               | 2.4x faster | 58% less |
| **Mistral (7B)**    | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Dyauq4kTZoLewQ1cApceUQVNcnnNTzg_?usp=sharing)               | 2.2x faster | 62% less |
| **DPO - Zephyr**     | [▶️ Start on Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/15vttTpzzVXv_tJwEk-hIcQ0S9FcEWvwP?usp=sharing)               | 1.9x faster | 19% less |

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- This [conversational notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Aau3lgPzeZKQ-98h69CCu1UJcvIBLmy2?usp=sharing) is useful for ShareGPT ChatML / Vicuna templates.
- This [text completion notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ef-tab5bhkvWmBOObepl1WgJvfvSzn5Q?usp=sharing) is for raw text. This [DPO notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/15vttTpzzVXv_tJwEk-hIcQ0S9FcEWvwP?usp=sharing) replicates Zephyr.
- \* Kaggle has 2x T4s, but we use 1. Due to overhead, 1x T4 is 5x faster.