ms-swift
ModelScope's framework for fine-tuning and RLHF across 600+ LLMs and 300+ multimodal models.
About
Alibaba's ModelScope community maintains ms-swift as its official training stack, covering fine-tuning, alignment, and deployment for more than 600 text LLMs and 300 multimodal models, with first-class support for the Qwen family alongside DeepSeek, GLM, InternLM, and Llama. Techniques span the full post-training menu: supervised fine-tuning, LoRA and QLoRA, GRPO, PPO, DPO, KTO, CPO, SimPO, ORPO, reward modeling, GKD distillation, and embedding or reranker training, with a Megatron backend for large dense and MoE models and Ray integration for distributed jobs. A pip install ms-swift provides the CLI, and a Gradio web UI covers training and inference without writing code. Effective use requires NVIDIA GPUs, with DeepSpeed and quantized modes stretching what fits on a single card. The project is Apache-2.0 licensed with documentation at swift.readthedocs.io. Roughly 15,000 GitHub stars and rapid releases tracking each new Qwen and multimodal model generation make it the default choice for tuning open models from the Chinese ecosystem.
Should you use ms-swift?
Pick it when
Use it when you fine-tune or align Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, InternLM, or multimodal models and want fast support for new releases plus the full menu, LoRA and QLoRA through GRPO, DPO, and reward modeling, in one CLI or Gradio UI.
Look elsewhere when
It downloads from ModelScope by default, so Hugging Face users must pass a flag to switch hubs, and the long option list makes configs heavy. For a quick single-GPU LoRA, Unsloth or LLaMA-Factory is faster to set up; for large-scale reasoning RL, verl is more specialized.
Alternatives to ms-swift
- LLaMA-Factory
Comparable LoRA, QLoRA, DPO, and RLHF menu with a web UI, defaulting to Hugging Face Hub models rather than ModelScope.
- XTuner
InternLM's toolkit, the better pick for Intern S1, InternVL, and 200B-scale MoE training, with a narrower method list.
- verl
RL-focused, with deeper PPO and GRPO throughput features and vLLM or SGLang rollouts, but no general fine-tuning UI.
- Unsloth
Lower memory for LoRA on a single consumer GPU, but no Megatron backend for large dense or MoE models.
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Details
- Category
- Model Training & Fine-Tuning
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Intermediate (3/5)
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Added
- Jul 29, 2026