Turbo-dLLM

Turbo-dLLM is a highly optimized distributed training library for diffusion language models. It includes the official implementation of context-sharded block parallelism for scaling block-diffusion language model training to large contexts, plus typed configuration, prepared-data runtimes, checkpointing, and optimized CUDA kernels.

Install

Install the portable package for configuration, data preparation, APIs, and CPU-safe validation:

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install turbo-dllm
dllm doctor

GPU training uses a bundle matched to the host's Python, CUDA, and GPU architecture:

dllm bundle install --release v0.1.0 --auto

The installer downloads only an exact supported bundle and verifies its native artifacts. See installation for source installs, offline mirrors, and model-specific extras.

Start training

Create an editable starter project:

dllm init ./my-run
cd ./my-run

Add JSONL records such as {"text": "A training document."} to data/train.jsonl, then prepare and launch:

dllm data prepare --config prepare.yaml
dllm data validate data/prepared --config train.yaml
dllm launch --config train.yaml --dry-run
dllm doctor --config train.yaml
dllm launch --config train.yaml --nproc-per-node 1

The launcher validates the config and runtime before starting workers. For distributed training, change the topology in train.yaml and set the matching process count:

dllm launch --config train.yaml --nproc-per-node 8

Data and recipes

The preparation frontend accepts Hugging Face datasets, JSONL, Parquet, text, and token IDs. It supports text, chat messages, prompt/completion records, and token-level supervision while keeping tokenization outside the GPU training loop.

python -m pip install 'turbo-dllm[data]'
dllm data prepare --config prepare.yaml
dllm data inspect data/prepared
dllm data stats data/prepared

Packaged recipes provide small validation runs and focused examples:

dllm recipe list
dllm recipe show smoke/cuda-fast-dllm-v2
dllm recipe copy examples/fast-dllm-v2-qwen3 ./run.yaml
dllm config validate --config ./run.yaml

Supported training

• Models: generic causal LMs, DFlash, DiffusionGemma, Nemotron Labs Diffusion, and Qwen3.8.
• Objectives: standard block diffusion, Fast-dLLM v2, DFlash distillation, and DiffusionGemma native SFT.
• Parallelism: data, context, block, tensor, sequence, FSDP, and supported DiffusionGemma expert parallelism.
• Operations: deterministic data artifacts, checkpoint/resume, profiling, and optional W&B logging.

Unsupported combinations fail during validation instead of silently falling back.

Documentation

• Quickstart
• Data preparation
• RunSpec configuration
• Supported models
• Parallelism
• GPU bundles
• API
• Contributing and security

License

First-party code is Apache-2.0. Vendored components retain their upstream licenses; see NOTICE and FlashAttention provenance.