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Fine-Tuning with TRL

by Orchestra-Research

Fine-Tuning with TRL is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by Orchestra-Research in AI-Research-SKILLs.

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Install Fine-Tuning with TRL
Copy Fine-Tuning with TRL into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs/tree/main/06-post-training/trl-fine-tuning ~/.claude/skills/trl-fine-tuning

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
06-post-training/trl-fine-tuning/SKILL.md in Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/trl-fine-tuning
Collection
One of 50 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering3670 skills

What Fine-Tuning with TRL does

Fine-tune LLMs using reinforcement learning with TRL: SFT for instruction tuning, DPO for preference alignment, PPO/GRPO for reward optimization, and reward model training. Use when you need RLHF, align model with preferences, or train from human feedback.

Fine-Tuning with TRL is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Fine-Tuning with TRL comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-research, claude, claude-code and claude-skills.

Documentation

README

TRL - Transformer Reinforcement Learning

Quick start

TRL provides post-training methods for aligning language models with human preferences.

Installation:

pip install trl transformers datasets peft accelerate

Supervised Fine-Tuning (instruction tuning):

from trl import SFTTrainer

trainer = SFTTrainer(
    model="Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B",
    train_dataset=dataset,  # Prompt-completion pairs
)
trainer.train()

DPO (align with preferences):

from trl import DPOTrainer, DPOConfig

config = DPOConfig(output_dir="model-dpo", beta=0.1)
trainer = DPOTrainer(
    model=model,
    args=config,
    train_dataset=preference_dataset,  # chosen/rejected pairs
    processing_class=tokenizer
)
trainer.train()

Common workflows

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Fine-Tuning with TRL

  • What else does Orchestra-Research publish alongside Fine-Tuning with TRL?

    Fine-Tuning with TRL is one of 50 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AWQ Quantization, Autoresearch and Axolotl. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Fine-Tuning with TRL does, and is maintained by Orchestra-Research in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs page.

  • How does Fine-Tuning with TRL compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Fine-Tuning with TRL ranks #333 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Fine-Tuning with TRL against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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