> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL.
> For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/automodel/llms.txt.
> For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/automodel/_mcp/server.

# Seed-Coder-8B-Instruct

> Use Seed-Coder-8B-Instruct with NeMo AutoModel for language model fine-tuning, with documented checkpoints, runnable recipes, setup guidance, and model reference details.

[Seed-Coder](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Coder-8B-Instruct) and [Seed-OSS](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct) are open-weight models from ByteDance. Both use the `Qwen2ForCausalLM` architecture under the hood.

Set up NeMo AutoModel with the [latest container](https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/nemo-automodel) or follow the [installation instructions](/get-started/installation).

## Fine-Tune Seed-Coder-8B-Instruct

From the repository root, run:

```bash
uv run automodel --nproc-per-node=8 examples/llm_finetune/seed/seed_coder_8b_instruct_squad.yaml
```

## Choose a Workflow

| Goal                                                  | Start Here                                                                                                                                                               |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) - Seed-Coder 8B on SQuAD | Use [seed\_coder\_8b\_instruct\_squad.yaml](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel/blob/main/examples/llm_finetune/seed/seed_coder_8b_instruct_squad.yaml).            |
| Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) - Seed-Coder 8B on SQuAD   | Use [seed\_coder\_8b\_instruct\_squad\_peft.yaml](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel/blob/main/examples/llm_finetune/seed/seed_coder_8b_instruct_squad_peft.yaml). |

## Model Reference

### Model Architecture

| Property                  | Value                                                   |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| Task                      | Text Generation                                         |
| Architecture              | `Qwen2ForCausalLM`                                      |
| Parameters                | 8B                                                      |
| Hugging Face Organization | [ByteDance-Seed](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed) |

* `Qwen2ForCausalLM` (reuses Qwen2 architecture)

### Available Models

| Model                  | HF ID                                                                                                   |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Seed-Coder 8B Instruct | [`ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Coder-8B-Instruct`](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Seed-Coder-8B-Instruct) |

## Related Resources

* [LLM Fine-Tuning Guide](/recipes-e2e-examples/sft-peft)