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# GLM-5.3

> Use NeMo AutoModel to fine-tune GLM-5.3 for LLM workflows with checked-in text generation recipes and documented distributed settings.

[GLM-5.3](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3) has a checked-in NeMo AutoModel recipe for text generation.
The Hugging Face configuration declares the `GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM` architecture.

## Fine-Tune GLM-5.3

Follow the [installation instructions](/get-started/installation), then review the checked-in recipe and
its declared topology below before choosing a local or cluster launcher.

Use the [Slurm launcher guide](/job-launchers/slurm-cluster) for the multi-node run.

## Choose a Workflow

| Goal                                  | Start Here                                                                                                                                        |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Run the primary recipe for this model | Use the [recipe configuration](https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel/blob/main/examples/llm_finetune/glm/glm_5.3_tulu3_4k_cudnn_100step.yaml). |
| Prepare your environment              | Follow the [installation instructions](/get-started/installation).                                                                                |

### Configuration

| Setting  | Configuration                                                                                                                             |
| -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Hardware | -                                                                                                                                         |
| Strategy | FSDP2; tp\_size=1, pp\_size=4, cp\_size=1, ep\_size=64                                                                                    |
| Nodes    | 32                                                                                                                                        |
| Features | Activation checkpointing (activation\_checkpointing=true), Packed sequences (packed\_sequence\_size=4096), HybridEP (dispatcher=hybridep) |
| Advanced | attention=cudnn, linear=torch, dispatcher=hybridep, sequence length 4096                                                                  |

## Model Reference

### Model Architecture

| Property     | Value                  |
| ------------ | ---------------------- |
| Task         | Text generation        |
| Architecture | `GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM` |

### Available Models

* [`zai-org/GLM-5.3`](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3)

## Related Resources

* [LLM fine-tuning guide](/recipes-e2e-examples/sft-peft)