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### Hugging Face Jobs
[Hugging Face Jobs](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/jobs) lets you run training on managed HF infrastructure, billed by the second. The repo publishes a ready-to-use image: **`huggingface/lerobot-gpu:latest`**, rebuilt **every night at 02:00 UTC from `main`** ([`docker_publish.yml`](https://github.com/huggingface/lerobot/blob/main/.github/workflows/docker_publish.yml)) — so it tracks the current state of the repo, not a tagged release.
[Hugging Face Jobs](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/jobs) lets you run training on managed HF infrastructure, billed by the second, without owning a GPU. `lerobot-train` submits and streams the job for you — just add `--job.target=<flavor>` to a normal training command:
```bash
hf jobs run --flavor a10g-large huggingface/lerobot-gpu:latest \
bash -c "nvidia-smi && lerobot-train \
--policy.type=act --dataset.repo_id=<USER>/<DATASET> \
--policy.repo_id=<USER>/act_<task> --batch_size=8 --steps=50000"
lerobot-train \
--policy.type=act --dataset.repo_id=<USER>/<DATASET> \
--policy.repo_id=<USER>/act_<task> \
--job.target=a10g-large
```
Notes:
- The leading `nvidia-smi` is a quick sanity check that CUDA is visible inside the container — useful to fail fast if the flavor or driver mismatched.
- The default Job timeout is 30 minutes; pass `--timeout 4h` (or longer) for real training.
- `--flavor` maps onto the table above: `t4-small`/`t4-medium` (T4, ACT only), `l4x1`/`l4x4` (L4 24 GB), `a10g-small/large/largex2/largex4` (A10G 24 GB scaled out), `a100-large` (A100). For the current full catalogue + pricing see [https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/jobs](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/jobs).
- Prefer not to write the `hf jobs run` wrapper yourself? `lerobot-train` can submit the job for you: just add `--job.target=<flavor>` to a normal training command and it handles dataset upload, log streaming, and the final model push. See the [imitation-learning training guide](./il_robots).
- Run `hf auth login` once before submitting, the job runs under your token.
- `--job.target` maps onto the table above: `t4-small`/`t4-medium` (T4, ACT only), `l4x1`/`l4x4` (L4 24 GB), `a10g-small/large/largex2/largex4` (A10G 24 GB scaled out), `a100-large` (A100). List the current catalogue with pricing via `hf jobs hardware`, or see [https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/jobs](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/jobs).
- The job defaults to a `2d` (48h) timeout; override it with `--job.timeout=4h` (or any other duration string) to fail faster or run longer.
- For the full walkthrough — dataset upload, checkpoint streaming, resuming a run on a job — see the [imitation-learning training guide](./il_robots#train-using-hugging-face-jobs).
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Hugging Face jobs let's you easily select hardware and run the training in the cloud. So if you don't have a powerful GPU or you need more VRAM or just want to train a model much faster use HF Jobs! It's pay as you go and you simply pay for each second of use, you can see the pricing and additional information [here](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/jobs).
> **Tip:** if you just want to launch a standard training run, you can skip building the command below and use the integrated **Train on HF Jobs via `--job.target`** flow described further down — `lerobot-train` then submits the job, uploads a local-only dataset for you, and streams the logs.
To run the training manually use this command:
<hfoptions id="train_with_hf_jobs">
<hfoption id="Command">
```bash
hf jobs run \
--flavor a10g-small \
--timeout 4h \
--secrets HF_TOKEN \
huggingface/lerobot-gpu:latest \
-- \
python -m lerobot.scripts.lerobot_train \
--dataset.repo_id=username/dataset \
--policy.type=act \
--steps=5000 \
--batch_size=16 \
--policy.device=cuda \
--policy.repo_id=username/your_policy \
--log_freq=100
```
</hfoption>
<hfoption id="API example">
<!-- prettier-ignore-start -->
```python
from huggingface_hub import run_job, get_token
run_name = "act_so101_hf_jobs"
dataset_id = "username/dataset"
user_hub_id = "username"
command_args = [
"python", "-m", "lerobot.scripts.lerobot_train",
"--dataset.repo_id", dataset_id,
"--policy.type", "act",
"--steps", "5000",
"--batch_size", "16",
"--num_workers", "4",
"--policy.device", "cuda",
"--log_freq", "100",
"--save_freq", "1000",
"--save_checkpoint", "true",
"--wandb.enable", "false",
"--policy.repo_id", f"{user_hub_id}/{run_name}"
]
print(f"Submitting job '{run_name}' to Hugging Face Infrastructure...")
job_info = run_job(
image="huggingface/lerobot-gpu:latest",
command=command_args,
flavor="a10g-small",
timeout="4h",
secrets={"HF_TOKEN": get_token()}
)
print("\n🚀 Job successfully launched!")
print(f"🔹 Job ID: {job_info.id}")
print(f"🔗 Live UI Dashboard & Logs: {job_info.url}")
```
<!-- prettier-ignore-end -->
</hfoption>
</hfoptions>
You can modify the `--flavor` to use different hardware, for example: `t4-small`, `a100-large`, `h200`. Use `hf jobs hardware` to see the full list with pricing.
Depending on the model you want to train and the hardware you selected you can also modify the `--batch_size` and `--number_of_workers`.
For longer training sessions increase the timeout.
Once the training is started you can go to [Jobs](https://huggingface.co/settings/jobs) and see if your jobs is running as well as all the outputs. Sometimes it takes a few minutes to schedule your job so be patient.
After training the model will be pushed to hub and you can use it as any other model with LeRobot.
#### Train on HF Jobs via `--job.target` (integrated CLI)
`lerobot-train` runs locally by default. To run on a HuggingFace GPU without constructing the Docker command yourself, pass `--job.target` with a hardware flavor name:
`lerobot-train` runs locally by default. To run on a HuggingFace GPU, pass `--job.target` with a hardware flavor name:
```bash
lerobot-train \