Regarding the ready to use .nemo models for PEFT finetuning
I'm having the same problem for mistral 7B  PEFT when running this command:
`
python3 /opt/NeMo/scripts/checkpoint_converters/convert_mistral_7b_hf_to_nemo.py --input_name_or_path=/workspace/mistral-7B-hf --output_path=mistral.nemo
`

This is the error:
`
[NeMo I 2024-04-02 17:52:08 convert_mistral_7b_hf_to_nemo:149] loading checkpoint 1: /workspace/mistral-7B-hf
in_dir: /workspace/mistral-7B-hf
Loading checkpoint shards:   0%|                                                                                                                                                   | 0/2 [00:00<?, ?it/s]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/NeMo/scripts/checkpoint_converters/convert_mistral_7b_hf_to_nemo.py", line 339, in <module>
    convert(args)
  File "/opt/NeMo/scripts/checkpoint_converters/convert_mistral_7b_hf_to_nemo.py", line 151, in convert
    model_args, ckpt, tokenizer = load_mistral_ckpt(args.input_name_or_path)
  File "/opt/NeMo/scripts/checkpoint_converters/convert_mistral_7b_hf_to_nemo.py", line 140, in load_mistral_ckpt
    model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(in_dir)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/transformers/models/auto/auto_factory.py", line 563, in from_pretrained
    return model_class.from_pretrained(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/transformers/modeling_utils.py", line 3671, in from_pretrained
    ) = cls._load_pretrained_model(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/transformers/modeling_utils.py", line 4078, in _load_pretrained_model
    state_dict = load_state_dict(shard_file, is_quantized=is_quantized)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/transformers/modeling_utils.py", line 507, in load_state_dict
    with safe_open(checkpoint_file, framework="pt") as f:
FileNotFoundError: No such file or directory: "/workspace/mistral-7B-hf/model-00001-of-00002.safetensors"
`

I also tried to do fine tuning of llama2 7B but it gave me the same error, I cannot convert the checkpoints to .nemo format because the checkpoints cannot be loaded @frankh077 
Could you able to run the docker command
```docker run --gpus device=1 --shm-size=2g --net=host --ulimit memlock=-1 --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/workspace -w /workspace -v ${PWD}/results:/results nvcr.io/ea-bignlp/ga-participants/nemofw-training:23.08.03 bash```
specified in the official documentation? - https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-framework/user-guide/latest/playbooks/llama2peft.html#step-2-convert-to-nemo @pradeepdev-1995 
Yes but through the `nemo-framework-training` container, this is the command I used:

`docker run --gpus device=1 --shm-size=2g --net=host --ulimit memlock=-1 --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/workspace -w /workspace -v ${PWD}/results:/results nvcr.io/nvaie/nemo-framework-training:23.08.03 bash` is this container setup is mandatory? @frankh077 
Shall we do the fine-tuning directly in the Python console without using the container? I think it is mandatory since the environment and the necessary tools are in the container, but if you can build the environment it should work, you can base on the NeMo containers available through the NGC This issue is stale because it has been open for 30 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 7 days. This issue was closed because it has been inactive for 7 days since being marked as stale.
I am planning to finetune the llama model using the PEFT technique according to this official documentation
https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo-framework/user-guide/latest/playbooks/llama2peft.html
However, I am facing some issues when I convert the huggingface model to .nemo format.

So is there any repository of ready-to-use **.nemo** models(llama.nemo, mistral.nemo, openchat.nemo....etc) that are compatible with  PEFT training steps mentioned in this official documentation?

If so I can skip the huggingface to .nemo conversion step and resume the next steps of fine-tuning
@okuchaiev 