diff --git a/llama_stack/apis/post_training/post_training.py b/llama_stack/apis/post_training/post_training.py
index 2999d43af..17b5b4449 100644
--- a/llama_stack/apis/post_training/post_training.py
+++ b/llama_stack/apis/post_training/post_training.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 from llama_models.llama3.api.datatypes import *  # noqa: F403
 from llama_stack.apis.datasets import *  # noqa: F403
 from llama_stack.apis.common.training_types import *  # noqa: F403
+import torch
 
 
 class OptimizerType(Enum):
@@ -30,18 +31,22 @@ class OptimizerConfig(BaseModel):
     lr: float
     lr_min: float
     weight_decay: float
+    num_warmup_steps: int
 
 
 @json_schema_type
 class TrainingConfig(BaseModel):
+    dtype: torch.dtype
     n_epochs: int
+    max_steps_per_epoch: int
+    gradient_accumulation_steps: int
     batch_size: int
     shuffle: bool
-    n_iters: int
+    # n_iters: int
 
     enable_activation_checkpointing: bool
-    memory_efficient_fsdp_wrap: bool
-    fsdp_cpu_offload: bool
+    memory_efficient_fsdp_wrap: Optional[bool]
+    fsdp_cpu_offload: Optional[bool]
 
 
 @json_schema_type
diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/config.py b/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..808613ae9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the terms described in the LICENSE file in
+# the root directory of this source tree.
+
+from typing import Optional
+from pydantic import BaseModel, Field,
+
+
+class MetaReferencePostTrainingConfig(BaseModel):
+    model: str = Field(
+        default="Llama3.2-3B-Instruct",
+        description="Model descriptor from `llama model list`",
+    )
+    torch_seed: Optional[int] = None
+    # By default, the implementation will look at ~/.llama/checkpoints/<model> but you
+    # can override by specifying the directory explicitly
+    checkpoint_dir: Optional[str] = None
diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/datasets/sft.py b/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/datasets/sft.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..996a96109
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/datasets/sft.py
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Mapping, Optional
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from datasets import load_dataset
+from torch.utils.data import Dataset
+from torchtune.data._common import CROSS_ENTROPY_IGNORE_IDX
+from torchtune.data._messages import validate_messages
+from torchtune.modules.transforms import Transform
+
+
+class SFTDataset(Dataset):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        rows: List[Dict[str, Any]],
+        message_transform: Transform,
+        model_transform: Transform,
+    ) -> None:
+        self._rows = rows
+        self._message_transform = message_transform
+        self._model_transform = model_transform
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return len(self._rows)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, index: int) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        sample = self._rows[index]
+        return self._prepare_sample(sample)
+
+    def _prepare_sample(self, sample: Mapping[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        transformed_sample = self._message_transform(sample)
+        if "messages" in transformed_sample:
+            validate_messages(transformed_sample["messages"])
+
+        tokenized_dict = self._model_transform(transformed_sample)
+
+        if not ("tokens" in tokenized_dict and "mask" in tokenized_dict):
+            keys_str = ", ".join(tokenized_dict.keys())
+            error_message = (
+                "model_transform returned the following keys: "
+                f"{keys_str}. Must return 'tokens' and 'mask' as keys."
+            )
+            raise ValueError(error_message)
+
+        # Wherever mask == True, set to CROSS_ENTROPY_IGNORE_IDX. Otherwise keep as tokens
+        tokenized_dict["labels"] = list(
+            np.where(
+                tokenized_dict["mask"],
+                CROSS_ENTROPY_IGNORE_IDX,
+                tokenized_dict["tokens"],
+            )
+        )
+        assert len(tokenized_dict["tokens"]) == len(tokenized_dict["labels"])
+
+        return tokenized_dict
diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/post_training.py b/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/post_training.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2311676ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/post_training.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+class MetaReferencePostTrainingImpl:
+    def __init__(self, config: MetaReferenceInferenceConfig) -> None:
+        self.config = config
+
+    def supervised_fine_tune(
+        self,
+        job_uuid: str,
+        model: str,
+        dataset_id: str,
+        validation_dataset_id: str,
+        algorithm: FinetuningAlgorithm,
+        algorithm_config: LoraFinetuningConfig,
+        optimizer_config: OptimizerConfig,
+        training_config: TrainingConfig,
+        logger_config: Dict[str, Any],
+    ) -> PostTrainingJob:
+        # wrapper request to make it easier to pass around (internal only, not exposed to API)
+        request = PostTrainingSFTRequest(
+            job_uuid=job_uuid,
+            model=model,
+            dataset_id=dataset_id,
+            validation_dataset_id=validation_dataset_id,
+            algorithm=algorithm,
+            algorithm_config=algorithm_config,
+            optimizer_config=optimizer_config,
+            training_config=training_config,
+            logger_config=logger_config,
+        )
+        if request.algorithm == FinetuningAlgorithm.lora:
+            recipe = LoraFinetuningRecipeSingleDevice(self.config, request)
+            recipe.train()
+        else:
+            raise NotImplementedError()
diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/recipes/lora_finetuning_single_device.py b/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/recipes/lora_finetuning_single_device.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9d595d4e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/recipes/lora_finetuning_single_device.py
@@ -0,0 +1,325 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the terms described in the LICENSE file in
+# the root directory of this source tree.
+import logging
+import os
+from functools import partial
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
+
+import torch
+
+from llama_stack.providers.inline.post_training.meta_reference import utils
+from llama_stack.providers.inline.post_training.meta_reference.configs import (
+    MetaReferencePostTrainingConfig,
+)
+from llama_stack.providers.inline.post_training.meta_reference.datasets.sft import (
+    SFTDataset,
+)
+from torch.optim import Optimizer
+from torch.utils.data import DataLoader, DistributedSampler
+from torchtune import modules, training
+from torchtune.data import InputOutputToMessages, padded_collate_sft
+
+from torchtune.modules.loss import CEWithChunkedOutputLoss
+from torchtune.modules.peft import (
+    get_adapter_params,
+    get_adapter_state_dict,
+    get_lora_module_names,
+    get_merged_lora_ckpt,
+    load_dora_magnitudes,
+    set_trainable_params,
+    validate_missing_and_unexpected_for_lora,
+)
+from torchtune.training.lr_scheduler import get_cosine_schedule_with_warmup
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+Tokenizer = Union[Llama3Tokenizer]
+
+
+class LoraFinetuningSingleDevice:
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        config: MetaReferencePostTrainingConfig,
+        request: PostTrainingSFTRequest,
+        datasetio_api: DatasetIOAPI,
+    ) -> None:
+        # to make user config easier, assume the device is 'cuda' only
+        # self._device = utils.get_device(device=cfg.device)
+        self.config = config
+        self.request = request
+        self._device = "cuda"
+        self._dtype = training.get_dtype(
+            request.training_config.dtype, device=self._device
+        )
+        self.model_id = request.model
+
+        # hardcode it for now and see how it works with get_training_job_artifacts
+        self._output_dir = f"~/.llama/checkpoints/post_training/{request.model_id}"
+
+        self._log_every_n_steps = 1
+        self._log_peak_memory_stats = False
+
+        self.seed = training.set_seed(seed=config.torch_seed or 42)
+        self.epochs_run = 0
+        self.total_epochs = request.training_config.n_epochs
+        self._shuffle = request.training_config.shuffle
+        self._batch_size = request.training_config.batch_size
+
+        # this is important for debugging purpose
+        self.max_steps_per_epoch = request.training_config.max_steps_per_epoch
+        self.global_step = 0
+
+        # not needed in MVP
+        # self._resume_from_checkpoint = cfg.resume_from_checkpoint
+        # self._save_adapter_weights_only = cfg.get("save_adapter_weights_only", False)
+
+        self._gradient_accumulation_steps = (
+            request.training_config.gradient_accumulation_steps
+        )
+
+        self._clip_grad_norm = 1.0  # hardcode
+        self._enable_activation_checkpointing = (
+            request.training_config.enable_activation_checkpointing
+        )
+        self._enable_activation_offloading = False
+
+        self.datasetio_api = datasetio_api
+
+    def load_checkpoint(self):
+        def get_checkpoint_files(checkpoint_dir: str) -> List[str]:
+            try:
+                # List all files in the given directory
+                files = os.listdir(checkpoint_dir)
+
+                # Filter files that end with .pth
+                pth_files = [file for file in files if file.endswith(".pth")]
+                return pth_files
+            except FileNotFoundError:
+                return f"Error: The directory '{checkpoint_dir}' does not exist."
+
+        self._checkpointer = training.FullModelMetaCheckpointer(
+            checkpoint_dir=self.config.checkpoint_dir,
+            checkpoint_files=get_checkpoint_files,
+            output_dir=self._output_dir,
+            # todo: automatically get this info from model
+            model_type="LLAMA3",
+        )
+        checkpoint_dict = self._checkpointer.load_checkpoint()
+        return checkpoint_dict
+
+    def setup(self, config: MetaReferencePostTrainingConfig) -> None:
+        # todo: figure out how does it works with telemetry
+        # self._metric_logger = config.instantiate(cfg.metric_logger)
+        # self._metric_logger.log_config(cfg)
+
+        checkpoint_dict = self.load_checkpoint()
+
+        # hack to toggle to the low cpu ram version of the reparametrize_as_dtype
+        # hook based on the config.
+        # common_utils._use_low_cpu_ram = cfg.get("low_cpu_ram", False)
+
+        # set up model
+        self._model = self._setup_model(
+            enable_activation_checkpointing=self._enable_activation_checkpointing,
+            enable_activation_offloading=self._enable_activation_offloading,
+            base_model_state_dict=checkpoint_dict[training.MODEL_KEY],
+            lora_weights_state_dict=None,
+        )
+
+        self._tokenizer = self._setup_tokenizer()
+        log.info("Tokenizer is initialized from file.")
+
+        self._optimizer = self._setup_optimizer(
+            optimizer_config=self.request.training_config.optimizer, opt_state_dict=None
+        )
+
+        self._loss_fn = CEWithChunkedOutputLoss()
+        self._sampler, self._dataloader = self._setup_data(
+            tokenizer=self._tokenizer,
+            shuffle=self._shuffle,
+            batch_size=self._batch_size,
+        )
+
+        # Number of training steps in each epoch depends on the number of batches produced
+        # by the dataloader and the max_steps_per_epoch param set by the user and is used
+        # for logging and tracking training state. This should be computed after the dataloader
+        # has been setup
+        self._steps_per_epoch = (
+            len(self._dataloader) // self._gradient_accumulation_steps
+        )
+        if (
+            self.max_steps_per_epoch is not None
+            and self.max_steps_per_epoch < self._steps_per_epoch
+        ):
+            self._steps_per_epoch = self.max_steps_per_epoch
+            self.global_step = self.epochs_run * self._steps_per_epoch
+
+        # Learning rate scheduler can only be set up after number of steps
+        # has been computed
+        self._lr_scheduler = self._setup_lr_scheduler(
+            num_warmup_steps=self.request.optimizer_config.num_warmup_steps,
+            num_training_steps=self.total_epochs * self._steps_per_epoch,
+            last_epoch=self.global_step - 1,
+        )
+
+        # Used to ignore labels for loss computation
+        self.ignore_labels_cache = torch.full(
+            (self._batch_size, 1), self._loss_fn.ignore_index, device=self._device
+        )
+
+    def _setup_model(
+        self,
+        enable_activation_checkpointing: bool,
+        enable_activation_offloading: bool,
+        base_model_state_dict: Dict[str, Any],
+        lora_weights_state_dict: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
+    ) -> nn.Module:
+        self._lora_rank = self.request.algorithm_config.rank
+        self._lora_alpha = self.request.algorithm_config.alpha
+        self._lora_attn_modules = list(self.request.algorithm_config.lora_attn_modules)
+        self._apply_lora_to_mlp = self.request.algorithm_config.apply_lora_to_mlp
+        self._apply_lora_to_output = self.request.algorithm_config.apply_lora_to_output
+        self._use_dora = self.request.algorithm_config.use_dora
+
+        with training.set_default_dtype(self._dtype), self._device:
+            model_type = utils.get_model_type(self.model_id)
+            model = model_type(
+                lora_attn_modules=self._lora_attn_modules,
+                apply_lora_to_mlp=self._apply_lora_to_mlp,
+                apply_lora_to_output=self._apply_lora_to_output,
+                lora_rank=self._lora_rank,
+                lora_alpha=self._lora_alpha,
+                quantize_base=False,
+                use_dora=self._use_dora,
+            )
+
+        self.adapter_params = get_adapter_params(model)
+        self._is_dora = any(["magnitude" in k for k in self.adapter_params.keys()])
+
+        set_trainable_params(model, self.adapter_params)
+
+        if enable_activation_checkpointing:
+            training.set_activation_checkpointing(
+                model, auto_wrap_policy={modules.TransformerSelfAttentionLayer}
+            )
+
+        base_missing, base_unexpected = model.load_state_dict(
+            base_model_state_dict, strict=False
+        )
+
+        # This is for any adapters that need to be initialized after base weights
+        # have been loaded (e.g. DoRA).
+        if self._is_dora:
+            for m in model.modules():
+                if hasattr(m, "initialize_dora_magnitude"):
+                    m.initialize_dora_magnitude()
+            load_dora_magnitudes(model)
+        if lora_weights_state_dict:
+            lora_missing, lora_unexpected = model.load_state_dict(
+                lora_weights_state_dict, strict=False
+            )
+        else:
+            lora_missing, lora_unexpected = None, None
+        validate_missing_and_unexpected_for_lora(
+            lora_attn_modules=self._lora_attn_modules,
+            apply_lora_to_mlp=self._apply_lora_to_mlp,
+            apply_lora_to_output=self._apply_lora_to_output,
+            base_missing=base_missing,
+            base_unexpected=base_unexpected,
+            lora_missing=lora_missing,
+            lora_unexpected=lora_unexpected,
+        )
+        # Validate model adapter params were loaded in with the expected dtype
+        # TODO (rohan-varma): Further validation to ensure the appropriate base params
+        # are NF4 vs bf16 based on the quantization config.
+        training.validate_expected_param_dtype(
+            self.adapter_params.items(), dtype=self._dtype
+        )
+
+        # activation offloading
+        self.activations_handling_ctx = training.get_act_offloading_ctx_manager(
+            model, enable_activation_offloading
+        )
+
+        log.info(f"Model is initialized with precision {self._dtype}.")
+
+        # if self._device.type != "cpu":
+        #     memory_stats = training.get_memory_stats(device=self._device)
+        #     training.log_memory_stats(memory_stats)
+        return model
+
+    def _setup_tokenizer(
+        self,
+    ) -> Tokenizer:
+        tokenizer_path = self.config.checkpoint_dir + "/tokenizer.model"
+        tokenizer_type = utils.get_tokenizer_type(self.model_id)
+        return tokenizer_type(path=tokenizer_path)
+
+    def _setup_optimizer(self, optimizer_config: OptimizerConfig) -> Optimizer:
+        optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(
+            params=self._model.parameters(),
+            lr=optimizer_config.lr,
+            betas=(0.9, 0.95),
+            eps=1e-8,
+            weight_decay=0.1,
+        )
+
+        log.info("Optimizer and loss are initialized.")
+        return optimizer
+
+    async def _setup_data(
+        self, tokenizer: Tokenizer, shuffle: bool, batch_size: int
+    ) -> Tuple[DistributedSampler, DataLoader]:
+        all_rows = await self.datasetio_api.get_rows_paginated(
+            dataset_id=self.request.dataset_id,
+            rows_in_page=-1,
+        )
+        rows = all_rows.rows
+
+        ds = SFTDataset(
+            rows, message_transform=InputOutputToMessages(), model_transform=tokenizer
+        )
+
+        sampler = DistributedSampler(
+            ds,
+            num_replicas=1,
+            rank=0,
+            shuffle=shuffle,
+            seed=0,
+        )
+        dataloader = DataLoader(
+            dataset=ds,
+            sampler=sampler,
+            batch_size=batch_size,
+            # dropping last avoids shape issues with compile + flex attention
+            drop_last=True,
+            collate_fn=(
+                partial(
+                    padded_collate_sft,
+                    padding_idx=self._tokenizer.pad_id,
+                    ignore_idx=self._loss_fn.ignore_index,
+                )
+            ),
+        )
+
+        log.info("Dataset and Sampler are initialized.")
+
+        return sampler, dataloader
+
+    def _setup_lr_scheduler(
+        self,
+        num_warmup_steps: int,
+        num_training_steps: int,
+        last_epoch: int,
+    ) -> Optimizer:
+        lr_scheduler = get_cosine_schedule_with_warmup(
+            self._optimizer,
+            num_training_steps=num_training_steps,
+            last_epoch=last_epoch,
+        )
+
+        log.info("Learning rate scheduler is initialized.")
+        return lr_scheduler
diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/utils.py b/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5563b2a4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/inline/post_training/meta_reference/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the terms described in the LICENSE file in
+# the root directory of this source tree.
+
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, IAny, nc. and affiliates.
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the terms described in the LICENSE file in
+# the root directory of this source tree.
+
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict
+
+import torch
+from llama_models.sku_list import resolve_model
+from torchtune.models.llama3 import llama3_tokenizer, lora_llama3_8b
+from torchtune.models.llama3._tokenizer import Llama3Tokenizer
+
+LORA_MODEL_TYPES: Dict[str, Any] = {
+    "Llama-3-8B-Instruct": lora_llama3_8b,
+}
+
+TOKENIZER_TYPES: Dict[str, Any] = {
+    "Llama-3-8B-Instruct": llama3_tokenizer,
+}
+
+BuildLoraModelCallable = Callable[..., torch.nn.Module]
+BuildTokenizerCallable = Callable[..., Llama3Tokenizer]
+
+
+def get_model_type(
+    self,
+    model_id: str,
+) -> BuildLoraModelCallable:
+    model = resolve_model(model_id)
+    return LORA_MODEL_TYPES[model.core_model_id.value]
+
+
+def get_tokenizer(
+    self,
+    model_id: str,
+) -> BuildTokenizerCallable:
+    model = resolve_model(model_id)
+    return TOKENIZER_TYPES[model.core_model_id.value]