diff --git a/.github/workflows/format.yml b/.github/workflows/format.yml
index d926b1220..f8cb15e72 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/format.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/format.yml
@@ -35,4 +35,6 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install -r setup_requirements.txt
       - name: Check Formatting
         run: tox -e fmt
+      - name: Run pylint
+        run: tox -e lint
 
diff --git a/scripts/run_inference.py b/scripts/run_inference.py
index 989aaa8ca..bf79ad3d3 100644
--- a/scripts/run_inference.py
+++ b/scripts/run_inference.py
@@ -77,11 +77,15 @@ def _apply_config_changes(self, overrides: dict) -> dict:
         # If we have no overrides, this context manager is a noop; no need to do anything
         if not overrides:
             return {}
-        with open(self.config_path, "r") as config_file:
+        with open(
+            self.config_path, "r"
+        ) as config_file:  # pylint: disable=unspecified-encoding
             adapter_config = json.load(config_file)
         overridden_values = self._get_old_config_values(adapter_config, overrides)
         adapter_config = {**adapter_config, **overrides}
-        with open(self.config_path, "w") as config_file:
+        with open(
+            self.config_path, "w"
+        ) as config_file:  # pylint: disable=unspecified-encoding
             json.dump(adapter_config, config_file, indent=4)
         return overridden_values
 
@@ -213,7 +217,8 @@ def main():
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--base_model_name_or_path",
-        help="Override for base model to be used for non-merged models [default: value in model adapter_config.json]",
+        help="Override for base model to be used for non-merged models \
+            [default: value in model adapter_config.json]",
         default=None,
     )
     parser.add_argument(
@@ -243,7 +248,9 @@ def main():
     if args.text:
         texts = [args.text]
     else:
-        with open(args.text_file, "r") as text_file:
+        with open(
+            args.text_file, "r"
+        ) as text_file:  # pylint: disable=unspecified-encoding
             texts = [line.strip() for line in text_file.readlines()]
 
     # TODO: we should add batch inference support
@@ -256,7 +263,7 @@ def main():
     ]
 
     # Export the results to a file
-    with open(args.out_file, "w") as out_file:
+    with open(args.out_file, "w") as out_file:  # pylint: disable=unspecified-encoding
         json.dump(results, out_file, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
 
     print(f"Exported results to: {args.out_file}")
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 3ca14c330..5ec9a4620 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -9,5 +9,6 @@ allowlist_externals = ./scripts/fmt.sh
 [testenv:lint]
 description = lint with pylint
 deps = pylint>=2.16.2,<=3.1.0
+        -r requirements.txt
 commands = pylint tuning scripts/*.py
 allowlist_externals = pylint
diff --git a/tuning/config/configs.py b/tuning/config/configs.py
index 0b0a8fb67..e34512a94 100644
--- a/tuning/config/configs.py
+++ b/tuning/config/configs.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Standard
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
-from typing import Dict, Optional, Union
+from typing import Optional, Union
 
 # Third Party
 import torch
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ class TrainingArguments(transformers.TrainingArguments):
     model_max_length: int = field(
         default=DEFAULT_CONTEXT_LENGTH,
         metadata={
-            "help": "Maximum sequence length. Sequences will be right padded (and possibly truncated)."
+            "help": "Maximum sequence length. Sequences will be right padded \
+            (and possibly truncated)."
         },
     )
     packing: bool = field(
diff --git a/tuning/config/peft_config.py b/tuning/config/peft_config.py
index a3d30c763..0c70eb221 100644
--- a/tuning/config/peft_config.py
+++ b/tuning/config/peft_config.py
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@ class LoraConfig:
     target_modules: List[str] = field(
         default_factory=lambda: ["q_proj", "v_proj"],
         metadata={
-            "help": "The names of the modules to apply LORA to. LORA selects modules which either completely match or "
-            'end with one of the strings. If the value is ["all-linear"], then LORA selects all linear and Conv1D '
+            "help": "The names of the modules to apply LORA to. LORA selects modules which either \
+            completely match or "
+            'end with one of the strings. If the value is ["all-linear"], \
+            then LORA selects all linear and Conv1D '
             "modules except for the output layer."
         },
     )
diff --git a/tuning/data/tokenizer_data_utils.py b/tuning/data/tokenizer_data_utils.py
index 3a8a288f3..4177136c8 100644
--- a/tuning/data/tokenizer_data_utils.py
+++ b/tuning/data/tokenizer_data_utils.py
@@ -1,17 +1,9 @@
 # Standard
-from typing import Dict, Sequence
-import copy
-import json
-import logging
+from typing import Dict
 
 # Third Party
-from torch.utils.data import Dataset
-import torch
 import transformers
 
-# Local
-from tuning.config import configs
-
 
 def tokenizer_and_embedding_resize(
     special_tokens_dict: Dict,
diff --git a/tuning/sft_trainer.py b/tuning/sft_trainer.py
index ce9e323e0..404d78a82 100644
--- a/tuning/sft_trainer.py
+++ b/tuning/sft_trainer.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from typing import Optional, Union
 import json
 import os
+import sys
 
 # Third Party
 from peft.utils.other import fsdp_auto_wrap_policy
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ def train(
     model_args: configs.ModelArguments,
     data_args: configs.DataArguments,
     train_args: configs.TrainingArguments,
-    peft_config: Optional[
+    peft_configs: Optional[
         Union[peft_config.LoraConfig, peft_config.PromptTuningConfig]
     ] = None,
 ):
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ def train(
         model_args: tuning.config.configs.ModelArguments
         data_args: tuning.config.configs.DataArguments
         train_args: tuning.config.configs.TrainingArguments
-        peft_config: peft_config.LoraConfig for Lora tuning | \
+        peft_configs: peft_config.LoraConfig for Lora tuning | \
         peft_config.PromptTuningConfig for prompt tuning | \
         None for fine tuning
             The peft configuration to pass to trainer
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ def train(
         use_flash_attention_2=model_args.use_flash_attn,
     )
 
-    peft_config = get_hf_peft_config(task_type, peft_config)
+    peft_configs = get_hf_peft_config(task_type, peft_configs)
 
     model.gradient_checkpointing_enable()
 
@@ -140,9 +141,7 @@ def train(
     )
 
     # TODO: understand if we need to hardcode these here or just use defaults in model
-    if isinstance(tokenizer, LlamaTokenizer) or isinstance(
-        tokenizer, LlamaTokenizerFast
-    ):
+    if isinstance(tokenizer, (LlamaTokenizer, LlamaTokenizerFast)):
         tokenizer.add_special_tokens(
             {
                 "bos_token": "<s>",
@@ -151,33 +150,36 @@ def train(
                 "pad_token": "<pad>",
             }
         )
-    elif isinstance(tokenizer, GPTNeoXTokenizerFast) or isinstance(
-        tokenizer, GPT2Tokenizer
-    ):
+    elif isinstance(tokenizer, (GPT2Tokenizer, GPTNeoXTokenizerFast)):
         tokenizer.add_special_tokens(
             {
                 "pad_token": "<pad>",
             }
         )
 
-    """TODO: near term - how response template ids are parsed out needs to be cleaned.
-       The [2:] here applies if response template has \n prefix, it is needed to strip \n, otherwise template is not found.
-       We will create issue to clean this out after we discuss data formats and collators we will support
-    """
+    # TODO: near term - how response template ids are parsed out needs to be cleaned.
+    # The [2:] here applies if response template has \n prefix, it is needed to strip \n,
+    # otherwise template is not found. We will create issue to clean this out after we discuss
+    # data formats and collators we will support.
     response_template_ids = tokenizer.encode(
         data_args.response_template, add_special_tokens=False
     )[2:]
-    # TODO: This is actually max_seq_length and not model_max_length. we should not override model_max_length
-    # as in current main. We need to change name of this parameter we expose to users.
+    # TODO: This is actually max_seq_length and not model_max_length. we should not override
+    # model_max_length as in current main. We need to change name of this parameter we expose
+    # to users.
     model_max_length = min(train_args.model_max_length, tokenizer.model_max_length)
-    logger.info(f"Model max length {model_max_length}")
+    logger.info(
+        f"Model max length {model_max_length}"
+    )  # pylint: disable=logging-fstring-interpolation
     if train_args.model_max_length > tokenizer.model_max_length:
-        logger.warning(
-            f"model_max_length {train_args.model_max_length} exceeds tokenizer.model_max_length {tokenizer.model_max_length}, using tokenizer.model_max_length {tokenizer.model_max_length}"
+        logger.warning(  # pylint: disable=logging-fstring-interpolation
+            f"model_max_length {train_args.model_max_length} exceeds tokenizer.model_max_length \
+            {tokenizer.model_max_length}, using tokenizer.model_max_length \
+            {tokenizer.model_max_length}"
         )
 
     # TODO: we need to change this, perhaps follow what open instruct does?
-    special_tokens_dict = dict()
+    special_tokens_dict = {}
     if tokenizer.pad_token is None:
         logger.warning("PAD token set to default, missing in tokenizer")
         special_tokens_dict["pad_token"] = configs.DEFAULT_PAD_TOKEN
@@ -205,19 +207,23 @@ def train(
     if data_args.validation_data_path:
         data_files["validation"] = data_args.validation_data_path
 
-    format_dataset = lambda example: {
+    format_dataset = lambda example: {  # pylint: disable=unnecessary-lambda-assignment
         f"{data_args.dataset_text_field}": example[f"{data_args.dataset_text_field}"]
         + tokenizer.eos_token
     }
 
     json_dataset = datasets.load_dataset("json", data_files=data_files)
     formatted_train_dataset = json_dataset["train"].map(format_dataset)
-    logger.info(f"Training dataset length is {len(formatted_train_dataset)}")
+    logger.info(
+        f"Training dataset length is {len(formatted_train_dataset)}"
+    )  # pylint: disable=logging-fstring-interpolation
 
     formatted_validation_dataset = None
     if data_args.validation_data_path:
         formatted_validation_dataset = json_dataset["validation"].map(format_dataset)
-        logger.info(f"Validation dataset length is {len(formatted_validation_dataset)}")
+        logger.info(
+            f"Validation dataset length is {len(formatted_validation_dataset)}"
+        )  # pylint: disable=logging-fstring-interpolation
 
     aim_callback = get_aimstack_callback()
     file_logger_callback = FileLoggingCallback(logger)
@@ -234,13 +240,13 @@ def train(
             logger.error(
                 "Error, response template is None, needs to be set for training"
             )
-            exit(-1)
+            sys.exit(-1)
 
         if data_args.dataset_text_field is None:
             logger.error(
                 "Error, dataset_text_field is None, needs to be set for training"
             )
-            exit(-1)
+            sys.exit(-1)
 
         data_collator = DataCollatorForCompletionOnlyLM(
             response_template_ids,
@@ -260,17 +266,17 @@ def train(
         args=train_args,
         max_seq_length=model_max_length,
         callbacks=callbacks,
-        peft_config=peft_config,
+        peft_config=peft_configs,
     )
 
-    if run_distributed and peft_config is not None:
+    if run_distributed and peft_configs is not None:
         trainer.accelerator.state.fsdp_plugin.auto_wrap_policy = fsdp_auto_wrap_policy(
             model
         )
     trainer.train()
 
 
-def main(**kwargs):
+def main():
     parser = transformers.HfArgumentParser(
         dataclass_types=(
             configs.ModelArguments,
@@ -293,7 +299,7 @@ def main(**kwargs):
         lora_config,
         prompt_tuning_config,
         peft_method,
-        _,
+        *_,
     ) = parser.parse_args_into_dataclasses(return_remaining_strings=True)
     if peft_method.peft_method == "lora":
         tune_config = lora_config
diff --git a/tuning/utils/data_type_utils.py b/tuning/utils/data_type_utils.py
index 42b058cde..375d04aeb 100644
--- a/tuning/utils/data_type_utils.py
+++ b/tuning/utils/data_type_utils.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Standard
 from typing import Union
+import sys
 
 # Third Party
 from transformers.utils import logging
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ def str_to_torch_dtype(dtype_str: str) -> torch.dtype:
     dt = getattr(torch, dtype_str, None)
     if not isinstance(dt, torch.dtype):
         logger.error(" ValueError: Unrecognized data type of a torch.Tensor")
-        exit(-1)
+        sys.exit(-1)
     return dt
 
 
diff --git a/tuning/utils/merge_model_utils.py b/tuning/utils/merge_model_utils.py
index a8a41fecb..b8809bd87 100644
--- a/tuning/utils/merge_model_utils.py
+++ b/tuning/utils/merge_model_utils.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # Standard
 from typing import Union
-import argparse
 import json
 import os
 
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ def create_merged_model(
     References:
     - https://github.com/huggingface/peft/issues/1040
     - https://github.com/huggingface/peft/issues/280#issuecomment-1500805831
-    - https://huggingface.co/docs/peft/main/en/package_reference/lora#peft.LoraModel.add_weighted_adapter
+    - https://huggingface.co/docs/peft/main/en/package_reference/lora#peft.LoraModel.add_weighted_adapter # pylint: disable=line-too-long
 
     Args:
         checkpoint_model: Union[str, list[str]]
@@ -82,7 +81,7 @@ def fetch_base_model_from_checkpoint(checkpoint_model: str) -> str:
     if not os.path.isfile(adapter_config):
         raise FileNotFoundError("Unable to locate adapter config to infer base model!")
 
-    with open(adapter_config, "r") as cfg:
+    with open(adapter_config, "r") as cfg:  # pylint: disable=unspecified-encoding
         adapter_dict = json.load(cfg)
     if "base_model_name_or_path" not in adapter_dict:
         raise KeyError(