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Fine-Tune an LLM on Your Mac with MLX: QLoRA in 16 Seconds (Real Run, No Cloud)

I fine-tuned a language model on a Mac. The training took about 16 seconds, used about 2.5 GB of memory, and needed no cloud and no NVIDIA card. Just Apple's MLX. Before training, the model wrote a long, rambling answer. After training, it answered short and clear, exactly like my examples. And the…

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  1. 2026-10-11 05:43 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Fine-Tune an LLM on Your Mac with MLX: QLoRA in 16 Seconds (Real Run, No Cloud)

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