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How to build a tiny 1.5B text-to-SQL model that beats a 7B

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I wanted to build something with an LLM using my own hands. Not wire an API into a wrapper, but take a base model, train it, measure it, break it, and serve it over HTTP. Why? Because I wanted to get my hands dirty working with an LLM, making and breaking things. Text to SQL fits exactly. You ask a…

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    How to build a tiny 1.5B text-to-SQL model that beats a 7B

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