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How to Fine-Tune an LLM: An End-to-End Guide

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I ended up fine tuning a mistral 7b to outperform our costly foundational model and saved $300k. I previously thought that fine tuning was pointless (it's definitely not) and that all these problems could be solved with RAG (they can't). The truth is, a LoRA/QLoRA adapter is extremely useful for ma…

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