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MLX LoRA fine-tuning: the command is the easy part

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MLX LM gives Apple Silicon a native path for adapting open language models with LoRA or QLoRA. Starting the run is straightforward. Deciding whether the resulting adapter is useful is the real work. I treat the dataset contract, frozen baseline, and post-training evaluation as part of the training…

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  1. 2026-08-24 04:30 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    MLX LoRA fine-tuning: the command is the easy part

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