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What actually broke when I tried to fine-tune on web-scraped data and what fixed it [D]

Fine tuning on self collected web data felt straightforward until it wasn’t. Here’s what actually caused problems: Boilerplate contamination was the silent killer. Navigation menus, cookie banners, and footer text were leaking into training examples. The model started generating weirdly structured…

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  1. 2026-11-02 16:25 · r/MachineLearning
    What actually broke when I tried to fine-tune on web-scraped data and what fixed it [D]

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