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What training actually does to an LLM

What training actually does to an LLM The model you chat with was never written. Not one line of its behavior was composed by a person. Llama 3.1 8B is 8,006,464,512 numbers, counted on Meta's own model card, and no human chose any of them. Everything it does, the grammar, the reasoning, the confid…

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  1. 2026-10-16 23:34 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    What training actually does to an LLM

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