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LoRA in plain EnglishPAPERS

LoRA in plain English

Fine-tune a large model by training less than one percent of it. How low-rank adapters work, what QLoRA adds and when to use them.

SPSana PatelNov 03 · 6 min
Preference tuning: RLHF and DPO side by sidePAPERS

Preference tuning: RLHF and DPO side by side

Reward models and PPO versus a single elegant loss. How RLHF and DPO turn human preferences into model behaviour, and what each costs.

SPSana PatelAug 20 · 6 min
Distillation explained for buildersMODELS

Distillation explained for builders

Train a small model to imitate a big one and keep most of the quality at a fraction of the cost. How it works, when it pays off and what to check first.

JLJonas LindJul 30 · 6 min

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