🎯 Fine-Tuning Strategies

Efficient techniques for adapting pre-trained models to your tasks

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Why Fine-Tuning?

🎯 The Challenge

Pre-trained models are powerful but generic. Fine-tuning adapts them to your specific task, improving performance on domain-specific data without training from scratch.

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Key Insight

Full fine-tuning updates all parameters but requires massive compute. Modern techniques like LoRA achieve similar results while training only 0.1-1% of parameters.

❌ Training from Scratch

  • Requires millions of examples
  • Weeks/months of training time
  • Expensive GPU clusters ($100k+)
  • High risk of poor convergence

✅ Fine-Tuning

  • Works with 100-10,000 examples
  • Hours to days of training
  • Single GPU sufficient ($100-1000)
  • Leverages pre-learned features

📊 Common Use Cases

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Domain Adaptation

Medical, legal, financial - adapt GPT to specialized terminology

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Style Matching

Company tone, brand voice, writing style consistency

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Task Specialization

Summarization, extraction, classification for specific data