Articles tagged “fine-tuning”
5 articles
A 7B Domain Model Beat Everything We Tried
Domain-specific language models are beating trillion-parameter generalists on vertical tasks. Here's when a 7B model is the right call, how the training pipeline works, and what production teams are shipping today.
Fine-Tune a 7B Model for $1,500 (Not $50,000)
Full fine-tuning costs $50K in H100s. QLoRA on an RTX 4090 costs $1,500. Learn how LoRA and QLoRA let you train only 0.1-1% of parameters with nearly identical results, with working code for fine-tuning models that understand your agent's tool schemas.
A 1B Model Just Matched the 70B. Here's How.
How to distill frontier LLMs into small, cheap models that retain 98% accuracy on agent tasks. The teacher-student pattern, NVIDIA's data flywheel, and the Plan-and-Execute architecture that cuts agent costs by 90%.
Why Your AI Bill Is 30x Too High
Small language models match GPT-3.5 at 2% of the size and 95% less cost. Benchmarks, code, and a migration story from $13K/month to $400.
Fine-tuning vs RAG: why most teams pick wrong and how to decide
When to fine-tune, when to use RAG, and when you need both — with hands-on LoRA fine-tuning and RAG implementation on the same task to show the difference.
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