LLM Fine-Tuning

Part 1: Eight Major Methods For FineTuning an LLM

Bruce H. Cottman, Ph.D.
14 min readJun 6, 2023

I delve into eight methods that use targeted parameter fine-tuning of LLMs. I discuss in detail Gradient-based, LoRA, QLoRA, and four others as advanced variations of ULMFiT: selecting a small subset of the available parameters in a trained LLM.

Targeting a subset of the parameters to fine-tune an LLM. Photo by Oliver Hale on Unsplash

Overview of FineLarge Language Models

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Bruce H. Cottman, Ph.D.

I write my blog utilizing decades of experience in investment, programming, and data science.