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Fine-Tuning Fundamentals: When, Why & What It Costs

Fine-Tuning Fundamentals: When, Why & What It Costs

Before you burn a GPU-week: what fine-tuning actually changes, when prompting or RAG beats it, the decision framework teams skip, and honest cost math for every route.

3 sections·7 lessons

What you'll learn

1. What Fine-Tuning Actually Does

  • Weights, behaviors, and the great misconception
  • Check: what it does

2. Methods & Cost Math

  • Full FT, LoRA, QLoRA, and the bill
  • Video: fine-tune large LLMs with QLoRA, free Colab
  • Check: methods & cost

3. Your First Run, Properly

  • A first fine-tune that teaches you the loop
  • Final check: first run

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