#Fine Tuning

Fine-Tuning Can't Teach What Pretraining Never Saw

A 5B model raised strictly on grade-school text shrugs off every trick meant to push it further.

Article · 1w ago0

Unsloth Turns Fine-Tuning Into a Desktop App

The fastest open-source training library now wants to replace Ollama on your machine, and it might deserve to.

Article · 1w ago1

Owning Claude's Outputs Won't Let You Train on Them

The training ban lives in contract law, not copyright, and that distinction decides what developers can actually build.

Article · 2w ago1

That 100x-Cheaper Retrieval Claim Is Half Right

Neon and Castform's benchmark-free demo still marks a real shift in who needs frontier models for RAG.

Article · 3w ago0

An 8B Fine-Tune Now Fits in 4 GB of VRAM

Soup streams frozen decoder layers through the GPU one at a time, and proves the arithmetic is bit-exact.

Article · 3w ago1

The $500 Fine-Tune Is Real, but the Eval Is the Moat

A tiny GRPO run on two workstation GPUs outscored five frontier models at catalog review — asterisks included.

Article · 1mo ago1

A $500 RL Fine-Tune Beat the Frontier. Sort Of.

The self-scored benchmark deserves skepticism, but the playbook behind it is real, cheap, and already running at Shopify scale.

Article · 1mo ago1

FeyNoBg's Best Part Isn't the Model

The Apache-2.0 training library matters more than the non-commercial weights it ships with.

Article · 1mo ago0

KTransformers Turned CPU Offloading Into Real Infrastructure

The Tsinghua-born framework dissolved into SGLang and LLaMA-Factory, making trillion-class MoE models a single-machine problem.

Article · 1mo ago1

Inkling Bets Fine-Tuning Beats Frontier Chatbots

Thinking Machines' first open-weights model is less a chatbot competitor than an infrastructure bet on customization over off-the-shelf AI.

News · 1mo ago5

Inkling Puts 975B Open Weights in Reach

Murati's lab ships a frontier MoE you can fine-tune, not just rent.

Article · 1mo ago2

Fine-Tune Qwen2.5-7B with QLoRA on Your Own Data

A practical walkthrough for QLoRA fine-tuning Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct on a custom instruction dataset, with real cost numbers and a loss-masking sanity check most tutorials skip.

Tutorial · 1mo ago0

Why Large Language Models Fail to Learn Reversible Facts

Auto-regressive models cannot automatically infer that B is A after learning A is B, forcing a rethink of fine-tuning.

Article · 2mos ago2

When a 3B Model Out-Reasons Opus 4.5, Read the Fine Print

VibeThinker-3B matches flagship math and code reasoning, then collapses on general knowledge. That gap is the real lesson.

Article · 2mos ago3

Stop Prompting Tiny LLMs: Fine-Tune Them Instead

Why sub-billion parameter models fail at zero-shot classification, and how Supervised Fine-Tuning turns them into production-grade local routers.

Article · 2mos ago0