BBusinessware Technologies1d ago · 10 min readCatalog Matching With LLMs: Why Changing Knowledge Should Stay Outside the ModelProduct catalog matching looks simple until real-world data enters the picture. The same product may appear under different names, abbreviations, languages, units, brand conventions, or category struc1Abusinesswaretech.hashnode.dev
TTaha hussein1d ago · 5 min readFine-Tuning vs LoRA vs QLoRA: Understanding Efficient LLM AdaptationModern large language models are powerful, but using a pretrained model does not guarantee that it will perform well on your specific task. You may need a model that follows a particular output formattahahussein.hashnode.dev
MMuhammad Ariel ShakaramiroSep 25 · 7 min readWhat Does Fine-Tuning Actually Learn? Testing QLoRA with Deliberately Controlled DataFine-tuning is often treated as a way to "embed knowledge" into a model — but what actually happens under the hood can be far more layered than that. This post builds a small, controlled experiment — shaka-ai.hashnode.dev
MMuhammad Ariel ShakaramiroSep 25 · 7 min readFine-Tuning Llama 3.1 8B for Free on Colab: QLoRA, Unsloth, and a Compression Claim That Doesn't Hold UpAn 8-billion-parameter model usually needs tens of gigabytes of VRAM just to load, let alone retrain. But with 4-bit quantization and LoRA combined, fine-tuning a model that size can run on Colab's frshaka-ai.hashnode.dev
NNagappan SSep 22 · 8 min readFine-Tuning vs. Prompting: When Do You Actually Need to Fine-Tune?A team I know spent two weeks and a few hundred dollars fine-tuning a model to get their internal support bot to answer in a consistent, on-brand tone. They collected examples, cleaned them up, ran th12Mnagspidey.hashnode.dev
FFeroan MothySep 17 · 6 min readI Keep Trying to Find an Excuse to Train a ModelI keep wanting to train a model. Then I start looking for a reason to train one. And that's where I get stuck. I can think of plenty of things I could build with an existing model. An API, a RAG systeferoan.hashnode.dev
RRahul Sai Indeevar VSep 16 · 10 min readParameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning: From LoRA to QLoRAFine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) used to be an option only for organizations with massive compute budgets. Full fine-tuning requires updating and storing every parameter, gradient, and optimiz2rahul-ai.hashnode.dev
PPraise JamesSep 14 · 8 min readWeb data for LLM fine-tuning: a practical 2026 guideThis article was originally published on the Zenrows blog. Read the original here: https://www.zenrows.com/blog/web-data-llm-fine-tuning Architecture overview LLM fine-tuning pipelines that rely entizenrows.hashnode.dev
RRahul Sai Indeevar VSep 8 · 14 min readLLM Post-Training: From Full Fine-Tuning to PEFT, Adapters, and Soft PromptsLarge Language Models (LLMs) arrive with immense foundational knowledge acquired during pre-training. However, deploying them to specialized real-world domains—such as legal document parsing, medical 1rahul-ai.hashnode.dev
IInternals DecodedSep 2 · 15 min readFine-Tuning, Explained: Teaching an Old Model New TricksFine-tuning takes a pre-trained model and subjects it to a second round of training on a small, task-specific dataset. The result is a permanent behavior change: a generic chatbot learns to write in yinternals-decoded.hashnode.dev