Glad to see that more people outside the big ai labs are figuring out how to do fine tuning. Some open source LLM authors also seem to have figured it out.

I think many users get put off it because just pushing a button doesn’t work and the whole thing seems like a black box that you don’t know how to fix when it breaks.

It turns out that finetuning can be debugged, but the methods aren’t well documented (yet), eg by generating q/a, oversampling them, etc

When you get it to work it’s powerful - new abilities emerge beyond memorization.

Just like how llama2/claude2/gpt4 learned reasoning by memorizing sentences from Reddit posts :P

Also, I don’t get the comparison of rag vs finetuning in articles like this - why not do both. RAG is easy to setup - it’s push button. Just do it on all models (including finetuned models).