LoRA Fine-Tuning on Consumer Hardware: Adding Skills to a Model Without Retraining It

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0000

“Fine-tuning” used to be a word that came with a server room attached. Retraining a multi-billion-parameter model meant a rack of data-centre GPUs, weeks of compute, and a budget that no homelab tinkerer was ever going to sign off on. Then a technique called LoRA quietly changed the maths, and now you can teach a large model a genuinely new skill on the same graphics card you use for gaming. I’ve done it on a single 24GB GPU over a long evening, and the result was good enough to be useful.

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LoRA Fine-Tuning on Consumer Hardware: Adding Skills to a Model Without Retraining It