DAY 43 / 210
LoRA Foundations for Startup Model Tuning
This opening day of phase-2 establishes parameter-efficient fine-tuning as the core technique for adapting models on limited startup resources. It sets the measurement baseline for all subsequent days by focusing on why full fine-tuning fails at scale and how low-rank methods directly address Maku's tribunal data constraints.
⏱ 45 min target📝 2 quiz Qs
Resources
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Deliverable
Journal entry with one-paragraph LoRA config sketch for a 7B model on tribunal briefs
Quiz · 2 questions
1. Why does LoRA reduce memory compared with full fine-tuning?
2. Name one common misconception when first applying LoRA to a domain-specific corpus.