DAY 54 / 210
LoRA Fundamentals for Efficient Adaptation
This day launches the finetune phase by establishing parameter-efficient methods critical for customizing models on StartupTribunal-specific data. It builds the conceptual base needed before any code changes or experiments in later days.
⏱ 45 min target📝 3 quiz Qs
Resources
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Deliverable
Journal entry containing a proposed LoRA config for brief generation
Quiz · 3 questions
1. Why does LoRA freeze the base model weights?
2. What is the role of rank r in LoRA?
3. How might LoRA be preferable to full fine-tuning for a startup building domain-specific legal briefs?