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Fine-Tuning & RLHF Intuition · Week 8 · Day 5/7
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

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?

Journal