Finetuned a 270M model on CPU only - full weights, no LoRA, no GPU
r/LocalLLaMA
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Finetuned Gemma 3 270m on CPU only - full weights, no LoRA, no GPU, no cloud compute. ms-swift and a few minutes of patience. Small absurd dataset deliberately to make verification trivial: if the model outputs exactly what wasn't in its pre