How to Fine-Tune an LLM: SFT, LoRA, QLoRA and DPO Explained

This blog post discusses the details of what finetuning is, why it’s needed, and how we can finetune an LLM model with practical examples. The fine-tuning is what brings life to the LLM model. It’s a technique to make models adapt to a specific task, such as coding, writing poems or songs, classifying objects in an image, etc. A typical lifecycle of LLM