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Fine-tuning Llama2-7B with Instruction-tuning data

By: Kevin Vegda
Posted: April 14, 2024

I recently carried out Instruction-tuning on Llama2-7B with Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning methods like QLoRA. Here is what I learned.

Fine-tuning Llama3-8B with SFT and ORPO

By: Kevin Vegda
Posted: April 20, 2024

Now that Llama 3 is out, I went straight to instruction-tuning it to see the kind of performance I can get. Along the way, I tried a new method for alignment called ORPO.

Automatic Speech Recognition

By: Kevin Vegda
Posted: May 09, 2024

This is the first time I’ve worked on audio data for deep learning - here’s what I learned.

LangGraph: or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the tool

By: Kevin Vegda
Posted: January 04, 2025

I’ve been coding applications around LLMs for the last ~6 months. I’ve used all sorts of frameworks and libraries to do so - from the OpenAI SDK to HuggingFace, LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI - you name it, I’ve tried it out. Some of them majorly suck, while others are okay. Here’s what my experience has been like.

Mamba and Selective Structured State Space Models

By: Kevin Vegda
Posted: April 22, 2024

Transformers have been all the rage in NLP for the last few years, and there’s even been talk about whether LLMs have solved all the NLP problems, but S4 and Mamba models seem ready to take the world by storm.

Climate Change AI Summer School

By: Kevin Vegda
Posted: July 05, 2024

I’m currently attending the Summer School by Climate Change AI, here’s my thoughts on what I learn there. I’ll periodically update this entry as I go through more weeks of the school, that lasts through August.