Terminal screenshot of a fine-tuning training run showing loss curves.

Fine-Tuning a Small LLM: A Hands-On Experiment

A working engineer’s journal of fine-tuning a small open-source LLM with LoRA on a custom dataset — the full pipeline, the surprises, and the measurable results.

September 5, 2026 · 9 min · 1816 words · martinuke0
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