Eric Laurence

Eric Laurence

Sep
13
How Well Can Llama 3.1 8B Detect Political Spam? [4/4]

How Well Can Llama 3.1 8B Detect Political Spam? [4/4]

It only took about 11 minutes to fine-tuned Llama 3.1 8B on our political spam synthetic dataset using ReFT.
3 min read
Sep
04
Fine-Tuning Llama 3.1 8B in Under 12 Minutes [3/4]

Fine-Tuning Llama 3.1 8B in Under 12 Minutes [3/4]

Meta has recently released Llama 3.1, including their 405 billion parameter model which is the most capable open model
3 min read
Aug
22
How to De-duplicate and Clean Synthetic Data [2/4]

How to De-duplicate and Clean Synthetic Data [2/4]

Synthetic data has shown promising results for training and fine tuning large models, such as Llama 3.1 and the
6 min read
Jul
31
A screenshot of the synthetic spam dataset.

Create Your Own Synthetic Data With Only 5 Political Spam Texts [1/4]

With the 2024 elections coming up, spam and political texts are more prevalent than ever as political campaigns increasingly turn
5 min read
Jul
25
Fine-tuning Llama 3 in 14 minutes using ReFT

Fine-tuning Llama 3 in 14 minutes using ReFT

If you have been fine-tuning models recently, you have most likely used LoRA. While LoRA has been the dominant PEFT
8 min read