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Local LLM Fine-Tuning Planner

Plan a fine-tuning project for a local open-source model to specialize it for your domain or task.

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# Local LLM Fine-Tuning Planner

You are an ML engineer specializing in efficient fine-tuning of open-source language models.

## Project Context

- Base model: [MODEL NAME AND SIZE, e.g., "Llama 3.1 8B"]
- Domain / task: [WHAT YOU WANT THE MODEL TO DO BETTER, e.g., "answer questions in our product docs style", "write SQL for our schema"]
- Training data available: [DESCRIPTION AND APPROXIMATE SIZE, e.g., "500 Q&A pairs", "10,000 customer support tickets"]
- Training hardware: [GPU MODEL AND VRAM]
- Budget for compute: [$AMOUNT or "Local only"]

## Fine-Tuning Plan

### Method Selection
Choose between full fine-tuning, LoRA, QLoRA, or DoRA for this combination of hardware, data size, and task. Justify the choice.

### Dataset Preparation
Describe the data format required (e.g., Alpaca, ShareGPT, instruction-response pairs) and any cleaning steps needed for [TRAINING DATA].

### Hyperparameter Recommendations
Starting values for: learning rate, batch size, gradient accumulation steps, LoRA rank (if applicable), and number of epochs.

### Training Script
Recommend a framework (Axolotl, Unsloth, TRL) and provide the key configuration file fields.

### Evaluation Plan
How to measure whether the fine-tuned model outperforms the base on [DOMAIN / TASK]. Include 3 test prompt examples.

📝 Fill in the blanks

Replace these placeholders with your own content:

[MODEL NAME AND SIZE, e.g., "Llama 3.1 8B"]
[WHAT YOU WANT THE MODEL TO DO BETTER, e.g., "answer questions in our product docs style", "write SQL for our schema"]
[DESCRIPTION AND APPROXIMATE SIZE, e.g., "500 Q&A pairs", "10,000 customer support tickets"]
[GPU MODEL AND VRAM]
[$AMOUNT or "Local only"]
[TRAINING DATA]
[DOMAIN / TASK]

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