Fine-Tuning Large and Small Language Models - (Tech Today) by Luca Massaron (Paperback)

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Book Synopsis Fine-tune open-source language models with LoRA, QLoRA, and Hugging Face tools Fine-Tuning Large and Small Language Models walks practitioners through the complete pipeline for customizing open-source SLMs for domain-specific tasks. Written by Luca Massaron, a data scientist with 20+ years in data modelling and nearly a decade building NLP solutions with Transformer architectures, the book covers dataset preparation, synthetic data generation, base model selection from families including Gemma, Qwen, Phi, and Llama, and deployment on consumer-grade hardware. The book frames fine-tuning against alternatives like retrieval-augmented generation and advanced prompting, helping rea…