LLM Fine-Tuning and LoRA: Making Large Models Work for You

As powerful as large language models (LLMs) like GPT, LLaMA, and Mistral are, they’re still general-purpose. If you want to make them truly useful for your domain—whether it’s legal documents, financial analysis, or German tax law—you need to fine-tune them. And thanks to a technique called LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation), you can now fine-tune LLMs with a fraction of the data, compute, and cost. 🔧 What is Fine-Tuning? Fine-tuning is the process of continuing the training of a pre-trained LLM on your own dataset so that it learns domain-specific patterns, vocabulary, tone, or tasks. ...

April 20, 2025 · 3 min

Evaluating LLMs: How Do You Measure a Model's Mind?

As large language models (LLMs) become central to search, productivity tools, education, and coding, evaluating them is no longer optional. You have to ask: Is this model reliable? Accurate? Safe? Biased? Smart enough for my task? But here’s the catch: LLMs are not deterministic functions. They generate free-form text, can be right in one sentence and wrong in the next — and vary wildly depending on the prompt. So how do we evaluate them meaningfully? ...

June 15, 2024 · 3 min

RAG and LLMs: Teaching Large Models to Use External Knowledge

Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT or LLaMA are great at generating text. But there’s a catch: They only know what they were trained on, and that knowledge is frozen at training time. So what happens when you ask them something from after their training cutoff? Or something super niche, like a policy from your internal HR docs? Enter RAG – Retrieval-Augmented Generation. A technique that combines LLMs with a search engine, enabling them to look up facts on the fly. ...

July 15, 2024 · 3 min

LLM Agents: Building AI Systems That Can Reason and Act

Understanding LLM Agents: The Future of Autonomous AI Systems Large Language Models (LLMs), like GPT-3, GPT-4, and others, have taken the world by storm due to their impressive language generation and understanding capabilities. However, when these models are augmented with decision-making capabilities, memory, and actions in specific environments, they become even more powerful. Enter LLM Agents — autonomous systems built on top of large language models to perform tasks, make decisions, and act autonomously based on user instructions. ...

May 5, 2025 · 12 min