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LoRA and QLoRA Fine-Tuning for Llama 3 (ANSWERED)

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Train low-rank adapters on curated dataset with QLoRA for consumer GPUs; merge or serve adapter weights; eval against base; watch catastrophic forgetting; serve via vLLM with merged weights or PEFT.

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Walk through LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning Llama 3 on custom data and deploying adapters to production.

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