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Finetuning Large Language Models

In this short course, you’ll learn essential finetuning concepts and how to train a large language model using your own data. You’ll be equipped to incorporate the latest techniques to optimize your model and produce transformative results. When you complete this course, you will be able to: Understand when to apply finetuning on LLMs Prepare your data for finetuning Train and evaluate an LLM on your data With finetuning, you’re able to take your own data to train the model on it, and update the weights of the neural nets in the LLM, changing the model compared to other methods like prompt engineering and Retrieval Augmented Generation. Finetuning allows the model to learn style, form, and can update the model with new knowledge to improve results.

Status: Large Language Modeling
Status: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
IntermediateProject2 hours

Featured reviews

PM

5.0Reviewed Nov 25, 2023

Great course to learn about fine tuning, what it is, what it can accomplish and what the fundamental steps are in being able to achieve it.

PR

5.0Reviewed Oct 10, 2024

Very helpful to get basic knowledge of fine-tuning LLMs.

BB

5.0Reviewed Jan 24, 2024

Great workshop for LLM beginners who wants to get hands-on in the same day of LLM fine tuning activities. Great thanks to Dr.Sharon Zhou to make the LLM fine-tuning as simple as train a DNN model.

SS

5.0Reviewed Nov 9, 2023

Right on point for someone looking to start learning about LLM finetuning

MH

5.0Reviewed Apr 30, 2025

Good material. Easy to accomplish length.Hands on project instruction was helpful!

LK

5.0Reviewed Oct 26, 2025

really good course to get started and understand what actually finetuning is, and why do we need it. it is structured pretty well

MD

5.0Reviewed Nov 24, 2023

Excellent zoom in from high level to the more detail. Makes me feel like diving in even more into the finetuning of LLMs

AC

5.0Reviewed Dec 24, 2023

Course was presented well and focused. It was easy to follow Labs notebooks and they worked.

AA

4.0Reviewed May 30, 2025

This project will enhance my technical skills at place of my work

JF

5.0Reviewed Dec 11, 2023

Excellent course and a nice pre-cursor to understanding why and when we need to perform finetuning.

DZ

5.0Reviewed Mar 5, 2025

Excellent course and project to understand fine tuning of the LLMs

YA

4.0Reviewed Jun 1, 2024

it's very good as a start but needs a little bit to focus on the advanced topics in fine-tuning

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