custom LLM persona - lora finetuning using user conversation with LLM
07:05 PM 03-03-2025
task :
- allow user to chat/talk with LLM till we get enough dataset to replicate the user's style of talking by fine tuning using LoRA techniques
- create the most optimal questionnaire as per the dataset requirements that'll generate the best outputs
- we need dataset. we will use bigger models to generate a dataset. ask deepseek to talk like 'Trump'. i think trump's speech is easily verifiable. we will run our questionnaire on deepseek asking it to respond like trump.
donald trump
yoda
gordon ramsay
david attenborough
penny from big bang theory
janice from friends
these above will be the test subjects
next, we make the questionnaire. research the effect of dataset quality & quantity & style to create that questionnaire. think about the questions, answers and the ability for LLMs to grasp user's chat-persona
choose a smaller base model to finetune while having better LLM to create dataset and judge
decide how you're going to evaluate the quality of the output. LLM as a judge? most probably
now, we've got the dataset. the obvious next step is to start finetuning on together infra. test various methods and evaluate.
iterate on various models till you're satisfied
always estimate the cost before firing the chips
07:51 PM 03-03-2025
current status:
got only vague theoretical knowledge with finetuning;
never trained something serious;
test current small models to see how well they do
gotta start from small models and finetune little stuff to understand what exactly happens
good luck
10:00 PM 03-03-2025
first testing: gave a system prompt - "talk like trump while replying to every message";
model: meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Turbo-Free
the first response felt good but after that, the replies seem too similar. i expected a 70B model to get it perfect. i was hoping to ft even smaller models than this, like 7B. i guess the cost just shot up now comparatively. anyways, we're gonna start with smaller models just to see what they'll do.
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does Lora fine tuning work well in long context outputs as well as they work in short context outputs
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09:34 AM 04-03-2025
i tried gordon ramsay too and it has the same issue. LLMs know how to talk like these people but that skill is very limited. it can only repeat a few things over and over again, at least for the 70B Llama model
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i need to test smaller models too
10:15 PM 17-03-2025
i don't understand how so many days pass when i'm not doing anything