L37 — Fine Tuning LLM | Kaggle GPU, Unsloth, LoRA Matrix Math & QLoRA Hands-On

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In Lecture 37 of our Gen AI in Hindi series, Bipin Kumar goes fully hands-on — writing and running real fine-tuning code live using Kaggle's free GPU, the Unsloth library, and the Qwen2.5-0.5B model.
This is where theory becomes practice. If you've been following the series, this is the session you've been waiting for.

šŸ’» What You'll Build in This Lecture:
A Transaction Categorizer — a fine-tuned LLM that classifies any bank transaction (e.g. "DMart ₹850" → shopping, "IRCTC booking" → travel) into 10 categories automatically.

🧠 Topics Covered in This Lecture:
āš™ļø Setup & Tools:

Kaggle — free GPU (T4) for fine-tuning, no cost for learning
Google Colab — alternative for smaller experiments
AWS SageMaker — production fine-tuning walkthrough (ML.G4DN instances)
Unsloth — fastest open-source fine-tuning library with standard notebooks

šŸ“‚ Dataset Preparation:

JSONL format: system + user + assistant template structure
Train/validation split — why unseen data matters (batsman analogy explained!)
How many examples are enough? Starting small and scaling up

šŸ”¢ LoRA — Matrix Math Explained Simply:

Full fine-tuning vs LoRA — why we don't change all 0.8B weights
W + Ī”W = W + AƗB — the core LoRA equation, step by step
Rank r controls trainable params: r=16 → only 6.4M of 568M params trained
8Ɨr matrix A + rƗ8 matrix B → same output shape, fraction of the cost

⚔ QLoRA:

Combine quantization (4-bit model weights) + LoRA (frozen base)
Massive GPU memory savings — run fine-tuning on consumer hardware

šŸ“Š Reading Training Results:

Training loss vs validation loss — both should decrease
Overfitting & underfitting — how to spot and fix them
accuracy ā‰ˆ 1 - validation_loss — quick estimation trick
num_epochs, batch_size, learning_rate, lora_rank, lora_alpha — all explained next class


ā­ļø Next Lecture (Lecture 38):
šŸ‘‰ Fine Tuning Parameters Deep Dive — epochs, learning rate, precision, recall, overfitting & underfitting — and completing fine tuning end-to-end

šŸ“š Full Course Roadmap:
šŸ Python → šŸ¤– Generative AI → 🧠 Agentic AI → ā˜ļø AWS + Real Projects

šŸ› ļø Tools Used This Lecture:

Kaggle → kaggle.com
Unsloth → unsloth.ai
Hugging Face → huggingface.co
AWS SageMaker → aws.amazon.com/sagemaker


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