LLM Customization and Fine-Tuning: Adaptation, distillation, and alignment

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LLM Customization and Fine-Tuning is a hands-on playbook for turning a general-purpose open-weights model into a focused, cost-efficient system that’s tailored to your business. You’ll explore the complete adaptation spectrum, from prompting and RAG, through LoRA and QLoRA, to fully supervised fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, and preference alignment with DPO. One running example, a fictitious enterprise and its IT help des...