Course Outline

Introduction to Fine-Tuning Challenges

  • Overview of the fine-tuning process
  • Common challenges in fine-tuning large models
  • Understanding the impact of data quality and preprocessing

Addressing Data Imbalances

  • Identifying and analyzing data imbalances
  • Techniques for handling imbalanced datasets
  • Using data augmentation and synthetic data

Managing Overfitting and Underfitting

  • Understanding overfitting and underfitting
  • Regularization techniques: L1, L2, and dropout
  • Adjusting model complexity and training duration

Improving Model Convergence

  • Diagnosing convergence problems
  • Choosing the right learning rate and optimizer
  • Implementing learning rate schedules and warm-ups

Debugging Fine-Tuning Pipelines

  • Tools for monitoring training processes
  • Logging and visualizing model metrics
  • Debugging and resolving runtime errors

Optimizing Training Efficiency

  • Batch size and gradient accumulation strategies
  • Utilizing mixed precision training
  • Distributed training for large-scale models

Real-World Troubleshooting Case Studies

  • Case study: Fine-tuning for sentiment analysis
  • Case study: Resolving convergence issues in image classification
  • Case study: Addressing overfitting in text summarization

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Experience with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow
  • Understanding of machine learning concepts such as training, validation, and evaluation
  • Familiarity with fine-tuning pre-trained models

Audience

  • Data scientists
  • AI engineers
 14 Hours

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