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peft-fine-tuning
Fine-tunes LLMs with Hugging Face PEFT, using LoRA, QLoRA, IA3, AdaLoRA, prefix tuning, and prompt tuning so that under 1% of parameters are trained. Covers rank, alpha, and target module selection, loading and merging adapters, multi-adapter serving, and integration with TRL SFTTrainer, Axolotl, and vLLM. Use when fine-tuning 7B-70B models on limited GPU memory, when running QLoRA on a single 24GB GPU, when choosing LoRA rank and alpha, when merging or swapping adapters on one base model, or when debugging CUDA OOM or an adapter that does not apply. Not for full fine-tuning of small models under 1B parameters or cases needing all weights updated.
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# PEFT (Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning)
Fine-tune LLMs by training <1% of parameters using LoRA, QLoRA, and 25+ adapter methods.
## When to use PEFT
**Use PEFT/LoRA when:**
- Fine-tuning 7B-70B models on consumer GPUs (RTX 4090, A100)
- Need to train <1% parameters (6MB adapters vs 14GB full model)
- Want fast iteration with multiple task-specific adapters
- Deploying multiple fine-tuned variants from one base model
**Use QLoRA (PEFT + quantization) when:**
- Fine-tuning 70B models on single 24GB GPU