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Notes on adapters, fine-tuning, and running models on your own hardware.

Training Your First LoRA

A practical first pass at building a LoRA adapter from a small, well-cleaned dataset.

2025-05-12

Prompt Engineering for Adapter-Tuned Models

Prompt patterns that actually change behavior after a LoRA is applied.

2025-05-05

Running LoRA Adapters in llama.cpp

Loading a safetensors LoRA into a GGUF base model for CPU inference.

2025-05-05

Designing a Small Adapter Registry

How to structure a lightweight registry for LoRA adapters, metadata, versions, downloads, and model cards without heavy infrastructure.

2025-04-29

Choosing Precision and Format

How to pick between fp16, bf16, int8, GGUF, and safetensors without breaking compatibility.

2025-04-23

Secure Handling of Private Training Data

A practical guide to handling private uploads, temporary datasets, logs, and retention without leaking sensitive training data.

2025-04-15

LoRA vs Full Fine-Tuning

A practical comparison of adapter training and full-model fine-tuning for real production workflows.

2025-04-11

Writing a Model Card That Prevents Mistakes

Model card fields that actually matter for LoRA distribution and reuse.

2025-04-11

Checksums and Reproducible Downloads

How to make model downloads verifiable, immutable, and safe to cache across a small adapter registry.

2025-04-03

Serving Text Adapters with vLLM

Loading multiple LoRA adapters into a single vLLM instance and routing requests.

2025-03-19