Fine-Tuning, Part 2: Teaching an LLM to Actually Listen

1. 1Apply tokenization to input text using libraries like Hugging Face's Tokenizers
2. 2Configure padding to handle variable-length input sequences
3. 3Implement the -100 trick to ignore padded tokens during training
4. 4Test batching techniques to optimize training efficiency

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💡 Fine-tuning an LLM requires careful handling of input sequences, including tokenization, padding, and batching

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