Peft Fine Tuning

# 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
- Memory is the primary constraint
- Can accept ~5% quality trade-off vs full fine-tuning

**Use full fine-tuning instead when:**
- Training small models (<1B parameters)
- Need maximum quality and have compute budget
- Significant domain shift requires updating all weights

## Quick start

### Installation

```bash
# Basic installation
pip install peft

# With quantization support (recommended)
pip install peft bitsandbytes

# Full stack
pip install peft transformers accelerate bitsandbytes datasets
```

### LoRA fine-tuning (standard)

```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, TrainingArguments, Trainer
from peft import get_peft_model, LoraConfig, TaskType
from datasets import load_dataset

# Load base model
model_name = "meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B"
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token