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Learn: Training and fine-tuning

Vol. I No. 26 Saturday, October 17, 2026 Closing 12:53 PM UTC · next edition 10:00 AM UTC

Adapting models to a task.

5 steps to the basics

Start here

  1. The LLM courseHugging Face · How language models work, from tokens to training.
  2. Learn the basicsPyTorch · Data, models and a training loop, in code.
  3. Model optimizationOpenAI · When to fine-tune, and when a prompt is enough.
  4. PEFTHugging Face · Tuning a big model cheaply with LoRA and friends.
  5. TRLHugging Face · Post-training: supervised tuning, preferences, RL.

New for beginners

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Go deeper

  1. DatabricksOct 9, 2026
    From post-training to production: How TinyFish runs its web-native model on Databricks AI Runtime
  2. DigitalOcean TutorialsOct 9, 2026
    Should You Use Spot or On-Demand GPUs for Model Training?
  3. QdrantOct 8, 2026
    Jevjitsu: Or, How We Tried Generalized Classifiers on Everything
  4. DigitalOcean TutorialsOct 8, 2026
    How to Find Real Failures in AI Agents with Signals and Test Them with Evaluations
  5. OpenAIOct 6, 2026
    Advancing computer use with Ironclad
  6. LaunchDarklyOct 3, 2026
    Machine Learning Pipeline Architecture: Components and Control Points
  7. AWS Machine LearningOct 2, 2026
    Fine-tune a search agent with multi-turn RL on Amazon SageMaker AI
  8. CoreWeaveOct 2, 2026
    Why Open Models Can Win on Enterprise Cost and Control
  9. AWS Machine LearningOct 1, 2026
    How uniopen customized Amazon Nova to their retail moderation policies for production deployment
  10. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 1, 2026
    Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Nemotron for Saudi Arabic Dialects, with a Path to Other Languages
  11. AWS Machine LearningSep 28, 2026
    Automating Amazon Textract adapter lifecycle management across accounts
  12. NVIDIA DeveloperSep 24, 2026
    Efficient MoE Training for Biological Foundation Models
  13. LanceDBSep 23, 2026
    A Practical LLM Pretraining Pipeline with LanceDB
  14. UbuntuSep 23, 2026
    Fine tune your own custom LLM with Canonical Charmed Kubeflow and Feast
  15. Together AISep 23, 2026
    How to train your own Jev for $17

Advanced

  1. Airbnb TechOct 13, 2026
    CASTLE: training natural language search before the first real query
  2. Apple Machine LearningOct 13, 2026
    Mix, Don't Tune: Bilingual Pre-Training Outperforms Hyperparameter Search in Data-Constrained Settings
  3. AWS ComputeOct 9, 2026
    Scaling RL rollouts with Firecracker on Amazon EC2 metal
  4. Stripe DevelopersOct 9, 2026
    Fine-tuning LLMs for risk assessment
  5. AMD ROCmOct 8, 2026
    Pre-Training Hybrid LLMs from Scratch in Primus on AMD Instinct™ GPUs
  6. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 6, 2026
    Scale Bitwise-Deterministic Pretraining with NVIDIA Megatron Core
  7. AMD ROCmSep 30, 2026
    Automating Performance Bottleneck Identification with the TraceLens Agent
  8. AMD ROCmSep 29, 2026
    Unlocking Sim2Real for a Robotic Arm with RL Accelerated by AMD Instinct GPUs
  9. Snorkel AISep 28, 2026
    RL environments for LLM agents: Design, rewards, and validation
  10. Snorkel AISep 28, 2026
    RL environments for LLM agents: Design, rewards, and validation
  11. OpenAISep 28, 2026
    Towards safety cases for frontier AI training
  12. AMD ROCmSep 28, 2026
    Verl 0.9.0 on ROCm™ 10.0: Next-Generation RL Post-Training on AMD Instinct™ GPUs
  13. AWS Machine LearningSep 25, 2026
    Accelerate multimodal RL training with SkyRL on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
  14. Google Cloud AI & MLSep 25, 2026
    Best practices guide for customizing Gemini models via Reinforcement Learning (RL)
  15. AWS Machine LearningSep 25, 2026
    Multi-Region training with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Qumulo
  16. Google for DevelopersSep 24, 2026
    Reproducing Olmo 3 7B Pre-training in MaxText: case study of large scale training on TPUs
  17. Apple Machine LearningSep 24, 2026
    Compressing Streaming Neural Audio Encoders via Latent-Space Distillation
  18. NVIDIA DeveloperSep 23, 2026
    Validate GPU Cluster Readiness Before AI Workloads Land
  19. DatadogSep 23, 2026
    Teaching a 9B model to investigate production alerts
  20. AMD ROCmSep 23, 2026
    Debugging Logprob Mismatches in LLM Reinforcement Learning

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