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QLoRA

Fine-tunes LoRA on a 4-bit quantized base, fitting big models on one GPU.

2023 Intermediate core

IN PLAIN WORDS

Introduces NF4, double quantization and paged optimizers, fitting 65B fine-tuning on one 48GB GPU with near-16-bit quality.

Used in: Hobbyist and small-team fine-tuning (Unsloth, Axolotl)

TIMELINE · prerequisites → this → what builds on it

2021 LoRA (Low-Ran…2022 LLM.int8() & …2023 QLoRA

01Original paper

QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs

Tim Dettmers, Artidoro Pagnoni, Ari Holtzman, et al. · 2023

arXiv ↗ ✓ Verified · arXiv API

02Where it sits

Learn the left column first; the right column builds on this one.

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QLoRA

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Related:GPTQ

LoRA (Low-Rank …LLM.int8() & Ou…GPTQ QLoRA

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03Learning resources

Official docs, explainers, courses and reference code. All links checked.

04Where the course teaches it

On learning paths:Post-training & Reasoning Models

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