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Yuanzhi Li

Parameter-efficient finetuning

Carnegie Mellon machine learning professor and LoRA coauthor

A useful profile for the seam between deep-learning theory and practical large-model methods, especially if you want someone whose work spans convergence theory, small-language-model data design, and LoRA.

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Carnegie Mellon University

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LoRA

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TinyStories

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Deep-learning theory

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Parameter-efficient finetuning

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LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

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Finetuning

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