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Fine-tuning and post-training

not yet earned

I can curate training data, run a parameter-efficient fine-tune, and show the case where prompting would have been enough.

What this claim costs

  • 3 assessed items at tier 2 or above0 of 3 — 3 more to do, from 17 available
  • A public artifact built for this claim — fine-tune-studyNot built yet
  • A documented negative result — where this stops workingNothing recorded. A capability with no known failure boundary has not been explored.
  • Defended aloud, against questions you did not write1 available, none done
  • Recalled cold, a week later, without notes5 scheduled, none done

The proof

fine-tune-study

A fine-tune measured against a well-prompted baseline on the same eval set.

What it has to contain

  • Curation rules written before the data was collected
  • A fine-tune evaluated on a gold set that predates the model
  • A well-prompted baseline given genuine effort, with the comparison prominent
  • Capabilities that were not targeted measured before and after

Where it stops working. Not established yet. Anyone can ship a demo; the boundary is the part that is worth reading, so this claim is not earned until it is written down.

Skills underneath

  • Training data curation
  • Supervised fine-tuning
  • Parameter-efficient fine-tuning
  • Preference optimisation

17 assessed items across the specified courses evidence these, 0 done.