Large Language Models

2026

LoRA model: Adapting GPT-2
April 19, 2026 This week I will walk through the process of training a model using a low-rank adaptation (LoRA). For this, we will be using the GPT-2 model we’ve aleady used in previous posts. We ...
RAG chatbot: Querying documents effectively
March 08, 2026 This week I will demonstrate the basics of building a personal assistant with a focus on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to support long-term context without token limits. We w...
Basic chatbot: Keeping context awareness
February 08, 2026 Welcome back! I hope you had a good holiday season and a great start to the new year. I ended up taking a little more time than I thought. Between holidays, traveling, and gettin...

Natural language models: GPT-2 causal text generator
November 30, 2025 This week we will be using a decoder to generate movie reviews. First, I will walk through the fine-tuning process. Then, I will show how well the decoder autocompletes movie rev...
Natural language models: DistilBERT sentiment classifier
November 16, 2025 This week we will be using an encoder to identifying sentiment in movie reviews. First, I will walk through the fine-tuning process. Then, I will show how we use the encoder to i...
Natural language models: An introduction to human-computer language interaction
November 02, 2025 This week we will be discussed natural language models (NLPs) and how they process text. NLP models are an interface for computers to understand, interpret, and generate human la...