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# LLM Fine-Tuning Pipeline

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An end-to-end playbook for producing a customer-specific LLM that holds a consistent brand voice, combining OpenAI hosted fine-tuning with self-hosted Qwen3 LoRA adapters. It walks dataset curation, PII masking, train/eval splitting, a three-metric evaluation suite, and serving with a fallback chain, so a fine-tune is measured and reversible rather than a leap of faith.

## Use cases
- Converting curated examples into clean JSONL chat-format training data
- Masking PII (ID numbers, email, phone) in training data for privacy compliance
- Training a Qwen3-7B LoRA adapter with PEFT instead of an expensive full fine-tune
- Launching an OpenAI hosted fine-tuning job and polling it to completion
- Evaluating a fine-tuned model with ROUGE-L, an LLM-as-judge rubric and adversarial checks
- Serving fine-tuned models with vLLM adapter swap and a few-shot fallback chain

## Benefits
- Lock in a consistent brand voice that a model preserves across every generated report
- Cut inference cost and prompt size by moving few-shot examples into a trained adapter
- Catch overfitting and regressions before deploy via held-out eval and three metrics
- Keep service reliable with a fallback to a base model and few-shot when the fine-tune fails

## What’s included
- Dataset curation script that converts source examples to JSONL with PII masking regexes
- OpenAI fine-tuning job creator with upload, create and poll-to-completion flow
- Qwen3-7B LoRA training script (PEFT, rank 16) with 80/20 hold-out split and early stop
- Evaluation suite combining ROUGE-L, LLM-as-judge brand-voice rubric and adversarial checks
- vLLM serving with multi-adapter swap and a timeout-triggered few-shot fallback
- Few-shot vs fine-tune decision matrix, cost guidance and 12 documented anti-patterns

## Who it’s for
ML and platform engineers who need a measured, cost-aware way to produce brand-consistent custom models instead of fine-tuning on faith.

## How it runs
Fine-tuning has to beat the base model by a set margin or the project stops. Fifty excellent examples outrank five hundred mediocre ones, three metrics gate the result, and a fallback chain catches failures in production.
1. Measures the base model baseline first with a lexical overlap score plus an independent judge model scoring brand voice; fine-tuning must beat that baseline by a set margin or the project stops here
2. Curates 50-200 training examples favoring quality over volume (50 excellent beat 500 mediocre), and masks personal data such as ID numbers, emails and phone numbers with regex before anything is uploaded
3. Splits 80/20 into train and hold-out eval, deliberately seeding the eval set with edge cases and adversarial prompts the model must refuse, then keeps the two files strictly separate
4. Trains a low-rank adapter on the self-hosted model (about 1% of parameters, roughly 30 minutes on a single GPU) or submits a hosted fine-tune job, whichever the monthly cost math favors
5. Gates the result on three metrics at once: lexical overlap above 0.7, brand-voice judge above 4 of 5, adversarial pass rate above 95%; on regression it early-stops and rolls back to the last good checkpoint
6. Deploys behind a fallback chain where a failed or timed-out tuned model silently routes to the base model with few-shot prompting, then monitors monthly and retrains as new approved examples accumulate

## FAQ
### Do I need my own GPUs, or can I avoid self-hosting entirely?
Both paths are covered, so you can use OpenAI hosted fine-tuning with no GPUs, or run a self-hosted Qwen3 LoRA adapter when you want control and lower per-call cost. You choose based on budget and how much you need to own the model.

### Can't I just use prompting or RAG instead of fine-tuning?
Often you can, and the playbook is measured rather than fine-tune-first, with an evaluation suite to prove it earns its keep. Fine-tuning is for when prompting plateaus on consistent voice, not a reflex.

### Will fine-tuning teach the model new facts about my business?
No, this targets voice and style consistency, not knowledge. For facts and current data you want retrieval (see embedding-strategies), because fine-tuning bakes in tone, not a source of truth.

## Price
$15, one-time, no subscription. VAT included.

Related guide: [AI and LLM engineering](https://forgehouse.ai/guides/ai-llm-engineering/)