Fine-Tuning LLMs Playbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Customizing Large Language Models for Real-World Applications

Author:   Zane Korrin
Publisher:   Independently Published
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9798279142361


Pages:   126
Publication Date:   20 December 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Fine-Tuning LLMs Playbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Customizing Large Language Models for Real-World Applications


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What if your AI could truly understand your world?Large Language Models are powerful-but out of the box, they're generic, unreliable, and often misaligned with real-world needs. The difference between a flashy demo and a production-ready AI system isn't the model itself. It's how you fine-tune it. Why Most Fine-Tuning Efforts FailHave you ever: Fine-tuned a model that looked great in evaluation-but failed users in production? Watched performance improve in one task while silently degrading in others? Spent weeks training a model only to realize it doesn't align with your domain, tone, or safety needs? Wondered whether you should fine-tune, use RAG, or start over entirely? You're not alone-and this book was written for that exact moment of confusion. What This Playbook Gives YouFine-Tuning LLMs Playbook is a step-by-step, practitioner-focused guide to transforming pretrained models into reliable, domain-aware, production-grade AI systems. Inside, you'll learn how to: Choose the right base model-open-source or proprietary-without costly guesswork Design high-quality datasets that actually improve real-world performance Apply modern fine-tuning methods like LoRA, Adapters, PEFT, and Instruction Tuning Optimize training with practical hyperparameter and infrastructure strategies Evaluate outputs beyond metrics-focusing on meaning, safety, and trust Deploy, monitor, and continuously improve models in live environments Built for the Real World-Not Just Research PapersThis book goes beyond theory and shows you: How fine-tuning behaves in healthcare, finance, legal, education, and enterprise systems How to adapt models for multilingual and low-resource languages How to reduce bias, mitigate toxicity, and align outputs with organizational policies How to detect drift, prevent catastrophic forgetting, and plan retraining cycles Because real users don't care about benchmarks. They care about results. Who This Book Is ForThis playbook is written for: Machine learning engineers and AI developers Founders and product teams building AI-powered products Researchers moving from experimentation to deployment Anyone serious about owning-not renting-their AI capabilities If you want more than prompts... If you want more than demos... If you want models that evolve with your data and your mission... This Is Not Just About Better ModelsIt's about asking the right questions: When should you fine-tune-and when should you not? How do you balance accuracy, cost, safety, and scalability? What does responsible customization look like at scale? And how do you build AI systems that remain useful months-or years-after deployment? The future of AI isn't just bigger models. It's models that are finally yours. SCROLL UP AND CLICK ""ADD TO CRATE""

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Author:   Zane Korrin
Publisher:   Independently Published
Imprint:   Independently Published
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.231kg
ISBN:  

9798279142361


Pages:   126
Publication Date:   20 December 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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