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Moritz Laurer

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Why would you fine-tune a model if you can just prompt an LLM? The new paper "What is the Role of Small Models in the LLM Era: A Survey" provides a nice pro/con overview. My go-to approach combines both:

1. Start testing an idea by prompting an LLM/VLM behind an API. It's fast and easy and I avoid wasting time on tuning a model on a task that might not make it into production anyways.

2. The LLM/VLM then needs to be manually validated. Anyone seriously considering putting AI into production has to do at least some manual validation. Setting up a good validation pipeline with a tool like Argilla is crucial and it can be reused for any future experiments. Note: you can use LLM-as-a-judge to automate some evals, but you always also need to validate the judge!

3. Based on this validation I can then (a) either just continue using the prompted LLM if it is accurate enough and it makes sense financially given my load; or (b) if the LLM is not accurate enough or too expensive to run in the long-run, I reuse the existing validation pipeline to annotate some additional data for fine-tuning a smaller model. This can be sped up by reusing & correcting synthetic data from the LLM (or just pure distillation).

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.06857
Argilla docs: https://docs.argilla.io/latest/
Argilla is also very easy to deploy with Hugging Face Spaces (or locally): https://huggingface.co/new-space?template=argilla%2Fargilla-template-space

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We are hiring a "Developer Experience Engineer for Inference" at Hugging Face! If you want to make it easier for millions of people to use modern machine learning inference, apply! You can either work from one of our offices e.g. in Paris or New York, or work fully remotely. Details: https://apply.workable.com/huggingface/j/E732F4B8FC/

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