What would the equivalent be with LLMs?

I spend all of my time with image and video models and have very thin knowledge when it comes to running, fine tuning, etc. with language models.

How would one start with training an LLM on the entire corpus of one's writings? What model would you use? What scripts and tools?

Has anyone had good results with this?

Do you need to subsequently add system prompts, or does it just write like you out of the box?

How could you make it answer your phone, for instance? Or discord messages? Would that sound natural, or is that too far out of domain?

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ipaddr 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Simplest way pack all text into a prompt.

You could use a vector database.

You could train a model from scratch.

Probably easiest to use OpenAI tools. Upload documents. Make custom model.

How do you make it answer your phone? You could use twillio api + script + llm + voice model. Want natural use a service.

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echelon 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think you're absolutely right about the easiest approach. I hope you don't mind me asking for a bit more difficulty.

Wouldn't fine tuning produce better results so long as you don't catastrophically forget? You'd preserve more context window space, too, right? Especially if you wanted it to memorize years of facts?

Are LoRAs a thing with LLMs?

Could you train certain layers of the model?

	▲	dannyw 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A good place to start with your journey is this guide from Unsloth: https://docs.unsloth.ai/get-started/fine-tuning-llms-guide