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 "title": "Fine-tune a LoRA on your own chats or text",
 "page_title": "How to fine-tune a LoRA on your own chats or text with Textgen",
 "summary": "Use the full install and the Training tab to train a LoRA, with resume support.",
 "who": "A hobbyist who wants a model that writes in their style.",
 "problem": "Fine-tuning usually means writing training code.",
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  "Clone the repo and run the startup script for your OS, such as start_linux.sh, and select your GPU vendor",
  "Open http://127.0.0.1:7860 in your browser",
  "Load a Transformers model and open the Training tab",
  "Train a LoRA on multi-turn chat or raw text, resuming if interrupted"
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 "time": "2 hours",
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 "category": "Personal productivity",
 "tags": [
  "Personal productivity"
 ],
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  "Windows, Linux or macOS",
  "Python 3.9+ for the manual install, or a portable build",
  "A GGUF model file from Hugging Face and enough RAM or VRAM for it"
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   "notice": "The full install needs about 10GB of disk space and downloads PyTorch."
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