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Fine-Tuning Qwen3 on Your Data Using Single GPU - Sentiment Analysis for Cryptocurrency Tweets

Venelin Valkov via YouTube

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Learn how to fine-tune the Qwen3 (0.6B) model on custom datasets in this 47-minute tutorial video by Venelin Valkov. Discover the complete fine-tuning workflow for sentiment analysis of cryptocurrency tweets, from data preparation to model evaluation. The tutorial covers loading and preprocessing financial tweet data, creating proper HuggingFace datasets with prompts, tokenization techniques, model quantization for single GPU training, implementing LoRA for efficient fine-tuning, and comparing baseline versus fine-tuned model performance. Follow along with practical demonstrations of training configuration, TensorBoard log analysis, model saving strategies, and specialized techniques like completion-only training and leveraging Qwen3's thinking budget feature. Perfect for AI practitioners looking to customize smaller language models for domain-specific tasks with limited computational resources.

Syllabus

00:00 - Welcome
00:58 - Live bootcamp sessions on MLExpert.io
01:48 - Dataset
02:57 - Notebook setup
04:18 - Loading the data and preprocessing
08:21 - Creating HuggingFace datasets including prompt
13:21 - Tokenizer
15:36 - Counting tokens
16:55 - Model loading and quantization
19:53 - LoRA configuration
20:30 - Baseline untrained model evaluation
25:43 - Training arguments and training
33:35 - Training logs review in Tensorboard
35:47 - Saving and merging the trained model
37:35 - Evaluating the trained model
41:40 - Training on completions only
44:13 - Qwen3 thinking budget
45:58 - Conclusion

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Venelin Valkov

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