The article "How to Fine-Tune an LLM: An End-to-End Guide" offers a practical, hands‑on walkthrough for fine‑tuning large language models in real‑world scenarios. It covers the entire process from data preparation to deployment, providing readers with actionable steps to adapt LLMs to specific tasks. The guide is aimed at practitioners looking to implement fine‑tuning in a structured, end‑to‑end manner.
By Sam Black
Most LLM applications need a clear workflow, not an autonomous agent. Here's how to build one in plain Python.
By Shuai Guo
Why use it? How to implement it?
By Shuai Guo
Using DSPy to automatically create, evaluate, and optimize your prompts The post Automate Writing Your LLM Prompts appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By W Brett Kennedy
Getting reliable, readable responses out of your LLM, and knowing which tool to reach for The post Structured Outputs with LLMs: JSON Mode, Function Calling, and When to Use Each appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Maria Mouschoutzi
The release of llm‑anthropic 0.27 updates the Anthropic plugin for LLM to be compatible with the newly released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which has switched from httpx to httpx2. This mirrors a similar change made by OpenAI in their v3.0.0 release two weeks prior. The update includes a migration guide and a pull request that ensures tests pass after upgrading to anthropic>=1.
Increase productivity with your LLMs The post How to Effectively Align with Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Eivind Kjosbakken
Release: llm 0. 32.
Deduplicating a 10,000-row supplier list in Python, where the hard part is deciding what a similarity score of 91 means
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By Boris Dzhingarov
Although large language models (LLMs) have recently gained traction in recommender systems due to their strong reasoning capabilities and extensive world knowledge, previous LLM-based agents suffer from hallucination and context-length limitations, and thus are not suitable for full-ranking recommendation tasks. To circumvent these limitations through architectural design rather than modifying the LLM itself, we propose an agent-based recommendation framework, memory-based $\textbf{P}$ersonalized $\textbf{R}$ecommendation $\textbf{T}$ool learning via autonomous language $\textbf{A}$gents (PRTA), in which an LLM acts as a central planner interacting with multiple recommendation models as tools.
The article titled "Why Claude Code Time Estimates Are Poor" discusses the challenges and shortcomings of using Claude, an LLM, for estimating code development time. It highlights how these estimates can be unreliable and offers insights into improving communication when working with LLM programming tools.
By Eivind Kjosbakken
Use coding agents to power your knowledge base The post How to Build a Powerful LLM Knowledge Base appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Eivind Kjosbakken