arXiv AI By Vladimir Fedosov, Aleksandr Sazhin, Artemiy Grinenko, Frank Woernle

Long-Context Fine-Tuning with Limited VRAM

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arXiv:2607. 15105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning reduces model and optimizer memory, but dense attention still makes long training sequences expensive.

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