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Background Training LLMs

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Tell me a little about your background with training LLMs.

Be prepared to describe one concrete LLM training or fine-tuning project, including the objective, dataset preparation, model architecture, training method, evaluation design, and production outcome. Explain why you chose continued pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, or another approach. Discuss data quality, compute constraints, monitoring, and the tradeoffs you made. Do not claim experience you do not have; candidates without direct LLM training experience may discuss a closely related deep learning project and clearly identify the transfer.