LoRA and other adapters, so you train a few million parameters instead of billions. Built by Hugging Face.
Others in fine-tuning
Common questions
Is PEFT free to use?
PEFT is open source and free to run yourself. You still pay whichever model provider you point it at, and this tutorial is free with no signup.
Do I need to know Python to use PEFT?
Basic Python is enough. Functions, dictionaries and imports cover most of what PEFT asks of you.
When should I not use PEFT?
When something else in fine-tuning fits the job better. The others in that group are listed below.
Lessons for PEFT are being written. Meanwhile the APIs for AI tutorial covers the same ground: state, tools, loops, memory and human approval. Most of it carries straight over.
Start the APIs for AI tutorial →