Fine-Tuning LLMs: Best Practices and When to Go Small

Mark is a co-founder and Chief Architect at Gradient, a platform that helps companies build custom AI applications by making it extremely easy to fine-tune foundational models and deploy them into production. Previously, he was a tech lead in machine learning teams at Splunk and Box, developing and deploying production systems for streaming analytics, personalization, and forecasting. Prior to his career in software development, he was an algorithmic trader at quantitative hedge funds where he also harnessed large-scale data to generate trading signals for billion-dollar asset portfolios.