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3B LLM fine-tuned into production API for $0 cost

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The author details the second phase of their de-swarm project, focusing on transforming a fine-tuned 3B text-to-SQL model into a production-ready API. This phase involved creating a FastAPI gateway that interfaces with Ollama, enabling the model to run efficiently on a low-cost VPS. The API successfully generated complex SQL queries for a SaaS schema, demonstrating its capability to handle multi-table joins and infer user intent for accurate data retrieval. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates how smaller, fine-tuned models can be productized into functional APIs for specific tasks, reducing reliance on larger, more expensive models.

RANK_REASON The article describes the development and deployment of a specific application (API) using existing AI models and tools, rather than a new model release or research breakthrough.

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3B LLM fine-tuned into production API for $0 cost

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Nur Ahmad ·

    Shipping a Local LLM API with FastAPI and Ollama

    <p><em>Phase 2 of the de-swarm project — how I turned a 3B text-to-SQL model into a production API for $0.</em></p> <h2> The setup </h2> <p>Three weeks ago, I distilled a 120B+ text-to-SQL pipeline into a 3B QLoRA fine-tune of Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct. The model hit 90% in-domai…

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