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Author develops LLM data poisoning defense in 17-day project

The author details a 17-day project to build an "epistemic gate" designed to prevent data poisoning during LLM fine-tuning. The project, named EXP01-07, involved developing a novel loss function that punishes falsehoods relative to truth, rather than absolutely, to avoid divergence. It also transitioned from simple dictionary lookups to geometric embeddings for its gating mechanism and utilized a corpus of real-world facts. The project's architecture, initially hindered by a bug, was later correctly implemented and named "Beatriz." AI

IMPACT Introduces a novel method for improving LLM fine-tuning robustness against data poisoning.

RANK_REASON The item details a specific technical project and methodology for improving LLM fine-tuning, akin to a research paper's findings. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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

    COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS: THE CALIBRATION PHASE (EXP01–07) I built an epistemic gate to stop LLM data poisoning during fine-tuning.

    <p>📅 First, the complete timeline<br /> Date EXP <br /> Aug 19 01, 02, 03 Genesis: symbolic filter, statistical rigor, first collapse<br /> Aug 20 04 The Manual’s five policies; A→Gate→B is born<br /> Aug 22 05 “Beatriz” is named; the Softplus formula is born; first GPU<br /> Aug…