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Fine-tune Qwen LLMs on Mac using LoRA and MLX

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This guide details how to fine-tune Qwen models, specifically Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B, using LoRA on a Mac with Apple Silicon. It provides seven scripts for the entire process, from environment setup to merging the trained adapter with the base model. The tutorial emphasizes practical aspects like managing memory usage, optimizing training epochs over steps, and the importance of adapter merging techniques to avoid data loss. AI

IMPACT Enables local fine-tuning of large language models on consumer hardware, potentially democratizing advanced AI customization.

RANK_REASON The article provides a detailed tutorial and code for fine-tuning an existing LLM, which falls under tooling.

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Fine-tune Qwen LLMs on Mac using LoRA and MLX

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

    How to fine-tune Qwen3.8-27B with LoRA on a Mac: MLX fine-tuning from scratch

    <h3> Key takeaways </h3> <ul> <li>END STATE: a LoRA adapter trained on top of a frozen 8-bit Qwen3.5-9B or Qwen3.8-27B on one Mac, with the seven scripts that built the Atlassian models printed in full, the kit run end to end for this page with its real output shown, and the adap…

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