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The qlora 2e-4 default is wrong under 10k samples and nobody talks about it [D]

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Thursday, Jul 16, 2026 · 12:50PM
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Every qlora tutorial on earth says start at 2e-4. Unsloth docs, hf examples, the paper itself. and for small datasets i now think that numbers is a trap. Where does 2e-4 come from? alpaca. 52k samples. cool, except most of us are fine tuning on 5-10k samples we scraped and labeled ourselves, not 52k

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