How To Fine-Tune An LLM for A Question Answer (QA) Task Locally
Last Updated on July 15, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Dr. Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD.
Originally published on Towards AI.
A practical step-by-step guide to Extracting information from your custom data by asking questions
There are three main types of question-answering tasks.
Extractive QA: It is the task in which systems extract the answer to the question from a given text (fed text). This is the most common form of the QA system and is part of most general-purpose Automation systems like Alexa or Google Search, etc.
Open Generative QA: It is a task in which the system generates answers in the natural language. The focus is on more generative AI to make the answer feel more natural than purely information extraction. However, the Open generative QA tasks need the context to be provided, and the… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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