Customize FMs with advanced techniques using Amazon SageMaker (AIM303)

Here is a detailed summary of the key takeaways from the video transcription, broken down into sections:

When to Fine-Tune Foundation Models

  • Improve accuracy for specific use cases or domains that are not well-covered by off-the-shelf models
  • Scale up a proof-of-concept model to production while maintaining performance and reducing costs
  • Address latency-sensitive use cases by fine-tuning a smaller, more efficient model

Preparing for Fine-Tuning

  • Ensure you have a unique and differentiated dataset that is not present in the original model training corpus
  • Customer service and internal use cases can be good starting points, as the data is often well-curated
  • The fine-tuning process involves data preparation, model selection, hyperparameter tuning, and model deployment

Sage Maker for Fine-Tuning

  • Sage Maker provides access to hundreds of pre-trained foundation models that can be fine-tuned
  • The Sage Maker Jump Start UI simplifies the fine-tuning process, with default hyperparameters and example datasets
  • Sage Maker also offers programmatic fine-tuning using the SDK, providing full control over the process

Fine-Tuning Techniques

  • Domain adaptation: Fine-tune the model on domain-specific data (e.g., legal, financial)
  • Instruction tuning: Fine-tune the model on specific question-answer pairs to follow desired instructions
  • Visual Q&A: Fine-tune the model on multimodal question-answer pairs with images

Data Requirements for Fine-Tuning

  • Contrary to popular belief, fine-tuning can often be effective with relatively small datasets (hundreds or even fewer samples)
  • Synthetic data can be used to augment or create training data, especially when real-world examples are limited

Sage Maker Fine-Tuning in Action

  • Demo showcasing fine-tuning a multimodal vision-language model using Sage Maker Jump Start and the SDK
  • Demonstrates improved performance on custom document understanding and question-answering tasks compared to the pre-trained model

Intuit's Use Case

  • Intuit leverages fine-tuning to improve the accuracy of their transaction categorization model in QuickBooks
  • Faced challenges with traditional ML approaches due to the variability in small business accounting practices
  • Fine-tuning large language models provided significant improvements in accuracy, reduced operational complexity, and enabled scalability

Key Learnings

  • Extensive domain-specific data is often required for fine-tuning, even when the base model is a large language model
  • Synthetic data may not always be a suitable substitute for real-world examples
  • Sage Maker's tooling and infrastructure accelerated Intuit's fine-tuning experimentation and deployment
  • Rapid experimentation and iteration is crucial when working with emerging fine-tuning techniques

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