I Fine-Tuned a 270M Model on My Laptop (Full Fine-Tuning, From Scratch)

Series — Fine-Tuning, Smallest to Largest (same task, three techniques, smallest model to largest): Full Fine-Tuning (270M) ← you are here LoRA (1.5B) QLoRA (7B) If the small model worked, why go bigger? I wanted to actually understand fine-tuning — not run a tutorial and nod along. So I gave myself