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NAME:Community Workshop | Small is beautiful — training small language m
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SUMMARY:Community Workshop | Small is beautiful — training small languag
 e models
LOCATION:Online
DESCRIPTION:This is a continuation of our earlier workshops on small langu
 age models by Sylvi and Chris. This hands-on workshop is for those with pr
 ior experience in SLM and Python\, who would like to have a first experien
 ce creating and customizing SLM for specific needs.\n\nThis is a continuat
 ion of our earlier workshops on small language models (SLM\, https://huggi
 ngface.co/blog/jjokah/small-language-model).  \nIn this new workshop we go
  beyond using SLMs as they are to training and adapting them for specific 
 purposes.  \nThis hands-on workshop is for those with prior experience in 
 SLM and Python\, who would like to have a first experience creating and cu
 stomizing SLM for specific needs.\n\n**The goals of this workshop are not 
 only technical but much more importantly:**\n- To raise awareness on alter
 natives to online solutions.\n- To give agency and choices back to users o
 f AI through such alternatives.\n- To live the Code of Conduct Democratic 
 AI (https://demokratische-ki.de/).\n\n**Our rundown:**\n- Motivation and g
 oals.\n- Train a SLM on your laptop from scratch in Python.\n- Supplement 
 a SLM with organization-specifics after initial training using Python.\n- 
 Catch hallucinations as in large language models (LLM)\, and attempt to re
 duce them.\n- Open exchange on how SLM helps in living the Code of Conduct
  Democratic AI.\n\nSylvi and Chris will be leading this workshop. Sylvi is
  an economist gone data scientist\, currently serves on the Board of Corre
 lAid and is interested in establishing the code of conduct of democratic A
 I into CorrelAid’s structure.  Chris is one of CorrelAid's Local Chapter
  Heads in Cologne\, a career IT person with over 30 years experience worki
 ng worldwide.\n\n**Please install:**\n- Git at https://git-scm.com/\n- Tho
 nny at https://thonny.org/\n- LM Studio at https://lmstudio.ai/\n- Model "
 mistralai/ministral-3-3b" using LM Studio\n\n**on your laptop before the w
 orkshop\, and note the followings:**\n- This event will be conducted in En
 glish.\n- This event follows the CorrelAid Code of Conduct (https://correl
 aid.org/en/coc).\n- There will be NO recording of the session.  \n- AI bot
 s for transcription are not allowed.\n- Participants are limited to 15.\n\
 nRegistration: https://pretix.eu/correlaid/community/\n\nView more at: htt
 ps://correlaid.org/veranstaltungen/community-workshop-slm2
URL;VALUE=URI:https://correlaid.org/veranstaltungen/community-workshop-slm
 2
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