Project Description

The goal is to have a language model, that is able to answer technical questions on Uyuni. Uyuni documentation is too large for in-context processing, so finetuning is the way to go.

Goal for this Hackweek

Finetune a model based on llama-2-7b.

Resources

github repo

Looking for hackers with the skills:

ai uyuni

This project is part of:

Hack Week 23

Activity

  • about 2 years ago: nadvornik added keyword "ai" to this project.
  • about 2 years ago: nadvornik added keyword "uyuni" to this project.
  • about 2 years ago: nadvornik originated this project.

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