SMRTR AIOct 22, 2025Giles Thomas Blog

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 23 -- fine-tuning for classification

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Sebastian Raschka's guide demonstrates converting a pretrained language model into a spam classifier by removing its vocabulary prediction head and replacing it with a simpler classification layer. Training only this new head plus the final layer-norm achieved decent results in 15 seconds, but enabling gradients across all layers significantly improved accuracy to nearly perfect spam detection.

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