Tech talk

Fine-tuning Gemma 2 for Italian and beyond

Tech Talk with Stefano Fiorucci – Software Engineer at Deepset & Pi School of AI Alumnus

Stefano Fiorucci is a software engineer passionate about language models, open-source development, and knowledge sharing. As a Fellow of the tenth session of the Pi School of AI, he is now contributing to Haystack, an open-source LLM orchestration framework at Deepset, while actively engaging with a global community of developers and researchers.


Fine-tuning Gemma 2 for Italian – Tech Talk with Stefano Fiorucci, Software Engineer at Deepset & Pi School of AI Alumnus

What You’ll Learn

Stefano will walk us through his low-cost fine-tuning approach to improving Gemma 2, Google’s family of open models, for the Italian language. The session will cover:

He’ll also introduce Spectrum, a memory-efficient fine-tuning method that allows selective updating of model parameters. While the focus is on Italian, these strategies offer valuable insights for adapting LLMs to other languages.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, February 6, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM CET
Location: Online (Google Meet)

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, ask questions, and connect with the AI community!

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Join us on February 6 at 4:00 pm.

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