Write your own training loop — without managing GPUs — with Amazon SageMaker training session APIs | Amazon Web Services
Fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) today usually forces a tradeoff between training loop control and operational simplicity. With fully managed services you select a base model, provide data and hyperparameters, and the service owns everything else, which works well when a standard, prepackaged recipe fits your problem. Less managed services give you more control, but you also manage more of the underlying infrastructure and training frameworks. Sometimes a standard recipe isn’t enough: you need a custom loss or data curriculum for supervised fine-tuning (SFT), your own preference optimization, a reinforcement learning (RL) reward function, or an alignment algorithm published last week. As soon as you need to shape the training procedure yourself, you take on that infrastructure work to gain algorithmic freedom.
Today, serverless model customization in Amazon SageMaker AI expands with training session APIs, which remove that tradeoff by drawing the abstraction boundary one level lower. Instead of...
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