A Technical Deep Dive into the Essential Stages of Modern Large Language Model Training, Alignment, and Deployment
Table of contents Pre-Training Supervised Finetuning LoRA QLoRA RLHF Reasoning (GRPO) Deployment Training a modern large language model (LLM) is not a single step but a carefully orchestrated pipeline that transforms raw data into a reliable, aligned, and deployable intelligent system. At its core lies pretraining, the foundational phase where models learn general language patterns, reasoning structures, and world knowledge from massive text corpora. This is followed by supervised fine-tuning (SFT), where curated datasets shape the model’s behavior […]