Welcome to M5BMachine 5-Minute Briefing

This tutorial provides a complete workflow for building a compact, reasoning-focused language model. By streaming the SupraLabs reasoning corpus from Hugging Face, we apply quality filters and curate data for Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT). Using SmolLM2-135M-Instruct and LoRA, we demonstrate an end-t...

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