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Practical Model Training for ML Practitioners

A rigorous field guide to choosing, adapting, evaluating, and shipping language and multimodal foundation models.

For practitioners who understand neural networks and want to run serious model-adaptation experiments.

Reading time
180 minutes
Contents
27 chapters + exercises
Verified
August 4, 2026
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A guided route through the book

Inside the book.

  1. 01 Choose the intervention
  2. 02 Make the run fit
  3. 03 Manufacture the data
  4. 04 Change the language model
  5. 05 Preferences, verifiers, and RL
  6. 06 Multimodal adaptation
  7. 07 Ship, learn, and stop paying

The complete learning path

In this series.

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