Project Name: MeAI (Persona-Driven LLM with Adapter Fine-Tuning) #NOT COMPLETE YET (RAG) Tech Stack: Python, PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers, PEFT, CUDA Problem Solved: Enables the creation of a highly personalized conversational AI agent by fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) with adapter-based methods, capturing nuanced persona traits and professional context for more authentic, context-aware responses. Key Features / Functionality: Adapter-based fine-tuning of a pre-trained LLM (Phi-2 Instruct) for efficient persona specialization Custom prompt engineering to enforce behavioral and stylistic constraints Automated response generation with configurable decoding parameters (temperature, top-p, top-k, repetition penalty) Persona emulation with strict adherence to professional and ethical guidelines Modular checkpoint management for iterative model improvement Architecture & Implementation Details: Utilizes HuggingFace Transformers for model and tokenizer management Loads a base model and applies PEFT adapters from a specified checkpoint (results/checkpoint-450) Inference pipeline constructs a detailed persona prompt, encodes input, and generates responses using GPU acceleration Output post-processing enforces persona boundaries and trims extraneous tokens Designed for future integration with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Outcome / Impact: Achieved efficient, persona-consistent conversational AI with minimal compute overhead Demonstrated effective use of adapter-based fine-tuning for rapid persona deployment Established a robust foundation for further enhancements, including RAG and multi-turn dialogue support