The author emphasizes that while mental health chatbots can be helpful, they are not a replacement for professional mental health care. They can complement existing mental health services by providing additional support and resources. The fine-tuned model has been updated and a chatbot-like interface using Gradio as a frontend for demo has been provided. The author has also written a detailed technical blog explaining key concepts of QLoRA and PEFT fine-tuning method.
Key takeaways:
- The Falcon-7B LLM has been fine-tuned using QLoRA on a mental health conversational dataset, offering a chatbot platform for individuals seeking support.
- The dataset used was curated from online FAQs, healthcare blogs, and wiki articles related to mental health, pre-processed in a conversational format.
- The fine-tuning process was done using Nvidia A100 from Google Colab Pro, achieving a training loss of 0.031 after 320 steps.
- A detailed technical blog explaining the key concepts of QLoRA and PEFT fine-tuning method is available for further understanding.