Alexander Smirnov

I'm a machine learning engineer based in London. Before startups I worked on RLHF for YandexGPT, the model behind an assistant with 55M monthly users. Outside work I'm into open source, self-hosting, strength training, travel, and gaming (WC3, Factorio, MK1, AoE2, WoW).

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Learnings from fine-tuning LLM on my Telegram messages

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For most people I interact with, I’m just another text-based program for the most of the time. If input and output are so simple, could I be replaced by the model? For this to work, the model would need to not only understand my writing style but also know a lot about me. The best source for this is my Telegram…