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Fine-Tuning Qwen3-8B with Tinker: From 50% to 76% Accuracy, and Burning Through My Budget
Community description: This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle Oktoberfest?...
Dev.to | Oct 18, 2026 | Daniel Balcarek
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So I prepared another dataset with 500 training examples and trained the model again. This time, the model achieved 76% accuracy. More training data doesn't automatically mean a better model.
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