Teaching a 7B Model to Be Just the Right Amount of Snark
Ever wondered if a language model could get sarcasm? I fine-tuned Mistral-7B using LoRA and 4-bit quantisation—on just ~720 hand-picked sarcastic prompt–response pairs from Reddit, Twitter, and real-life conversations.
The challenge? Keeping it sarcastic but still helpful.
LoRA rank 16 to avoid overfitting
4-bit NF4 quantization to fit on limited GPU memory
10 carefully monitored epochs so it didn’t turn into a full-time comedian
Result: a model that understands “Oh great, another meeting” exactly as you mean it.
Read the full journey, tech details, and lessons learned on my blog: Fine-Tuning Mistral-7B for Sarcasm with LoRA and 4-Bit Quantisation
Try the model here on Hugging Face: sweatSmile/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1-Sarcasm.
Qwen3 is the latest version of the Qwen language models. It's smarter, faster, and now understands 119 languages instead of just 29. It can do both deep reasoning and quick answers using a single model, depending on what you need. The models range in size from small (0.6B) to huge (235B), with smart ways to save compute. It's trained on 36 trillion tokens and fine-tuned in four steps to boost performance. Qwen3 performs as well as or better than many top models, including some from big companies. It’s fully open-source under licence. Amazing!!!
