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Show HN: LLM post-training to speak like GenZ, costing less than a cup of coffee

A post-trained language model that responds in GenZ slang, built on top of Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct using SFT followed by GRPO reinforcement learning. Total training cost was under $2 and took 3-4 hours on Google Colab. Synthetic data was used, and while both SFT and SFT+RL models produce similar outputs, RL training may slightly increase keyword occurrence.

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Show HN: LLM post-training to speak like GenZ, costing less than a cup of coffee
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  • Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct with SFT and GRPO to speak like GenZ.
  • Training cost less than $2 and took 3-4 hours on Google Colab.
  • SFT alone already produces GenZ-like text; RL adds minimal but observable improvement.
  • All data synthetically generated; code and model open-sourced.

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