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How to fine-tune Qwen3.8-27B with LoRA on a Mac: MLX fine-tuning from scratch
Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B were taught Forge, Jira and Confluence on a single Mac Studio with 96 GB. This is the whole procedure with the seven scripts that do it, printed in full: a pinned MLX environment with two patches, an 8-bit base with its speculative-decoding head kept as a sidecar, a chat-JSONL dataset built from a folder of Markdown, a segmented trainer with full-state checkpoints, an adapter expander, a per-module merge into the 8-bit shards. The kit was run end to end for this page on the 9B, in 21 minutes, and its real output follows each step, including the one where the validation loss turns the wrong way.
Gabriela Perdum38 min read