Soup Project Claims to Fine-Tune 8B Models on 4 GB Laptop GPUs

A recently shared open-source project named "Soup" claims to enable the fine-tuning of 8-billion-parameter large language models (LLMs) on laptops equipped with just a 4 GB GPU. The project, posted to Hacker News by creator MakazhanAlpamys, utilizes a technique called "layer streaming" to achieve this feat, according to its GitHub page.