Hugging Face · Course
a smol course
The Hugging Face smol course is a free, compact course on fine-tuning language models, for software developers and engineers who want to fast-track their LLM fine-tuning skills, with TRL and Transformers and a certificate of completion.
Who it suits
- Software developers and engineers who want to fine-tune LLMs quickly.
- Learners who would rather start with the longer LLM Course should do that first.
What it covers
- Instruction tuning, supervised fine-tuning and preference alignment.
- Evaluation and vision language models.
- Established fine-tuning frameworks and tools such as TRL and Transformers.
- Challenges where you evaluate your fine-tuned models against other students.
Common questions about a smol course
- Who is it for?
- Hugging Face says it is for software developers and engineers; if that is not you, it points to the LLM Course.
- Is it free?
- Hugging Face describes it as a free course.
- Is there a certificate?
- Yes, a certificate of completion for completing the assignments, per Hugging Face.
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Where this comes from
Written from Hugging Face’s own pages, read on 2026-10-14. Content, prices and availability change, so the provider’s page is the source. We are not affiliated with Hugging Face and this is not an endorsement.