Reproducing QLoRA: NF4 Fine-Tuning with Unsloth and LLaMA-Factory

Reproducing QLoRA stopped being a research curiosity once 4-bit fine-tuning became a common way teams ship custom models. This block is your scoping sheet: hardware, software stack, time-to-train, and where Unsloth and LLaMA-Factory each fit. Read it like a capstone plan, not a demo. The paper…