Practical overview
When it fits
Use it when you need a Chinese financial-domain model or want a codebase for experimenting with LLaMA fine-tuning on finance instruction data.
Who it is for
- Developers exploring Chinese financial question-answering or text-generation models.
- Researchers and practitioners preparing instruction data to fine-tune a LLaMA model.
- Teams comparing the repository’s published finance-focused LoRA fine-tunes.
Documented uses
- Run inference with a published Chinese finance LoRA model.
- Compare outputs from multiple models using the supplied comparison script.
- Prepare custom instruction data and invoke the fine-tuning script.
- Review a framework covering pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, RLHF and quantization.
Requirements & limits
The public repository identifies the code license as Apache-2.0. Python 3.9 or later is recommended; setup instructions use Git LFS to download a 7B base model.
- The listed LoRA weights are built on different base models: decapoda-research/llama-7b-hf and Linly-AI/Chinese-LLaMA-7B.
- The README reports training memory use of about 40 GB at batch size 64 and 65 GB at batch size 96 on its stated training setup.
- Custom datasets need to follow the repository’s
fin_data.jsonformat. - The README identifies data-quality and data-variety limitations in earlier datasets and displays differing model answers, so outputs require review.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Prepare the repository and download a base model
Set up the documented Python environment and download a local 7B base model.
Before you start
- Python 3.9 or later is recommended.
- The repository and its requirements file.
- Git LFS.
Steps
Install dependencies with the command below.
pip install -r requirements.txtInitialize Git LFS with the command below.
git lfs installRun the command below to download the 7B model locally.
bash ./base_models/load.sh
Expected outcome
The documented dependency-installation and base-model download steps are complete.
Guide limitations
- These steps cover setup only; they do not run inference or fine-tuning.
- The README gives no general hardware guarantee for this setup.
Prepare instruction data and start fine-tuning
Use a custom dataset in the repository’s documented format and invoke its fine-tuning script.
Before you start
- A Python environment; Python 3.9 or later is recommended.
- Custom instruction data prepared in the format of
./instruction_data/fin_data.json.
Steps
Prepare the custom dataset in the format specified by
./instruction_data/fin_data.json.Run the command below.
bash ./scripts/finetune.sh
Expected outcome
The documented fine-tuning script is invoked with custom instruction data prepared in the specified format.
Guide limitations
- The README does not detail additional fine-tuning configuration or report a guaranteed result for custom datasets.
- Training memory use depends on configuration; the README gives examples from an 80 GB A100 setup.
Compare options for Model inference and serving
These projects document a common task and share a project role. This is a source-based comparison, not an execution benchmark or a guarantee of interchangeability.
| Project | Documented purpose | Platform | Access and requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornucopia Llama Fin Chinese | Run inference with a published Chinese finance LoRA model. | Linux, macOS, Windows | The public repository identifies the code license as Apache-2.0. Python 3.9 or later is recommended; setup instructions use Git LFS to download a 7B base model. |
| Pulse Of Motion | Estimate a video's physical frame rate from its visual dynamics. | Linux | The repository is public. Its README describes a released checkpoint that downloads from Hugging Face on first inference, with a manual download option. The strongest internal model is not fully released; the README directs interested users to contact the project about access. No license information is provided in the repository evidence. |
| Neural Image Assessment | Train the model using AVA images and rating annotations. | Cloud, Linux, macOS, Windows |
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 17 October 2026
- Original website title
- jerry1993-tech/Cornucopia-LLaMA-Fin-Chinese · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

