NVIDIA Tutorial: Fine-tune Models on Jetson with Unsloth
danielhanchen · x · 2026-09-01
NVIDIA Jetson AI Lab released a tutorial demonstrating how to fine-tune and quantize AI models directly on edge devices like the Jetson series. The workflow integrates Unsloth and memory-efficient QLoRA to export GGUF files for local inference via llama.cpp.
Key Highlights:
- Requirements: JetPack 7.2, Python 3.12, and significant NVMe storage (40GB for Qwen, 270GB for Nemotron).
- Workflow:
- Fine-tune: Adapt models using QLoRA.
- Convert: Export adapters to GGUF format.
- Run: Execute local GPU-accelerated inference with existing GGUFs.
- Examples: Includes hands-on steps for Qwen3.5-4B on Jetson Orin Nano and NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Jetson AGX Thor.
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