Gemma 2 2B — Yu-Gi-Oh QA (QLoRA)

What it was trained on

• 2,683 grounded QA pairs, distilled by a teacher LLM (Gemini flash-lite) from a curated Yu-Gi-Oh corpus: Yugipedia editorial prose (CC BY-SA 4.0 — rulings, card tips, archetype & game-mechanics articles) + YGOPRODeck structured card facts.
• Every pair was verified by an LLM judge for grounding/correctness (81 wrong answers rejected, plus dedup/decontamination against the held-out test set).
• Distribution: ~85% interaction/timing (rulings-focused) questions, ~55% multi-step.
• Card-knowledge cutoff: a 2026-08-01 YGOPRODeck snapshot.

Training

• QLoRA: 4-bit NF4 base, bf16 compute; LoRA r=16, α=32, dropout 0.05, all linear target modules (q,k,v,o,gate,up,down_proj).
• LR 2e-4 cosine (3% warmup), paged_adamw_8bit, seq len 512, effective batch 16.
• Early-stopped at the best validation checkpoint (~1 epoch) — 3 epochs overfit this set.
• Validation perplexity: 3.872 (class reference: 4.26). Single L4 GPU on Modal.

Intended use & limitations

• Best used with retrieval for factual card questions; closed-book it may hallucinate specific card details.
• Not intended to reproduce verbatim copyrighted card text — Konami / © content was used only as fair-use training context, never as a verbatim-recall target.
• A rare fraction (~0–4%) of source rulings pages contained superseded ("previously official") rulings; see the dataset card for details.