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URL:https://siliconbrighton.com/events/brighton-py-brighton-r/
SUMMARY:Brighton Py & Brighton R – Post-Training a Large Language Model
DESCRIPTION:------ Welcome\, Brighton Py Users! ------\nHappy New Year\, an
 d welcome to 2026!\n\nWe hope you’ve had a restful break and are ready f
 or another great year of coding\, learning\, and community. We’re excite
 d to kick off 2026 with fresh energy and plenty of R fun ahead!\n\nAs befo
 re\, the event will be brought to you by Datacove. We are a Data and Anal
 ytics Consultancy Team based in Brighton\, working across Customer Analyti
 cs\, Shiny and Reporting\, Marketing Analytics and Process Automation.\n\n
 As always\, we are supported by Silicon Brighton.\n\n------ Talk Informati
 on ------\n\nSpeaker: Hansika Gunasekara\, Lead Machine Learning Engineer 
 at Ex-Synopsys\n\nTalk Title: Post-Training a Large Language Model\n\nTalk
  Description: This talk introduces post-training techniques for improving 
 large language model reasoning using reinforcement learning. Hansika will 
 cover the Group Policy Optimisation (GRPO) algorithm and walk through a pr
 actical Jupyter Notebook example\, demonstrating how the Gemma 3 1B model 
 can be trained to enhance its mathematical reasoning capabilities.\n\n----
 -- Want to share your knowledge? ------\n\n 	Talk about an impactful proje
 ct you've worked on at your company.\n 	Reflect on an exciting or unexpect
 ed moment while learning about data.\n 	Share a small personal project you
 're proud of.\n 	Dive into a unique challenge you tackled with R or Python
  and the lessons you learned.\n\nGet in touch to speak at one of this year
 's meetup events\n[admin@datacove.co.uk](mailto:admin@datacove.co.uk)\n---
 --- General Information ------\nNow\, refreshments! Drinks and pizza will 
 be served from 6pm. Talks will commence at 6:30pm/6:45pm and the event wil
 l conclude at 8:00pm.\nThe conversation will continue after the event at a
  local pub – obviously!\n\nPlease feel free to register guests and sprea
 d the word. We look forward to seeing you all again!
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