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Fine-Tuning

Further training a pre-trained model on your own examples so it picks up a specific style, format or domain.

Also called: SFT, supervised fine-tuning

Further training a pre-trained model on your own examples so it picks up a specific style, format or domain.

Why it mattersReach for it when prompting plateaus - and after you've tried retrieval first.

See also Pre-training, RAG, LoRA

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