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Fine-Tuning

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Continuing to train a pretrained neural network on a narrower dataset or task, a form of transfer learning. In AI community talk "fine-tune" is used loosely for customizing a model, and it is a mostly technical term with little slang use of its own.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""They fine-tuned the small model on support tickets and it stopped rambling.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wikipedia's fine-tuning (deep learning) article describes it as taking a network trained on one objective and continuing training for a narrower follow-on job, updating all layers or only some while the rest stay frozen. It names LoRA as an adapter-based technique. No dated slang first use is documented in the pages opened, so this is a weak entry for slang purposes, kept short because it is a common term in model discussions.

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Unknown (a standard machine-learning term; no dated slang first use is documented)
PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)
2020s (LLM customization)
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Related To:base model

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