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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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fine-tuning

/faɪn ˈtjuːnɪŋ/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Teaching the model the house style before deciding the house had one.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. Further training a pretrained model on task-specific examples to specialize its behavior.

Evidence
See also
  • model evaluationThe benchmark the model passes, chosen after seeing which benchmark it passes.
  • model registryA list of every model in production except the three a team is quietly running from a notebook.
  • retrieval-augmented generationA pipeline that retrieves the company's contradictory documents and asks the model to sound certain about all of them.
  • training dataWhatever was easiest to export, now load-bearing.