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Instruction tuning — Glossary

Fine-tuning language models on examples of instructions paired with desired responses.

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Instruction tuning helps models follow prompts more reliably before or alongside preference optimization stages such as RLHF.

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Fine-Tuning — Fine-tuning adapts a pretrained model to a target task, domain, or style by continuing training on curated examples—often with parameter-efficient methods.

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