Glossary · Phase 6 · Modern LLM engineering
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Supervised fine-tuning: training on example prompts with good answers, so a model learns to respond helpfully.
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Supervised fine-tuning · Teach behavior from example conversations. About 40 minutes.
Other terms from the same lesson
- catastrophic forgetting: When fine-tuning on a narrow task makes a model lose skills it had before, because the same weights get overwritten.
- demonstration: In fine-tuning, an example conversation showing exactly the reply you want the model to learn to give.
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