What is Fine-Tuning?

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Fine-Tuning — The process of further training a pre-trained model on domain-specific data to adapt it for a particular task, style, or knowledge domain. Common techniques include LoRA, QLoRA, and full fine-tuning.

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What is fine-tuning?

Training a pre-trained model on your own data to specialize it for your use case — specific style, domain knowledge, or task.

Fine-tuning vs prompting?

Prompting is zero-cost but limited. Fine-tuning costs compute but produces better, more consistent results for specific tasks.

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