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Instruction Tuning

Fine-tuning a language model on datasets of instructions paired with appropriate responses.

Definition

Fine-tuning a language model on datasets of instructions paired with appropriate responses. This teaches the model to follow directions rather than just predict the next word. The step that transforms a base language model into a useful assistant. InstructGPT was one of the first major examples.

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