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Know when to prompt, retrieve, fine-tune or compress a model.
Instruction Tuning
Instruction tuning trains models on many instruction-following examples so they become better at responding to tasks.
Think of it like
Think of Instruction Tuning as changing how a trained worker behaves or how efficiently that worker can be deployed, rather than giving it a live reference book.
Real life
Organizations adapt general models using techniques such as Instruction Tuning.
SRE lens
It is one reason modern assistant models follow natural-language directions.
Remember thisInstruction tuning trains models on many instruction-following examples so they become better at responding to tasks.