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Know when to prompt, retrieve, fine-tune or compress a model.
Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)
SFT fine-tunes a model on input-output examples showing the desired response.
Think of it like
Think of Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) 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 Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT).
SRE lens
Teach a model the organization’s incident-summary format using curated examples.
Remember thisSFT fine-tunes a model on input-output examples showing the desired response.