Glossary · Artificial intelligence

What is fine-tuning?

Specialising an existing model on your data or tone.

Fine-tuning · model specialisation

Fine-tuning means partially retraining an existing model on your own examples, to adapt it to a domain, a tone or a specific task.

Why it matters

Fine-tuning is not always needed: for many cases, a good prompt plus RAG is enough and costs less. It is justified when the need is recurring, precise and high-volume. Knowing when not to use it is part of the job.

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