SFT

plural SFTs

1. abbreviationinitialismmathematicsInitialism of sparse Fourier transform.
2. abbreviationinitialismmachine learningInitialism of supervised fine-tuning.

   Companies like like OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as hyperscalers such as AWS and Google Cloud, have streamlined the process of post-training frontier models using SFT.

   2025, Valliappa Lakshmanan, Hannes Hapke, Generative AI Design Patterns: Solutions to Common Challenges When Building GenAI Agents and Applications, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 24

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   I also show in the paper that LLMs are easily steerable into target locations of the political spectrum via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) requiring only modest compute and customized data, suggesting the critical role of SFT to imprint political preferences onto LLMs.

   2024 February 2, David Rozado, “The Political Preferences of LLMs”, in Rozado’s Visual Analytics

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Supreme Federal Tribunal, the supreme court of Brazil.

   But under Brazilian law, senior political figures, including ministers and federal lawmakers, can only be tried in the Supreme Federal Tribunal. He could eventually face trial at the SFT, but the process would be dragged out.

   2016 March 17, Shasta Darlington and Flora Charner, “Brazil’s political intrigue: Ex-President Lula da Silva accepts Cabinet post”, in CNN