fine-tune

present singular third person fine-tunes · participle present fine-tuning · participle past fine-tuned · past fine-tuned · alternative fine tune · alternative finetune

1. transitiveTo make small adjustments to something in order to optimise its performance.

   Jim fine-tuned the radio until the sound was perfect.

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   Tevez, however, may need to fine-tune his penalty-taking technique. In the 57th minute he had the chance to soothe any lingering nerves, when he ran clear from Kolarov's pass and again exposed the high line of Leicester's defence, only for Hobbs to hack him down. The centre-half was fortunate not to be shown a red card – a point Mancini made on the touchline – but Tevez aimed his penalty low and hard, straight down the middle, and Weale saved with his feet.

   2011 January 18, Daniel Taylor, “Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2”, in Guardian Online

   As Google, YouTube’s parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit students’ access to selected content, the video-sharing Web site is gaining popularity as a trove of free educational materials.

   2012 March 9, Stephanie Strom, “YouTube Subtracts Racy and Raucous to Add a Teaching Tool”, in The New York Times

   When GPT-4 was tested by medical experts from Microsoft without any specialized prompt crafting, it exceeded the passing score on USMLE by over 20 points and outperformed earlier general-purpose models (GPT-3.5) as well as models specifically fine-tuned on medical knowledge (Med-PaLM, a prompt-tuned version of Flan-PaLM 540B) [13].

   2023, Aravind Kumaresan, Lorna Udan, Shazad Ashaf, “Potential Role of ChatGPT in Healthcare in the Prevention and Management of Non-communicable Diseases”, in Lorna Uden, I-Hsien Ting, editors, Knowledge Management in Organisations: 17th International Conference, KMO 2023, Proceedings, Springer, page 432

   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

2. artificial intelligenceTo further train a trained model on a specialised dataset in order to adapt or optimise its performance for a particular task or purpose.