Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of post-train
adjectivepost-trained (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving undergone training.
- not comparablemachine learningHaving undergone further training to modify, refine, align, specialise, or enhance its capabilities for particular tasks, behaviours, or objectives.
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Post-trained models still implement a paradigm of fast thinking and shallow reasoning. However, while a base model simply provides the most likely completion of a prompt based on statistics of the training data, post-trained models are trained to give an answer that is most correct and desirable as dictated by the supervision.
2026, Jayaram Nanduri, Anand Oka, Agentic AI Unleashed: A guide to designing, building, and deploying autonomous AI systems, BPB Publications, →ISBN
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