Fine-tune

Quick meaning: Fine-tune is a verb meaning (transitive) To make small adjustments to (something) until it is optimal.

Meaning

(transitive) To make small adjustments to (something) until it is optimal.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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].

Word Forms

• fine-tunes
• fine-tuning
• fine-tuned
• finetune

Synonyms for fine-tune

Depending on context, synonyms include down, polish, refine, graduate, calibrate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include calibrate, down, graduate, refine, polish, adjust.

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