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Computational Efficiency of Fine-Tuning Compared to Pre-training

A key advantage of fine-tuning is its computational efficiency relative to pre-training. This efficiency primarily stems from the fact that the amount of labeled data required for fine-tuning a model for a specific downstream task is generally much smaller than the massive datasets used during the initial pre-training phase. Consequently, adapting a pre-trained model by slightly adjusting its parameters on this smaller dataset is much less computationally expensive than training a model from scratch.

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