Fine-Tuning Objective Function
The fine-tuning process is a standard optimization procedure aimed at finding the best model parameters, , by minimizing a loss function over a dataset of tuning samples. Each sample, , consists of an input and its correct output. The optimization begins with parameters initialized from a pre-trained model, . The formal objective is: In this equation, indicates that the parameters start from the pre-trained values. The term is the model's output for a given input, computed using the parameters being tuned.

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Ch.2 Generative Models - Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models Course
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Ch.4 Alignment - Foundations of Large Language Models
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