Fine-Tuning Pre-trained Models for Downstream Tasks
Adapting a pre-trained model for a new task involves combining it with a new prediction network. The subsequent fine-tuning is a standard optimization process that starts by initializing the model with its pre-trained parameters, denoted as . The entire model, including the new network's parameters , is then trained on a task-specific labeled dataset. This supervised process minimizes a loss function to produce optimized parameters, and , thereby specializing the model for the new task.

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