TOPIC AI
Instruction Tuning fine-tuning to follow instructions
IN 10 SECONDS
Fine-tuning a base model on conversational data (User prompt + target Assistant response pairs) to teach it how to follow instructions and answer questions directly.
GOTCHA Instruction-tuned models can lose creative writing abilities or over-generalize safety rules, rejecting valid user prompts.
HOW INSTRUCTIONS TUNES PERFORMANCE
01 Format dataset packages questions and answers in user/assistant chat blocks.
02 Fine-tuning trains the base model on this structured dialog dataset.
03 Response switch model stops copying input questions and starts responding directly.
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python -c "from transformers import AutoTokenizer; ..." — load instruction token templates
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