Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) with Large Language Models

Understanding how SFT works from idea to a working implementation…

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Large language models (LLMs) are typically trained in several stages, including pretraining and several fine-tuning stages; see below. Although pretraining is expensive (i.e., several hundred thousand dollars in compute), fine-tuning an LLM (or performing…