Instruction tuning is what turns a raw next-token predictor into something that follows instructions. The signal is placing it correctly in the pretrain to SFT to alignment pipeline and knowing exactly what it does and does not fix.
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Instruction tuning is what turns a raw next-token predictor into something that follows instructions. The signal is placing it correctly in the pretrain to SFT to alignment pipeline and knowing exactly what it does and does not fix.
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