Training Large Language Models (LLMs) involves stages like pre-training and fine-tuning.
Pre-training starts with acquiring generic knowledge from various sources like web crawls and user records.
Fine-tuning adjusts a base model towards a specific domain using new data.
Fine-tuning allows adding domain-specific capabilities without the need for extensive pre-training.
The quality of data used in fine-tuning significantly impacts the LLM's performance.
Behavioral Cloning is a common fine-tuning method to mimic provided input-output pairs.
Fine-tuning requires a balance to avoid over-optimization for performance and limit abstraction abilities.
Considerations for fine-tuning include model size, architecture, data quality, and compute budget.
There is no universal formula for determining the exact amount of data needed for fine-tuning.
Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) is a popular way to specialize LLMs, but sometimes Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) may be more effective.