The vocabulary

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The words for training

Lesson 2 of 9 in The vocabulary.

Is Fine-Tuning Still Needed? LLMs, RAG, & LoRA · IBM Technology
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Training words come up whenever a studio considers a custom model, and the distinction that matters commercially is between adapting something and building something. Almost nobody builds. Adapting is hours and a small bill.

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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “The original large run on a very large dataset.”

    • Frame interpolation
    • Pre-training
    • Open weights
    • Steps
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Further training on a smaller, specific set.”

    • Keyframe conditioning
    • LoRA
    • Fair use
    • Fine-tuning
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “A small trained add-on, rather than a whole retrained model.”

    • Regional prompting
    • Distilled model
    • Cold start
    • LoRA

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