Adapter (PEFT)
An adapter is a small, freshly added network module injected into a frozen language model — only these modules are trained, while the base model itself stays unchanged.
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An adapter is a small, freshly added network module injected into a frozen language model — only these modules are trained, while the base model itself stays unchanged.
Catastrophic forgetting describes the effect that a neural network loses previously acquired knowledge — wholly or partially — when it is trained further on new data; a key problem when fine-tuning language models.
Continued pretraining is the further training of an already pretrained language model on large amounts of domain text — before any classic fine-tuning begins.
DPO is a fine-tuning method that aligns language models directly to human preference pairs — without a separate reward model and without reinforcement learning.
Continued training of a pretrained model on a smaller, specialized dataset to adapt style, format or domain knowledge in a targeted way.
Instruction tuning is a variant of supervised fine-tuning in which a language model is trained on a broad mix of instruction-response pairs — so it reliably follows instructions across arbitrary tasks.
Knowledge distillation is a training technique in which a small student model learns from the behaviour of a large teacher model — aiming for comparable quality at significantly lower resource cost.
Low-Rank Adaptation — parameter-efficient fine-tuning that trains only small additional matrices instead of all model weights.
ORPO is a training method that unifies supervised fine-tuning and preference optimisation in a single step — leaner than the classic SFT-plus-RLHF pipeline.
PEFT bundles methods that adapt a pretrained LLM by training only a small fraction of its weights — typically under 1%, instead of all billions of parameters.
Prefix tuning is a PEFT method that trains a sequence of learned "virtual tokens" prepended to the input rather than any model weights — the base model itself stays frozen.
Extension of LoRA that quantizes the base model to 4 bits — allowing even very large LLMs to be fine-tuned on a single GPU.
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback — training procedure that aligns models with helpful and safe behavior using human preference comparisons.
SFT is the supervised post-training of a pretrained language model on a dataset of input-output pairs — the step that turns a base model into a usable assistant.
Synthetic data is artificially generated training or evaluation data — typically produced by a language model itself to extend datasets without needing real-world sources.