fine-tune

verb

fine-tuned; fine-tuning; fine-tunes

transitive verb

1
a
: to adjust precisely so as to bring to the highest level of performance or effectiveness
fine-tune a TV set
fine-tune the format
b
: to improve through minor alteration or revision
fine-tune the temperature of the room
2
: to stabilize (an economy) by small-scale fiscal and monetary manipulations

Examples of fine-tune in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And finally, humans evaluated SIMA’s efforts inside different games, generating data that was used to fine-tune its performance. Will Knight, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024 Launay said that Adaptive plans to offer a package of solutions that capture the way people interact with an LLM’s responses and then allows the model to be trained and fine-tuned from this data. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2024 Otherwise, the selections went according to form, recognizing those who had plenty of time to rehearse and fine-tune their acceptance speeches over the course of the awards season that began way back in early January. Brian Lowry, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024 Mooney eagerly mines the trove of Y2K cultural references to shape a narrative fine-tuned to a particular millennial sensibility, but struggles to meet the very low demands of its internal logic. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024 In some cases, lawmakers and voters now say those changes needed to be fine-tuned to work well. Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024 The magic in the gameplay is fine-tuning and figuring out which characters work well together based on weapons and skills. Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024 Fine-tuning: After pre-training, LLMs can be fine-tuned on smaller, domain-specific datasets. Sunil Rajaraman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 My brain will be fine-tuned to keeping my glass and tummy full. Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of fine-tune was in 1959

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“Fine-tune.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fine-tune. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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