fine-tune

verb

ˈfīn-ˈtün 

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 crucial examples for fine-tuning AI, which has to be intentionally created and curated—data used to make a chatbot helpful, human-sounding, not racist, and so on—are even rarer. —Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024

Beyond professional sports, this fine-tuning approach to health applies perfectly to prostate cancer prevention. —Robin Cole, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024

According to Cognition, Devin can perform all these tasks unassisted: build a website from scratch and deploy it, find and fix bugs in codebases, and even train and fine-tune its own large language model. —IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024

Since leaving the moderator's seat here at Face the Nation, Bob has been fine-tuning his artistic skills. —CBS News, 7 Apr. 2024

OpenAI, not to be outdone, releases fine-tuning tools for its GPT models, also aiming for business customers. —Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024

Having more accurate observations of galactic behavior helped them fine-tune their models of how the universe developed. —Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2024

All the keys of the Q6 Pro have south-facing RGB LEDs which can be fine-tuned in terms of brightness, hue, effect and speed. —Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

The sealed, on-lens USB-C port also comes in handy for firmware updates and fine-tuning the manual focus response. —PCMAG, 28 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined at sense 1a