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Technical GlossaryNatural Language Processing

Instruction Tuning

A fine-tuning approach that adapts a language model to respond better to natural language task instructions.

Instruction tuning is one of the key steps that transforms large language models from general text generators into task-following systems. The model learns to solve diverse tasks through instructions written in natural language. This makes a major difference in classification, summarization, information extraction, and agent-oriented use cases. It is one of the most critical training stages behind modern LLM behavior quality.