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Fine Tune Base Model or Chat Model For Conversations/Instructions? : r/LocalLLaMA

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Hello amazing community... I've been reading a lot lately about that, what i mostly see from YouTube videos/Medium articles, etc... that people tend to use the base model for fine tuning a conversations/instruct based data. Some little use the chat version. Why is that? Isn't it better to fine tune a model that already knows how to make conversations like llama 2 chat/flacon instruct than a model that is only generative like llama 2/falcon. Falcon is also mentioning this in all their instruct models card in huggingface: "This is an instruct model, which may not be ideal for further…

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