The Instruction Tax on Factual Recall: Base Models Can Beat Their Instruction-Tuned Counterparts

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The Instruction Tax on Factual Recall: Base Models Can Beat Their Instruction-Tuned Counterparts. The story centres on Fine-tuning. Reported by arXiv. Bharat Hunt files it under AI Models — the section covering a new or updated model, its capabilities, benchmarks or availability.

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