Glossary term
Glossary term
Agentic Systems
A pre-trained model that can serve as the starting point for fine-tuning to address specific tasks or applications.
See also pre-trained model and foundation model.
Created for this library
A startup uses a publicly licensed base model and fine-tunes it on its own domain data rather than training from scratch.
An enterprise legal team selects a foundation provider's base model with a permissive license, then trains adapters for each practice area.
A retail brand uses an open-weights base model as the starting point and applies LoRA on its product catalog rather than full fine-tuning.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License