Supervised fine-tuning explained: how it aligns pretrained AI models for task-specific behavior, production reliability, and structured outputs.

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Pretraining makes AI models fluent. Supervised fine-tuning makes them useful. It trains models on labeled data to enforce task-specific behavior, format control, and production reliability.