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Weight Update

Fine-Tuning series: 1 of 8

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Prof. Tom Yeh
Apr 24, 2026
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Library › Fine-Tuning

  1. Weight Update

  2. Pretrain vs Fine-Tune

  3. Full Fine-Tuning

  4. Freezing Layers

  5. Linear Probe

  6. Feature Extraction + Head

  7. Adapter Layers

  8. LoRA

When a neural network learns, what actually changes? Not the architecture: the shape of the network stays fixed. Not the inputs: those come from outside. What moves is the weights.

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