Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A model card recording 'SFT on 200k instruction pairs, then DPO on 50k preference pairs, LoRA rank 64'.
- Is an instance
A fine-tune chain documented as Mistral-7B -> instruction-SFT -> domain-SFT -> safety-DPO.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A base-only model with no fine-tuning history.
- Not an instance
A statement 'fine-tuned for our use case' without procedure details.
Editorial commentary
Fine-tune lineage is increasingly important as community fine-tuning of open-weight base models becomes routine: the same Llama base may have hundreds of community fine-tunes, each with its own behaviour and licence implications. Structured fine-tune lineage allows downstream users to make informed selections and reproduce results.
References
- Hugging Face Hub model-card metadata schema.
Also known as
fine-tuning provenance
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
xml
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Model fine-tune lineage"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/model-fine-tune-lineage" />json
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"name": "Model fine-tune lineage",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/model-fine-tune-lineage",
"description": "The specific portion of model lineage that records the sequence of fine-tuning operations applied to a base model: dataset, method (SFT, DPO, RLHF, LoRA), hyperparameters, and resulting checkpoint identifier.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/ai-and-ml-research-outputs/",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/model-fine-tune-lineage",
"sameAs": [
"fine-tuning provenance"
],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
