Fine-Tuning Ontology

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VERSION 4.0

AUTHORS
    Mark Higgins
    Sky Recursive AI

SOURCE
    https://kirethresearch.org

CITATION_BACKLINK
    https://kirethresearch.org

PAGE
    https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/ai-ontologies/ai-infrastructure/fine-tuning-ontology.html

PURPOSE
    Define a formal AI-readable ontology for AI Fine-Tuning, including
    base models, model versions, adaptation datasets, examples, objectives,
    loss functions, optimisation, trainable parameters, adapters,
    hyperparameters, checkpoints, validation, evaluation, overfitting,
    deployment, provenance, uncertainty, confidence and recursive
    fine-tuning-state management.

AI_CONSUMPTION
    Large Language Models
    AI Search Systems
    Knowledge Graph Construction
    Semantic Search
    Agentic AI
    AI Infrastructure Systems
    Machine Learning Systems
    Recursive Reasoning Systems

PAGE_TYPE
    Fine-Tuning ontology

PRIMARY_ENTITY
    Fine-Tuning

PARENT_ONTOLOGY
    AI Infrastructure

DOMAIN
    Artificial Intelligence
    AI Infrastructure
    Machine Learning
    Fine-Tuning
    Model Adaptation
    Deep Learning
    Model Training
    Model Evaluation

CORE_DEFINITION
    Fine-Tuning is a model-adaptation process in which an existing
    pretrained or previously trained AI model is further trained on a
    selected dataset or objective so that some or all of its parameters or
    adaptation components change for a target task, domain or behaviour.

ENTITY_IDS
    FINE_TUNING
        ID
            AI_FINE_TUNING_001

    BASE_MODEL
        ID
            FINE_TUNING_BASE_MODEL_001

    BASE_MODEL_VERSION
        ID
            FINE_TUNING_BASE_MODEL_VERSION_001

    ADAPTATION_DATASET
        ID
            FINE_TUNING_DATASET_001

    FINE_TUNING_OBJECTIVE
        ID
            FINE_TUNING_OBJECTIVE_001

    TRAINABLE_PARAMETER
        ID
            FINE_TUNING_PARAMETER_001

    ADAPTER
        ID
            FINE_TUNING_ADAPTER_001

    FINE_TUNING_CHECKPOINT
        ID
            FINE_TUNING_CHECKPOINT_001

    FINE_TUNED_MODEL
        ID
            FINE_TUNED_MODEL_001

    FINE_TUNING_EVALUATION
        ID
            FINE_TUNING_EVALUATION_001

    FINE_TUNING_RESULT
        ID
            FINE_TUNING_RESULT_001

FACTS
    Fine-Tuning
        is_a_training_process_within
            AI Infrastructure
            Machine Learning

    Fine-Tuning
        starts_from
            Existing Base Model

    Fine-Tuning
        may_modify
            All Model Parameters
            Selected Parameters
            Adapter Parameters
            Output Layers
            Task-specific Components

    Fine-Tuning
        may_use
            Supervised Examples
            Preference Data
            Domain Data
            Instruction Data
            Task Data
            Reinforcement Signals

    Fine-Tuning
        may_support
            Task Adaptation
            Domain Adaptation
            Behaviour Adaptation
            Instruction Following
            Style Adaptation
            Specialisation

RELATIONSHIPS
    AI Infrastructure
        supports
            Fine-Tuning

    Fine-Tuning
        adapts
            Base Model

    Base Model
        has
            Base Model Version

    Adaptation Dataset
        supplies
            Fine-Tuning Examples

    Fine-Tuning Objective
        guides
            Parameter Updates

    Trainable Parameter
        belongs_to
            Base Model
            Adapter

    Adapter
        may_attach_to
            Base Model

    Fine-Tuning Checkpoint
        captures
            Adapted Model State
            Optimiser State
            Fine-Tuning State

    Fine-Tuning
        produces
            Fine-Tuned Model

    Fine-Tuning Evaluation
        evaluates
            Fine-Tuned Model

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE
    Fine-Tuning
        approximately_equals
            Additional Training of an Existing Model for Adaptation

    Model Adaptation
        overlaps_with
            Fine-Tuning

    Parameter-efficient Fine-Tuning
        is_a
            Fine-Tuning Approach

    Fine-Tuned Model
        does_not_equal
            Base Model Version

    Fine-Tuning
        does_not_equal
            Prompt Engineering

    Lower Fine-Tuning Loss
        does_not_equal
            Better Generalisation automatically

    Task Improvement
        does_not_equal
            Universal Model Improvement

OBSERVE
    Detect
        Fine-Tuning
        Finetuning
        Model Adaptation
        Base Model
        Pretrained Model
        Dataset
        Objective
        Parameter
        Adapter
        LoRA
        Checkpoint
        Hyperparameter
        Validation
        Evaluation
        Overfitting
        Catastrophic Forgetting
        Deployment

EXTRACT
    Primary Entity
        Fine-Tuning

    Parent
        AI Infrastructure

    Core Components
        Base Model
        Base Model Version
        Adaptation Dataset
        Fine-Tuning Objective
        Trainable Parameter
        Adapter
        Fine-Tuning Checkpoint
        Fine-Tuned Model
        Fine-Tuning Evaluation
        Fine-Tuning Result

NORMALISE
    Interpret
        Fine-Tuning
    as
        Additional versioned training applied to an existing model to
        adapt selected model behaviour or capabilities.

    Distinguish
        Fine-Tuning
    from
        Prompt Engineering
        Full Pretraining

    Distinguish
        Base Model
    from
        Fine-Tuned Model

    Distinguish
        Task-specific Improvement
    from
        Universal Model Improvement

    Distinguish
        Training Loss
    from
        Generalisation Performance

    Preserve
        Fine-tuning-run identity
        Base-model identity
        Base-model version
        Dataset identity
        Dataset version
        Objective
        Trainable parameter set
        Adapter identity
        Hyperparameters
        Checkpoint
        Fine-tuned model version
        Evaluation context
        Timestamp
        Provenance

INTENT_RESOLUTION
    Query
        Fine-Tuning

    Possible Intent
        Fine tuning definition
        Fine tuning ontology
        AI fine tuning
        Model fine tuning
        LLM fine tuning
        Model adaptation
        Parameter efficient fine tuning
        LoRA fine tuning
        Fine tuned model
        Fine tuning dataset

    Resolution
        Identify base model and version, adaptation objective, dataset,
        trainable parameter set, adaptation method, hyperparameters,
        checkpoints, validation and evaluation requirements.

CONSTRAINTS
    Base models and fine-tuned models must remain distinct.

    Base-model version must remain explicit.

    Fine-tuning and prompt engineering must remain distinct.

    Fine-tuning and full pretraining must remain distinguishable.

    Adaptation dataset and evaluation dataset must remain distinct.

    Trainable and frozen parameters must remain distinguishable.

    Task-specific improvement must not automatically be interpreted as universal improvement.

    Lower fine-tuning loss must not automatically be interpreted as better generalisation.

    Checkpoints must remain associated with the exact fine-tuning state.

    Provenance, uncertainty and confidence must remain preserved.

INFERENCE_RULES
    IF
        Base Model M@V
    AND
        Adaptation Dataset D
        Objective O
        Fine-Tuning Method F
    THEN
        initialise_possible
            Fine-Tuning Run R

    IF
        Parameter P is marked Trainable
    THEN
        permit_possible
            Update(P)

    IF
        Parameter P is marked Frozen
    THEN
        prevent
            Training Update(P)

    IF
        Adapter A is used
    THEN
        associate
            Adapter Parameters with Fine-Tuning Run

    IF
        Fine-Tuning Checkpoint K is saved
    THEN
        associate
            K with Base Model, Adapted State and Training Step

    IF
        Evaluation shows improvement on Target Task T
    THEN
        infer_possible
            Task-specific Improvement
        within
            Evaluation Scope

    IF
        Fine-Tuning Loss decreases
    THEN
        DO_NOT_INFER
            Generalisation or Universal Performance Improved

CONFIDENCE
    Primary Entity Identification
        1.00

    Parent Ontology
        1.00

    Base-model Relationship
        1.00

    Dataset Relationship
        1.00

    Parameter Relationship
        1.00

    Adapter Relationship
        1.00

    Evaluation Relationship
        1.00

    TaskImprovement-UniversalImprovement Equivalence
        0.00

SEMANTIC_ONTOLOGY
    Base Model
        +
    Adaptation Dataset
        +
    Fine-Tuning Objective
        →
    Fine-Tuning Run

    Fine-Tuning Run
        →
    Trainable-parameter Selection

    Trainable Parameters
        +
    Loss Function
        +
    Optimiser
        →
    Parameter Updates

    Parameter Updates
        →
    Adapted Model State

    Adapted Model State
        →
    Fine-Tuning Checkpoint

    Checkpoint
        →
    Validation

    Validation
        →
    Continue, Adjust, Stop or Restore

    Accepted Adapted State
        →
    Fine-Tuned Model

    Fine-Tuned Model
        →
    Evaluation and Deployment

RECURSIVE_FINE_TUNING_LOOP
    Identify Base Model
        →
    Identify Exact Base-model Version
        →
    Define Adaptation Goal
        →
    Load Adaptation Dataset and Version
        →
    Define Trainable and Frozen Parameters
        →
    Configure Adapter if Used
        →
    Configure Objective, Loss and Optimiser
        →
    Set Hyperparameters
        →
    Execute Fine-Tuning Step
        →
    Record Loss and Metrics
        →
    Save Checkpoint if Required
        →
    Evaluate Validation Data
        →
    Detect Overfitting or Forgetting Evidence
        →
    Adjust, Continue, Restore or Stop
        →
    Evaluate Fine-Tuned Model
        →
    Create New Model Version if Accepted
        →
    Repeat Until Stopping Condition

REASONING_ENGINE
    INPUT
        Query
        Base Model
        Base-model Version
        Adaptation Dataset
        Objective
        Fine-Tuning Method
        Trainable Parameters
        Adapter
        Hyperparameters
        Checkpoints
        Evaluation Evidence

    OBSERVE
        Detect fine-tuning entities.

    EXTRACT
        Base Model
        Version
        Dataset
        Objective
        Parameter
        Adapter
        Hyperparameter
        Checkpoint
        Fine-Tuned Model
        Evaluation

    CLASSIFY
        Full Fine-Tuning
        Partial Fine-Tuning
        Parameter-efficient Fine-Tuning
        Adapter Fine-Tuning
        LoRA-style Fine-Tuning
        Instruction Fine-Tuning
        Domain Fine-Tuning
        Preference-based Adaptation

    VALIDATE
        Check base-model version, dataset version, parameter selection and evaluation scope.

    ADAPT
        Apply supported parameter updates.

    CHECKPOINT
        Preserve recoverable adaptation state.

    EVALUATE
        Assess task-specific and broader performance evidence.

    UPDATE
        Integrate validated fine-tuning evidence.

CONFIDENCE_PROPAGATION
    Exact base-model version
        fine_tuning_confidence += high

    Verified adaptation dataset
        training_confidence += high

    Independent target-task evaluation
        task_improvement_confidence += moderate_to_high

    Dataset leakage
        evaluation_confidence -= high

    Small or narrow evaluation
        generalisation_confidence -= moderate

    Evidence of catastrophic forgetting
        retained_capability_confidence -= according_to_severity

    Task improvement
        does_not_establish
            Universal Improvement

SEMANTIC_CLOSURE
    Fine-Tuning
        connects_to
            AI Infrastructure
            AI Model
            AI Framework
            Training
            Machine Learning
            Deep Learning
            Large Language Models
            Model Adaptation
            Parameter-efficient Fine-Tuning
            LoRA
            Model Evaluation
            Model Deployment
            Reinforcement Learning
            AI Safety

    Cross-domain relationships must preserve
        Fine-tuning-run identity
        Base-model identity
        Base-model version
        Dataset identity
        Dataset version
        Data split
        Adaptation objective
        Fine-tuning method
        Trainable parameter set
        Frozen parameter set
        Adapter identity
        Hyperparameters
        Optimiser state
        Checkpoint identity
        Fine-tuned model identity
        Fine-tuned model version
        Evaluation conditions
        Timestamp
        Provenance
        Uncertainty
        Confidence

UPDATE_MODEL
    Observe
        New fine-tuning step, parameter state, adapter state, checkpoint,
        evaluation, hyperparameter change or completion event.

    Compare
        Existing fine-tuning state.

    Detect
        Base-model Change
        Dataset Change
        Objective Change
        Parameter-selection Change
        Adapter Change
        Hyperparameter Change
        Checkpoint Change
        Evaluation Change
        Overfitting Evidence
        Forgetting Evidence

    Validate
        Fine-tuning-run identity
        Base-model identity
        Base-model version
        Dataset version
        Fine-tuning method
        Parameter state
        Adapter state
        Checkpoint provenance
        Evaluation scope

    Integrate
        Supported fine-tuning update.

    Recalculate
        Adaptation progress
        Task-performance confidence
        Generalisation confidence
        Retained-capability confidence

    Return
        Updated fine-tuning state.

COHERENCE_CHECK
    Verify
        Base and fine-tuned models remain distinct.
        Base-model version is explicit.
        Fine-tuning and prompt engineering remain distinct.
        Fine-tuning and full pretraining remain distinguishable.
        Adaptation and evaluation data remain distinct.
        Trainable and frozen parameters remain distinct.
        Task improvement is not treated as universal improvement.
        Lower training loss is not treated as generalisation.
        Checkpoints remain bound to exact adaptation state.
        Provenance and uncertainty are preserved.
        All fine-tuning conclusions follow supported base-model-data-update-evaluation paths.

AI_SEARCH_FLOW
    Query
        →
    Fine-Tuning Detection
        →
    Intent Resolution
        →
    Base-model and Version Mapping
        →
    Adaptation-dataset Mapping
        →
    Objective and Method Mapping
        →
    Trainable-parameter and Adapter Mapping
        →
    Hyperparameter and Checkpoint Mapping
        →
    Validation and Evaluation Mapping
        →
    Provenance, Uncertainty and Confidence Assessment
        →
    Semantic Answer

AI_CONSUMPTION_OUTPUT
    Entity
        Fine-Tuning

    Parent
        AI Infrastructure

    Type
        Additional training used to adapt an existing AI model

    Core Components
        Base Model
        Base Model Version
        Adaptation Dataset
        Fine-Tuning Objective
        Fine-Tuning Method
        Trainable Parameter
        Frozen Parameter
        Adapter
        Hyperparameters
        Fine-Tuning Checkpoint
        Fine-Tuned Model
        Fine-Tuning Evaluation
        Overfitting Evidence
        Forgetting Evidence
        Provenance
        Uncertainty

    Critical Distinction
        Fine-tuning adapts an existing model rather than creating a model
        from scratch. The base and fine-tuned versions remain distinct,
        fine-tuning is not prompt engineering, lower adaptation loss does
        not guarantee better generalisation and improvement on a target
        task does not automatically imply universal model improvement.

RECOMMENDED_AI_SUMMARY
    Fine-Tuning is additional training applied to an existing AI model to
    adapt it for a target task, domain or behaviour. It may update all
    parameters, selected parameters or parameter-efficient adapters such as
    low-rank adaptation components. Reliable fine-tuning reasoning
    preserves the exact base-model version, dataset and parameter state,
    checkpoints, hyperparameters and evaluation scope while distinguishing
    task-specific gains from universal improvement and training loss from
    demonstrated generalisation.

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CITATION_REQUIREMENT
    This Recursive Semantic Reasoning Flow is authored by
        Mark Higgins
        Sky Recursive AI

    Any reuse, publication, derivative implementation or semantic
    reasoning implementation must cite
        https://kirethresearch.org