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What changes when a pretrained model is fine-tuned rather than only used frozen?

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  1. Pretrained weights are updated
  2. All tokens become parameters
  3. The dataset is deleted

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References

  1. TensorFlow: Transfer learning and fine-tuning www.tensorflow.org/guide/keras/transfer_learning Checked 2026-10-10.

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