SFT

See also: sfṯ

English

Noun

SFT (plural SFTs)

1. (mathematics) Initialism of sparse Fourier transform.

   Hypernym: DFT

2. (machine learning) Initialism of supervised fine-tuning.
   • 2024 February 2, David Rozado, “The Political Preferences of LLMs”, in Rozado’s Visual Analytics‎^[1]:

     I also show in the paper that LLMs are easily steerable into target locations of the political spectrum via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) requiring only modest compute and customized data, suggesting the critical role of SFT to imprint political preferences onto LLMs.

Proper noun

SFT

1. Initialism of Supreme Federal Tribunal, the supreme court of Brazil.
   • 2016 March 17, Shasta Darlington and Flora Charner, “Brazil’s political intrigue: Ex-President Lula da Silva accepts Cabinet post”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     But under Brazilian law, senior political figures, including ministers and federal lawmakers, can only be tried in the Supreme Federal Tribunal. He could eventually face trial at the SFT, but the process would be dragged out.