{"id":19987,"date":"2026-09-28T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=19987"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:23:25","slug":"base-vs-instruct-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=19987","title":{"rendered":"Conceptual distinction &#8211; LLM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Base vs. Instruct model<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Base model<\/th>\n<th>Instruct model<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Auto-complete behavior <sup>1<\/sup><\/th>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Conversation-like behavior <sup>2<\/sup><\/th>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Example (from Meta)<\/th>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/meta-llama\/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E\">Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/meta-llama\/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct\">Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> &#8230; because it has been pre-trained on crawled data from the internet.<br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup> &#8230; because it has been post-trained on user-defined datasets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Base vs. Instruct model Type Base model Instruct model Auto-complete behavior 1 Yes Yes Conversation-like behavior 2 No Yes Example<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19987"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19987"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19993,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19987\/revisions\/19993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}