| Challenge: | Recent years have showcased the remarkable capabilities and performance of large language models (LLMs) across a broad range of tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose supervised fine-tuning (SEFT) for LLM alignment to eliminate the need for annotated samples while retaining the stability and efficiency of SFT. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method eliminates the need for annotated samples while maintaining the stability and efficiency of SFT. |
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