How does Instruction Tuning work?

The technique was popularized by Google's FLAN (2021), T0 (2022), and OpenAI's InstructGPT (2022), and is now the standard recipe for converting a raw language model into a useful assistant. Instruction-tuned models can generalize to novel instructions they were never explicitly trained on — a capability called "instruction following generalization" that is foundational to modern LLM usefulness. The platform strengthens