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Glossary: NLP with Transformers

Chat model

Also written: chat models, instruct model

A generative language model that follows instructions given as a list of messages, each with a role such as `system` or `user`. A small example is SmolLM2-360M-Instruct, which can write summaries and answer questions from a passage.

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Chat templatePipeline