{
  "id": 16572399,
  "title": "Same fine-tune recipe, different seeds — one narrow behaviour swings wildly. What actually stabilises it?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/same-fine-tune-recipe-different-seeds-one-narrow-behaviour-swings",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-26T07:41:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/futurexindiafxgif/same-fine-tune-recipe-different-seeds-one-narrow-behaviour-swings-wildly-what-actually-1en2"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I'm fine-tuning a small adapter for a talking-face model — a short recipe, same data throughout. The only thing I change between runs is the seed. The overall score barely moves, but one narrow behaviour swings: on one seed it collapses, on another it lands fine, on a third it overshoots. Has anyone dealt with this pattern? What actually helped in your experience — seed averaging, EMA /…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}