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Improve agent tool-calling with SFT and DPO on SageMaker

Improve agent tool-calling with SFT and DPO on SageMaker
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💡Learn how to use SFT and DPO on SageMaker to make your AI agents more reliable at calling external tools.

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What Changed

Combine SFT and DPO to optimize SLM performance for tool-calling tasks.

Why It Matters

This approach allows developers to build more reliable AI agents by reducing hallucination and improving function-calling precision in resource-constrained environments.

What To Do Next

Follow the tutorial to set up a SageMaker training job using your own tool-calling dataset to benchmark the performance gain of DPO over standard SFT.

Who should care:Developers & AI Engineers

Key Points

  • Combine SFT and DPO to optimize SLM performance for tool-calling tasks.
  • Use Amazon SageMaker AI training jobs to offload infrastructure management.
  • Implement systematic evaluation methods to compare base models against fine-tuned variants.
  • Focus on data-driven decision-making for model quality improvements.
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