What does instruct means for a deep learning model?

Question

On HuggingFace there are deeplearning models that you can download, some with the "instruct" part in their name, for example LLaMa-7B-Instruct.

I don't understand what this means VS a regular model. Has the model already been trained in a specific way ? Or is it ready to be trained ? Or is it ready to run already ?

Thank you

I googled it and did not find a clear definition that helps me to understand globally. I asked chatGPT and Perplexity but didn't find a clear answer neither.

Answer 1

Model with instruct in their name indicates the model has been fine tuned to follow prompt instructions. It is usually fine tuned to be used for direct, task oriented instructions.

Here's a link that goes into more details: https://community.aws/content/2ZVa61RxToXUFzcuY8Hbut6L150/what-is-an-instruct-model?lang=en