Difference between Instruction Tuning vs Non Instruction Tuning Large Language Models - Stack Overflow

What is the difference between instruction tuning and normal fine-tuning for large language models? Also the instruction-tuning I'm referring to isn't the in-context/prompt one. All the recent papers

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