malomn

Yes, of course :-) I can be reached at malo (dot) maisonneuve (at) gmail (dot) com You can also ask your questions here so that others can benefit from the answers.

Your question is very broad. Being a PhD student, I can only say that fine-tuning happens all the time. Research in particular areas require fine-tuning pre-trained models on specific tasks, taking advantage of the amount of data seen during pre-training. It's unlikely that your thesis will be solely about fine-tuning. However, chances are you will fine-tune many models during your thesis, for various tasks depending on your field of research.