Pretraining is large-scale training on broad data to learn general capabilities before task-specific adaptation.
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Pretraining
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Pretraining is large-scale training on broad data to learn general capabilities before task-specific adaptation.
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It is the expensive first training stage that teaches the model general language or vision skills.
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