pretraining

Pre-training is like the education students receive in school. Just as teachers train students in a broad range of subjects, a model is pre-trained on a vast amount of data, learning general knowledge. This foundational learning requires significant effort and resources, similar to the years of schooling and the dedication of many teachers. Fine-tuning occurs after students graduate from school and choose a specialized field, such as medicine, engineering, or law. In this phase, they receive targeted training in their chosen domain, much like how a pre-trained model is fine-tuned for specific tasks. Before this specialization, the students (or the…