training
noun
the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained.
pretraining
-
a word derived from
training.
Example Sentences
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As the researchers note in the paper, pretraining can speed up inference, "but may also hinder learning new physics."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
Karpathy joined Anthropic’s pretraining team and will lead a new group focused on using Claude to accelerate pretraining research, according to the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Karpathy will join Anthropic’s pretraining program, focusing on large-scale training runs for its Claude chatbot.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
The rampant mistakes and hallucinations that were initially made by LLMs have diminished over time due to pretraining on larger databases and post-training by tens of thousands of humans.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025
“If ‘emergence’ merely unlocks capabilities represented in pretraining data,” said Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan, “the gravy train will run out soon.”
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2023
