Instruction: Discuss the objectives, processes, and outcomes associated with pre-training large language models.
Context: This question assesses the candidate's understanding of the foundational pre-training phase in LLM development, highlighting its importance in preparing models for fine-tuning on specific tasks.
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The way I'd explain it in an interview is this: Pretraining is the stage where the model learns broad language structure, factual patterns, and task priors from large-scale text before it is adapted to narrower use cases. It is...
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