Instruction: Explain how pre-trained models are used and the benefits they bring to NLP tasks.
Context: This question tests the candidate's knowledge of the current state-of-the-art methods in NLP and their practical applications.
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The way I'd explain it in an interview is this: Pre-trained language models give NLP systems a strong starting point by learning broad patterns of language from large corpora before being adapted to specific tasks. That drastically reduces the amount of labeled...