"pretrain" meaning in English

See pretrain in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: pretrains [present, singular, third-person], pretraining [participle, present], pretrained [participle, past], pretrained [past], pre-train [alternative]
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  1. To train before testing or further training.
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  2. (machine learning) To train (a neural network) on a large corpus or other dataset to acquire a base of general-purpose knowledge, representations, or capabilities that can subsequently be adapted, specialized, or aligned through further training. Coordinate_terms: post-train
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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