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Pretraining 101: Data, Scale, and the Loss Function

203 · Rahul Agarwal · June 26, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
artificial-intelligence Machine Learning model-training Pretraining Techniques
Summary
This blog post, part of the GenAI Fundamentals Series, delves into the intricacies of creating a base model through pre-training, discussing concepts like next-token cross-entropy, extensive data pipelines, and compute budgets required for effective model training.
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