What actually happens at each stage of training a large language model — what data, what objective, what the model learns, and why the stages are ordered the way they are.
What actually happens at each stage of training a large language model — what data, what objective, what the model learns, and why the stages are ordered the way they are.
Up to 30% of GPU compute can vanish into padding tokens that contribute nothing to learning. Here's how modern pretraining pipelines eliminate that waste.
Up to 30% of GPU compute can vanish into padding tokens that contribute nothing to learning. Here's how modern pretraining pipelines eliminate that waste.