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Pretrained Language Models

GPT (June 2018) and BERT (October 2018) are first trained on huge unlabelled text and then adapted to tasks.

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Pretraining on raw text gave models general language knowledge, and one model could be fine-tuned to many jobs. It is the recipe behind all later large language models.

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