pretrain (English, verb)
expansion: pretrain (third-person singular simple present pretrains, present participle pretraining, simple past and past participle pretrained)
Senses:
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: To train (a neural network) on some data set (typically a large generic data set, the output of which one is not directly interested in) before fine-tuning the network on another dataset one is interested in.
Forms:
form: pretrains
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pretraining
tags: participle
present
form: pretrained
tags: participle
past
form: pretrained
tags: past
form: pre-train
tags: alternative