How Optimizing Remaining Pretraining Loss Leads to Intelligence
lambdaviking · x · 2026-08-05
During a discussion regarding Gwern's views, a researcher shared insights into why pretraining works. The essay suggests that optimizing down the remaining parts of the loss during pretraining is what ultimately leads to the emergence of intelligence in large models.
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