Tech opinion: Pre-training transfer learning weaker than expected 5 years ago
jack_w_rae · x · 2026-08-19
Responding to the claim that transfer in pretraining effectively does not exist, a technical expert noted that while cross-lingual transfer is evident with many examples, it is indeed weaker than what was hoped for 5 years ago.
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