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Analyzing Language Model Training Loss

A researcher is pre-training a language model using two simultaneous objectives: one for predicting masked words and another for determining if two sentences are consecutive. They observe that the loss for the masked word task is decreasing steadily, but the total training loss remains high and is not improving. Based on how the total loss is calculated for this type of model, what is the most likely explanation for this observation?

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