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Converging Histories of Pre-training

The pre-training paradigm that powers modern large language models was influenced by separate, parallel developments. Analyze the two primary historical streams of pre-training—one that became standard in computer vision and one rooted in early unsupervised learning for tasks like word embeddings—and explain how distinct elements from both contributed to the large-scale, self-supervised approach dominant in natural language processing today.

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