# Pretraining vs. Fine-Tuning: What's the Difference?
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Pretraining vs fine-tuning in AI: what each stage does, masked and causal language modeling, key differences, why they are separate, and real uses.
Pretraining vs fine-tuning in AI: what each stage does, masked and causal language modeling, key differences, why they are separate, and real uses.
Fine-tuning is a key process in AI training, where a pre-trained model is further trained on specific data to specialize in a particular task or domain.