Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pretrain

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pre-train
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To train before testing or further training.

verb

To train (a neural network) on a large corpus or other dataset to acquire a base of general-purpose knowledge, representations, or capabilities that can subsequently be adapted, specialized, or aligned through further training.

Example Sentences

"In stage one, rats were pretrained to drink from a rotary device."
"Our algorithm pretrains a CNN using a large set of videos with tracking ground-truths to obtain a generic target representation."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English trainder. English pretrain From pre- + train.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pre

Inflected Forms

pretrains (present, singular) pretraining (participle, present) pretrained (participle, past) pretrained (past) pre-train (alternative)

Questions

What does pretrain mean?: To train before testing or further training.
Where does pretrain come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English trainder. English pretrain From pre- + train.

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