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Masked Language Modeling vs Next-Token Prediction: Choosing the Right Pretraining Objective

Masked Language Modeling vs Next-Token Prediction: Choosing the Right Pretraining Objective

Compare Masked Language Modeling and Next-Token Prediction for LLM pretraining. Learn which objective delivers better performance for understanding vs. generation tasks, and explore hybrid strategies.

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