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Training that uses unlabeled data, asking the model to discover structure on its own. Clustering algorithms group similar examples, dimensionality reduction compresses high-dimensional data, and self-supervised methods generate their own training signal from the input. Most of the data on the internet is unlabeled, which makes this category strategically important.
Pretraining of large language models is a self-supervised flavor of unsupervised learning. Even if you never train a model from scratch, knowing where the labels do and do not come from is how you reason about model behavior.
Training that uses unlabeled data, asking the model to discover structure on its own. Clustering algorithms group similar examples, dimensionality reduction compresses high-dimensional data, and self-supervised methods generate their own training signal from the input. Most of the data on the internet is unlabeled, which makes this category strategically important.
Pretraining of large language models is a self-supervised flavor of unsupervised learning. Even if you never train a model from scratch, knowing where the labels do and do not come from is how you reason about model behavior.
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