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Techniquespost-trainingmid-training & continual pretraining

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Continual pretraining

Further pretraining of an existing model; the evidence does not establish one shared data-selection or context-extension setup.

Also called continued pre-training, Continuous Pretraining, continuous pretraining (CPT).

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continuous pretraining (CPT) to equip the base model with long-context ability

usedtraining objectivein Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA

Starting from a base checkpoint of DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus, whose context length has been extended to 128K, we perform continued pre-training followed by post-training to create DeepSeek-V3.2.

usedoptimizationin DeepSeek-V3.2DeepSeek

we perform data quality stratification through a dedicated curation pipeline and conduct continual pre-training (CPT) on high-quality subsets.

usedpost trainingin Qwen3.5-OmniQwen

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