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Next-token prediction

An objective that trains the model to predict the next token in a sequence.

Also called next-token prediction objective.

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train on 236B tokens across datasets including image captions, alt text, charts, and OCR, using a next-token prediction objective.

usedunclearin DeepSeek-V4.1-FlashDeepSeek

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Other methods under training objective :: language modelling objective.