CourseTransformers: From Attention to Trained, Served and Interpreted Models · Module 8: Pretraining · part 56 of 111

Part 56 · Module 8: Pretraining

Module 8: Pretraining

1 min read·13 Oct 2026

What you need first

Module 7 and its lab (tinyformer-lab at v0.7.0; the lab can rebuild a stand-in)
Module 6: the proxy, train with loss_fn and data, checkpoints and write_manifest, and the seed noise floor
Module 7, Lesson 1 (full, causal and prefix masks)
No GPU, no API key; tokenizers comes with transformers in Colab

This course is bought on its own, once, and stays readable afterwards, including the parts added to it later.