pretrain

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1. To train before testing or further training.

   In stage one, rats were pretrained to drink from a rotary device.

2. machine learningTo train (a neural network) on a large corpus or other dataset to acquire a base of general-purpose knowledge, representations, or capabilities that can subsequently be adapted, specialized, or aligned through further training.

   Our algorithm pretrains a CNN using a large set of videos with tracking ground-truths to obtain a generic target representation.

   2015, Hyeonseob Nam, Bohyung Han, “Learning Multi-Domain Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Tracking”, in arXiv