pretrain

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ train

Verb

pretrain (third-person singular simple present pretrains, present participle pretraining, simple past and past participle pretrained)

1. (transitive) To train in advance.
   • 2015, Hyeonseob Nam, Bohyung Han, “Learning Multi-Domain Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Tracking”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

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

Anagrams

• earprint, terrapin