Continual Pre training

Posted on:November 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM

Domain Adaptation

Domain adaptation is the process of customizing a generative ai foundation model (FM) that has been trained on a massive amount of public data to increase its knowledge and capabilities for a specific domain or use case

What is continual pre training

Continual pre training refers to the practice of taking a foundation model and progressing the training using large quantities of unstructured data

Continual Pre Training

ApproachTraining SetTraining Set SizeImplementation ComplexityCost
Prompt EngineeringNot Needed0Low0
RAGNot Needed0Low-Medium0
Supervised Fine Tuninglabelledcan be less with PEFTMedium - High depending on use case$100 - 5K