Training notes for LLM pretraining, alignment, post-training, and forgetting.

Notes

AreaNoteStatus
AlignmentPretraining and Alignment for LLMsdraft
Post-trainingPost-Training and Forgettingdraft

Learning Use

  • Separate pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and alignment.
  • Track how post-training changes capabilities and can induce forgetting.
  • Prepare for inference-time reasoning and context engineering.