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Pretraining and inference differ fundamentally in engineering requirements: inference is forward computation, tolerates high numerical precision loss, can be quantized to INT8 or even INT4, and can be compiled offline into a fixed computation graph; pretraining requires full forward and backward propagation, optimizer state maintenance, and cross-device gradient synchronization.
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