# Continued Pretraining

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> Updated: 2026-05-13T20:02:09.834Z
> Type: glossary
> Category: dogal-dil-isleme
**TLDR:** The process of further training a pretrained language model on new data to improve general or domain-specific knowledge.

<p>Continued pretraining is a strong strategy for adapting a model to new domains without the cost of training from scratch. A general model can be further pretrained on legal, healthcare, finance, or enterprise-specific terminology. This plays an important role in domain adaptation and enterprise LLM design.</p>