Quickstart: Pretraining (PT)

This runs a pretraining job using a YAML config.

1) Pick an example config

Example configs are in examples/pt/.

Start with:

• examples/pt/qwen3.yaml

2) Run

surogate pt examples/pt/qwen3.yaml

Or, via uv:

uv run surogate pt examples/pt/qwen3.yaml

3) Outputs

Outputs are written under the config’s output_dir.

See also

• Training modes: Pretraining vs Full Fine-Tuning vs LoRA
• Quickstart: SFT
• Configuration
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