05. Transfer Learning

These lecture slides discuss transfer learning in machine learning, which is a technique that reuses a pre-trained model for one task to improve the performance of a new model for a different but related task. The slides explain different approaches to transfer learning, including fine-tuning pre-trained models, using multi-task learning, and domain adaptation. Domain adaptation specifically aims to adapt a model trained on one domain to a new domain with different data distribution but the same task. The slides also discuss self-taught learning and unsupervised transfer learning, where the model learns from unlabeled data to improve its performance. The slides then explore the challenges of negative transfer where the performance of the new model may be worse than training from scratch, and how to avoid it. The slides conclude with pre-training, where models are trained on large datasets and then fine-tuned for specific tasks, a common practice in computer vision and natural language