What is Transfer Learning in Deep Learning?

Author(s): Amit Chauhan

Originally published on Towards AI.

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In simple terms, it is a technique to use a trained model on the dataset that is run on a new, different dataset. The core idea is to take the knowledge of the trained model and apply it to a new but related application. This technique is more useful in the field of computer vision and natural language processing (NLP) because of large data that has semantic information.

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