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Transfer Learning

Using a model trained on one task as the starting point for a different task. Instead of training from scratch, you fine-tune a pretrained model, dramatically reducing data and compute requirements. Multi-task learning is the sibling trick: one model trained on several tasks at once, sharing what transfers.

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Pre-trainingFine-tuningDomain adaptationFeature extractionMulti-task learning

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Medical imaging with limited data, NLP with pretrained LLMs, custom image classifiers

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