AI Glossary Term

What is Transfer Learning?

Definition

Applying knowledge learned in one task or domain to improve another task.

Related terms

Domain Adaptation

Methods that transfer a model trained in one domain to perform better in another domain.

API (Application Programming Interface)

A structured way for one software system to send requests to and receive responses from another system.

A task where a model assigns an input to one or more predefined categories.

Continuing training on domain-specific data to adapt a pre-trained model to a specific task.

Instruction Tuning

Fine-tuning a model on instruction-response pairs to improve task following.

Zero-Shot Learning

Solving tasks without task-specific examples by relying on prior general knowledge.

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