🔄 Transfer Learning

Leverage pre-trained models for faster, better results

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Stand on the Shoulders of Giants

Transfer learning allows you to use knowledge from models trained on large datasets (like ImageNet with 14M images) for your specific task. Instead of training from scratch, you leverage pre-learned features to achieve better results with less data and time.

🎯 Why Transfer Learning?

Less data needed: Work with 100s vs millions of images
Faster training: Hours instead of weeks
Better performance: Pre-learned features boost accuracy
Lower cost: Less compute power required
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Training from Scratch

Need millions of images
Weeks of training time
Expensive GPU requirements
Risk of poor convergence
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Transfer Learning

Work with 100-1000 images
Hours of training time
Single GPU sufficient
Reliable, proven results

🏆 Popular Pre-trained Models

ResNet-50

50 layers, 25M params

VGG-16

16 layers, 138M params

Inception V3

48 layers, 23M params

EfficientNet

Optimized, 5M params