Understanding Transfer Learning Imagine you’re an experienced chef who has mastered the art of Italian cuisine. Now, you’re venturing into French cooking. While the ingredients and techniques might differ, your foundational skills in the kitchen—like chopping, seasoning, and timing—give you a head start. This is the essence of transfer learning in machine learning: using knowledge gained from one task to improve performance on a related task.Transfer learning involves taking a pre-trained model, which has already learned to recognize patterns from a large dataset, and applying it to a new, but related, task. This approach is particularly useful when you have limited data for the new task, as it allows you to leverage the extensive learning from the original task. The process begins with a model that has been trained on a large dataset. For example, a model trained on ImageNet, a vast collection …