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Why does transfer learning work?
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Early layers learn general features of the medium rather than the task, so they transfer. Only the later, specialised layers need replacing, which is why a new head plus a small amount of data gets most of the way.
Reading an answer is not being able to give one. The section that teaches this is Starting from someone else's training run, 6 hours of Transfer learning.
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