Transfer Learning: The Highest Leverage Deep Learning Skill You Can Learn

Transfer learning will drastically reduce training time and cost when you start a new deep learning project

Thuwarakesh Murallie
Towards Data Science
7 min readOct 26, 2021

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Transfer learning could help reduce the deep learning training time and cost. For example, you can use a dog classifier to train a cat classifier.
You can use a dog classifier deep learning model to train and recognize cats using transfer learning — Image by huoadg5888 from Pixabay

Training a deep learning model can take days, weeks, or even months.

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