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MIT 6.7960 L18: Transfer Learning — Pretraining, Feature Extraction, and Fine-Tuning Strategies

Transfer learning's core insight is 'features learned on big data are good general-purpose representations': freeze the backbone and train only a linear head when downstream data is tiny; full fine-tune when data is plentiful; reach for LoRA / adapter when compute is tight. SimCLR and MAE removed the need for upstream labels and pushed downstream quality another notch.

CMU 07-280 Lecture 15: Separating Pretraining, Transfer Learning, and Fine-Tuning

Lecture 15 splits a pretrained model into representation g and task head h: freeze g and train only the head, or fine-tune some or all parameters at a smaller learning rate depending on data volume and source-target distance.