Transfer Learning
Qiang Yang, Yu Zhang, Wenyuan Dai, Sinno Jialin Pan
Abstract
"This book is about the foundations, methods, techniques and applications of transfer learning. Transfer learning deals with how learning systems can quickly adapt themselves to new situations, new tasks and new environments. Transfer learning is a particularly important area of machine learning, which we can understand from several angles. First, the ability to learn from small data seems to be a particularly strong aspect of human intelligence. For example, we observe that babies learn from only a few examples and can quickly and effectively generalize from the few examples to concepts. This ability to learn from small data can be partly explained by the ability of humans to leverage and adapt the previous experience and pre-trained models to help solve future target problems. Adaptation is an innate ability of intelligent beings and artificially intelligent agents should certainly be endowed with transfer-learning ability"--