Instruction: Provide an example of negative transfer and explain how you would mitigate its impact in a transfer learning project.
Context: This question assesses the candidate's understanding of potential pitfalls in transfer learning, specifically the scenario where transfer learning can hurt performance instead of helping it.
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The way I'd explain it in an interview is this: Negative transfer happens when knowledge from the source model actually hurts performance on the target task. This usually occurs when the source and target domains or objectives are misaligned enough that...