Instruction: Describe the steps you would take to address a significant difference between the source and target domains in a transfer learning scenario.
Context: The question evaluates the candidate's problem-solving skills and their ability to adapt transfer learning techniques to challenging situations.
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The way I'd approach it in an interview is this: With a large domain shift, I would not assume standard fine-tuning is enough. I would first quantify the gap, then consider domain-specific pretraining, stronger augmentation, feature alignment methods, or staged adaptation from...