How do you evaluate the effectiveness of a Transfer Learning model?

Instruction: Explain the criteria and metrics you would use to assess a transfer learning model's performance.

Context: Aiming to understand the candidate's knowledge on performance evaluation, this question also touches on the importance of validation in machine learning projects.

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The way I'd approach it in an interview is this: I evaluate transfer learning by comparing it against meaningful baselines: training from scratch, fixed-feature approaches, and different degrees of fine-tuning. The question is not just whether the model works, but whether...

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