Instruction: Detail the factors you consider when deciding how many layers to transfer and any methodologies or tools you use to make this decision.
Context: This question tests the candidate's ability to make critical architectural decisions in Transfer Learning, affecting the balance between leveraging learned features and adapting to new tasks.
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The way I'd approach it in an interview is this: I determine that empirically, guided by task similarity and target data size. If the source and target tasks are close, more transferred layers often help. If the target task is more...
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