Instruction: Describe strategies to adapt a pre-trained model to a target task with significant class imbalance.
Context: This question evaluates the candidate's ability to handle common data challenges, such as class imbalance, using Transfer Learning, showcasing problem-solving skills and technical knowledge.
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The way I'd approach it in an interview is this: Transfer learning helps with class imbalance because the pretrained model often already has rich representations that reduce the amount of target-task signal needed to separate classes. That is...