AMAN ARORA: “Demystifying Transfer Learning - what’s exactly going on and why is it so popular?”

Transfer Learning is perhaps the reason why deep learning is so successful and is able to achieve great results across various domains. In the words of an expert data scientist and founder Jeremy Howard ’Every time we put transfer learning into anything, we generally make it much better’. In mid-2018 Jeremy Howard and Sebastian Ruder put transfer learning to test in NLP and the proposed method(ULMFiT) significantly outperformed existing state-of-art on six text classification tasks reducing the erro