transfer

Definition

Reusing what was learned on one task to help another — the premise behind pre-train-then-adapt. It pays off most where the target task has little data, since the representation carries structure the target set could never supply on its own. When source and target are too dissimilar the effect reverses, which is called negative transfer, so transfer is a hypothesis to test rather than a guarantee.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: CosmoH2G — Transferring a Human Hand's Flips and Rotations to a Two-Finger GripperCosmoH2G: A Hand-to-Gripper Transfer Dataset and Baseline Method for Object Manipulation with Complex Spatial Movements
• Paper walkthrough: Knowing When Not to Reuse — conditional experience transfer in autonomous post-training (BCIT)Knowing When Not to Reuse: Conditional Experience Transfer in Autonomous LLM Post-Training