transferable

Definition

Carrying over from the setting where something was learned to a different one. The central case is representations: features acquired during pre-training remain useful for downstream tasks, which is the entire premise of the pre-train-then-adapt paradigm. The word has a darker use in adversarial work, where an input crafted against one model often fools another it was never designed for — transferability as a security problem.

Explainers using this term

• How VLMs Came Together — Wiring a Vision Encoder into an LLMLearning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision
• Paper Deep Dive — CLIP: Putting Words and Images on One MapLearning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision