
Students learn about the fundamentals of transfer learning like definition, workflow, types, framework, terminology, popular transfer learning models, advantages and disadvantages.
Data Citation of 102 flower dataset: Nilsback, M-E. and Zisserman, A. (2008). Automated Categorisation of Flower Species. Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference.
Seperate test folder is organized and added. the test set zip is available in Resources.
The dataset used for this project is a custom, proprietary dataset designed specifically for this course to simulate real-world enterprise ticketing systems.
Dataset Type: Custom Synthetic / AI-Augmented Dataset
Curation Process: The baseline tickets and routing logic were manually written to match realistic IT support workflows. Scale and variation were achieved by leveraging generative AI assistance.
Features Included:
`Unique Ticket ID`: A unique identification string for tracking.
`Ticket Text`: The raw support request narrative.
`Category`: The target classification label for DistilBERT routing. the dataset is available in resources.
Almost all cutting-edge AI applications use pretrained models rather than training from scratch, and transfer learning is one of the most useful techniques in contemporary deep learning.
In this course, you'll learn transfer learning from the ground up through clear theoretical explanations and three complete real-world projects.
You'll first build a strong conceptual understanding by learning:
What is Transfer Learning?
Knowledge Base and Knowledge Transfer
Source and Target Domains
Source and Target Tasks
Transfer Learning Workflow
Feature Extraction vs Fine-Tuning
Transfer Learning Terminologies
Types of Transfer Learning
Popular Pretrained Models architecture and applications:
ResNet
EfficientNet
MobileNet
Densenet
VGGNet
BERT
ELMo
Word2Vec
Glove
Whisper
ASR
text2speech
Advantages and Disadvantages of Transfer learning
Once you have mastered the theory, you will use these ideas in three real-world projects:
Flower Image Prediction using MobileNet, ResNet50, and EfficientNetB0 with model comparison and fine-tuning.
SaaS Ticket Routing using DistilBERT and TF-IDF Vectorization + Logistic Regression to categorize the customer complaints and compares performance with traditional machine learning approach and Transfer learning model.
Video Caption Generation using faster Whisper for automatic speech-to-text transcription.
You will learn how to create, train, assess, compare, and implement transfer learning models while gaining practical experience with PyTorch throughout the course.
By the end of this course, you'll have both the theoretical knowledge and practical experience needed to confidently implement transfer learning in your own AI projects.