Hands-On Transfer Learning with Python

Domain adaptation

Domain adaption is usually referred to in scenarios where the marginal probabilities between the source and target domains are different, such as P (X_s) ≠ P (X_t). There is an inherent shift or drift in the data distribution of the source and target domains that requires tweaks to transfer the learning. For instance, a corpus of movie reviews labeled as positive or negative would be different from a corpus of product-review sentiments. A classifier trained on movie-review sentiment would see a different distribution if utilized to classify product reviews. Thus, domain adaptation techniques are utilized in transfer learning in these scenarios.