--- title: What Is Transfer Learning? | daily.dev description: Transfer Learning is a machine learning technique that reuses knowledge from a model trained on a large dataset to solve a new task, avoiding training from... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-transfer-learning--ramet2bsg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What Is Transfer Learning? | daily.dev og:description: Transfer Learning is a machine learning technique that reuses knowledge from a model trained on a large dataset to solve a new task, avoiding training from... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-transfer-learning--ramet2bsg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ramET2BsG.png og:image:alt: What Is Transfer Learning? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What Is Transfer Learning? **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Transfer Learning is a machine learning technique that reuses knowledge from a model trained on a large dataset to solve a new task, avoiding training from scratch. Pre-trained models like YOLOv8 variants (trained on the COCO dataset) already recognize general visual features such as edges, shapes, and textures. Applying transfer learning to new Computer Vision projects reduces training time, lowers hardware requirements, requires less data, and delivers better initial performance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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