Transfer learning with large data

Course Q&A Deep Learning Specialization Structuring Machine Learning Projects
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In trasfer learning, prof said “When you have a lot more data for Task A than Task B, transfer learning is effective.”
I am wondering if transfer learning can be useful when Task A and Task B both have a lot of data.

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Transfer learning is good when you have somewhat similar tasks A and B. When you don’t have enough data of B, you can use data from A to “train the lower layers” of your model. (and example would be to use it as feature extractor). Then you can train the last few layer with the acutally B data.

But If you have a lot (enough) of data for task B, you can just make the model learn on them directly :). As low level functions will also be learnt directly on B data, that could be even better.

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Thanks for your answer