Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai, a prominent voice in machine learning, discussed the evolution of fine-tuning techniques in a recent podcast. He highlighted how his 2018 ULMFiT paper, which demonstrated the effectiveness of fine-tuning pre-trained language models, was initially met with skepticism. Despite the current widespread adoption of fine-tuning, Howard suggests that the approach may be flawed due to issues like catastrophic forgetting and memorization. AI
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