Inductive vs Transductive transfer learning

Hi members,

I am bit confused b/w inductive and transductive TL; Transffering knowledge from VGG16 pre-trained model to calssify Fashion-MNIST would be an inductive or transductive transfer learning?

Thank you!

So there’s a difference in inductive and transductive learning.

Inductive Learning - Goes through only the training data during the training phase
Transductive Learning - Goes through training and testing data during the training phase and if a new data point is added to the testing data the training needs to be done again from scratch.

So this difference clearly indicates that transfer learning is a inductive learning. Transfer Learning is simply using a model which was created for a prior task.

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