Basic questions about transfer learning with TAO Toolkit

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  1. It is ok to set the same tfreocrds for training and validation.
  2. Refer to MaskRCNN — TAO Toolkit 4.0 documentation

The num_examples_per_epoch parameter must be specified, and either num_epochs or total_steps should be specified. If both are set, total_steps will be overwritten by num_epochs * num_examples_per_epoch / train_batch_size

eval_batch_size is the the batch size during validation or evaluation.

  1. If you mean the how long it is needed for training, it is hard to say because it depends on training images, training class, pretrained-model, etc.