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A Robust Negative Learning Approach to Partial Domain Adaptation Using Source Prototypes

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023-09-11 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

This work proposes a robust Partial Domain Adaptation (PDA) framework that mitigates the negative transfer problem by incorporating a robust target-supervision strategy. It leverages ensemble learning and includes diverse, complementary label feedback, alleviating the effect of incorrect feedback and promoting pseudo-label refinement. Rather than relying exclusively on first-order moments for distribution alignment, our approach offers explicit objectives to optimize intra-class compactness and inter-class separation with the inferred source prototypes and highly-confident target samples in a domain-invariant fashion. Notably, we ensure source data privacy by eliminating the need to access the source data during the adaptation phase through a priori inference of source prototypes. We conducted a series of comprehensive experiments, including an ablation analysis, covering a range of partial domain adaptation tasks. Comprehensive evaluations on benchmark datasets corroborate our framework's enhanced robustness and generalization, demonstrating its superiority over existing state-of-the-art PDA approaches.

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@article{arxiv.2309.03531,
  title  = {A Robust Negative Learning Approach to Partial Domain Adaptation Using Source Prototypes},
  author = {Sandipan Choudhuri and Suli Adeniye and Arunabha Sen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.03531},
  year   = {2023}
}
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