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We introduce a new representation learning algorithm suited to the context of domain adaptation, in which data at training and test time come from similar but different distributions. Our algorithm is directly inspired by theory on domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-10 Hana Ajakan , Pascal Germain , Hugo Larochelle , François Laviolette , Mario Marchand

Reducing domain divergence is a key step in transfer learning problems. Existing works focus on the minimization of global domain divergence. However, two domains may consist of several shared subdomains, and differ from each other in each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Pengfei Wei , Yiping Ke , Xinghua Qu , Tze-Yun Leong

Current machine learning systems are brittle in the face of distribution shifts (DS), where the target distribution that the system is tested on differs from the source distribution used to train the system. This problem of robustness to DS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Okan Koç , Alexander Soen , Chao-Kai Chiang , Masashi Sugiyama

The success of supervised learning hinges on the assumption that the training and test data come from the same underlying distribution, which is often not valid in practice due to potential distribution shift. In light of this, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Bo Li , Yezhen Wang , Shanghang Zhang , Dongsheng Li , Trevor Darrell , Kurt Keutzer , Han Zhao

Domain adaptation (DA) aims to transfer knowledge from a label-rich source domain to a related but label-scarce target domain. The conventional DA strategy is to align the feature distributions of the two domains. Recently, increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Yixin Zhang , Junjie Li , Zilei Wang

Domain shifts are ubiquitous in machine learning, and can substantially degrade a model's performance when deployed to real-world data. To address this, distribution alignment methods aim to learn feature representations which are invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Andrea Napoli , Paul White

Domain generalization (DG) deals with the problem of domain shift where a machine learning model trained on multiple-source domains fail to generalize well on a target domain with different statistics. Multiple approaches have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Prashant Pandey , Mrigank Raman , Sumanth Varambally , Prathosh AP

Domain generalization is the problem of assigning labels to an unlabeled data set, given several similar data sets for which labels have been provided. Despite considerable interest in this problem over the last decade, there has been no…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-28 Aniket Anand Deshmukh , Yunwen Lei , Srinagesh Sharma , Urun Dogan , James W. Cutler , Clayton Scott

When learning a mapping from an input space to an output space, the assumption that the sample distribution of the training data is the same as that of the test data is often violated. Unsupervised domain shift methods adapt the learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Tomer Galanti , Lior Wolf

Modern regression problems often involve high-dimensional data and a careful tuning of the regularization hyperparameters is crucial to avoid overly complex models that may overfit the training data while guaranteeing desirable properties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Maria-Florina Balcan , Saumya Goyal , Dravyansh Sharma

Segmentation is a crucial analysis task in biomedical imaging. Given the diverse experimental settings in this field, the lack of generalization limits the use of deep learning in practice. Domain adaptation is a promising remedy: it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Anwai Archit , Constantin Pape

Deep neural networks have demonstrated impressive performance in various machine learning tasks. However, they are notoriously sensitive to changes in data distribution. Often, even a slight change in the distribution can lead to drastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Alon Hazan , Yoel Shoshan , Daniel Khapun , Roy Aladjem , Vadim Ratner

In many real-world applications, we want to exploit multiple source datasets of similar tasks to learn a model for a different but related target dataset -- e.g., recognizing characters of a new font using a set of different fonts. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Junfeng Wen , Russell Greiner , Dale Schuurmans

Domain adaptation aims to generalise a high-performance learner on target domain (non-labelled data) by leveraging the knowledge from source domain (rich labelled data) which comes from a different but related distribution. Assuming the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Jie Su

In recent years, machine learning has achieved impressive results across different application areas. However, machine learning algorithms do not necessarily perform well on a new domain with a different distribution than its training set.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Ye Gao , Zhendong Chu , Hongning Wang , John Stankovic

The empirical fact that classifiers, trained on given data collections, perform poorly when tested on data acquired in different settings is theoretically explained in domain adaptation through a shift among distributions of the source and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Fabio Maria Carlucci , Lorenzo Porzi , Barbara Caputo , Elisa Ricci , Samuel Rota Bulò

Adaptation of a classifier to new domains is one of the challenging problems in machine learning. This has been addressed using many deep and non-deep learning based methods. Among the methodologies used, that of adversarial learning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Vinod K Kurmi , Venkatesh K Subramanian , Vinay P. Namboodiri

The aim of unsupervised domain adaptation is to leverage the knowledge in a labeled (source) domain to improve a model's learning performance with an unlabeled (target) domain -- the basic strategy being to mitigate the effects of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Zhen Fang , Jie Lu , Feng Liu , Junyu Xuan , Guangquan Zhang

Domain generalization (DG) aims to learn predictive models that can generalize to unseen domains. Most existing DG approaches focus on learning domain-invariant representations under the assumption of conditional distribution shift (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jewon Yeom , Kyubyung Chae , Hyunggyu Lim , Yoonna Oh , Dongyoon Yang , Taesup Kim

In real-world scenarios, achieving domain adaptation and generalization poses significant challenges, as models must adapt to or generalize across unknown target distributions. Extending these capabilities to unseen multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Hao Dong , Moru Liu , Kaiyang Zhou , Eleni Chatzi , Juho Kannala , Cyrill Stachniss , Olga Fink