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Pretrained language models have shown success in various areas of natural language processing, including reading comprehension tasks. However, when applying machine learning methods to new domains, labeled data may not always be available.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Xiang Pan , Alex Sheng , David Shimshoni , Aditya Singhal , Sara Rosenthal , Avirup Sil

We present CROSSGRAD, a method to use multi-domain training data to learn a classifier that generalizes to new domains. CROSSGRAD does not need an adaptation phase via labeled or unlabeled data, or domain features in the new domain. Most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Shiv Shankar , Vihari Piratla , Soumen Chakrabarti , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Preethi Jyothi , Sunita Sarawagi

Distribution shift presents a significant challenge in machine learning, where models often underperform during the test stage when faced with a different distribution than the one they were trained on. This paper focuses on domain shifts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Huaxiu Yao , Xinyu Yang , Xinyi Pan , Shengchao Liu , Pang Wei Koh , Chelsea Finn

Domain reweighting is an emerging research area aimed at adjusting the relative weights of different data sources to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of LLM pre-training. We show that data mixtures that perform well at smaller…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Feiyang Kang , Yifan Sun , Bingbing Wen , Si Chen , Dawn Song , Rafid Mahmood , Ruoxi Jia

Domain adaptation (DA) aims to transfer the knowledge of a well-labeled source domain to facilitate unlabeled target learning. When turning to specific tasks such as indoor (Wi-Fi) localization, it is essential to learn a cross-domain…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Haifeng Xia , Pu Perry Wang , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Ye Wang , Philip Orlik , Zhengming Ding

We study a problem of best-effort adaptation motivated by several applications and considerations, which consists of determining an accurate predictor for a target domain, for which a moderate amount of labeled samples are available, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Pranjal Awasthi , Corinna Cortes , Mehryar Mohri

Domain adaptation (DA) mitigates the domain shift problem when transferring knowledge from one annotated domain to another similar but different unlabeled domain. However, existing models often utilize one of the ImageNet models as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Youshan Zhang , Brian D. Davison

Existing trajectory prediction methods exhibit significant performance degradation under distribution shifts during test time. Although test-time training techniques have been explored to enable adaptation, current approaches rely on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuning Wang , Pu Zhang , Yuan He , Ke Wang , Jianru Xue

Deep learning models such as convolutional neural networks and transformers have been widely applied to solve 3D object detection problems in the domain of autonomous driving. While existing models have achieved outstanding performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ruixiao Zhang , Juheon Lee , Xiaohao Cai , Adam Prugel-Bennett

In the covariate shift learning scenario, the training and test covariate distributions differ, so that a predictor's average loss over the training and test distributions also differ. In this work, we explore the potential of extreme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Fulton Wang , Cynthia Rudin

As deep neural networks are increasingly deployed in dynamic, real-world environments, relying on a single static model is often insufficient. Changes in input data distributions caused by sensor drift or lighting variations necessitate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Matteo Cardoni , Sam Leroux

Machine learning systems must adapt to data distributions that evolve over time, in applications ranging from sensor networks and self-driving car perception modules to brain-machine interfaces. We consider gradual domain adaptation, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Ananya Kumar , Tengyu Ma , Percy Liang

Test-time domain adaptation aims to adapt a source pre-trained model to a target domain without using any source data. Existing works mainly consider the case where the target domain is static. However, real-world machine perception systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Qin Wang , Olga Fink , Luc Van Gool , Dengxin Dai

Domain adaptation deals with adapting classifiers trained on data from a source distribution, to work effectively on data from a target distribution. In this paper, we introduce the Nonlinear Embedding Transform (NET) for unsupervised…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Hemanth Venkateswara , Shayok Chakraborty , Troy McDaniel , Sethuraman Panchanathan

It is vital to learn effective policies that can be transferred to different domains with dynamics discrepancies in reinforcement learning (RL). In this paper, we consider dynamics adaptation settings where there exists dynamics mismatch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Jiafei Lyu , Chenjia Bai , Jingwen Yang , Zongqing Lu , Xiu Li

In the training of large deep neural networks, there is a need for vast amounts of training data. To meet this need, data is collected from multiple domains, such as Wikipedia and GitHub. These domains are heterogeneous in both data quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Mahdi Salmani , Pratik Worah , Meisam Razaviyayn , Vahab Mirrokni

Domain adaptation refers to the process of learning prediction models in a target domain by making use of data from a source domain. Many classic methods solve the domain adaptation problem by establishing a common latent space, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Pan Xiao , Bo Du , Jia Wu , Lefei Zhang , Ruimin Hu , Xuelong Li

Most few-shot learning works rely on the same domain assumption between the base and the target tasks, hindering their practical applications. This paper proposes an adaptive transformer network (ADAPTER), a simple but effective solution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Naeem Paeedeh , Mahardhika Pratama , Muhammad Anwar Ma'sum , Wolfgang Mayer , Zehong Cao , Ryszard Kowlczyk

In deep learning, initializing models with pre-trained weights has become the de facto practice for various downstream tasks. Many unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods typically adopt a backbone pre-trained on ImageNet, and focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yinsong Xu , Aidong Men , Yang Liu , Xiahai Zhuang , Qingchao Chen

In most machine learning training paradigms a fixed, often handcrafted, loss function is assumed to be a good proxy for an underlying evaluation metric. In this work we assess this assumption by meta-learning an adaptive loss function to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Chen Huang , Shuangfei Zhai , Walter Talbott , Miguel Angel Bautista , Shih-Yu Sun , Carlos Guestrin , Josh Susskind