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Empirical risk minimization often performs poorly when the distribution of the target domain differs from those of source domains. To address such potential distribution shifts, we develop an unsupervised domain adaptation approach that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-25 Zhenyu Wang , Peter Bühlmann , Zijian Guo

To reduce annotation labor associated with object detection, an increasing number of studies focus on transferring the learned knowledge from a labeled source domain to another unlabeled target domain. However, existing methods assume that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Xingxu Yao , Sicheng Zhao , Pengfei Xu , Jufeng Yang

While large volumes of unlabeled data are usually available, associated labels are often scarce. The unsupervised domain adaptation problem aims at exploiting labels from a source domain to classify data from a related, yet different,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 François Painblanc , Laetitia Chapel , Nicolas Courty , Chloé Friguet , Charlotte Pelletier , Romain Tavenard

Compared with shallow domain adaptation, recent progress in deep domain adaptation has shown that it can achieve higher predictive performance and stronger capacity to tackle structural data (e.g., image and sequential data). The underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Trung Le , Khanh Nguyen , Nhat Ho , Hung Bui , Dinh Phung

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation aims to learn a model on a source domain with labeled data in order to perform well on unlabeled data of a target domain. Current approaches focus on learning \textit{Domain Invariant Representations}. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Victor Bouvier , Philippe Very , Céline Hudelot , Clément Chastagnol

Several researchers have proposed minimisation of maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) as a method to quantise probability measures, i.e., to approximate a target distribution by a representative point set. We consider sequential algorithms that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-15 Onur Teymur , Jackson Gorham , Marina Riabiz , Chris. J. Oates

Nonparametric two-sample tests such as the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) are often used to detect differences between two distributions in machine learning applications. However, the majority of existing literature assumes that error-free…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-08 Ron Nafshi , Maggie Makar

Domain adaptation aims to leverage the supervision signal of source domain to obtain an accurate model for target domain, where the labels are not available. To leverage and adapt the label information from source domain, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Yuxuan Song , Lantao Yu , Zhangjie Cao , Zhiming Zhou , Jian Shen , Shuo Shao , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Domain adaptation techniques address the problem of reducing the sensitivity of machine learning methods to the so-called domain shift, namely the difference between source (training) and target (test) data distributions. In particular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino

Sparse coding has shown its power as an effective data representation method. However, up to now, all the sparse coding approaches are limited within the single domain learning problem. In this paper, we extend the sparse coding to cross…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-28 Jim Jing-Yan Wang

Recently, learning-based stereo matching methods have achieved great improvement in public benchmarks, where soft argmin and smooth L1 loss play a core contribution to their success. However, in unsupervised domain adaptation scenarios, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Zhelun Shen , Zhuo Li , Chenming Wu , Zhibo Rao , Lina Liu , Yuchao Dai , Liangjun Zhang

We propose a novel deterministic sampling method to approximate a target distribution $\rho^*$ by minimizing the kernel discrepancy, also known as the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD). By employing the general \emph{energetic variational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-12 Yindong Chen , Yiwei Wang , Lulu Kang , Chun Liu

Deep learning (DL) has been the primary approach used in various computer vision tasks due to its relevant results achieved on many tasks. However, on real-world scenarios with partially or no labeled data, DL methods are also prone to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Lucas Fernando Alvarenga e Silva , Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette , Fábio Augusto Faria , João Paulo Papa , Jurandy Almeida

Continuous Domain Adaptation (CDA) effectively bridges significant domain shifts by progressively adapting from the source domain through intermediate domains to the target domain. However, selecting intermediate domains without explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hanbing Liu , Huaze Tang , Yanru Wu , Yang Li , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Universal Domain Adaptation (UNDA) aims to handle both domain-shift and category-shift between two datasets, where the main challenge is to transfer knowledge while rejecting unknown classes which are absent in the labeled source data but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Kuniaki Saito , Kate Saenko

Domain adaptation is an important technique to alleviate performance degradation caused by domain shift, e.g., when training and test data come from different domains. Most existing deep adaptation methods focus on reducing domain shift by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Jun Wen , Nenggan Zheng , Junsong Yuan , Zhefeng Gong , Changyou Chen

Domain adaptation is the supervised learning setting in which the training and test data are sampled from different distributions: training data is sampled from a source domain, whilst test data is sampled from a target domain. This paper…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-21 Wouter M. Kouw , Jesse H. Krijthe , Marco Loog , Laurens J. P. van der Maaten

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

The maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) is a kernel-based nonparametric statistic for two-sample testing, whose inferential accuracy depends critically on variance characterization. Existing work provides various finite-sample estimators of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-05 Shijie Zhong , Yikun Yang , Da Gong , Jiangfeng Fu

Early Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) methods have mostly assumed the setting of a single source domain, where all the labeled source data come from the same distribution. However, in practice the labeled data can come from multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Zhenpeng Li , Zhen Zhao , Yuhong Guo , Haifeng Shen , Jieping Ye