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Neural text classification models typically treat output labels as categorical variables which lack description and semantics. This forces their parametrization to be dependent on the label set size, and, hence, they are unable to scale to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Nikolaos Pappas , James Henderson

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to leverage labeled samples from known categories to cluster unlabeled data that may include both known and unknown categories. While existing methods have achieved impressive results under standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Wei Feng , Zongyuan Ge

In this paper, we propose a novel domain adaptation method that can be applied without target data. We consider the situation where domain shift is caused by a prior change of a specific factor and assume that we know how the prior changes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Masato Ishii , Takashi Takenouchi , Masashi Sugiyama

We propose the discrepancy-based generalization theories for unsupervised domain adaptation. Previous theories introduced distribution discrepancies defined as the supremum over complete hypothesis space. The hypothesis space may contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Yuchen Zhang , Mingsheng Long , Jianmin Wang , Michael I. Jordan

Several parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods based on adapters have been proposed as a streamlined approach to incorporate not only a single specialized knowledge into existing Pre-Trained Language Models (PLMs) but also multiple of them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Tuc Nguyen , Thai Le

Performance monitoring is essential for safe clinical deployment of image classification models. However, because ground-truth labels are typically unavailable in the target dataset, direct assessment of real-world model performance is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Tim Flühmann , Alceu Bissoto , Trung-Dung Hoang , Lisa M. Koch

Importance-weighting is a popular and well-researched technique for dealing with sample selection bias and covariate shift. It has desirable characteristics such as unbiasedness, consistency and low computational complexity. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-12 Wouter M. Kouw , Marco Loog

Importance weighting is a fundamental procedure in statistics and machine learning that weights the objective function or probability distribution based on the importance of the instance in some sense. The simplicity and usefulness of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Masanari Kimura , Hideitsu Hino

We propose a novel framework for incorporating unlabeled data into semi-supervised classification problems, where scenarios involving the minimization of either i) adversarially robust or ii) non-robust loss functions have been considered.…

We present an approach that can be utilized in order to account for the covariate shift between two datasets of the same observable with different distributions. This helps improve the generalizability of a neural network model trained on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Sambatra Andrianomena , Sultan Hassan

In this paper we propose a domain adaptation algorithm designed for graph domains. Given a source graph with many labeled nodes and a target graph with few or no labeled nodes, we aim to estimate the target labels by making use of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Yusuf Yigit Pilavci , Eylem Tugce Guneyi , Cemil Cengiz , Elif Vural

A probabilistic model is said to be calibrated if its predicted probabilities match the corresponding empirical frequencies. Calibration is important for uncertainty quantification and decision making in safety-critical applications. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Anusri Pampari , Stefano Ermon

Importance weighting is a classic technique to handle distribution shifts. However, prior work has presented strong empirical and theoretical evidence demonstrating that importance weights can have little to no effect on overparameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Ke Alexander Wang , Niladri S. Chatterji , Saminul Haque , Tatsunori Hashimoto

Domain adaptation addresses the problem created when training data is generated by a so-called source distribution, but test data is generated by a significantly different target distribution. In this work, we present approximate label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Jordan T. Ash , Robert E. Schapire , Barbara E. Engelhardt

In the absence of labeled target data, unsupervised domain adaptation approaches seek to align the marginal distributions of the source and target domains in order to train a classifier for the target. Unsupervised domain alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Sachin Chhabra , Hemanth Venkateswara , Baoxin Li

The objective of domain generalization (DG) is to enable models to be robust against domain shift. DG is crucial for deploying vision-language models (VLMs) in real-world applications, yet most existing methods rely on domain labels that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zhixing Li , Arsham Gholamzadeh Khoee , Yinan Yu

As a fundamental problem in machine learning, dataset shift induces a paradigm to learn and transfer knowledge under changing environment. Previous methods assume the changes are induced by covariate, which is less practical for complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 You-Wei Luo , Chuan-Xian Ren

Classifiers trained solely on labeled source data may yield misleading results when applied to unlabeled target data drawn from a different distribution. Transfer learning can rectify this by transferring knowledge from source to target…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Junjun Lang , Yukun Liu

In domain adaptation, maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) has been widely adopted as a discrepancy metric between the distributions of source and target domains. However, existing MMD-based domain adaptation methods generally ignore the changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Hongliang Yan , Yukang Ding , Peihua Li , Qilong Wang , Yong Xu , Wangmeng Zuo

In this paper, a unified approach is presented to transfer learning that addresses several source and target domain label-space and annotation assumptions with a single model. It is particularly effective in handling a challenging case,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Xiaobin Chang , Yongxin Yang , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales