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We aim to understand the value of additional labeled or unlabeled target data in transfer learning, for any given amount of source data; this is motivated by practical questions around minimizing sampling costs, whereby, target data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Steve Hanneke , Samory Kpotufe

We study the minimax rates of the label shift problem in non-parametric classification. In addition to the unsupervised setting in which the learner only has access to unlabeled examples from the target domain, we also consider the setting…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Subha Maity , Yuekai Sun , Moulinath Banerjee

Supervised learning results typically rely on assumptions of i.i.d. data. Unfortunately, those assumptions are commonly violated in practice. In this work, we tackle such problem by focusing on domain generalization: a formalization where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Isabela Albuquerque , João Monteiro , Mohammad Darvishi , Tiago H. Falk , Ioannis Mitliagkas

Investigation of machine learning algorithms robust to changes between the training and test distributions is an active area of research. In this paper we explore a special type of dataset shift which we call class-dependent domain shift.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Tigran Galstyan , Hrant Khachatrian , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

Real-world large-scale datasets usually contain noisy labels and are imbalanced. Therefore, we propose derivative manipulation (DM), a novel and general example weighting approach for training robust deep models under these adverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Xinshao Wang , Elyor Kodirov , Yang Hua , Neil M. Robertson

As a more practical setting for unsupervised domain adaptation, Universal Domain Adaptation (UDA) is recently introduced, where the target label set is unknown. One of the big challenges in UDA is how to determine the common label set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yueming Yin , Zhen Yang , Xiaofu Wu , Haifeng Hu

In contrast to a standard closed-set domain adaptation task, partial domain adaptation setup caters to a realistic scenario by relaxing the identical label set assumption. The fact of source label set subsuming the target label set,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Sandipan Choudhuri , Hemanth Venkateswara , Arunabha Sen

Domain generalization aims to build generalized models that perform well on unseen domains when only source domains are available for model optimization. Recent studies have shown that large-scale pre-trained models can enhance domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Byounggyu Lew , Donghyun Son , Buru Chang

Domain generalization (DG) is the problem of generalizing from several distributions (or domains), for which labeled training data are available, to a new test domain for which no labeled data is available. For the prevailing benchmark…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yilun Zhu , Naihao Deng , Naichen Shi , Aditya Gangrade , Clayton Scott

In this paper, we propose to tackle the problem of reducing discrepancies between multiple domains referred to as multi-source domain adaptation and consider it under the target shift assumption: in all domains we aim to solve a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-15 Ievgen Redko , Nicolas Courty , Rémi Flamary , Devis Tuia

This paper focuses on the problem of unbounded density ratio estimation -- an understudied yet critical challenge in statistical learning -- and its application to covariate shift adaptation. Much of the existing literature assumes that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-01 Ren-Rui Liu , Jun Fan , Lei Shi , Zheng-Chu Guo

Domain generalization aims to address the domain shift between training and testing data. To learn the domain invariant representations, the model is usually trained on multiple domains. It has been found that the gradients of network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jiaqi Xu , Yuwang Wang , Xuejin Chen

Scientists frequently generalize population level causal quantities such as average treatment effect from a source population to a target population. When the causal effects are heterogeneous, differences in subject characteristics between…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-16 Rui Chen , Guanhua Chen , Menggang Yu

Expectations of multivariate functions with missing labels occur in various fields such as transfer learning and average treatment effects. Although non-parametric estimators based on nearest-neighbour matching are frequently used in this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Simon Viel

We consider a semi-supervised classification problem with non-stationary label-shift in which we observe a labelled data set followed by a sequence of unlabelled covariate vectors in which the marginal probabilities of the class labels may…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Henry W J Reeve

Class distribution plays an important role in learning deep classifiers. When the proportion of each class in the test set differs from the training set, the performance of classification nets usually degrades. Such a label distribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Wenao Ma , Cheng Chen , Shuang Zheng , Jing Qin , Huimao Zhang , Qi Dou

We propose a framework that learns a representation transferable across different domains and tasks in a label efficient manner. Our approach battles domain shift with a domain adversarial loss, and generalizes the embedding to novel task…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-04 Zelun Luo , Yuliang Zou , Judy Hoffman , Li Fei-Fei

Classification is an essential and fundamental task in machine learning, playing a cardinal role in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). In a supervised learning setting, labels are always needed for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Irene Li

We tackle an unsupervised domain adaptation problem for which the domain discrepancy between labeled source and unlabeled target domains is large, due to many factors of inter and intra-domain variation. While deep domain adaptation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Shuyang Dai , Kihyuk Sohn , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Lawrence Carin , Manmohan Chandraker

We propose a new framework for binary classification in transfer learning settings where both covariate and label distributions may shift between source and target domains. Unlike traditional covariate shift or label shift assumptions, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-29 Manli Cheng , Subha Maity , Qinglong Tian , Pengfei Li