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Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to improve model performance on an unlabeled target domain using a related, labeled source domain. A common approach aligns source and target feature distributions by minimizing a distance between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Anneke von Seeger , Dongmian Zou , Gilad Lerman

We propose a method for unsupervised domain adaptation that trains a shared embedding to align the joint distributions of inputs (domain) and outputs (classes), making any classifier agnostic to the domain. Joint alignment ensures that not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Safa Cicek , Stefano Soatto

This paper addresses the general problem of domain adaptation which arises in a variety of applications where the distribution of the labeled sample available somewhat differs from that of the test data. Building on previous work by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yishay Mansour , Mehryar Mohri , Afshin Rostamizadeh

Conditional Maximum Mean Discrepancy (CMMD) can capture the discrepancy between conditional distributions by drawing support from nonlinear kernel functions, thus it has been successfully used for pattern classification. However, CMMD does…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Chuan-Xian Ren , Pengfei Ge , Dao-Qing Dai , Hong Yan

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

The distribution closeness testing (DCT) assesses whether the distance between a distribution pair is at least $\epsilon$-far. Existing DCT methods mainly measure discrepancies between a distribution pair defined on discrete one-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zhijian Zhou , Liuhua Peng , Xunye Tian , Feng Liu

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

Despite the emergence of principled methods for domain adaptation under label shift, their sensitivity to shifts in class conditional distributions is precariously under explored. Meanwhile, popular deep domain adaptation heuristics tend to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Saurabh Garg , Nick Erickson , James Sharpnack , Alex Smola , Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Zachary C. Lipton

Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to transfer the classifier learned from the source domain to the target domain in an unsupervised manner. With the help of target pseudo-labels, aligning class-level distributions and learning the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Dong-Dong Chen , Yisen Wang , Jinfeng Yi , Zaiyi Chen , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Deep neural networks, trained with large amount of labeled data, can fail to generalize well when tested with examples from a \emph{target domain} whose distribution differs from the training data distribution, referred as the \emph{source…

Distance-based unsupervised text classification is a method within text classification that leverages the semantic similarity between a label and a text to determine label relevance. This method provides numerous benefits, including fast…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jens Van Nooten , Andriy Kosar , Guy De Pauw , Walter Daelemans

Universal Domain Adaptation (UniDA) seeks to transfer knowledge from a labeled source to an unlabeled target domain without assuming any relationship between their label sets, requiring models to classify known samples while rejecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Samuel Felipe dos Santos , Tiago Agostinho de Almeida , Jurandy Almeida

In this work, we propose to tackle the problem of domain generalization in the context of \textit{insufficient samples}. Instead of extracting latent feature embeddings based on deterministic models, we propose to learn a domain-invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Kecheng Chen , Elena Gal , Hong Yan , Haoliang Li

In the settings of conventional domain adaptation, categories of the source dataset are from the same domain (or domains for multi-source domain adaptation), which is not always true in reality. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Sitong Mao , Keli Zhang , Fu-lai Chung

In many practical transfer learning scenarios, the feature distribution is different across the source and target domains (i.e. non-i.i.d.). Maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), as a domain discrepancy metric, has achieved promising performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Lei Zhang , Shanshan Wang , Guang-Bin Huang , Wangmeng Zuo , Jian Yang , David Zhang

This work studies the relationship between Contrastive Learning and Domain Adaptation from a theoretical perspective. The two standard contrastive losses, NT-Xent loss (Self-supervised) and Supervised Contrastive loss, are related to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Gonzalo Iñaki Quintana , Laurence Vancamberg , Vincent Jugnon , Agnès Desolneux , Mathilde Mougeot

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

Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Previous methods focus on learning domain-invariant features to decrease the discrepancy between the feature distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yuntao Du , Yinghao Chen , Fengli Cui , Xiaowen Zhang , Chongjun Wang

Recent work has highlighted the label alignment property (LAP) in supervised learning, where the vector of all labels in the dataset is mostly in the span of the top few singular vectors of the data matrix. Drawing inspiration from this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ehsan Imani , Guojun Zhang , Runjia Li , Jun Luo , Pascal Poupart , Philip H. S. Torr , Yangchen Pan

Under label shift, the label distribution p(y) might change but the class-conditional distributions p(x|y) do not. There are two dominant approaches for estimating the label marginal. BBSE, a moment-matching approach based on confusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Saurabh Garg , Yifan Wu , Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Zachary C. Lipton