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Domain Generalization (DG) aims to reduce domain shifts between domains to achieve promising performance on the unseen target domain, which has been widely practiced in medical image segmentation. Single-source domain generalization (SDG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Hanhui Wang , Huaize Ye , Yi Xia , Xueyan Zhang

The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method is most widely used for deep neural network (DNN) training. However, the method does not always converge to a flat minimum of the loss surface that can demonstrate high generalization capability.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Wonyong Sung , Iksoo Choi , Jinhwan Park , Seokhyun Choi , Sungho Shin

Domain generalization (DG) deals with the problem of domain shift where a machine learning model trained on multiple-source domains fail to generalize well on a target domain with different statistics. Multiple approaches have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Prashant Pandey , Mrigank Raman , Sumanth Varambally , Prathosh AP

Domain generalization (DG) aims to incorporate knowledge from multiple source domains into a single model that could generalize well on unseen target domains. This problem is ubiquitous in practice since the distributions of the target data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-26 Shoubo Hu , Kun Zhang , Zhitang Chen , Laiwan Chan

Averaging neural network weights sampled by a backbone stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a simple yet effective approach to assist the backbone SGD in finding better optima, in terms of generalization. From a statistical perspective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Hao Guo , Jiyong Jin , Bin Liu

Domain Generalization (DG) aims to train models that can generalize to unseen testing domains by leveraging data from multiple training domains. However, traditional DG methods rely on the availability of multiple diverse training domains,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hao Yan , Marzi Heidari , Yuhong Guo

A major bottleneck in the real-world applications of machine learning models is their failure in generalizing to unseen domains whose data distribution is not i.i.d to the training domains. This failure often stems from learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Soroosh Shahtalebi , Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet , Touraj Laleh , Mojtaba Faramarzi , Kartik Ahuja , Irina Rish

Domain generalisation (DG) methods address the problem of domain shift, when there is a mismatch between the distributions of training and target domains. Data augmentation approaches have emerged as a promising alternative for DG. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Hoang Son Le , Rini Akmeliawati , Gustavo Carneiro

Researchers have been facing a difficult problem that data generation mechanisms could be influenced by internal or external factors leading to the training and test data with quite different distributions, consequently traditional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-14 Anqi Wu

Machine learning models fail to perform when facing out-of-distribution (OOD) domains, a challenging task known as domain generalization (DG). In this work, we develop a novel DG training strategy, we call PGrad, to learn a robust gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Zhe Wang , Jake Grigsby , Yanjun Qi

Recent domain generalization (DG) approaches typically use the hypothesis learned on source domains for inference on the unseen target domain. However, such a hypothesis can be arbitrarily far from the optimal one for the target domain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yi-Fan Zhang , Jindong Wang , Jian Liang , Zhang Zhang , Baosheng Yu , Liang Wang , Dacheng Tao , Xing Xie

The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method is a widely used approach for solving stochastic optimization problems, but its convergence is typically slow. Existing variance reduction techniques, such as SAGA, improve convergence by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Fabio Nobile , Matteo Raviola , Nathan Schaeffer

Domain generalization (DG) aims to adapt a model using one or multiple source domains to ensure robust performance in unseen target domains. Recently, Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) of foundation models has shown promising results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Seokju Yun , Seunghye Chae , Dongheon Lee , Youngmin Ro

Semantic segmentation algorithms require access to well-annotated datasets captured under diverse illumination conditions to ensure consistent performance. However, poor visibility conditions at varying illumination conditions result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Pranjay Shyam , Antyanta Bangunharcana , Kuk-Jin Yoon , Kyung-Soo Kim

Deep neural networks often suffer performance drops when test data distribution differs from training data. Domain Generalization (DG) aims to address this by focusing on domain-invariant features or augmenting data for greater diversity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Nam Duong Tran , Nam Nguyen Phuong , Hieu H. Pham , Phi Le Nguyen , My T. Thai

Domain generalization (DG) aims to learn predictive models that can generalize to unseen domains. Most existing DG approaches focus on learning domain-invariant representations under the assumption of conditional distribution shift (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jewon Yeom , Kyubyung Chae , Hyunggyu Lim , Yoonna Oh , Dongyoon Yang , Taesup Kim

Modern optimizers such as AdamW, equipped with momentum and adaptive learning rate, are designed to escape local minima and explore the vast parameter space. This exploration is beneficial for finding good loss basins when training from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Junjiao Tian , Chengyue Huang , Zsolt Kira

Domain generalization (DG) aims to learn a model on one or more different but related source domains that could be generalized into an unseen target domain. Existing DG methods try to prompt the diversity of source domains for the model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Mengzhu Wang , Jianlong Yuan , Qi Qian , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li

Ideally, visual learning algorithms should be generalizable, for dealing with any unseen domain shift when deployed in a new target environment; and data-efficient, for reducing development costs by using as little labels as possible. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Kaiyang Zhou , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

Despite the impressive advancements in modern machine learning, achieving robustness in Domain Generalization (DG) tasks remains a significant challenge. In DG, models are expected to perform well on samples from unseen test distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ron Tsibulsky , Daniel Nevo , Uri Shalit