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The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) method and its variants are algorithms of choice for many Deep Learning tasks. These methods operate in a small-batch regime wherein a fraction of the training data, say $32$-$512$ data points, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Nitish Shirish Keskar , Dheevatsa Mudigere , Jorge Nocedal , Mikhail Smelyanskiy , Ping Tak Peter Tang

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) has emerged as a promising alternative optimizer to stochastic gradient descent (SGD). The originally-proposed motivation behind SAM was to bias neural networks towards flatter minima that are believed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jacob Mitchell Springer , Vaishnavh Nagarajan , Aditi Raghunathan

Single Domain Generalization (SDG) aims to develop models capable of generalizing to unseen target domains using only one source domain, a task complicated by substantial domain shifts and limited data diversity. Existing SDG approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zuyu Zhang , Ning Chen , Yongshan Liu , Qinghua Zhang , Xu Zhang

Domain generalization refers to the task of training a model which generalizes to new domains that are not seen during training. We present CSD (Common Specific Decomposition), for this setting,which jointly learns a common component (which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Vihari Piratla , Praneeth Netrapalli , Sunita Sarawagi

Domain generalization (DG) aims to generalize a model trained on multiple source (i.e., training) domains to a distributionally different target (i.e., test) domain. In contrast to the conventional DG that strictly requires the availability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zijian Wang , Yadan Luo , Ruihong Qiu , Zi Huang , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Domain generalization (DG) methods aim to develop models that generalize to settings where the test distribution is different from the training data. In this paper, we focus on the challenging problem of multi-source zero shot DG (MDG),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Kowshik Thopalli , Sameeksha Katoch , Pavan Turaga , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

To address distribution shifts between training and test data, domain generalization (DG) leverages multiple source domains to learn a model that generalizes well to unseen domains. However, existing DG methods often overfit to the source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Danni Peng , Sinno Jialin Pan

Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) is a technique used in overcoming catastrophic forgetting between successive tasks trained on a neural network. We use this phenomenon of information sharing between tasks for domain adaptation. Training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Avinash Madasu , Vijjini Anvesh Rao

Object detectors do not work well when domains largely differ between training and testing data. To overcome this domain gap in object detection without requiring expensive annotations, we consider two problem settings: semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ryosuke Furuta , Yoichi Sato

Machine learning models trained with \emph{stochastic} gradient descent (SGD) can generalize better than those trained with deterministic gradient descent (GD). In this work, we study SGD's impact on generalization through the lens of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hongjian Lan , Yucong Liu , Florian Schäfer

Multi-Source Domain Generalization (DG) is the task of training on multiple source domains and achieving high classification performance on unseen target domains. Recent methods combine robust features from web-scale pretrained backbones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Piotr Teterwak , Kuniaki Saito , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Bryan A. Plummer , Kate Saenko

Designing a deep neural network (DNN) with good generalization capability is a complex process especially when the weights are severely quantized. Model averaging is a promising approach for achieving the good generalization capability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Sungho Shin , Yoonho Boo , Wonyong Sung

As a recent noticeable topic, domain generalization (DG) aims to first learn a generic model on multiple source domains and then directly generalize to an arbitrary unseen target domain without any additional adaption. In previous DG…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yue Wang , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

State-of-the-art stereo matching (SM) models trained on synthetic data often fail to generalize to real data domains due to domain differences, such as color, illumination, contrast, and texture. To address this challenge, we leverage data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Shuangli Du , Jing Wang , Minghua Zhao , Zhenyu Xu , Jie Li

Domain adaptation (DA) or domain generalization (DG) for face presentation attack detection (PAD) has attracted attention recently with its robustness against unseen attack scenarios. Existing DA/DG-based PAD methods, however, have not yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Young-Eun Kim , Woo-Jeoung Nam , Kyungseo Min , Seong-Whan Lee

Domain generalization (DG) aims to learn a generalizable model from multiple training domains such that it can perform well on unseen target domains. A popular strategy is to augment training data to benefit generalization through methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Wang Lu , Jindong Wang , Han Yu , Lei Huang , Xiang Zhang , Yiqiang Chen , Xing Xie

Domain generalization (DG) is an important problem that learns a model which generalizes to unseen test domains leveraging one or more source domains, under the assumption of shared label spaces. However, most DG methods assume access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Christopher Liao , Christian So , Theodoros Tsiligkaridis , Brian Kulis

It is often observed that stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants implicitly select a solution with good generalization performance; such implicit bias is often characterized in terms of the sharpness of the minima. Kleinberg et…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-28 Atsushi Nitanda , Ryuhei Kikuchi , Shugo Maeda , Denny Wu

In the field of object detection, domain generalisation (DG) aims to ensure robust performance across diverse and unseen target domains by learning the robust domain-invariant features corresponding to the objects of interest across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shuvam Jena , Sushmetha Sumathi Rajendran , Karthik Seemakurthy , Sasithradevi A , Vijayalakshmi M , Prakash Poornachari

When training a Neural Network, it is optimized using the available training data with the hope that it generalizes well to new or unseen testing data. At the same absolute value, a flat minimum in the loss landscape is presumed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Nicolas Lell , Ansgar Scherp