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The growing use of information hiding in network streaming media for covert communication poses a significant security threat, necessitating the development of robust detection technologies. However, existing steganalysis methods for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Pengcheng Zhou , Pianran Guo , Shuhua Chen , Mengqin Zhao , Zhongliang Yang , Linna Zhou

Domain generalization (DG) aims to learn from multiple known source domains a model that can generalize well to unknown target domains. The existing DG methods usually exploit the fusion of shared multi-source data to train a generalizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Junkun Yuan , Xu Ma , Defang Chen , Fei Wu , Lanfen Lin , Kun Kuang

Deep models trained on source domain lack generalization when evaluated on unseen target domains with different data distributions. The problem becomes even more pronounced when we have no access to target domain samples for adaptation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Duo Peng , Yinjie Lei , Munawar Hayat , Yulan Guo , Wen Li

Despite an extensive body of literature on deep learning optimization, our current understanding of what makes an optimization algorithm effective is fragmented. In particular, we do not understand well whether enhanced optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Toki Tahmid Inan , Mingrui Liu , Amarda Shehu

In this paper, we study the performance of a large family of SGD variants in the smooth nonconvex regime. To this end, we propose a generic and flexible assumption capable of accurate modeling of the second moment of the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-15 Zhize Li , Peter Richtárik

Beyond attaining domain generalization (DG), visual recognition models should also be data-efficient during learning by leveraging limited labels. We study the problem of Semi-Supervised Domain Generalization (SSDG) which is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Adnan Khan , Mai A. Shaaban , Muhammad Haris Khan

Domain Generalization (DG) seeks to transfer knowledge from multiple source domains to unseen target domains, even in the presence of domain shifts. Achieving effective generalization typically requires a large and diverse set of labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Sumaiya Zoha , Jeong-Gun Lee , Young-Woong Ko

We study the generalization performance of gradient methods in the fundamental stochastic convex optimization setting, focusing on its dimension dependence. First, for full-batch gradient descent (GD) we give a construction of a learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Matan Schliserman , Uri Sherman , Tomer Koren

Geographic distribution shift arises when the distribution of locations on Earth in a training dataset is different from what is seen at inference time. Using standard empirical risk minimization (ERM) in this setting can lead to uneven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ruth Crasto , Esther Rolf

Understanding the dynamics of optimization in deep learning is increasingly important as models scale. While stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants reliably find solutions that generalize well, the mechanisms driving this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Wei-Kai Chang , Rajiv Khanna

Semi-supervised Domain Generalization (SSDG) addresses the challenge of generalizing to unseen target domains with limited labeled data. Existing SSDG methods highlight the importance of achieving high pseudo-labeling (PL) accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Muditha Fernando , Kajhanan Kailainathan , Krishnakanth Nagaratnam , Isuranga Udaravi Bandara Senavirathne , Ranga Rodrigo

Domain generalization (DG) aims to tackle the distribution shift between training domains and unknown target domains. Generating new domains is one of the most effective approaches, yet its performance gain depends on the distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Rui Dai , Yonggang Zhang , Zhen Fang , Bo Han , Xinmei Tian

Domain generalization (DG) is a fundamental yet very challenging research topic in machine learning. The existing arts mainly focus on learning domain-invariant features with limited source domains in a static model. Unfortunately, there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Zhishu Sun , Zhifeng Shen , Luojun Lin , Yuanlong Yu , Zhifeng Yang , Shicai Yang , Weijie Chen

Despite the rapid development of machine learning algorithms for domain generalization (DG), there is no clear empirical evidence that the existing DG algorithms outperform the classic empirical risk minimization (ERM) across standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Rui Qiao , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

We investigate the fundamental performance limitations of learning algorithms in several Domain Generalisation (DG) settings. Motivated by the difficulty with which previously proposed methods have in reliably outperforming Empirical Risk…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-24 Henry Gouk , Ondrej Bohdal , Da Li , Timothy Hospedales

The distribution shifts between training and test data typically undermine the performance of models. In recent years, lots of work pays attention to domain generalization (DG) where distribution shifts exist, and target data are unseen.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Wang Lu , Jindong Wang , Yidong Wang , Xing Xie

Domain shift refers to the well known problem that a model trained in one source domain performs poorly when applied to a target domain with different statistics. {Domain Generalization} (DG) techniques attempt to alleviate this issue by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Da Li , Yongxin Yang , Yi-Zhe Song , Timothy M. Hospedales

In this paper, we propose a novel domain generalization (DG) framework based on a new upper bound to the risk on the unseen domain. Particularly, our framework proposes to jointly minimize both the covariate-shift as well as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Thuan Nguyen , Boyang Lyu , Prakash Ishwar , Matthias Scheutz , Shuchin Aeron

Domain adaptation (DA) is the task of classifying an unlabeled dataset (target) using a labeled dataset (source) from a related domain. The majority of successful DA methods try to directly match the distributions of the source and target…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-22 Twan van Laarhoven , Elena Marchiori

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) is a recent optimization framework aiming to improve the deep neural network generalization, through obtaining flatter (i.e. less sharp) solutions. As SAM has been numerically successful, recent papers…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-22 Kayhan Behdin , Rahul Mazumder