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Under mild assumptions stochastic gradient methods asymptotically achieve an optimal rate of convergence if the arithmetic mean of all iterates is returned as an approximate optimal solution. However, in the absence of stochastic noise, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Melinda Hagedorn , Florian Jarre

Domain adaptation (DA) aims to generalize a learning model across training and testing data despite the mismatch of their data distributions. In light of a theoretical estimation of upper error bound, we argue in this paper that an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Lingkun Luo , Liming Chen , Shiqiang Hu , Ying Lu , Xiaofang Wang

Modern deep learning models are over-parameterized, where the optimization setup strongly affects the generalization performance. A key element of reliable optimization for these systems is the modification of the loss function.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Kayhan Behdin , Qingquan Song , Aman Gupta , David Durfee , Ayan Acharya , Sathiya Keerthi , Rahul Mazumder

Contemporary domain adaptation methods are very effective at aligning feature distributions of source and target domains without any target supervision. However, we show that these techniques perform poorly when even a few labeled examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Kuniaki Saito , Donghyun Kim , Stan Sclaroff , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

Training deep neural networks with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) can often achieve zero training loss on real-world tasks although the optimization landscape is known to be highly non-convex. To understand the success of SGD for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-15 Yiping Lu , Chao Ma , Yulong Lu , Jianfeng Lu , Lexing Ying

A desirable property of any deployed artificial intelligence is generalization across domains, i.e. data generation distribution under a specific acquisition condition. In medical imagining applications the most coveted property for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Ayan Banerjee , Komandoor Srivathsan , Sandeep K. S. Gupta

The annotation scarcity of medical image segmentation poses challenges in collecting sufficient training data for deep learning models. Specifically, models trained on limited data may not generalize well to other unseen data domains,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Heng Li , Haojin Li , Wei Zhao , Huazhu Fu , Xiuyun Su , Yan Hu , Jiang Liu

Domain generalization (DG) is about training models that generalize well under domain shift. Previous research on DG has been conducted mostly in single-source or multi-source settings. In this paper, we consider a third, lesser-known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Han Gao , Kaican Li , Weiyan Xie , Zhi Lin , Yongxiang Huang , Luning Wang , Caleb Chen Cao , Nevin L. Zhang

Vanilla unsupervised domain adaptation methods tend to optimize the model with fixed neural architecture, which is not very practical in real-world scenarios since the target data is usually processed by different resource-limited devices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Rang Meng , Weijie Chen , Shicai Yang , Jie Song , Luojun Lin , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu , Xinchao Wang , Mingli Song , Yueting Zhuang

This work is substituted by the paper in arXiv:2011.14066. Stochastic gradient descent is the de facto algorithm for training deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite its popularity, it still requires fine tuning in order to achieve its best…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-02 Vatsal Shah , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Sujay Sanghavi

Domain shift remains a key challenge in deploying machine learning models to the real world. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to address this by minimising domain discrepancy during training, but the discrepancy estimates suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Andrea Napoli , Paul White

In the problem of domain generalization (DG), there are labeled training data sets from several related prediction problems, and the goal is to make accurate predictions on future unlabeled data sets that are not known to the learner. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-08 Gilles Blanchard , Aniket Anand Deshmukh , Urun Dogan , Gyemin Lee , Clayton Scott

We tackle the domain generalisation (DG) problem by posing it as a domain adaptation (DA) task where we adversarially synthesise the worst-case target domain and adapt a model to that worst-case domain, thereby improving the model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Minyoung Kim , Da Li , Timothy Hospedales

In Deep Learning, Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is usually selected as a training method because of its efficiency; however, recently, a problem in SGD gains research interest: sharp minima in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Wei Wen , Yandan Wang , Feng Yan , Cong Xu , Chunpeng Wu , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Various gradient compression schemes have been proposed to mitigate the communication cost in distributed training of large scale machine learning models. Sign-based methods, such as signSGD, have recently been gaining popularity because of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Mher Safaryan , Peter Richtárik

Dimension reduction is often needed in the area of data mining. The goal of these methods is to map the given high-dimensional data into a low-dimensional space preserving certain properties of the initial data. There are two kinds of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-23 Yanlai Chen

In this paper we analyze the behaviour of the stochastic gradient descent (SGD), a widely used method in supervised learning for optimizing neural network weights via a minimization of non-convex loss functions. Since the pioneering work of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Davide Barbieri , Matteo Bonforte , Peio Ibarrondo

Domain Generalization (DG) has been recently explored to improve the generalizability of point cloud classification (PCC) models toward unseen domains. However, they often suffer from limited receptive fields or quadratic complexity due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Hao Yang , Qianyu Zhou , Haijia Sun , Xiangtai Li , Fengqi Liu , Xuequan Lu , Lizhuang Ma , Shuicheng Yan

Domain adaptation (DA) paves the way for label annotation and dataset bias issues by the knowledge transfer from a label-rich source domain to a related but unlabeled target domain. A mainstream of DA methods is to align the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Shuang Li , Mixue Xie , Fangrui Lv , Chi Harold Liu , Jian Liang , Chen Qin , Wei Li

Adversarial training has been proven to be a powerful regularization method to improve the generalization of models. However, current adversarial training methods only attack the original input sample or the embedding vectors, and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Shiwen Ni , Jiawen Li , Hung-Yu Kao