English
Related papers

Related papers: Quantifying and Improving Transferability in Domai…

200 papers

Availability of labelled data is the major obstacle to the deployment of deep learning algorithms for computer vision tasks in new domains. The fact that many frameworks adopted to solve different tasks share the same architecture suggests…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Adriano Cardace , Luca De Luigi , Alessio Tonioni , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

A fundamental task in AI is providing performance guarantees for predictions made in unseen domains. In practice, there can be substantial uncertainty about the distribution of new data, and corresponding variability in the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Kasra Jalaldoust , Alexis Bellot , Elias Bareinboim

The well known domain shift issue causes model performance to degrade when deployed to a new target domain with different statistics to training. Domain adaptation techniques alleviate this, but need some instances from the target domain to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Yiying Li , Yongxin Yang , Wei Zhou , Timothy M. Hospedales

The similarity of feature representations plays a pivotal role in the success of problems related to domain adaptation. Feature similarity includes both the invariance of marginal distributions and the closeness of conditional distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Ammar Shaker , Shujian Yu , Daniel Oñoro-Rubio

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) suffer from domain shift when the test dataset follows a distribution different from the training dataset. Domain generalization aims to tackle this issue by learning a model that can generalize to unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yu Ding , Lei Wang , Bin Liang , Shuming Liang , Yang Wang , Fang Chen

With the emergence of large-scale pre-trained neural networks, methods to adapt such "foundation" models to data-limited downstream tasks have become a necessity. Fine-tuning, preference optimization, and transfer learning have all been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-09 Javan Tahir , Surya Ganguli , Grant M. Rotskoff

Given an algorithmic predictor that is "fair" on some source distribution, will it still be fair on an unknown target distribution that differs from the source within some bound? In this paper, we study the transferability of statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Yatong Chen , Reilly Raab , Jialu Wang , Yang Liu

Domain generalization refers to the problem where we aim to train a model on data from a set of source domains so that the model can generalize to unseen target domains. Naively training a model on the aggregate set of data (pooled from all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 A. Tuan Nguyen , Toan Tran , Yarin Gal , Atılım Güneş Baydin

In transfer learning, transferability is one of the most fundamental problems, which aims to evaluate the effectiveness of arbitrary transfer tasks. Existing research focuses on classification tasks and neglects domain or task differences.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Qianshan Zhan , Xiao-Jun Zeng

The goal of domain generalization algorithms is to predict well on distributions different from those seen during training. While a myriad of domain generalization algorithms exist, inconsistencies in experimental conditions -- datasets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Ishaan Gulrajani , David Lopez-Paz

Parameters in deep neural networks which are trained on large-scale databases can generalize across multiple domains, which is referred as "transferability". Unfortunately, the transferability is usually defined as discrete states and it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Yinghua Zhang , Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

We analyze new generalization bounds for deep learning models trained by transfer learning from a source to a target task. Our bounds utilize a quantity called the majority predictor accuracy, which can be computed efficiently from data. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Cuong N. Nguyen , Lam Si Tung Ho , Vu Dinh , Tal Hassner , Cuong V. Nguyen

Domain Generalization (DG) aims to learn models whose performance remains high on unseen domains encountered at test-time by using data from multiple related source domains. Many existing DG algorithms reduce the divergence between source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Akshay Mehra , Bhavya Kailkhura , Pin-Yu Chen , Jihun Hamm

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

Invariant approaches have been remarkably successful in tackling the problem of domain generalization, where the objective is to perform inference on data distributions different from those used in training. In our work, we investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Abhimanyu Dubey , Vignesh Ramanathan , Alex Pentland , Dhruv Mahajan

The ability of an agent to do well in new environments is a critical aspect of intelligence. In machine learning, this ability is known as $\textit{strong}$ or $\textit{out-of-distribution}$ generalization. However, merely considering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Siyuan Guo , Jonas Wildberger , Bernhard Schölkopf

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

Clustering in high dimension spaces is a difficult task; the usual distance metrics may no longer be appropriate under the curse of dimensionality. Indeed, the choice of the metric is crucial, and it is highly dependent on the dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Simo Alami. C , Rim Kaddah , Jesse Read

Transfer learning is fundamental for addressing problems in settings with little training data. While several transfer learning approaches have been proposed in 3D, unfortunately, these solutions typically operate on an entire 3D object or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Souhaib Attaiki , Lei Li , Maks Ovsjanikov

Learning domain-invariant representations has become a popular approach to unsupervised domain adaptation and is often justified by invoking a particular suite of theoretical results. We argue that there are two significant flaws in such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-05 Fredrik D. Johansson , David Sontag , Rajesh Ranganath