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By using unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), knowledge can be transferred from a label-rich source domain to a target domain that contains relevant information but lacks labels. Many existing UDA algorithms suffer from directly using raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Le Luo , Bingrong Xu , Qingyong Zhang , Cheng Lian , Jie Luo

Federated Learning (FL) on non-independently and identically distributed (non-IID) data remains a critical challenge, as existing approaches struggle with severe data heterogeneity. Current methods primarily address symptoms of non-IID by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Hui Yeok Wong , Chee Kau Lim , Chee Seng Chan

Transferring knowledge across domains is one of the most fundamental problems in machine learning, but doing so effectively in the context of reinforcement learning remains largely an open problem. Current methods make strong assumptions on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Abhi Gupta , Ted Moskovitz , David Alvarez-Melis , Aldo Pacchiano

Collaborative filtering (CF) aims to predict users' ratings on items according to historical user-item preference data. In many real-world applications, preference data are usually sparse, which would make models overfit and fail to give…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-29 Zhongqi Lu , Erheng Zhong , Lili Zhao , Wei Xiang , Weike Pan , Qiang Yang

Tabular learning transforms raw features into optimized spaces for downstream tasks, but its effectiveness deteriorates under distribution shifts between training and testing data. We formalize this challenge as the Distribution Shift…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Wangyang Ying , Nanxu Gong , Dongjie Wang , Xinyuan Wang , Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Vivek Gupta , Chandan K. Reddy , Yanjie Fu

Recent advances in semi-supervised learning methods rely on estimating the categories of unlabeled data using a model trained on the labeled data (pseudo-labeling) and using the unlabeled data for various consistency-based regularization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Chia-Wen Kuo , Chih-Yao Ma , Jia-Bin Huang , Zsolt Kira

Transfer learning borrows knowledge from a source domain to facilitate learning in a target domain. Two primary issues to be addressed in transfer learning are what and how to transfer. For a pair of domains, adopting different transfer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Ying Wei , Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

Semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) is quite a challenging problem requiring methods to overcome both 1) overfitting towards poorly annotated data and 2) distribution shift across domains. Unfortunately, a simple combination of domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Can Qin , Lichen Wang , Qianqian Ma , Yu Yin , Huan Wang , Yun Fu

While unsupervised domain adaptation methods based on deep architectures have achieved remarkable success in many computer vision tasks, they rely on a strong assumption, i.e. labeled source data must be available. In this work we overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Willi Menapace , Stéphane Lathuilière , Elisa Ricci

We introduce a transfer learning framework for regression that leverages heterogeneous source domains to improve predictive performance in a data-scarce target domain. Our approach learns a conditional generative model separately for each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Yikun Zhang , Steven Wilkins-Reeves , Wesley Lee , Aude Hofleitner

A common assumption in semi-supervised learning with graph models is that the class label function varies smoothly on the data graph, resulting in the rather strict prior that the label function has low-frequency content. Meanwhile, in many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-05 Mehmet Pilanci , Elif Vural

SplitFed Learning (SFL) combines federated learning and split learning to enable collaborative training across distributed edge devices; however, it faces significant challenges in heterogeneous environments with diverse computational and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Abdullah Al Asif , Sixing Yu , Juan Pablo Munoz , Arya Mazaheri , Ali Jannesari

Unsupervised domain adaptation targets to transfer task-related knowledge from labeled source domain to unlabeled target domain. Although tremendous efforts have been made to minimize domain divergence, most existing methods only partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Peizhao Li , Zhengming Ding , Hongfu Liu

In many practical transfer learning scenarios, the feature distribution is different across the source and target domains (i.e. non-i.i.d.). Maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), as a domain discrepancy metric, has achieved promising performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Lei Zhang , Shanshan Wang , Guang-Bin Huang , Wangmeng Zuo , Jian Yang , David Zhang

Transfer learning is a powerful paradigm for leveraging knowledge from source domains to enhance learning in a target domain. However, traditional transfer learning approaches often focus on scalar or multivariate data within Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kaicheng Zhang , Sinian Zhang , Doudou Zhou , Yidong Zhou

Deep learning models obtain impressive accuracy in road scenes understanding, however they need a large quantity of labeled samples for their training. Additionally, such models do not generalise well to environments where the statistical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Francesco Barbato , Umberto Michieli , Marco Toldo , Pietro Zanuttigh

Domain adaptation aims to mitigate performance degradation caused by distribution shifts between a labeled source domain and an unlabeled or sparsely labeled target domain. Most existing approaches estimate domain discrepancy either in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xi Ding , Lei Wang , Syuan-Hao Li , Yongsheng Gao

The use of transfer learning (TL) techniques has become common practice in fields such as computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP). Leveraging prior knowledge gained from data with different distributions, TL offers higher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Lauren J. Wong , Sean McPherson , Alan J. Michaels

Object detection, segmentation and classification are three common tasks in medical image analysis. Multi-task deep learning (MTL) tackles these three tasks jointly, which provides several advantages saving computing time and resources and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Fei Gao , Hyunsoo Yoon , Teresa Wu , Xianghua Chu

Domain adaptation is one of the most crucial techniques to mitigate the domain shift problem, which exists when transferring knowledge from an abundant labeled sourced domain to a target domain with few or no labels. Partial domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Youshan Zhang , Brian D. Davison