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When domains, which represent underlying data distributions, vary during training and testing processes, deep neural networks suffer a drop in their performance. Domain generalization allows improvements in the generalization performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Toshihiko Matsuura , Tatsuya Harada

In this paper, we tackle the problem of training with multiple source domains with the aim to generalize to new domains at test time without an adaptation step. This is known as domain generalization (DG). Previous works on DG assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Mohammad Mahfujur Rahman , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

Domain Generalization (DG) aims to enhance model robustness in unseen or distributionally shifted target domains through training exclusively on source domains. Although existing DG techniques, such as data manipulation, learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hai Huang , Yan Xia , Sashuai Zhou , Hanting Wang , Shulei Wang , Zhou Zhao

Domain Generalization (DG) is a fundamental challenge for machine learning models, which aims to improve model generalization on various domains. Previous methods focus on generating domain invariant features from various source domains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Daoan Zhang , Mingkai Chen , Chenming Li , Lingyun Huang , Jianguo Zhang

Domain generalization (DG) aims to improve the generalization performance for an unseen target domain by using the knowledge of multiple seen source domains. Mainstream DG methods typically assume that the domain label of each source sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Chaoqi Chen , Jiongcheng Li , Xiaoguang Han , Xiaoqing Liu , Yizhou Yu

Domain generalization (DG) is about learning models that generalize well to new domains that are related to, but different from, the training domain(s). It is a fundamental problem in machine learning and has attracted much attention in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Nevin L. Zhang , Kaican Li , Han Gao , Weiyan Xie , Zhi Lin , Zhenguo Li , Luning Wang , Yongxiang Huang

Domain generalization (DG) attempts to generalize a model trained on single or multiple source domains to the unseen target domain. Benefiting from the success of Visual-and-Language Pre-trained models in recent years, we argue that it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Geng Liu , Yuxi Wang

A long standing problem in visual object categorization is the ability of algorithms to generalize across different testing conditions. The problem has been formalized as a covariate shift among the probability distributions generating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Massimiliano Mancini , Samuel Rota Bulò , Barbara Caputo , Elisa Ricci

The objective of domain generalization (DG) is to enable models to be robust against domain shift. DG is crucial for deploying vision-language models (VLMs) in real-world applications, yet most existing methods rely on domain labels that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zhixing Li , Arsham Gholamzadeh Khoee , Yinan Yu

Machine learning models that can generalize to unseen domains are essential when applied in real-world scenarios involving strong domain shifts. We address the challenging domain generalization (DG) problem, where a model trained on a set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ahmed Frikha , Denis Krompaß , Volker Tresp

Domain generalization (DG), aiming to make models work on unseen domains, is a surefire way toward general artificial intelligence. Limited by the scale and diversity of current DG datasets, it is difficult for existing methods to scale to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Hongjing Niu , Hanting Li , Feng Zhao , Bin Li

Generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) data is a capability natural to humans yet challenging for machines to reproduce. This is because most learning algorithms strongly rely on the i.i.d.~assumption on source/target data, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kaiyang Zhou , Ziwei Liu , Yu Qiao , Tao Xiang , Chen Change Loy

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

Machine learning systems generally assume that the training and testing distributions are the same. To this end, a key requirement is to develop models that can generalize to unseen distributions. Domain generalization (DG), i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Jindong Wang , Cuiling Lan , Chang Liu , Yidong Ouyang , Tao Qin , Wang Lu , Yiqiang Chen , Wenjun Zeng , Philip S. Yu

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

Domain generalization is a sub-field of transfer learning that aims at bridging the gap between two different domains in the absence of any knowledge about the target domain. Our approach tackles the problem of a model's weak generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yusuf Mesbah , Youssef Youssry Ibrahim , Adil Mehood Khan

This paper focuses on domain generalization (DG), the task of learning from multiple source domains a model that generalizes well to unseen domains. A main challenge for DG is that the available source domains often exhibit limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Kaiyang Zhou , Yongxin Yang , Timothy Hospedales , Tao Xiang

The generalization of deep neural networks to unknown domains is a major challenge despite their tremendous progress in recent years. For this reason, the dynamic area of domain generalization (DG) has emerged. In contrast to unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Manuel Schwonberg , Hanno Gottschalk

Domain generalization is the problem of machine learning when the training data and the test data come from different data domains. We present a simple theoretical model of learning to generalize across domains in which there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Vikas K. Garg , Adam Kalai , Katrina Ligett , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Domain generalization is a technique aimed at enabling models to maintain high accuracy when applied to new environments or datasets (unseen domains) that differ from the datasets used in training. Generally, the accuracy of models trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Reiji Saito , Kazuhiro Hotta