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Data augmentation is one of the most effective techniques for regularizing deep learning models and improving their recognition performance in a variety of tasks and domains. However, this holds for standard in-domain settings, in which the…

Given that Neural Networks generalize unreasonably well in the IID setting (with benign overfitting and betterment in performance with more parameters), OOD presents a consistent failure case to better the understanding of how they learn.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Sarath Sivaprasad , Akshay Goindani , Vaibhav Garg , Ritam Basu , Saiteja Kosgi , Vineet Gandhi

We propose an extended framework for marginalized domain adaptation, aimed at addressing unsupervised, supervised and semi-supervised scenarios. We argue that the denoising principle should be extended to explicitly promote domain-invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Gabriela Csurka , Boris Chidlovski , Stephane Clinchant , Sophia Michel

Pre-trained image restoration models often fail on real-world, out-of-distribution degradations due to significant domain gaps. Adapting to these unseen domains is challenging, as out-of-distribution data lacks ground truth, and traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yuyang Hu , Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan , Arpit Bansal , Kangfu Mei , Christian Qi , Peyman Milanfar , Mauricio Delbracio

A key challenge in Domain Generalization (DG) is preventing overfitting to source domains, which can be mitigated by finding flatter minima in the loss landscape. In this work, we propose Quantization-aware Training for Domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Saqib Javed , Hieu Le , Mathieu Salzmann

The ability to generalize to unseen domains is crucial for machine learning systems deployed in the real world, especially when we only have data from limited training domains. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective regularization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Zhenmei Shi , Yifei Ming , Ying Fan , Frederic Sala , Yingyu Liang

Domain Generalization (DG) aims to train models that can generalize to unseen testing domains by leveraging data from multiple training domains. However, traditional DG methods rely on the availability of multiple diverse training domains,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hao Yan , Marzi Heidari , Yuhong Guo

Machine learning models fail to perform when facing out-of-distribution (OOD) domains, a challenging task known as domain generalization (DG). In this work, we develop a novel DG training strategy, we call PGrad, to learn a robust gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Zhe Wang , Jake Grigsby , Yanjun Qi

A fundamental challenge for machine learning models is generalizing to out-of-distribution (OOD) data, in part due to spurious correlations. To tackle this challenge, we first formalize the OOD generalization problem as constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Hanlin Zhang , Yi-Fan Zhang , Weiyang Liu , Adrian Weller , Bernhard Schölkopf , Eric P. Xing

The goal of domain generalization is to learn from multiple source domains to generalize to unseen target domains under distribution discrepancy. Current state-of-the-art methods in this area are fully supervised, but for many real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Hossein Sharifi-Noghabi , Hossein Asghari , Nazanin Mehrasa , Martin Ester

In the field of object detection, domain generalisation (DG) aims to ensure robust performance across diverse and unseen target domains by learning the robust domain-invariant features corresponding to the objects of interest across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Shuvam Jena , Sushmetha Sumathi Rajendran , Karthik Seemakurthy , Sasithradevi A , Vijayalakshmi M , Prakash Poornachari

Domain generalization (DG) seeks predictors which perform well on unseen test distributions by leveraging data drawn from multiple related training distributions or domains. To achieve this, DG is commonly formulated as an average- or…

Domain generalization aims at training machine learning models to perform robustly across different and unseen domains. Several recent methods use multiple datasets to train models to extract domain-invariant features, hoping to generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Mattia Segu , Alessio Tonioni , Federico Tombari

In this study, we address the gradient-based domain generalization problem, where predictors aim for consistent gradient directions across different domains. Existing methods have two main challenges. First, minimization of gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Khoi Do , Duong Nguyen , Nam-Khanh Le , Quoc-Viet Pham , Binh-Son Hua , Won-Joo Hwang

Machine learning typically relies on the assumption that training and testing distributions are identical and that data is centrally stored for training and testing. However, in real-world scenarios, distributions may differ significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ying Li , Xingwei Wang , Rongfei Zeng , Praveen Kumar Donta , Ilir Murturi , Min Huang , Schahram Dustdar

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

We introduce Domain-specific Masks for Generalization, a model for improving both in-domain and out-of-domain generalization performance. For domain generalization, the goal is to learn from a set of source domains to produce a single model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Prithvijit Chattopadhyay , Yogesh Balaji , Judy Hoffman

Recent studies have proven that DNNs, unlike human vision, tend to exploit texture information rather than shape. Such texture bias is one of the factors for the poor generalization performance of DNNs. We observe that the texture bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Hwan Heo , Youngjin Oh , Jaewon Lee , Hyunwoo J. Kim

We are concerned with learning models that generalize well to different \emph{unseen} domains. We consider a worst-case formulation over data distributions that are near the source domain in the feature space. Only using training data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Riccardo Volpi , Hongseok Namkoong , Ozan Sener , John Duchi , Vittorio Murino , Silvio Savarese

Machine learning algorithms minimizing the average training loss usually suffer from poor generalization performance due to the greedy exploitation of correlations among the training data, which are not stable under distributional shifts.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Xi Leng , Xiaoying Tang , Yatao Bian