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We investigate a "learning to reject" framework to address the problem of silent failures in Domain Generalization (DG), where the test distribution differs from the training distribution. Assuming a mild distribution shift, we wish to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jens Müller , Stefan T. Radev , Robert Schmier , Felix Draxler , Carsten Rother , Ullrich Köthe

Electroencephalography (EEG) based emotion recognition has demonstrated tremendous improvement in recent years. Specifically, numerous domain adaptation (DA) algorithms have been exploited in the past five years to enhance the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Yan Li , Hao Chen , Jake Zhao , Haolan Zhang , Jinpeng Li

Machine learning models typically suffer from the domain shift problem when trained on a source dataset and evaluated on a target dataset of different distribution. To overcome this problem, domain generalisation (DG) methods aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Kaiyang Zhou , Yongxin Yang , Timothy Hospedales , Tao Xiang

Domain generalization (DG) tends to alleviate the poor generalization capability of deep neural networks by learning model with multiple source domains. A classical solution to DG is domain augmentation, the common belief of which is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Fangrui Lv , Jian Liang , Shuang Li , Jinming Zhang , Di Liu

The sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture of large language models (LLMs) confronts an inherent issue of load imbalance arising from the simplistic linear router strategy, which ultimately causes the instability and inefficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ting Bai , Yue Yu , Le Huang , Zenan Xu , Chuan Shi

Machine learning models are prone to overfitting their training (source) domains, which is commonly believed to be the reason why they falter in novel target domains. Here we examine the contrasting view that multi-source domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Md Arafat Sultan , Avirup Sil , Radu Florian

Understanding the internal organization of neural networks remains a fundamental challenge in deep learning interpretability. We address this challenge by exploring a novel Sparse Mixture of Experts Variational Autoencoder (SMoE-VAE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Strahinja Nikolic , Ilker Oguz , Demetri Psaltis

In this paper, we aim to build a robust question answering system that can adapt to out-of-domain datasets. A single network may overfit to the superficial correlation in the training distribution, but with a meaningful number of expert…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Yu Qing Zhou , Xixuan Julie Liu , Yuanzhe Dong

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) layers have emerged as an important tool in scaling up modern neural networks by decoupling total trainable parameters from activated parameters in the forward pass for each token. However, sparse MoEs add…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Tianze Jiang , Blake Bordelon , Cengiz Pehlevan , Boris Hanin

Generalization capability to unseen domains is crucial for machine learning models when deploying to real-world conditions. We investigate the challenging problem of domain generalization, i.e., training a model on multi-domain source data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Qi Dou , Daniel C. Castro , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Ben Glocker

Deep neural networks often suffer performance drops when test data distribution differs from training data. Domain Generalization (DG) aims to address this by focusing on domain-invariant features or augmenting data for greater diversity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Nam Duong Tran , Nam Nguyen Phuong , Hieu H. Pham , Phi Le Nguyen , My T. Thai

Domain generalization on graphs aims to develop models with robust generalization capabilities, ensuring effective performance on the testing set despite disparities between testing and training distributions. However, existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Qin Tian , Chen Zhao , Minglai Shao , Wenjun Wang , Yujie Lin , Dong Li

Leveraging datasets available to learn a model with high generalization ability to unseen domains is important for computer vision, especially when the unseen domain's annotated data are unavailable. We study a novel and practical problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Yang Shu , Zhangjie Cao , Chenyu Wang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Domain Generalization (DG) is a challenging task in machine learning that requires a coherent ability to comprehend shifts across various domains through extraction of domain-invariant features. DG performance is typically evaluated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yiran Luo , Joshua Feinglass , Tejas Gokhale , Kuan-Cheng Lee , Chitta Baral , Yezhou Yang

Domain generalization (DG) aims to learn models that perform well on unseen target domains by training on multiple source domains. Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM), known for finding flat minima that improve generalization, has therefore…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-01 Youngjun Song , Youngsik Hwang , Jonghun Lee , Heechang Lee , Dong-Young Lim

Larger networks generally have greater representational power at the cost of increased computational complexity. Sparsifying such networks has been an active area of research but has been generally limited to static regularization or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Xin Wang , Fisher Yu , Lisa Dunlap , Yi-An Ma , Ruth Wang , Azalia Mirhoseini , Trevor Darrell , Joseph E. Gonzalez

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

Robustifying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) against adversarial attacks remains challenging and often requires resource-intensive countermeasures. We explore the use of sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) layers to improve robustness by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Svetlana Pavlitska , Haixi Fan , Konstantin Ditschuneit , J. Marius Zöllner

Sparsely activated transformers, such as Mixture of Experts (MoE), have received great interest due to their outrageous scaling capability which enables dramatical increases in model size without significant increases in computational cost.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Rui Liu , Young Jin Kim , Alexandre Muzio , Hany Hassan Awadalla

Dense Retrieval Models (DRMs) are a prominent development in Information Retrieval (IR). A key challenge with these neural Transformer-based models is that they often struggle to generalize beyond the specific tasks and domains they were…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Effrosyni Sokli , Pranav Kasela , Georgios Peikos , Gabriella Pasi