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Existing calibration algorithms address the problem of covariate shift via unsupervised domain adaptation. However, these methods suffer from the following limitations: 1) they require unlabeled data from the target domain, which may not be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yunye Gong , Xiao Lin , Yi Yao , Thomas G. Dietterich , Ajay Divakaran , Melinda Gervasio

A common explanation for the failure of deep networks to generalize out-of-distribution is that they fail to recover the "correct" features. We challenge this notion with a simple experiment which suggests that ERM already learns sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Elan Rosenfeld , Pradeep Ravikumar , Andrej Risteski

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

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) 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

We study the sample efficiency of domain randomization and robust control for the benchmark problem of learning the linear quadratic regulator (LQR). Domain randomization, which synthesizes controllers by minimizing average performance over…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-19 Tesshu Fujinami , Bruce D. Lee , Nikolai Matni , George J. Pappas

Domain generalization (DG) aims to improve the generalizability of computer vision models toward distribution shifts. The mainstream DG methods focus on learning domain invariance, however, such methods overlook the potential inherent in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Shaocong Long , Qianyu Zhou , Xiangtai Li , Chenhao Ying , Yunhai Tong , Lizhuang Ma , Yuan Luo , Dacheng Tao

The theoretical and empirical performance of Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) often suffers when loss functions are poorly behaved with large Lipschitz moduli and spurious sharp minimizers. We propose and analyze a counterpart to ERM…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Matthew Norton , Johannes O. Royset

Domain generalization aims at learning a universal model that performs well on unseen target domains, incorporating knowledge from multiple source domains. In this research, we consider the scenario where different domain shifts occur among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jingge Wang , Liyan Xie , Yao Xie , Shao-Lun Huang , Yang Li

Traditional domain generalization methods often rely on domain alignment to reduce inter-domain distribution differences and learn domain-invariant representations. However, domain shifts are inherently difficult to eliminate, which limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yuheng Xu , Taiping Zhang

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 (DG) aims to incorporate knowledge from multiple source domains into a single model that could generalize well on unseen target domains. This problem is ubiquitous in practice since the distributions of the target data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-26 Shoubo Hu , Kun Zhang , Zhitang Chen , Laiwan Chan

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

The distribution shifts between training and test data typically undermine the performance of models. In recent years, lots of work pays attention to domain generalization (DG) where distribution shifts exist, and target data are unseen.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Wang Lu , Jindong Wang , Yidong Wang , Xing Xie

Domain generalization (DG) seeks to develop models that generalize well to unseen target domains, addressing the prevalent issue of distribution shifts in real-world applications. One line of research in DG focuses on aligning domain-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuen Chen , Haozhe Si , Guojun Zhang , Han Zhao

Domain generalization(DG) endeavors to develop robust models that possess strong generalizability while preserving excellent discriminability. Nonetheless, pivotal DG techniques tend to improve the feature generalizability by learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shaocong Long , Qianyu Zhou , Chenhao Ying , Lizhuang Ma , Yuan Luo

Multi-domain generalization (mDG) is universally aimed to minimize the discrepancy between training and testing distributions to enhance marginal-to-label distribution mapping. However, existing mDG literature lacks a general learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zhaorui Tan , Xi Yang , Kaizhu Huang

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

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

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