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State-of-the-art pre-trained language models (PLMs) outperform other models when applied to the majority of language processing tasks. However, PLMs have been found to degrade in performance under distribution shift, a phenomenon that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Ayush Singh , John E. Ortega

Deep learning models perform poorly when domain shifts exist between training and test data. Test-time adaptation (TTA) is a paradigm to mitigate this issue by adapting pre-trained models using only unlabeled test samples. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Taeckyung Lee , Sorn Chottananurak , Junsu Kim , Jinwoo Shin , Taesik Gong , Sung-Ju Lee

We introduce the problem of domain adaptation under Open Set Label Shift (OSLS) where the label distribution can change arbitrarily and a new class may arrive during deployment, but the class-conditional distributions p(x|y) are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Saurabh Garg , Sivaraman Balakrishnan , Zachary C. Lipton

Subjective time-series regression (STR) tasks have gained increasing attention recently. However, most existing methods overlook the label distribution bias in STR data, which results in biased models. Emerging studies on imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Wenxin Xu , Hexin Jiang , Xuefeng Liang , Ying Zhou , Yin Zhao , Jie Zhang

Self-training often falls short under distribution shifts due to an increased discrepancy between prediction confidence and actual accuracy. This typically necessitates computationally demanding methods such as neighborhood or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Taejong Joo , Diego Klabjan

Distribution shifts between sites can seriously degrade model performance since models are prone to exploiting unstable correlations. Thus, many methods try to find features that are stable across sites and discard unstable features.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Minh Nguyen , Alan Q. Wang , Heejong Kim , Mert R. Sabuncu

In unsupervised domain adaptation, existing theory focuses on situations where the source and target domains are close. In practice, conditional entropy minimization and pseudo-labeling work even when the domain shifts are much larger than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Yining Chen , Colin Wei , Ananya Kumar , Tengyu Ma

The standard supervised learning paradigm works effectively when training data shares the same distribution as the upcoming testing samples. However, this stationary assumption is often violated in real-world applications, especially when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yong Bai , Yu-Jie Zhang , Peng Zhao , Masashi Sugiyama , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Domain Adaptation (DA) aims to generalize the classifier learned from the source domain to the target domain. Existing DA methods usually assume that rich labels could be available in the source domain. However, there are usually a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Wei Wang , Zhihui Wang , Yuankai Xiang , Jing Sun , Haojie Li , Fuming Sun , Zhengming Ding

In many real-world applications, researchers aim to deploy models trained in a source domain to a target domain, where obtaining labeled data is often expensive, time-consuming, or even infeasible. While most existing literature assumes…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-26 Seong-ho Lee , Yanyuan Ma , Jiwei Zhao

Let P represent the source population with complete data, containing covariate $\mathbf{Z}$ and response $T$, and Q the target population, where only the covariate $\mathbf{Z}$ is available. We consider a setting with both label shift and…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-27 Yuxiang Zong , Yanyuan Ma , Ingrid Van Keilegom

Current methods for covariate-shift adaptation use unlabelled data to compute importance weights or domain-invariant features, while the final model is trained on labelled data only. Here, we consider a particular case of covariate shift…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 Julius von Kügelgen , Alexander Mey , Marco Loog

This paper strives for domain generalization, where models are trained exclusively on source domains before being deployed on unseen target domains. We follow the strict separation of source training and target testing, but exploit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Sameer Ambekar , Zehao Xiao , Jiayi Shen , Xiantong Zhen , Cees G. M. Snoek

The goal of test-time adaptation is to adapt a source-pretrained model to a continuously changing target domain without relying on any source data. Typically, this is either done by updating the parameters of the model (model adaptation)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Mrigank Raman , Rohan Shah , Akash Kannan , Pranit Chawla

Adapting models deployed to test distributions can mitigate the performance degradation caused by distribution shifts. However, privacy concerns may render model parameters inaccessible. One promising approach involves utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Zige Wang , Yonggang Zhang , Zhen Fang , Long Lan , Wenjing Yang , Bo Han

When machine learning models are deployed on a test distribution different from the training distribution, they can perform poorly, but overestimate their performance. In this work, we aim to better estimate a model's performance under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Ching-Yao Chuang , Antonio Torralba , Stefanie Jegelka

TabPFN has recently gained attention as a foundation model for tabular datasets, achieving strong performance by leveraging in-context learning on synthetic data. However, we find that TabPFN is vulnerable to label shift, often overfitting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Seunghan Lee

Test-time adaptation (TTA) refers to adapting neural networks to distribution shifts, with access to only the unlabeled test samples from the new domain at test-time. Prior TTA methods optimize over unsupervised objectives such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Sachin Goyal , Mingjie Sun , Aditi Raghunathan , Zico Kolter

Machine learning algorithms have achieved remarkable success across various disciplines, use cases and applications, under the prevailing assumption that training and test samples are drawn from the same distribution. Consequently, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Zehao Xiao , Cees G. M. Snoek

We study the problem of domain adaptation under distribution shift, where the shift is due to a change in the distribution of an unobserved, latent variable that confounds both the covariates and the labels. In this setting, neither the…