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Domain-Adaptive Pre-training (DAP) has recently gained attention for its effectiveness in fine-tuning pre-trained models. Building on this, continual DAP has been explored to develop pre-trained models capable of incrementally incorporating…

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The primary objective of domain adaptation methods is to transfer knowledge from a source domain to a target domain that has similar but different data distributions. Thus, in order to correctly classify the unlabeled target domain samples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Rohith AP , Ambedkar Dukkipati , Gaurav Pandey

Traditional machine learning assumes that training and test sets are derived from the same distribution; however, this assumption does not always hold in practical applications. This distribution disparity can lead to severe performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ahmad Chaddad , Yihang Wu , Yuchen Jiang , Ahmed Bouridane , Christian Desrosiers

The waive of labels in the target domain makes Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) an attractive technique in many real-world applications, though it also brings great challenges as model adaptation becomes harder without labeled target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Tao Sun , Cheng Lu , Haibin Ling

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) endeavors to adjust models trained on a source domain to perform well on a target domain without requiring additional annotations. In the context of domain adaptive semantic segmentation, which tackles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Wenlve Zhou , Zhiheng Zhou , Tianlei Wang , Delu Zeng

Continual learning has emerged as an important research direction due to the infeasibility of retraining large language models (LLMs) from scratch in the event of new data availability. Of great interest is the domain-adaptive pre-training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Sharad Duwal , Suraj Prasai , Suresh Manandhar

Masked language modeling (MLM) plays a key role in pretraining large language models. But the MLM objective is often dominated by high-frequency words that are sub-optimal for learning factual knowledge. In this work, we propose an approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Nafis Sadeq , Byungkyu Kang , Prarit Lamba , Julian McAuley

We introduce a new representation learning approach for domain adaptation, in which data at training and test time come from similar but different distributions. Our approach is directly inspired by the theory on domain adaptation…

While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional natural language capabilities, general-purpose models lack specialized domain knowledge for effective cybersecurity analysis. In this work, we investigate Domain-Adaptive Continuous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Salahuddin Salahuddin , Ahmed Hussain , Jussi Löppönen , Toni Jutila , Panos Papadimitratos

Typically a classifier trained on a given dataset (source domain) does not performs well if it is tested on data acquired in a different setting (target domain). This is the problem that domain adaptation (DA) tries to overcome and, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Silvia Bucci , Mohammad Reza Loghmani , Barbara Caputo

We consider unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), where labeled data from a source domain (e.g., photographs) and unlabeled data from a target domain (e.g., sketches) are used to learn a classifier for the target domain. Conventional UDA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Kendrick Shen , Robbie Jones , Ananya Kumar , Sang Michael Xie , Jeff Z. HaoChen , Tengyu Ma , Percy Liang

Deep convolutional neural networks have considerably improved state-of-the-art results for semantic segmentation. Nevertheless, even modern architectures lack the ability to generalize well to a test dataset that originates from a different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Robert A. Marsden , Alexander Bartler , Mario Döbler , Bin Yang

Learning high-quality domain word embeddings is important for achieving good performance in many NLP tasks. General-purpose embeddings trained on large-scale corpora are often sub-optimal for domain-specific applications. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Hu Xu , Bing Liu , Lei Shu , Philip S. Yu

Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit strong generalization capabilities, enabling them to recognize a wide range of objects across diverse domains without additional training. However, they often retain irrelevant information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Kodai Kawamura , Yuta Goto , Rintaro Yanagi , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Go Irie

Domain adaptation refers to the process of learning prediction models in a target domain by making use of data from a source domain. Many classic methods solve the domain adaptation problem by establishing a common latent space, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Pan Xiao , Bo Du , Jia Wu , Lefei Zhang , Ruimin Hu , Xuelong Li

End-to-end automatic speech recognition suffers from adaptation to unknown target domain speech despite being trained with a large amount of paired audio--text data. Recent studies estimate a linguistic bias of the model as the internal…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Emiru Tsunoo , Yosuke Kashiwagi , Chaitanya Narisetty , Shinji Watanabe

Deep learning-based domain adaptation (DA) methods have shown strong performance by learning transferable representations. However, their reliance on mini-batch training limits global distribution modeling, leading to unstable alignment and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lingkun Luo , Shiqiang Hu , Liming Chen

Over the last years, dictionary learning method has been extensively applied to deal with various computer vision recognition applications, and produced state-of-the-art results. However, when the data instances of a target domain have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Zhun Zhong , Zongmin Li , Runlin Li , Xiaoxia Sun

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on various tasks, yet their ability to extract and internalize deeper insights from domain-specific datasets remains underexplored. In this study, we investigate how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Pouya Pezeshkpour , Estevam Hruschka

Pre-trained language models have recently emerged as a powerful tool for fine-tuning a variety of language tasks. Ideally, when models are pre-trained on large amount of data, they are expected to gain implicit knowledge. In this paper, we…

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