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Domain generalization (DG) aims to generalize a model trained on multiple source (i.e., training) domains to a distributionally different target (i.e., test) domain. In contrast to the conventional DG that strictly requires the availability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zijian Wang , Yadan Luo , Ruihong Qiu , Zi Huang , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Semantic segmentation algorithms require access to well-annotated datasets captured under diverse illumination conditions to ensure consistent performance. However, poor visibility conditions at varying illumination conditions result in…

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In recent years, genetic programming (GP)-based evolutionary feature construction has achieved significant success. However, a primary challenge with evolutionary feature construction is its tendency to overfit the training data, resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Hengzhe Zhang , Qi Chen , Bing Xue , Wolfgang Banzhaf , Mengjie Zhang

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

We study the SAM (Sharpness-Aware Minimization) optimizer which has recently attracted a lot of interest due to its increased performance over more classical variants of stochastic gradient descent. Our main contribution is the derivation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Enea Monzio Compagnoni , Luca Biggio , Antonio Orvieto , Frank Norbert Proske , Hans Kersting , Aurelien Lucchi

Foundation models for segmentation such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM) family exhibit strong zero-shot performance, but remain vulnerable in shifted or limited-knowledge domains. This work investigates whether uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jesse Brouwers , Xiaoyan Xing , Alexander Timans

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) has attracted significant attention for its effectiveness in improving generalization across various tasks. However, its underlying principles remain poorly understood. In this work, we analyze SAM's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Haocheng Luo , Tuan Truong , Tung Pham , Mehrtash Harandi , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown exciting performance in various tasks, yet suffer generalization failures when meeting unknown target domains. One of the most promising approaches to achieve domain generalization (DG) is generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Chengchao Xu , Xinmei Tian

The objective of domain generalization (DG) is to enable models to be robust against domain shift. DG is crucial for deploying vision-language models (VLMs) in real-world applications, yet most existing methods rely on domain labels that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zhixing Li , Arsham Gholamzadeh Khoee , Yinan Yu

The success of large language models has inspired the computer vision community to explore image segmentation foundation model that is able to zero/few-shot generalize through prompt engineering. Segment-Anything(SAM), among others, is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Haojie Zhang , Yongyi Su , Xun Xu , Kui Jia

Recent domain generalization (DG) approaches typically use the hypothesis learned on source domains for inference on the unseen target domain. However, such a hypothesis can be arbitrarily far from the optimal one for the target domain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yi-Fan Zhang , Jindong Wang , Jian Liang , Zhang Zhang , Baosheng Yu , Liang Wang , Dacheng Tao , Xing Xie

Quantization is a promising approach for reducing memory overhead and accelerating inference, especially in large pre-trained language model (PLM) scenarios. While having no access to original training data due to security and privacy…

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Domain generalization aims to learn invariance across multiple training domains, thereby enhancing generalization against out-of-distribution data. While gradient or representation matching algorithms have achieved remarkable success, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yuxin Dong , Tieliang Gong , Hong Chen , Shuangyong Song , Weizhan Zhang , Chen Li

We approach the challenge of addressing semi-supervised domain generalization (SSDG). Specifically, our aim is to obtain a model that learns domain-generalizable features by leveraging a limited subset of labelled data alongside a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Chamuditha Jayanga Galappaththige , Sanoojan Baliah , Malitha Gunawardhana , Muhammad Haris Khan

Decentralized training enables learning with distributed datasets generated at different locations without relying on a central server. In realistic scenarios, the data distribution across these sparsely connected learning agents can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Sakshi Choudhary , Sai Aparna Aketi , Kaushik Roy

This paper targets a novel trade-off problem in generalizable prompt learning for vision-language models (VLM), i.e., improving the performance on unseen classes while maintaining the performance on seen classes. Comparing with existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Liangchen Liu , Nannan Wang , Dawei Zhou , Xinbo Gao , Decheng Liu , Xi Yang , Tongliang Liu

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

Medical image segmentation is a critical task in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment planning. However, deep learning models often struggle to generalize across datasets due to domain shifts arising from variations in imaging protocols,…

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