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As a recent noticeable topic, domain generalization aims to learn a generalizable model on multiple source domains, which is expected to perform well on unseen test domains. Great efforts have been made to learn domain-invariant features by…

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Meta-learning, or "learning to learn", refers to techniques that infer an inductive bias from data corresponding to multiple related tasks with the goal of improving the sample efficiency for new, previously unobserved, tasks. A key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Sharu Theresa Jose , Osvaldo Simeone

Several multi-target regression methods were devel-oped in the last years aiming at improving predictive performanceby exploring inter-target correlation within the problem. However, none of these methods outperforms the others for all…

In this work we study generalization of neural networks in gradient-based meta-learning by analyzing various properties of the objective landscapes. We experimentally demonstrate that as meta-training progresses, the meta-test solutions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Simon Guiroy , Vikas Verma , Christopher Pal

Machine learning systems typically assume that the distributions of training and test sets match closely. However, a critical requirement of such systems in the real world is their ability to generalize to unseen domains. Here, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Yuge Shi , Jeffrey Seely , Philip H. S. Torr , N. Siddharth , Awni Hannun , Nicolas Usunier , Gabriel Synnaeve

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…

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Domain generalization models aim to learn cross-domain knowledge from source domain data, to improve performance on unknown target domains. Recent research has demonstrated that diverse and rich source domain samples can enhance domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jianting Chen , Ling Ding , Yunxiao Yang , Zaiyuan Di , Yang Xiang

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…

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Objective: When training machine learning models, we often assume that the training data and evaluation data are sampled from the same distribution. However, this assumption is violated when the model is evaluated on another unseen but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Theekshana Dissanayake , Tharindu Fernando , Simon Denman , Houman Ghaemmaghami , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

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

Generalization of neural networks is crucial for deploying them safely in the real world. Common training strategies to improve generalization involve the use of data augmentations, ensembling and model averaging. In this work, we first…

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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…

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Domain generalization aims to learn a model with good generalization ability, that is, the learned model should not only perform well on several seen domains but also on unseen domains with different data distributions. State-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Boyang Lyu , Thuan Nguyen , Matthias Scheutz , Prakash Ishwar , Shuchin Aeron

In few-shot learning, classifiers are expected to generalize to unseen classes given only a small number of instances of each new class. One of the popular solutions to few-shot learning is metric-based meta-learning. However, it highly…

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Random forests are a machine learning method used to automatically classify datasets and consist of a multitude of decision trees. While these random forests often have higher performance and generalize better than a single decision tree,…

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Model generalization capacity at domain shift (e.g., various imaging protocols and scanners) is crucial for deep learning methods in real-world clinical deployment. This paper tackles the challenging problem of domain generalization, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Quande Liu , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

In real-life applications, machine learning models often face scenarios where there is a change in data distribution between training and test domains. When the aim is to make predictions on distributions different from those seen at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Lucas Mansilla , Rodrigo Echeveste , Diego H. Milone , Enzo Ferrante

Recent work has demonstrated the utility of Random Forest (RF) proximities for various supervised machine learning tasks, including outlier detection, missing data imputation, and visualization. However, the utility of the RF proximities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ben Shaw , Adam Rustad , Sofia Pelagalli Maia , Jake S. Rhodes , Kevin R. Moon

Random forest (RF) methodology is one of the most popular machine learning techniques for prediction problems. In this article, we discuss some cases where random forests may suffer and propose a novel generalized RF method, namely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-24 Haozhe Zhang , Dan Nettleton , Zhengyuan Zhu