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Domain adaptation, a pivotal branch of transfer learning, aims to enhance the performance of machine learning models when deployed in target domains with distinct data distributions. This is particularly critical for object detection tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Helia Mohamadi , Mohammad Ali Keyvanrad , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

Contextual bandit algorithms are essential for solving real-world decision making problems. In practice, collecting a contextual bandit's feedback from different domains may involve different costs. For example, measuring drug reaction from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ziyan Wang , Xiaoming Huo , Hao Wang

Since annotating and curating large datasets is very expensive, there is a need to transfer the knowledge from existing annotated datasets to unlabelled data. Data that is relevant for a specific application, however, usually differs from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Pau Panareda Busto , Ahsan Iqbal , Juergen Gall

We propose associative domain adaptation, a novel technique for end-to-end domain adaptation with neural networks, the task of inferring class labels for an unlabeled target domain based on the statistical properties of a labeled source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Philip Haeusser , Thomas Frerix , Alexander Mordvintsev , Daniel Cremers

Many works proposed methods to improve the performance of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models in a domain/multi-domain adaptation scenario. However, an understanding of how NMT baselines represent text domain information internally is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Maksym Del , Elizaveta Korotkova , Mark Fishel

Transformers have demonstrated exceptional performance across a wide range of domains. While their ability to perform reinforcement learning in-context has been established both theoretically and empirically, their behavior in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-24 Baiyuan Chen , Shinji Ito , Masaaki Imaizumi

Methods of transfer learning try to combine knowledge from several related tasks (or domains) to improve performance on a test task. Inspired by causal methodology, we relax the usual covariate shift assumption and assume that it holds true…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-25 Mateo Rojas-Carulla , Bernhard Schölkopf , Richard Turner , Jonas Peters

At present, the mechanisms of in-context learning in Transformers are not well understood and remain mostly an intuition. In this paper, we suggest that training Transformers on auto-regressive objectives is closely related to…

Standard supervised machine learning assumes that the distribution of the source samples used to train an algorithm is the same as the one of the target samples on which it is supposed to make predictions. However, as any data scientist…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Pirmin Lemberger , Ivan Panico

Large transformer models trained on diverse datasets have shown a remarkable ability to learn in-context, achieving high few-shot performance on tasks they were not explicitly trained to solve. In this paper, we study the in-context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jonathan N. Lee , Annie Xie , Aldo Pacchiano , Yash Chandak , Chelsea Finn , Ofir Nachum , Emma Brunskill

Transfer learning is known to perform efficiently in many applications empirically, yet limited literature reports the mechanism behind the scene. This study establishes both formal derivations and heuristic analysis to formulate the theory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Huan-Hsin Tseng , Hsin-Yi Lin , Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Yu Tsao

We present a new algorithm for domain adaptation improving upon a discrepancy minimization algorithm previously shown to outperform a number of algorithms for this task. Unlike many previous algorithms for domain adaptation, our algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Corinna Cortes , Mehryar Mohri , Andres Muñoz Medina

Domain adaptation problems arise in a variety of applications, where a training dataset from the \textit{source} domain and a test dataset from the \textit{target} domain typically follow different distributions. The primary difficulty in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Wenhao Jiang , Cheng Deng , Wei Liu , Feiping Nie , Fu-lai Chung , Heng Huang

Learning guarantees often rely on assumptions of i.i.d. data, which will likely be violated in practice once predictors are deployed to perform real-world tasks. Domain adaptation approaches thus appeared as a useful framework yielding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Joao Monteiro , Xavier Gibert , Jianqiao Feng , Vincent Dumoulin , Dar-Shyang Lee

Modern models that perform system-critical tasks such as segmentation and localization exhibit good performance and robustness under ideal conditions (i.e. daytime, overcast) but performance degrades quickly and often catastrophically when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Horia Porav , Tom Bruls , Paul Newman

Although current face anti-spoofing methods achieve promising results under intra-dataset testing, they suffer from poor generalization to unseen attacks. Most existing works adopt domain adaptation (DA) or domain generalization (DG)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Jingjing Wang , Jingyi Zhang , Ying Bian , Youyi Cai , Chunmao Wang , Shiliang Pu

This paper presents a novel multi-task learning-based method for unsupervised domain adaptation. Specifically, the source and target domain classifiers are jointly learned by considering the geometry of target domain and the divergence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jing Zhang , Wanqing Li , Philip Ogunbona

Neural sequence models, especially transformers, exhibit a remarkable capacity for in-context learning. They can construct new predictors from sequences of labeled examples $(x, f(x))$ presented in the input without further parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Ekin Akyürek , Dale Schuurmans , Jacob Andreas , Tengyu Ma , Denny Zhou

Unsupervised domain adaptation for object detection addresses the adaption of detectors trained in a source domain to work accurately in an unseen target domain. Recently, methods approaching the alignment of the intermediate features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Vinicius F. Arruda , Rodrigo F. Berriel , Thiago M. Paixão , Claudine Badue , Alberto F. De Souza , Nicu Sebe , Thiago Oliveira-Santos

Despite their recent success, deep neural networks continue to perform poorly when they encounter distribution shifts at test time. Many recently proposed approaches try to counter this by aligning the model to the new distribution prior to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Samarth Sinha , Peter Gehler , Francesco Locatello , Bernt Schiele