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Typical deep visual recognition models are capable of performing the one task they were trained on. In this paper, we tackle the extremely difficult problem of combining distinct models with different initializations, each solving a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 George Stoica , Daniel Bolya , Jakob Bjorner , Pratik Ramesh , Taylor Hearn , Judy Hoffman

Domain adaptation has been a fundamental technology for transferring knowledge from a source domain to a target domain. The key issue of domain adaptation is how to reduce the distribution discrepancy between two domains in a proper way…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Lei Tian , Yongqiang Tang , Liangchen Hu , Zhida Ren , Wensheng Zhang

Model merging integrates the weights of multiple task-specific models into a single multi-task model. Despite recent interest in the problem, a significant performance gap between the combined and single-task models remains. In this paper,…

The recent success of specialized Large Language Models (LLMs) in domains such as mathematical reasoning and coding has led to growing interest in methods for merging these expert LLMs into a unified Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yuhang Zhou , Giannis Karamanolakis , Victor Soto , Anna Rumshisky , Mayank Kulkarni , Furong Huang , Wei Ai , Jianhua Lu

Domain adaptation has become a prominent problem setting in machine learning and related fields. This review asks the question: how can a classifier learn from a source domain and generalize to a target domain? We present a categorization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Wouter M. Kouw , Marco Loog

We consider the novel problem of unsupervised domain adaptation of source models, without access to the source data for semantic segmentation. Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to adapt a model learned on the labeled source data, to a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Sujoy Paul , Ansh Khurana , Gaurav Aggarwal

The assumption that training and testing samples are generated from the same distribution does not always hold for real-world machine-learning applications. The procedure of tackling this discrepancy between the training (source) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Debasmit Das , C. S. George Lee

Model merging aims to build a multi-task learner by combining the parameters of individually fine-tuned models without additional training. While a straightforward approach is to average model parameters across tasks, this often results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Jiho Choi , Donggyun Kim , Chanhyuk Lee , Seunghoon Hong

Large-scale deep learning models with a pretraining-finetuning paradigm have led to a surge of numerous task-specific models fine-tuned from a common pre-trained model. Recently, several research efforts have been made on merging these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yeoreum Lee , Jinwook Jung , Sungyong Baik

We propose a simple neural network model to deal with the domain adaptation problem in object recognition. Our model incorporates the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) measure as a regularization in the supervised learning to reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Muhammad Ghifary , W. Bastiaan Kleijn , Mengjie Zhang

We propose a mixture-of-experts approach for unsupervised domain adaptation from multiple sources. The key idea is to explicitly capture the relationship between a target example and different source domains. This relationship, expressed by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Jiang Guo , Darsh J Shah , Regina Barzilay

Domain adaptation becomes more challenging with increasing gaps between source and target domains. Motivated from an empirical analysis on the reliability of labeled source data for the use of distancing target domains, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Yabin Zhang , Bin Deng , Kui Jia , Lei Zhang

Domain adaptation deals with adapting classifiers trained on data from a source distribution, to work effectively on data from a target distribution. In this paper, we introduce the Nonlinear Embedding Transform (NET) for unsupervised…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Hemanth Venkateswara , Shayok Chakraborty , Troy McDaniel , Sethuraman Panchanathan

Merging has become a widespread way to cheaply combine individual models into a single model that inherits their capabilities and attains better performance. This popularity has spurred rapid development of many new merging methods, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Derek Tam , Yash Kant , Brian Lester , Igor Gilitschenski , Colin Raffel

Model merging is an efficient post-training strategy for integrating knowledge from multiple finetuned checkpoints of a shared foundation model. Existing methods operate in the parameter space, combining task vectors to mitigate conflicts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Kexuan Shi , Yandong Wen , Weiyang Liu

Unsupervised domain adaptation is a promising technique for semantic segmentation and other computer vision tasks for which large-scale data annotation is costly and time-consuming. In semantic segmentation, it is attractive to train models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Arjun K. Manrai

A classifier trained on a dataset seldom works on other datasets obtained under different conditions due to domain shift. This problem is commonly addressed by domain adaptation methods. In this work we introduce a novel deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Subhankar Roy , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Enver Sangineto , Samuel Rota Bulo , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

The insertion of deep learning in medical image analysis had lead to the development of state-of-the art strategies in several applications such a disease classification, as well as abnormality detection and segmentation. However, even the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 Mauricio Orbes-Arteaga , Thomas Varsavsky , Lauge Sorensen , Mads Nielsen , Akshay Pai , Sebastien Ourselin , Marc Modat , M Jorge Cardoso

Domain adaptation aims to leverage a label-rich domain (the source domain) to help model learning in a label-scarce domain (the target domain). Most domain adaptation methods require the co-existence of source and target domain samples to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Jiayi Tian , Jing Zhang , Wen Li , Dong Xu

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