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Test-time adaptation (TTA) addresses distribution shifts for streaming test data in unsupervised settings. Currently, most TTA methods can only deal with minor shifts and rely heavily on heuristic and empirical studies. To advance TTA under…

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Medical vision-language alignment through cross-modal contrastive learning shows promising performance in image-text matching tasks, such as retrieval and zero-shot classification. However, conventional cross-modal contrastive learning…

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Accurate segmentation of the optic disc and cup is critical for the early diagnosis and management of ocular diseases such as glaucoma. However, segmentation models trained on one dataset often suffer significant performance degradation…

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Medical image segmentation is critical for clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring, yet segmentation models often struggle with uncertainties stemming from occlusions, ambiguous boundaries, and variations in imaging devices.…

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The domain discrepancy existed between medical images acquired in different situations renders a major hurdle in deploying pre-trained medical image segmentation models for clinical use. Since it is less possible to distribute training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Shishuai Hu , Zehui Liao , Yong Xia

Test time adaptation (TTA) equips deep learning models to handle unseen test data that deviates from the training distribution, even when source data is inaccessible. While traditional TTA methods often rely on entropy as a confidence…

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Test-time adaptation (TTA) of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has emerged as a technique for tackling distribution shifts during the test time. Recent research indicates that the test-time adaptation is intrinsically linked to the model's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Aodi Li , Liansheng Zhuang , Xiao Long , Houqiang Li , Shafei Wang

This paper presents a gradient-informed fine-tuning method for large language models under few-shot conditions. The goal is to enhance task adaptability and training stability when data is limited. The method builds on a base loss function…

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Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) intends to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Many current methods focus on learning feature representations that are both discriminative for classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Fuxiang Huang , Suqi Song , Lei Zhang

Cross-modal MRI segmentation is of great value for computer-aided medical diagnosis, enabling flexible data acquisition and model generalization. However, most existing methods have difficulty in handling local variations in domain shift…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Bingnan Li , Zhitong Gao , Xuming He

Test-time adaptation approaches have recently emerged as a practical solution for handling domain shift without access to the source domain data. In this paper, we propose and explore a new multi-modal extension of test-time adaptation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Inkyu Shin , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Bingbing Zhuang , Samuel Schulter , Buyu Liu , Sparsh Garg , In So Kweon , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Reliable brain tumor segmentation in MRI is indispensable for treatment planning and outcome monitoring, yet models trained on curated benchmarks often fail under domain shifts arising from scanner and protocol variability as well as…

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Since annotating medical images for segmentation tasks commonly incurs expensive costs, it is highly desirable to design an annotation-efficient method to alleviate the annotation burden. Recently, contrastive learning has exhibited a great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yixuan Wu , Jintai Chen , Jiahuan Yan , Yiheng Zhu , Danny Z. Chen , Jian Wu

Graph domain adaptation (GDA) is a fundamental task in graph machine learning, with techniques like shift-robust graph neural networks (GNNs) and specialized training procedures to tackle the distribution shift problem. Although these…

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Prompt tuning, a recently emerging paradigm, enables the powerful vision-language pre-training models to adapt to downstream tasks in a parameter -- and data -- efficient way, by learning the ``soft prompts'' to condition frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Juncheng Li , Minghe Gao , Longhui Wei , Siliang Tang , Wenqiao Zhang , Mengze Li , Wei Ji , Qi Tian , Tat-Seng Chua , Yueting Zhuang

Machine learning methods strive to acquire a robust model during the training process that can effectively generalize to test samples, even in the presence of distribution shifts. However, these methods often suffer from performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Jian Liang , Ran He , Tieniu Tan

Stochastic optimization plays a crucial role in the advancement of deep learning technologies. Over the decades, significant effort has been dedicated to improving the training efficiency and robustness of deep neural networks, via various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Huixiu Jiang , Ling Yang , Yu Bao , Rutong Si , Sikun Yang

Given a model trained on source data, Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) enables adaptation and inference in test data streams with domain shifts from the source. Current methods predominantly optimize the model for each incoming test data batch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Ziqiang Wang , Zhixiang Chi , Yanan Wu , Li Gu , Zhi Liu , Konstantinos Plataniotis , Yang Wang

Deploying multi-sequence magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) segmentation models to new clinical environments is challenging due to variations in scanners and acquisition protocols. Although existing TTA methods handle basic per-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhipeng Deng , Jiale Zhou , Wenhan Jiang , Haolin Wang , Xun Lin , Yafei Ou , Yefeng Zheng

Purpose: Applying pre-trained medical deep learning segmentation models on out-of-domain images often yields predictions of insufficient quality. In this study, we propose to use a powerful generalizing descriptor along with augmentation to…

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