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Multi-source domain adaptation aims at leveraging the knowledge from multiple tasks for predicting a related target domain. Hence, a crucial aspect is to properly combine different sources based on their relations. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Changjian Shui , Zijian Li , Jiaqi Li , Christian Gagné , Charles Ling , Boyu Wang

Domain adaptation (DA) aims at improving the performance of a model on target domains by transferring the knowledge contained in different but related source domains. With recent advances in deep learning models which are extremely data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Gabriela Csurka

We explore adapting foundation models (FMs) from the computer vision domain to geoscience. FMs, large neural networks trained on massive datasets, excel in diverse tasks with remarkable adaptability and generality. However, geoscience faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Zhixiang Guo , Xinming Wu , Luming Liang , Hanlin Sheng , Nuo Chen , Zhengfa Bi

The success of foundation models in language has inspired a new wave of general-purpose models for human mobility. However, existing approaches struggle to scale effectively due to two fundamental limitations: a failure to use meaningful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chonghua Han , Yuan Yuan , Jingtao Ding , Jie Feng , Fanjin Meng , Yong Li

Object counting models suffer when deployed across domains with differing density variety, since density shifts are inherently task-relevant and violate standard domain adaptation assumptions. To address this, we propose a theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zhuonan Liang , Dongnan Liu , Jianan Fan , Yaxuan Song , Qiang Qu , Runnan Chen , Yu Yao , Peng Fu , Weidong Cai

Multimodal Domain Generalization (MMDG) leverages the complementary strengths of multiple modalities to enhance model generalization on unseen domains. A central challenge in multimodal learning is optimization imbalance, where modalities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hongzhao Li , Guohao Shen , Shupan Li , Mingliang Xu , Muhammad Haris Khan

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 shift is a very challenging problem for semantic segmentation. Any model can be easily trained on synthetic data, where images and labels are artificially generated, but it will perform poorly when deployed on real environments. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Luigi Musto , Andrea Zinelli

Constructing a robust model that can effectively generalize to test samples under distribution shifts remains a significant challenge in the field of medical imaging. The foundational models for vision and language, pre-trained on extensive…

3D semantic segmentation is a critical task in many real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, robotics, and mixed reality. However, the task is extremely challenging due to ambiguities coming from the unstructured, sparse, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Adriano Cardace , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Foundational models are trained on extensive datasets to capture the general trends of a domain. However, in medical imaging, the scarcity of data makes pre-training for every domain, modality, or task challenging. Instead of building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mohammad Areeb Qazi , Munachiso S Nwadike , Ibrahim Almakky , Mohammad Yaqub , Numan Saeed

In this paper, we tackle two fundamental problems in few-shot domain adaptation of foundation models. First, hyperparameter tuning is often impractical due to the lack of large validation datasets. Second, model robustness under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Marco Roschkowski

Building a general model capable of analyzing human trajectories across different geographic regions and different tasks becomes an emergent yet important problem for various applications. However, existing works suffer from the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shuo Liu , Di Yao , Yan Lin , Gao Cong , Jingping Bi

The ability to build a model on a source task and subsequently adapt such model on a new target task is a pervasive need in many astronomical applications. The problem is generally known as transfer learning in machine learning, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Ricardo Vilalta , Kinjal Dhar Gupta , Dainis Boumber , Mikhail M. Meskhi

Domain generalization is a technique aimed at enabling models to maintain high accuracy when applied to new environments or datasets (unseen domains) that differ from the datasets used in training. Generally, the accuracy of models trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Reiji Saito , Kazuhiro Hotta

Classical Domain Adaptation methods acquire transferability by regularizing the overall distributional discrepancies between features in the source domain (labeled) and features in the target domain (unlabeled). They often do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Shumin Ma , Zhiri Yuan , Qi Wu , Yiyan Huang , Xixu Hu , Cheuk Hang Leung , Dongdong Wang , Zhixiang Huang

The rapid evolution of multimodal foundation model has demonstrated significant progresses in vision-language understanding and generation, e.g., our previous work SEED-LLaMA. However, there remains a gap between its capability and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yuying Ge , Sijie Zhao , Jinguo Zhu , Yixiao Ge , Kun Yi , Lin Song , Chen Li , Xiaohan Ding , Ying Shan

Deep models must learn robust and transferable representations in order to perform well on new domains. While domain transfer methods (e.g., domain adaptation, domain generalization) have been proposed to learn transferable representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Donghyun Kim , Kaihong Wang , Stan Sclaroff , Kate Saenko

Foundation models (FMs) have revolutionized computer vision, enabling effective learning across different domains. However, their performance under domain shift is yet underexplored. This paper investigates the zero-shot domain adaptation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Ugur Ali Kaplan , Margret Keuper , Anna Khoreva , Dan Zhang , Yumeng Li

Data streams in real-world industrial scenarios often contain transitional operating conditions that are uncovered during offline training, leading to significant distribution shifts. To bridge the gap between static offline models and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Hongshuo Zhao , Zeyi Liu , Xiao He