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In many real-world applications, researchers aim to deploy models trained in a source domain to a target domain, where obtaining labeled data is often expensive, time-consuming, or even infeasible. While most existing literature assumes…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-26 Seong-ho Lee , Yanyuan Ma , Jiwei Zhao

Classifier predictions often rely on the assumption that new observations come from the same distribution as training data. When the underlying distribution changes, so does the optimal classification rule, and performance may degrade. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-01 Ciaran Evans , Max G'Sell

As a prominent challenge in addressing real-world issues within a dynamic environment, label shift, which refers to the learning setting where the source (training) and target (testing) label distributions do not match, has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ruidong Fan , Xiao Ouyang , Hong Tao , Yuhua Qian , Chenping Hou

Classification is an essential and fundamental task in machine learning, playing a cardinal role in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). In a supervised learning setting, labels are always needed for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Irene Li

Domain adaptation aims at training a classifier in one dataset and applying it to a related but not identical dataset. One successfully used framework of domain adaptation is to learn a transformation to match both the distribution of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Xu Zhang , Felix Xinnan Yu , Shih-Fu Chang , Shengjin Wang

We consider the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) between a source and a target domain under conditional and label shift a.k.a Generalized Target Shift (GeTarS). Unlike simpler UDA settings, few works have addressed this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Matthieu Kirchmeyer , Alain Rakotomamonjy , Emmanuel de Bezenac , Patrick Gallinari

We give the first provably efficient algorithms for learning neural networks with distribution shift. We work in the Testable Learning with Distribution Shift framework (TDS learning) of Klivans et al. (2024), where the learner receives…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Gautam Chandrasekaran , Adam R. Klivans , Lin Lin Lee , Konstantinos Stavropoulos

In machine learning, if the training data is an unbiased sample of an underlying distribution, then the learned classification function will make accurate predictions for new samples. However, if the training data is not an unbiased sample,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Wouter M. Kouw , Marco Loog

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are de facto node classification models in graph structured data. However, during testing-time, these algorithms assume no data shift, i.e., $\Pr_\text{train}(X,Y) = \Pr_\text{test}(X,Y)$. Domain adaption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Qi Zhu , Chao Zhang , Chanyoung Park , Carl Yang , Jiawei Han

The recent success of deep neural networks relies on massive amounts of labeled data. For a target task where labeled data is unavailable, domain adaptation can transfer a learner from a different source domain. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Mingsheng Long , Han Zhu , Jianmin Wang , Michael I. Jordan

Unsupervised models can provide supplementary soft constraints to help classify new, "target" data since similar instances in the target set are more likely to share the same class label. Such models can also help detect possible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Ayan Acharya , Eduardo R. Hruschka , Joydeep Ghosh , Sreangsu Acharyya

Label shift refers to the phenomenon where the prior class probability p(y) changes between the training and test distributions, while the conditional probability p(x|y) stays fixed. Label shift arises in settings like medical diagnosis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Amr Alexandari , Anshul Kundaje , Avanti Shrikumar

In real-world applications, it is often expensive and time-consuming to obtain labeled examples. In such cases, knowledge transfer from related domains, where labels are abundant, could greatly reduce the need for extensive labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Marouan Belhaj , Pavlos Protopapas , Weiwei Pan

In many real applications of statistical learning, collecting sufficiently many training data is often expensive, time-consuming, or even unrealistic. In this case, a transfer learning approach, which aims to leverage knowledge from a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-26 Baozhen Wang , Xingye Qiao

While unsupervised domain adaptation methods based on deep architectures have achieved remarkable success in many computer vision tasks, they rely on a strong assumption, i.e. labeled source data must be available. In this work we overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Willi Menapace , Stéphane Lathuilière , Elisa Ricci

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have recently attracted vast interest and achieved state-of-the-art performance on graphs, but its success could typically hinge on careful training with amounts of expensive and time-consuming labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Hongrui Liu , Binbin Hu , Xiao Wang , Chuan Shi , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou

In transfer learning, we wish to make inference about a target population when we have access to data both from the distribution itself, and from a different but related source distribution. We introduce a flexible framework for transfer…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-03 Henry W. J. Reeve , Timothy I. Cannings , Richard J. Samworth

We consider a semi-supervised classification problem with non-stationary label-shift in which we observe a labelled data set followed by a sequence of unlabelled covariate vectors in which the marginal probabilities of the class labels may…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Henry W J Reeve

We address the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation under the setting of generalized target shift (joint class-conditional and label shifts). For this framework, we theoretically show that, for good generalization, it is necessary to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Alain Rakotomamonjy , Rémi Flamary , Gilles Gasso , Mokhtar Z. Alaya , Maxime Berar , Nicolas Courty

When concept shifts and sample scarcity are present in the target domain of interest, nonparametric regression learners often struggle to generalize effectively. The technique of transfer learning remedies these issues by leveraging data or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-22 Haotian Lin , Matthew Reimherr