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Real-world applications of machine learning models often confront data distribution shifts, wherein discrepancies exist between the training and test data distributions. In the common multi-domain multi-class setup, as the number of classes…

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Traditional continual learning methods prioritize knowledge retention and focus primarily on mitigating catastrophic forgetting, implicitly assuming that the data distribution of previously learned tasks remains static. This overlooks the…

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Real-world data sets often exhibit temporal dynamics characterized by evolving data distributions. Disregarding this phenomenon, commonly referred to as concept drift, can significantly diminish a model's predictive accuracy. Furthermore,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Mohammad Abu Shaira , Yunhe Feng , Heng Fan , Weishi Shi

As a fundamental problem in machine learning, dataset shift induces a paradigm to learn and transfer knowledge under changing environment. Previous methods assume the changes are induced by covariate, which is less practical for complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 You-Wei Luo , Chuan-Xian Ren

In the pursuit of transferring a source model to a target domain without access to the source training data, Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) has been extensively explored across various scenarios, including Closed-set, Open-set,…

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Source-free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (SFDA) aims to classify target samples by only accessing a pre-trained source model and unlabelled target samples. Since no source data is available, transferring the knowledge from the source…

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Machine learning (ML) algorithms deployed in real-world environments are often faced with the challenge of adapting models to concept drift, where the task data distributions are shifting over time. The problem becomes even more difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Adam Piaseczny , Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher , Shiqiang Wang , Christopher G. Brinton

Traditional machine learning assumes a stationary data distribution, yet many real-world applications operate on nonstationary streams in which the underlying concept evolves over time. This problem can also be viewed as task-free continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Michal Wozniak , Marek Klonowski , Maciej Maczynski , Bartosz Krawczyk

Many real-world applications adopt multi-label data streams as the need for algorithms to deal with rapidly changing data increases. Changes in data distribution, also known as concept drift, cause the existing classification models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Ege Berkay Gulcan , Fazli Can

Recent advances have shown that sequential fine-tuning (SeqFT) of pre-trained vision transformers (ViTs), followed by classifier refinement using approximate distributions of class features, can be an effective strategy for…

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In this work, we introduce a new concept, named source-free open compound domain adaptation (SF-OCDA), and study it in semantic segmentation. SF-OCDA is more challenging than the traditional domain adaptation but it is more practical. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Yuyang Zhao , Zhun Zhong , Zhiming Luo , Gim Hee Lee , Nicu Sebe

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…

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In this work, we revisit the semi-supervised learning (SSL) problem from a new perspective of explicitly reducing empirical distribution mismatch between labeled and unlabeled samples. Benefited from this new perspective, we first propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Feiyu Wang , Qin Wang , Wen Li , Dong Xu , Luc Van Gool

Semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) has been widely studied due to its ability to utilize a few labeled target data to improve the generalization ability of the model. However, existing methods only consider designing certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Xinyang Huang , Chuang Zhu , Bowen Zhang , Shanghang Zhang

Concept Drift (CD) occurs when a change in a hidden context can induce changes in a target concept. CD is a natural phenomenon in non-stationary settings such as data streams. Understanding, detection, and adaptation to CD in streaming data…

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Multi-source domain adaptation (MSDA) addresses the challenge of learning a label prediction function for an unlabeled target domain by leveraging both the labeled data from multiple source domains and the unlabeled data from the target…

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As a specific case of graph transfer learning, unsupervised domain adaptation on graphs aims for knowledge transfer from label-rich source graphs to unlabeled target graphs. However, graphs with topology and attributes usually have…

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Learned lossless image compression has achieved significant advancements in recent years. However, existing methods often rely on training amortized generative models on massive datasets, resulting in sub-optimal probability distribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Daxin Li , Yuanchao Bai , Kai Wang , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu , Wen Gao

The prevalence of domain adaptive semantic segmentation has prompted concerns regarding source domain data leakage, where private information from the source domain could inadvertently be exposed in the target domain. To circumvent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Zixin Wang , Yadan Luo , Zhi Chen , Sen Wang , Zi Huang

Existing learning-based methods for blind image quality assessment (BIQA) are heavily dependent on large amounts of annotated training data, and usually suffer from a severe performance degradation when encountering the domain/distribution…

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