English
Related papers

Related papers: Fair Domain Generalization: An Information-Theoret…

200 papers

Federated Learning (FL) shows promise in preserving privacy and enabling collaborative learning. However, most current solutions focus on private data collected from a single domain. A significant challenge arises when client data comes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Dung Thuy Nguyen , Taylor T. Johnson , Kevin Leach

Algorithmic fairness has become a central concern in computational decision-making systems, where ensuring equitable outcomes is essential for both ethical and legal reasons. Two dominant notions of fairness have emerged in the literature:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sandra Benítez-Peña , Blas Kolic , Victoria Menendez , Belén Pulido

The definition and implementation of fairness in automated decisions has been extensively studied by the research community. Yet, there hides fallacious reasoning, misleading assertions, and questionable practices at the foundations of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Robert Lee Poe , Soumia Zohra El Mestari

Domain Generalization (DG) aims to train models that can generalize to unseen testing domains by leveraging data from multiple training domains. However, traditional DG methods rely on the availability of multiple diverse training domains,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hao Yan , Marzi Heidari , Yuhong Guo

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a new paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative training. Under domain skew, the current FL approaches are biased and face two fairness problems. 1) Parameter Update Conflict: data disparity among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yuhang Chen , Wenke Huang , Mang Ye

Domain generalization (DG) aims to help models trained on a set of source domains generalize better on unseen target domains. The performances of current DG methods largely rely on sufficient labeled data, which are usually costly or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Xingxuan Zhang , Linjun Zhou , Renzhe Xu , Peng Cui , Zheyan Shen , Haoxin Liu

Domain generalization (DG), aiming to make models work on unseen domains, is a surefire way toward general artificial intelligence. Limited by the scale and diversity of current DG datasets, it is difficult for existing methods to scale to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Hongjing Niu , Hanting Li , Feng Zhao , Bin Li

Deep learning methods can struggle to handle domain shifts not seen in training data, which can cause them to not generalize well to unseen domains. This has led to research attention on domain generalization (DG), which aims to the model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Wei Zhu , Le Lu , Jing Xiao , Mei Han , Jiebo Luo , Adam P. Harrison

Generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) data is a capability natural to humans yet challenging for machines to reproduce. This is because most learning algorithms strongly rely on the i.i.d.~assumption on source/target data, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Kaiyang Zhou , Ziwei Liu , Yu Qiao , Tao Xiang , Chen Change Loy

Leveraging datasets available to learn a model with high generalization ability to unseen domains is important for computer vision, especially when the unseen domain's annotated data are unavailable. We study a novel and practical problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Yang Shu , Zhangjie Cao , Chenyu Wang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Domain generalization aims to learn invariance across multiple training domains, thereby enhancing generalization against out-of-distribution data. While gradient or representation matching algorithms have achieved remarkable success, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yuxin Dong , Tieliang Gong , Hong Chen , Shuangyong Song , Weizhan Zhang , Chen Li

In the application of machine learning to real-life decision-making systems, e.g., credit scoring and criminal justice, the prediction outcomes might discriminate against people with sensitive attributes, leading to unfairness. The commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Suyun Liu , Luis Nunes Vicente

While deep neural networks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on a variety of learning tasks, their performance relies on the assumption that train and test distributions are the same, which may not hold in real-world applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Wenyu Zhang , Mohamed Ragab , Ramon Sagarna

In the domain generalization literature, a common objective is to learn representations independent of the domain after conditioning on the class label. We show that this objective is not sufficient: there exist counter-examples where a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Divyat Mahajan , Shruti Tople , Amit Sharma

With the rapid advancement of deep learning technologies, artificial intelligence has become increasingly prevalent in the research and application of dermatological disease diagnosis. However, this data-driven approach often faces issues…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yiqin Luo , Tianlong Gu

The endeavor to preserve the generalization of a fair and invariant classifier across domains, especially in the presence of distribution shifts, becomes a significant and intricate challenge in machine learning. In response to this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Chen Zhao , Kai Jiang , Xintao Wu , Haoliang Wang , Latifur Khan , Christan Grant , Feng Chen

Domain generalization is the problem of machine learning when the training data and the test data come from different data domains. We present a simple theoretical model of learning to generalize across domains in which there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Vikas K. Garg , Adam Kalai , Katrina Ligett , Zhiwei Steven Wu

We investigate the fundamental performance limitations of learning algorithms in several Domain Generalisation (DG) settings. Motivated by the difficulty with which previously proposed methods have in reliably outperforming Empirical Risk…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-24 Henry Gouk , Ondrej Bohdal , Da Li , Timothy Hospedales

We propose a novel approach for domain generalisation (DG) leveraging risk distributions to characterise domains, thereby achieving domain invariance. In our findings, risk distributions effectively highlight differences between training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Toan Nguyen , Kien Do , Bao Duong , Thin Nguyen

Although recent advances in machine learning have shown its success to learn from independent and identically distributed (IID) data, it is vulnerable to out-of-distribution (OOD) data in an open world. Domain generalization (DG) deals with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Thai-Hoang Pham , Xueru Zhang , Ping Zhang