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Outlier detection (OD), distinguishing inliers and outliers in completely unlabeled datasets, plays a vital role in science and engineering. Although there have been many insightful OD methods, most of them require troublesome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dazhi Fu , Jicong Fan

Humans naturally adapt to diverse environments by learning underlying rules across worlds with different dynamics, observations, and reward structures. In contrast, existing agents typically demonstrate improvements via self-evolving within…

Understanding environment dynamics is necessary for robots to act safely and optimally in the world. In realistic scenarios, dynamics are non-stationary and the causal variables such as environment parameters cannot necessarily be precisely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Ben Evans , Abitha Thankaraj , Lerrel Pinto

We consider learning from labeled data collected across multiple environments, where the data distribution may vary across these environments. This problem is commonly approached from a causal perspective, seeking invariant representations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-30 Yuli Slavutsky , David M. Blei

We introduce a new problem in unsupervised domain adaptation, termed as Generalized Universal Domain Adaptation (GUDA), which aims to achieve precise prediction of all target labels including unknown categories. GUDA bridges the gap between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Didi Zhu , Yinchuan Li , Yunfeng Shao , Jianye Hao , Fei Wu , Kun Kuang , Jun Xiao , Chao Wu

The increasing availability of Earth observation data offers unprecedented opportunities for large-scale environmental monitoring and analysis. However, these datasets are inherently heterogeneous, stemming from diverse sensors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Georges Le Bellier , Nicolas Audebert

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection aims to identify test examples that do not belong to the training distribution and are thus unlikely to be predicted reliably. Despite a plethora of existing works, most of them focused only on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Reza Averly , Wei-Lun Chao

Deep learning-based edge detectors heavily rely on pixel-wise labels which are often provided by multiple annotators. Existing methods fuse multiple annotations using a simple voting process, ignoring the inherent ambiguity of edges and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Caixia Zhou , Yaping Huang , Mengyang Pu , Qingji Guan , Li Huang , Haibin Ling

Unsupervised domain adaptation is effective in leveraging the rich information from the source domain to the unsupervised target domain. Though deep learning and adversarial strategy make an important breakthrough in the adaptability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 You-Wei Luo , Chuan-Xian Ren , Pengfei Ge , Ke-Kun Huang , Yu-Feng Yu

Deep learning-based trajectory prediction models for autonomous driving often struggle with generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios, sometimes performing worse than simple rule-based models. To address this limitation, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Jinning Li , Jiachen Li , Sangjae Bae , David Isele

Data-driven methods offer efficient and robust solutions for analyzing complex dynamical systems but rely on the assumption of I.I.D. data, driving the development of generalization techniques for handling environmental differences. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Shixuan Liu , Yue He , Haotian Wang , Wenjing Yang , Yunfei Wang , Peng Cui , Zhong Liu

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents may successfully generalize to new settings if trained on an appropriately diverse set of environment and task configurations. Unsupervised Environment Design (UED) is a promising self-supervised RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Minqi Jiang , Michael Dennis , Jack Parker-Holder , Jakob Foerster , Edward Grefenstette , Tim Rocktäschel

A fundamental problem for waveform-agile radar systems is that the true environment is unknown, and transmission policies which perform well for a particular tracking instance may be sub-optimal for another. Additionally, there is a limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Charles E. Thornton , R. Michael Buehrer , Anthony F. Martone

Recent advancements in deep learning have led to the development of Foundation Models (FMs) for weather forecasting, yet their ability to predict extreme weather events remains limited. Existing approaches either focus on general weather…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Hang Ni , Weijia Zhang , Hao Liu

Real-world digital environments are highly diverse and dynamic. These characteristics cause agents to frequently encounter unseen environments and distribution shifts, making continual learning in such environments essential for…

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Unsupervised domain adaptation enables intelligent models to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to a similar but unlabeled target domain. Recent study reveals that knowledge can be transferred from one source domain to another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Yueming Yin , Zhen Yang , Haifeng Hu , Xiaofu Wu

Recognizing wild faces is extremely hard as they appear with all kinds of variations. Traditional methods either train with specifically annotated variation data from target domains, or by introducing unlabeled target variation data to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Yichun Shi , Xiang Yu , Kihyuk Sohn , Manmohan Chandraker , Anil K. Jain

Anomaly detection is critical in domains such as cybersecurity and finance, especially when working with large-scale tabular data. Yet, unsupervised anomaly detection-where no labeled anomalies are available-remains challenging because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Spencer King , Zhilu Zhang , Ruofan Yu , Baris Coskun , Wei Ding , Qian Cui

Humans do not memorize everything. Thus, humans recognize scene changes by exploring the past images. However, available past (i.e., reference) images typically represent nearby viewpoints of the present (i.e., query) scene, rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Kyusik Cho , Suhan Woo , Hongje Seong , Euntai Kim

Training general agents to follow complex instructions (tasks) in intricate environments (levels) remains a core challenge in reinforcement learning. Random sampling of task-level pairs often produces unsolvable combinations, highlighting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Daniel Furelos-Blanco , Charles Pert , Frederik Kelbel , Alex F. Spies , Alessandra Russo , Michael Dennis