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Unsupervised domain adaptation uses source data from different distributions to solve the problem of classifying data from unlabeled target domains. However, conventional methods require access to source data, which often raise concerns…

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We consider unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), where labeled data from a source domain (e.g., photographs) and unlabeled data from a target domain (e.g., sketches) are used to learn a classifier for the target domain. Conventional UDA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Kendrick Shen , Robbie Jones , Ananya Kumar , Sang Michael Xie , Jeff Z. HaoChen , Tengyu Ma , Percy Liang

Traditional domain generalization methods often rely on domain alignment to reduce inter-domain distribution differences and learn domain-invariant representations. However, domain shifts are inherently difficult to eliminate, which limits…

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Generalization under the distribution shift has been a great challenge in computer vision. The prevailing practice of directly employing the one-hot labels as the training targets in domain generalization~(DG) can lead to gradient…

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Unsupervised graph representation learning is critical to a wide range of applications where labels may be scarce or expensive to procure. Contrastive learning (CL) is an increasingly popular paradigm for such settings and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Puja Trivedi , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Yujun Yan , Yaoqing Yang , Danai Koutra

The performance of existing underwater object detection methods degrades seriously when facing domain shift caused by complicated underwater environments. Due to the limitation of the number of domains in the dataset, deep detectors easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yang Chen , Pinhao Song , Hong Liu , Linhui Dai , Xiaochuan Zhang , Runwei Ding , Shengquan Li

Contrastive learning (CL) is one of the most successful paradigms for self-supervised learning (SSL). In a principled way, it considers two augmented "views" of the same image as positive to be pulled closer, and all other images as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chun-Hsiao Yeh , Cheng-Yao Hong , Yen-Chi Hsu , Tyng-Luh Liu , Yubei Chen , Yann LeCun

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated gratifying results at learning discriminative features. However, when applied to unseen domains, state-of-the-art models are usually prone to errors due to domain shift. After…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Rang Meng , Xianfeng Li , Weijie Chen , Shicai Yang , Jie Song , Xinchao Wang , Lei Zhang , Mingli Song , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

Deep learning models suffer from catastrophic forgetting when being fine-tuned with samples of new classes. This issue becomes even more pronounced when faced with the domain shift between training and testing data. In this paper, we study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Can Peng , Piotr Koniusz , Kaiyu Guo , Brian C. Lovell , Peyman Moghadam

Contrastive representation learning (CRL) underpins many modern foundation models. Despite recent theoretical progress, existing analyses suffer from several key limitations: (i) the statistical consistency of CRL remains poorly understood;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuanfan Li , Xiyuan Wei , Tianbao Yang , Yiming Ying

Efficient fine-tuning of visual-language models like CLIP has become crucial due to their large-scale parameter size and extensive pretraining requirements. Existing methods typically address either the issue of unseen classes or unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haoran Xu , Jiaze Li , Jianzhong Ju , Zhenbo Luo

In the problem of domain generalization (DG), there are labeled training data sets from several related prediction problems, and the goal is to make accurate predictions on future unlabeled data sets that are not known to the learner. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-08 Gilles Blanchard , Aniket Anand Deshmukh , Urun Dogan , Gyemin Lee , Clayton Scott

In this paper, we address Novel Class Discovery (NCD), the task of unveiling new classes in a set of unlabeled samples given a labeled dataset with known classes. We exploit the peculiarities of NCD to build a new framework, named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhun Zhong , Enrico Fini , Subhankar Roy , Zhiming Luo , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe

Self-supervised pre-training with contrastive learning is a powerful method for learning from sparsely labeled data. However, performance can drop considerably when there is a shift in the distribution of data from training to test time. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Robert Lewis , Katie Matton , Rosalind W. Picard , John Guttag

Contrastive learning (CL) has become the de-facto learning paradigm in self-supervised learning on graphs, which generally follows the "augmenting-contrasting" learning scheme. However, we observe that unlike CL in computer vision domain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Wen-Zhi Li , Chang-Dong Wang , Hui Xiong , Jian-Huang Lai

Domain adaptation (DA) and domain generalization (DG) have emerged as a solution to the domain shift problem where the distribution of the source and target data is different. The task of DG is more challenging than DA as the target data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Mohammad Mahfujur Rahman , Clinton Fookes , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Sridha Sridharan

Learning domain-invariant representation is a dominant approach for domain generalization (DG), where we need to build a classifier that is robust toward domain shifts. However, previous domain-invariance-based methods overlooked the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Kei Akuzawa , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

Brain network analysis plays an increasingly important role in studying brain function and the exploring of disease mechanisms. However, existing brain network construction tools have some limitations, including dependency on empirical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-29 Yongcheng Zong , Shuqiang Wang

Domain generalization (DG) is about training models that generalize well under domain shift. Previous research on DG has been conducted mostly in single-source or multi-source settings. In this paper, we consider a third, lesser-known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Han Gao , Kaican Li , Weiyan Xie , Zhi Lin , Yongxiang Huang , Luning Wang , Caleb Chen Cao , Nevin L. Zhang

Appearance-based gaze estimation always suffers from poor generalization due to limited annotated samples and insufficient dataset diversity. Leading approaches adopt weakly supervised learning to generate large-scale pseudo-labeled data…

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