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The goal of domain adaptation is to adapt models learned on a source domain to a particular target domain. Most methods for unsupervised domain adaptation proposed in the literature to date, assume that the set of classes present in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Ayush Mittal , Anant Raj , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Tinne Tuytelaars

In semi-supervised domain adaptation, a few labeled samples per class in the target domain guide features of the remaining target samples to aggregate around them. However, the trained model cannot produce a highly discriminative feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jichang Li , Guanbin Li , Yemin Shi , Yizhou Yu

Object counting models suffer when deployed across domains with differing density variety, since density shifts are inherently task-relevant and violate standard domain adaptation assumptions. To address this, we propose a theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zhuonan Liang , Dongnan Liu , Jianan Fan , Yaxuan Song , Qiang Qu , Runnan Chen , Yu Yao , Peng Fu , Weidong Cai

Recent deep learning methods for object detection rely on a large amount of bounding box annotations. Collecting these annotations is laborious and costly, yet supervised models do not generalize well when testing on images from a different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Han-Kai Hsu , Chun-Han Yao , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chih Hung , Hung-Yu Tseng , Maneesh Singh , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Domain generalization (DG) is the problem of generalizing from several distributions (or domains), for which labeled training data are available, to a new test domain for which no labeled data is available. For the prevailing benchmark…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yilun Zhu , Naihao Deng , Naichen Shi , Aditya Gangrade , Clayton Scott

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human intentions has become a critical task for safely deploying models in real-world systems. While existing alignment approaches have seen empirical success, theoretically understanding how these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Shawn Im , Yixuan Li

Preference alignment methods are increasingly critical for steering large language models (LLMs) to generate outputs consistent with human values. While recent approaches often rely on synthetic data generated by LLMs for scalability and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Mingye Zhu , Yi Liu , Zheren Fu , Yongdong Zhang , Zhendong Mao

Domain adaptation deals with training models using large scale labeled data from a specific source domain and then adapting the knowledge to certain target domains that have few or no labels. Many prior works learn domain agnostic feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Astuti Sharma , Tarun Kalluri , Manmohan Chandraker

Recently, remarkable progress has been made in learning transferable representation across domains. Previous works in domain adaptation are majorly based on two techniques: domain-adversarial learning and self-training. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Minghao Chen , Shuai Zhao , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai

Prior Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) methods often aim to train a domain-invariant feature extractor, which may hinder the model from learning sufficiently discriminative features. To tackle this, a line of works based on prompt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Hoang Phan , Lam Tran , Quyen Tran , Trung Le

Adapting pre-trained language models (PrLMs) (e.g., BERT) to new domains has gained much attention recently. Instead of fine-tuning PrLMs as done in most previous work, we investigate how to adapt the features of PrLMs to new domains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Hai Ye , Qingyu Tan , Ruidan He , Juntao Li , Hwee Tou Ng , Lidong Bing

We use information-theoretic tools to derive a novel analysis of Multi-source Domain Adaptation (MDA) from the representation learning perspective. Concretely, we study joint distribution alignment for supervised MDA with few target labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Qi Chen , Mario Marchand

Face anti-spoofing techniques based on domain generalization have recently been studied widely. Adversarial learning and meta-learning techniques have been adopted to learn domain-invariant representations. However, prior approaches often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Jingyi Yang , Zitong Yu , Xiuming Ni , Jia He , Hui Li

Domain adaptation (DA) aims to transfer knowledge from a label-rich and related domain (source domain) to a label-scare domain (target domain). Pseudo-labeling has recently been widely explored and used in DA. However, this line of research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yunlong Zhang , Changxing Jing , Huangxing Lin , Chaoqi Chen , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , Yang Zou

Domain generalization for semantic segmentation aims to mitigate the degradation in model performance caused by domain shifts. However, in many real-world scenarios, we are unable to access the model parameters and architectural details due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qingmei Li , Yang Zhang , Peifeng Zhang , Haohuan Fu , Juepeng Zheng

Domain adaptation is a potential method to train a powerful deep neural network, which can handle the absence of labeled data. More precisely, domain adaptation solving the limitation called dataset bias or domain shift when the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Thai-Vu Nguyen , Anh Nguyen , Nghia Le , Bac Le

One recent research demonstrated successful application of the label alignment property for unsupervised domain adaptation in a linear regression settings. Instead of regularizing representation learning to be domain invariant, the research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Xuanrui Zeng

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

Finetuning language models for a new domain inevitably leads to the deterioration of their general performance. This becomes more pronounced the more limited the finetuning data resource. We introduce minifinetuning (MFT), a method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Peter Belcak , Greg Heinrich , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov

Convolutional neural networks require numerous data for training. Considering the difficulties in data collection and labeling in some specific tasks, existing approaches generally use models pre-trained on a large source domain (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Zhichen Zhao , Bowen Zhang , Yuning Jiang , Li Xu , Lei Li , Wei-Ying Ma