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Distributional shift between domains poses great challenges to modern machine learning algorithms. The domain generalization (DG) signifies a popular line targeting this issue, where these methods intend to uncover universal patterns across…

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Domain generalization (DG) aims to learn predictive models that can generalize to unseen domains. Most existing DG approaches focus on learning domain-invariant representations under the assumption of conditional distribution shift (i.e.,…

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Multi-domain learning (MDL) refers to simultaneously constructing a model or a set of models on datasets collected from different domains. Conventional approaches emphasize domain-shared information extraction and domain-private information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Rui He , Shengcai Liu , Jiahao Wu , Shan He , Ke Tang

Enhancing feature transferability by matching marginal distributions has led to improvements in domain adaptation, although this is at the expense of feature discrimination. In particular, the ideal joint hypothesis error in the target…

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Due to domain shift, deep neural networks (DNNs) usually fail to generalize well on unknown test data in practice. Domain generalization (DG) aims to overcome this issue by capturing domain-invariant representations from source domains.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Feng Hou , Yao Zhang , Yang Liu , Jin Yuan , Cheng Zhong , Yang Zhang , Zhongchao Shi , Jianping Fan , Zhiqiang He

Despite recent success, most contrastive self-supervised learning methods are domain-specific, relying heavily on data augmentation techniques that require knowledge about a particular domain, such as image cropping and rotation. To…

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Graph contrastive learning (GCL) is an effective paradigm for node representation learning in graphs. The key components hidden behind GCL are data augmentation and positive-negative pair selection. Typical data augmentations in GCL, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Jiaqiang Zhang , Songcan Chen

Domain Generalization (DG) techniques have emerged as a popular approach to address the challenges of domain shift in Deep Learning (DL), with the goal of generalizing well to the target domain unseen during the training. In recent years,…

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Contrastive Representation Learning (CRL) has achieved impressive success in various domains in recent years. Nevertheless, the theoretical understanding of the generalization behavior of CRL has remained limited. Moreover, to the best of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Nong Minh Hieu , Antoine Ledent

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…

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The recent breakthrough achieved by contrastive learning accelerates the pace for deploying unsupervised training on real-world data applications. However, unlabeled data in reality is commonly imbalanced and shows a long-tail distribution,…

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Deep clustering successfully provides more effective features than conventional ones and thus becomes an important technique in current unsupervised learning. However, most deep clustering methods ignore the vital positive and negative…

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Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting consistent representations from graphs, independent of labeled information. However, existing methods predominantly focus on undirected graphs, disregarding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Daohan Su , Yang Zhang , Xunkai Li , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

In Domain Generalization (DG) tasks, models are trained by using only training data from the source domains to achieve generalization on an unseen target domain, this will suffer from the distribution shift problem. So it's important to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Cheng Dai , Yingqiao Lin , Fan Li , Xiyao Li , Donglin Xie

Domain generalization (DG) strives to address distribution shifts across diverse environments to enhance model's generalizability. Current DG approaches are confined to acquiring robust representations with continuous features, specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Shaocong Long , Qianyu Zhou , Xikun Jiang , Chenhao Ying , Lizhuang Ma , Yuan Luo

Domain generalization (DG) is a branch of transfer learning that aims to train the learning models on several seen domains and subsequently apply these pre-trained models to other unseen (unknown but related) domains. To deal with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Thuan Nguyen , Boyang Lyu , Prakash Ishwar , Matthias Scheutz , Shuchin Aeron

Domain Generalization (DG) aims to learn a model that can generalize well to unseen target domains from a set of source domains. With the idea of invariant causal mechanism, a lot of efforts have been put into learning robust causal effects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Qiaowei Miao , Junkun Yuan , Kun Kuang

Domain Generalization (DG) research has gained considerable traction as of late, since the ability to generalize to unseen data distributions is a requirement that eludes even state-of-the-art training algorithms. In this paper we observe…

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