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A major technique for tackling unsupervised domain adaptation involves mapping data points from both the source and target domains into a shared embedding space. The mapping encoder to the embedding space is trained such that the embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mohammad Rostami

The goal of multi-task learning is to enable more efficient learning than single task learning by sharing model structures for a diverse set of tasks. A standard multi-task learning objective is to minimize the average loss across all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Bo Liu , Xingchao Liu , Xiaojie Jin , Peter Stone , Qiang Liu

Domain generalization (DG) methods aim to develop models that generalize to settings where the test distribution is different from the training data. In this paper, we focus on the challenging problem of multi-source zero shot DG (MDG),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Kowshik Thopalli , Sameeksha Katoch , Pavan Turaga , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

With the explosive growth of multimodal content online, pre-trained visual-language models have shown great potential for multimodal recommendation. However, while these models achieve decent performance when applied in a frozen manner,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Wenyu Zhang , Jie Luo , Xinming Zhang , Yuan Fang

The success of vision-language models is primarily attributed to effective alignment across modalities such as vision and language. However, modality gaps persist in existing alignment algorithms and appear necessary for human perception as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hanqi Yan , Xiangxiang Cui , Lu Yin , Jindong Gu , Paul Pu Liang , Yulan He , Yifei Wang

Instruction tuning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) generally involves cooperative learning between a backbone LLM and a feature encoder of non-text input modalities. The major challenge is how to efficiently find the synergy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Xintong Li , Junda Wu , Tong Yu , Yu Wang , Xiang Chen , Jiuxiang Gu , Lina Yao , Julian McAuley , Jingbo Shang

Imitation learning has emerged as a crucial ap proach for acquiring visuomotor skills from demonstrations, where designing effective observation encoders is essential for policy generalization. However, existing methods often struggle to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yikai Tang , Haoran Geng , Sheng Zang , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik

Consider end-to-end training of a multi-modal vs. a single-modal network on a task with multiple input modalities: the multi-modal network receives more information, so it should match or outperform its single-modal counterpart. In our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Weiyao Wang , Du Tran , Matt Feiszli

In this paper we propose a sequential learning framework for Domain Generalization (DG), the problem of training a model that is robust to domain shift by design. Various DG approaches have been proposed with different motivating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Da Li , Yongxin Yang , Yi-Zhe Song , Timothy Hospedales

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

Human beings can quickly adapt to environmental changes by leveraging learning experience. However, the poor ability of adapting to dynamic environments remains a major challenge for AI models. To better understand this issue, we study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Peng Su , Shixiang Tang , Peng Gao , Di Qiu , Ni Zhao , Xiaogang Wang

Deep learning models for medical image analysis easily suffer from distribution shifts caused by dataset artifacts bias, camera variations, differences in the imaging station, etc., leading to unreliable diagnoses in real-world clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Siyuan Yan , Chi Liu , Zhen Yu , Lie Ju , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Brigid Betz-Stablein , Victoria Mar , Monika Janda , Peter Soyer , Zongyuan Ge

Multi-Task Learning is a learning paradigm that uses correlated tasks to improve performance generalization. A common way to learn multiple tasks is through the hard parameter sharing approach, in which a single architecture is used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Angelica Tiemi Mizuno Nakamura , Denis Fernando Wolf , Valdir Grassi

Multi-objective learning (MOL) problems often arise in emerging machine learning problems when there are multiple learning criteria, data modalities, or learning tasks. Different from single-objective learning, one of the critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Lisha Chen , Heshan Fernando , Yiming Ying , Tianyi Chen

Multimodal representation learning is fundamentally about transforming incomparable modalities into comparable representations. While prior research primarily focused on explicitly aligning these representations through targeted learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Megan Tjandrasuwita , Chanakya Ekbote , Liu Ziyin , Paul Pu Liang

Machine learning models are prone to overfitting their training (source) domains, which is commonly believed to be the reason why they falter in novel target domains. Here we examine the contrasting view that multi-source domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Md Arafat Sultan , Avirup Sil , Radu Florian

Multimodal fusion is often treated as an optimization-balancing problem, where training signals are adjusted to prevent one modality from dominating the others. However, balanced optimization does not fully determine the geometry of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zixuan Xia , Hao Wang , Pengcheng Weng , Yanyu Qian , Yangxin Xu , William Dan , Fei Wang

The domain shift between training and testing data presents a significant challenge for training generalizable deep learning models. As a consequence, the performance of models trained with the independent and identically distributed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Aleksandr Matsun , Dana O. Mohamed , Sharon Chokuwa , Muhammad Ridzuan , Mohammad Yaqub

Multimodal learning holds promise for richer information extraction by capturing dependencies across data sources. Yet, current training methods often underperform due to modality competition, a phenomenon where modalities contend for…

Multitask learning is a methodology to boost generalization performance and also reduce computational intensity and memory usage. However, learning multiple tasks simultaneously can be more difficult than learning a single task because it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Sungjae Lee , Youngdoo Son