New method learns domain-invariant local feature patterns for unsupervised domain adaptation.
problem Performance degradation due to domain-shift in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Jointly learns domain-invariant local feature patterns and holistic feature distributions.
result Superior performance on benchmark datasets compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Interventional domain adaptation improves feature transferability by removing spurious correlations.
problem Improper feature transferability due to spurious correlations in domain adaptation.
method Intervention strategy using unlabeled target data to generate counterfactual features and train discriminability invariance.
result Consistent performance improvements over state-of-the-art approaches in various domain adaptation tasks.
A framework isolates and learns approximately shared features for better domain adaptation.
problem Reducing performance degradation in unseen domains using machine learning models.
method Statistical framework distinguishing feature utilities based on correlation variance across domains. Learning approximately shared features from source tasks and fine-tuning on target tasks.
result Improved population risk compared to previous results on both source and target tasks, resolving the paradox of feature selection.
This paper improves ASR robustness by learning domain invariant features.
problem Robustness issues in ASR due to mismatched training and testing distributions.
method Factorized Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder (FHVAE) for unsupervised learning of domain invariant features.
result 41% and 27% absolute word error rate reductions on mismatched domains.
AFLAC improves domain generalization by balancing invariance and accuracy.
problem Balancing domain invariance and classification accuracy for domain generalization.
method Adversarial feature learning with accuracy constraint (AFLAC).
result AFLAC outperforms domain-invariance-based methods on synthetic and real-world datasets.
New method improves domain generalization by aligning causal mechanisms across domains.
problem Improving model's ability to generalize across different distributions.
method Introduces invariance of average causal effect of features to labels, regularizing training approach.
result Demonstrates superior performance on benchmark datasets compared to state-of-the-art methods.
TAROT enhances robustness and domain adaptability with domain-invariant features.
problem Developing models robust to adversarial attacks across diverse domains.
method Derives a new generalization bound and proposes TAROT algorithm.
result TAROT outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy and robustness.
This paper investigates domain generalization: How to take knowledge acquired from an arbitrary number of related domains and apply it to previously unseen domains? We propose Domain-Invariant Component Analysis (DICA), a kernel-based optimization algorithm that learns an invariant transformation by minimizing the diss…
This paper defines and quantifies transferability in domain generalization.
problem Understanding and quantifying transferability between domains.
method Formal definition and estimation of transferability, upper bound for target error.
result Many algorithms do not learn transferable features, proposing a new algorithm.
SFB uses stable features to adapt unstable ones for better performance.
problem Improving classifier performance on out-of-distribution data by leveraging stable features.
method SFB learns a predictor that separates stable and unstable features, then adapts unstable predictions using stable predictions.
result SFB can learn an asymptotically-optimal predictor without test-domain labels.
New algorithms identify invariant features for domain generalization.
problem Achieving robust models across unseen environments.
method Invariant-Feature Subspace Recovery (ISR) algorithms.
result ISR algorithms achieve provable domain generalization with fewer training environments.
New method learns domain-invariant features for unseen domains.
problem Learning models that generalize to unseen domains with different statistics.
method Learning to learn approach, training a domain-invariant feature extractor.
result Method outperforms state-of-the-art solutions in both domain generalization and heterogeneous domain generalization.
Proposes WDGRL for better domain adaptation.
problem Improving performance on target domain via source domain knowledge.
method WDGRL uses Wasserstein distance to learn domain invariant feature representations.
result WDGRL outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in domain adaptation.
Proposes IIB for domain generalization, overcoming failure modes of IRM.
problem Domain generalization with nonlinear classifiers and pseudo-invariant features.
method Invariant Information Bottleneck (IIB) using mutual information and variational formulation.
result Significantly outperforms IRM on synthetic datasets and real-world benchmarks.
Paper shows deep nets can't guarantee domain adaptation without invariant features.
problem Learning domain-invariant features for successful domain adaptation.
method Proposes a counterexample and a new generalization upper bound.
result Shows conditional shift and characterizes a fundamental tradeoff.
MetFA aligns source and target domains for cross-device image classification.
problem Learning discriminative class boundaries across different domains.
method Distance metric guided feature alignment (MetFA) for domain-invariant and discriminative feature extraction.
result MetFA outperforms state-of-the-art methods in cross-device image classification.
This paper tackles domain generalization by learning invariant class conditional distributions.
problem Learning invariant representations across different domains with varying distributions.
method Proposes a conditional invariant representation to ensure invariance of class conditional distributions.
result Guarantees invariance of the joint distribution P(h(X),Y) if class prior P(Y) remains invariant. Improved acoustic modeling with attentive adversarial learning.
problem Domain variability in acoustic modeling.
method Proposes an attentive ADIT method with an attention mechanism to improve domain-invariance of deep features.
result Improves deep feature domain-invariance and senone-discriminativity over ADIT.
Paper proposes MDAT to stabilize domain alignment in label-scarce settings.
problem Stable and comprehensive domain alignment in label-scarce settings.
method Max-margin Domain-Adversarial Training (MDAT) with Adversarial Reconstruction Network (ARN).
result MDAT stabilizes gradient reversing and achieves strong robustness to hyper-parameters.
MDA learns domain-invariant features for better target domain classification.
problem Improving model performance on unseen target domains using multiple source domains.
method MDA learns a domain-invariant feature transformation with minimal divergence, maximal separability, and compactness.
result MDA achieves better generalization on unseen target domains compared to existing methods.
This work tackles OOD generalization by leveraging causal invariance without needing to recover causal features.
problem Learning models that perform well on out-of-distribution (OOD) data.
method Causal invariant transformations to modify non-causal features while preserving causal parts.
result Theoretical and practical methods to learn a minimax optimal model across domains using single domain data.
New method ISR improves domain generalization with provable guarantees.
problem Achieving reliable performance across unseen environments.
method Invariant-feature Subspace Recovery (ISR) algorithms.
result ISR can achieve provable domain generalization with fewer training environments.
Proposes joint domain alignment and discriminative feature learning for deep domain adaptation.
problem Reduces domain shift and misclassification of target domain samples.
method Instance-based and center-based discriminative feature learning methods.
result Learning discriminative features in shared feature space significantly boosts deep domain adaptation performance.
A new method improves cross-domain sentiment analysis by learning weighted domain-invariant representations.
problem Label distribution changes across domains harm domain adaptation in DIRL.
method Proposes WDIRL, a modification to DIRL that learns weighted domain-invariant representations.
result Empirical studies show the effectiveness of WDIRL in cross-domain sentiment analysis.
GENIE balances domain-invariant feature learning and gradient alignment for improved DG performance.
problem Domain Generalization (DG) overfitting to domain-specific features
method GENIE (Generalization-ENhancing Iterative Equalizer) optimizer
result Prevents a small subset of parameters from dominating optimization, promoting domain-invariant feature learning
MADOD meta-learns invariant features for OOD detection across unseen domains.
problem Simultaneous covariate and semantic shifts in real-world machine learning applications.
method Meta-learning and G-invariance to learn robust, domain-invariant features.
result Superior performance in semantic OOD detection across unseen domains.
Proposes first method for continuously indexed domain adaptation.
problem Challenges of transferring knowledge between continuously indexed domains.
method Combines adversarial adaptation with a novel discriminator.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Selective pseudo-labeling improves unsupervised domain adaptation.
problem Classifying unlabeled target domain samples with labeled source domain samples.
method Structured prediction for selective pseudo-labeling.
result Selective pseudo-labeling outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
Paper extends scattering network for fast, scalable feature extraction.
problem Efficiently extracting features from structured inputs.
method Derives a Fourier domain model for scattering network with higher order nonlinearities.
result Achieves linear time complexity for fast computations.
Causal invariance can improve finite-sample domain adaptation, but only when the target risk margins are large.
problem Finite-sample domain adaptation
method Linear regression with causal knowledge
result Adaptive aggregation can match best candidate predictor while avoiding negative transfer
New benchmark and COAL model tackle class-imbalanced domain adaptation.
problem Aligning feature and label distributions across domains with different label distributions.
method COAL model combining feature and label distribution alignment.
result COAL model outperforms recent domain adaptation methods.
A new method improves label propagation for unsupervised domain adaptation.
problem Improving unsupervised domain adaptation through semi-supervised learning techniques.
method Label Propagation with Augmented Anchors (A2LP) for UDA. result A2LP improves over representative UDA methods and benchmarks. Proposes Infomax and Domain-Independent Representations for robust causal inference.
problem Handling treatment selection bias and domain imbalance in causal inference with real-world data.
method Utilizes mutual information to learn domain-invariant representations that maximize predictive common information.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on causal effect inference across various data distributions.
Improves unsupervised domain adaptation by mixing source and target domains.
problem Improves unsupervised domain adaptation by mixing source and target domains.
method Enforces training constraints across domains using mixup formulation and feature-level consistency regularizer.
result Significantly improves state-of-the-art performance on image classification and human activity recognition tasks.
We study the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation, which aims to adapt classifiers trained on a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Many existing approaches first learn domain-invariant features and then construct classifiers with them. We propose a novel approach that jointly learn the both. Spec…
SFP prunes ID features to improve OOD generalization without domain data.
problem Improving out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization in biased models.
method Spurious Feature-targeted model Pruning (SFP) framework.
result SFP achieves optimal OOD generalization by pruning ID features.
Proposes a new framework for EEG-based BCIs without adversarial learning.
problem High intra- and inter-subject variabilities in EEG data.
method Mutual information-driven deep learning approach to learn class-relevant and subject-invariant feature representations.
result Effective in learning class-relevant and subject-invariant feature representations without adversarial learning.
This research studies affine invariance in continuous-domain convolutional neural networks.
problem Recognizing patterns and features under affine transformations in continuous domains.
method Introduces a new criterion for assessing affine invariance, embeds images into the affine Lie group, and analyzes convolution over this group.
result Extends the scope of geometrical transformations that deep-learning pipelines can handle.
The paper proposes using a discriminator for both domain adaptation and pseudo labeling confidence.
problem Improving generalization of classifiers trained on labeled source data to unlabeled target data.
method Multi-purposing the discriminator to learn domain-invariant feature representations and generate pseudo labels based on confidence.
result The approach enhances classifier performance by providing confidence measures for pseudo labels.
The paper shows how integrating categorical semantics can enhance unsupervised domain translation.
problem Improving unsupervised domain translation between perceptually different domains.
method Learning invariant categorical semantic features in an unsupervised manner and conditioning them on the style encoder.
result Conditioning the style encoder on learned categorical semantics improves translation and stylization.
Discriminative active learning reduces data annotation costs for domain adaptation.
problem Conditional shift problem hinders domain adaptation between related but different domains.
method Three-stage active adversarial training: invariant feature space learning, uncertainty and diversity criteria, re-training with queried labels.
result Empirical comparisons show the proposed approach is more effective than existing methods.
New method improves domain generalization by matching object representations.
problem Existing domain generalization methods fail to generalize to unseen domains.
method Proposes matching-based algorithms to match object representations across domains.
result MatchDG algorithm matches ground-truth object representations and improves out-of-domain accuracy.
Proposes TFDF to learn transferable and discriminative features for unsupervised domain adaptation.
problem Difficult to induce supervised classifier without labeled data in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method TFDF optimizes transferability and discriminability by aligning distributions and minimizing class confusion.
result TFDF achieves better performance on real-world datasets compared to existing methods.
Learning invariant representations is an important problem in machine learning and pattern recognition. In this paper, we present a novel framework of transformation-invariant feature learning by incorporating linear transformations into the feature learning algorithms. For example, we present the transformation-invari…
Proposes a novel framework for unsupervised domain adaptation using causal representations.
problem Transferability of deep model representations across domains is limited.
method Integrates causal inference into deep learning pipeline for domain-invariant feature learning.
result Demonstrates superior performance in unsupervised domain adaptation using causal representations.
DCSE combines domain confusion and self-ensembling for unsupervised adaptation.
problem Unsupervised domain adaptation with time-consuming data collection and annotation.
method DCSE combines domain confusion and self-ensembling to learn invariant representations.
result DCSE outperforms existing methods in various unsupervised domain adaptation benchmarks.
Unified approach to domain generalization by aligning gradients and Hessians.
problem Developing models that generalize well across unseen domains.
method Moment Alignment, extending transfer measure to DG, aligning derivatives across domains.
result Moment Alignment unifies gradient and Hessian matching approaches, improving generalizability.
Method addresses label shift in adversarial domain adaptation.
problem Label shift in behavioral studies.
method DATS (Domain Adversarial nets for Target Shift) framework.
result DATS framework performs well under large label shift.