New bounds for PDA using partial optimal transport improve domain alignment.
problem Scarcity of labeled target data with abundant source data.
method Derive theoretical bounds based on partial optimal transport.
result Theoretical bounds support partial Wasserstein distance for domain alignment.
Unsupervised domain adaptation seeks to learn an invariant and discriminative representation for an unlabeled target domain by leveraging the information of a labeled source dataset. We propose to improve the discriminative ability of the target domain representation by simultaneously learning tightly clustered target …
Partial domain adaptation aims to transfer knowledge from a label-rich source domain to a label-scarce target domain which relaxes the fully shared label space assumption across different domains. In this more general and practical scenario, a major challenge is how to select source instances in the shared classes acro…
Domain adaptation framework identifies latent variables for target distribution identifiability.
problem Unsupervised domain adaptation without identifiable joint distribution of features and labels.
method Formulated latent variable model with invariant and changing components, constrained domain shift to influence only changing components.
result Joint distribution of data and labels in target domain is identifiable under mild conditions.
PAS method improves UDA by progressively refining subspaces for reliable pseudo-labels.
problem Mitigating mode collapse in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Progressive Adaptation of Subspaces (PAS) approach.
result PAS effectively mitigates mode collapse and improves performance in UDA and PDA.
This work evaluates PDA methods without target labels, revealing significant accuracy drops.
problem Evaluating PDA methods without target labels and inconsistent experimental settings.
method Realistic evaluation of 7 PDA methods with 7 model selection strategies on 2 datasets.
result Accuracy drops up to 30 percentage points without target labels, only one method performs well.
In conventional domain adaptation, a critical assumption is that there exists a fully labeled domain (source) that contains the same label space as another unlabeled or scarcely labeled domain (target). However, in the real world, there often exist application scenarios in which both domains are partially labeled and n…
Proposes m-POT to improve m-OT's misspecified mappings issue.
problem Misspecified mappings in mini-batch optimal transport.
method Partial optimal transport (POT) between mini-batch empirical measures.
result m-POT alleviates incorrect mappings compared to current methods.
The task of unsupervised domain adaptation is proposed to transfer the knowledge of a label-rich domain (source domain) to a label-scarce domain (target domain). Matching feature distributions between different domains is a widely applied method for the aforementioned task. However, the method does not perform well whe…
There are a variety of Domain Adaptation (DA) scenarios subject to label sets and domain configurations, including closed-set and partial-set DA, as well as multi-source and multi-target DA. It is notable that existing DA methods are generally designed only for a specific scenario, and may underperform for scenarios th…
Paper tackles open set domain adaptation by detecting unknown classes.
problem Adapting to target domains with unknown classes when label spaces partially overlap.
method Instance-level reweighting strategy combined with Extreme Value Theory for unknown class detection.
result Proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art models on conventional datasets.
Paper proposes a new method to aggregate multiple sources with different label distributions.
problem Aggregating from multiple target-shifted sources with different label distributions.
method Unified framework to select relevant sources for domain adaptation with limited label, unsupervised, and label partial unsupervised scenarios.
result Empirical results significantly outperform baselines.
Paper develops new algorithms for unsupervised multi-class domain adaptation.
problem Improving performance of machine learning models across different domains without labeled data.
method Introduces MCSD divergence and a new domain adaptation bound, develops adversarial learning objectives, and proposes new algorithms like McDalNets and SymmNets.
result New algorithms improve performance across different domain adaptation settings.
A new method uses deep learning to efficiently solve complex physics equations in high dimensions.
problem Efficiently solving high-dimensional time-dependent PDEs with dynamic solutions.
method Deep adaptive sampling framework for PINNs extended to spacetime domains using normalizing flows.
result The method effectively identifies and tracks high-residual regions in both space and time.
Relation extraction aims to extract relational facts from sentences. Previous models mainly rely on manually labeled datasets, seed instances or human-crafted patterns, and distant supervision. However, the human annotation is expensive, while human-crafted patterns suffer from semantic drift and distant supervision sa…
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 method reduces label and data shifts between domains using optimal transport.
problem Label shift between source and target domains in domain adaptation.
method Developed theory and LDROT method to mitigate label and data shifts.
result Theoretical and experimental validation of LDROT's effectiveness.
This paper studies the problem of cross-network node classification to overcome the insufficiency of labeled data in a single network. It aims to leverage the label information in a partially labeled source network to assist node classification in a completely unlabeled or partially labeled target network. Existing met…
Proposes a framework to improve domain adaptation without labeled data.
problem Improving adaptability and preserving intrinsic data structure in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Discriminative Manifold Propagation framework using soft labels and manifold metric alignment.
result The method achieves better transferability and discriminability compared to existing approaches.
We adapt the results of Part 1 to include the unit ball in the Heisenberg group, the model domain with characteristic boundary points. In particular, we construct function spaces on which the Kohn Laplacian with the \bar{\partial}_b-Neumann boundary conditions is an isomorphism. As an application, we establish sharp re…
AdaRL adapts quickly to new environments with minimal data.
problem Quickly adapting to new environments in reinforcement learning.
method AdaRL uses a parsimonious graphical representation to encode changes across domains.
result AdaRL can efficiently adapt policies to target domains with few samples.
One crucial aspect of partial domain adaptation (PDA) is how to select the relevant source samples in the shared classes for knowledge transfer. Previous PDA methods tackle this problem by re-weighting the source samples based on their high-level information (deep features). However, since the domain shift between sour…
Diffusion models adapt to data geometry through log-domain smoothing.
problem Understanding why diffusion models generalize well across diverse domains.
method Investigating the role of score matching and log-domain smoothing in diffusion models.
result Log-domain smoothing adapts the diffusion model to the data manifold.
G-FuNK learns solutions for nonlinear PDEs on multiple domains and parameters.
problem Predicting time-dependent dynamics of complex systems governed by nonlinear PDEs with varying parameters and domains.
method Graph Fourier Neural Kernels combining domain-adapted and transferable components for non-diffusive and diffusive terms.
result G-FuNK achieves low relative errors on unseen domains and fiber fields, significantly accelerating predictions.
Improves survival analysis across multiple domains with machine learning.
problem Adapting survival analysis to new or rare illness types with limited labeled data.
method Introduces a new survival metric and discrepancy measure for censored data, enabling domain adaptation.
result Superb performance on target domains, better treatment recommendations, and interpretable weight matrix.
TIME network simplifies complex physical processes with interpretable models.
problem Challenges in learning coupled dynamic processes from multiple observations.
method Fully convolutional architecture capturing invariant domain structure.
result Robust and transparent in capturing process kernels and anomalies.
Bayesian approach for policy search in stochastic domains.
problem Policy search in stochastic domains.
method Nested probabilistic programs, Lightweight Metropolis-Hastings (LMH) adaptation.
result Similar quality policies learned with simpler algorithm.
Paper develops methods to estimate generalization error across domains.
problem Uncertainty in predicting unseen data distributions.
method Partial identification and transportability theory, Neural Causal Models.
result First general estimation technique for transportability problems.
Over the last years, huge resources of biological and medical data have become available for research. This data offers great chances for machine learning applications in health care, e.g. for precision medicine, but is also challenging to analyze. Typical challenges include a large number of possibly correlated featur…
From a simplified analysis of adaptive methods, we derive AvaGrad, a new optimizer which outperforms SGD on vision tasks when its adaptability is properly tuned. We observe that the power of our method is partially explained by a decoupling of learning rate and adaptability, greatly simplifying hyperparameter search. I…
New deep learning method approximates Benes filter model.
problem Approximating high-dimensional SPDEs for filtering.
method Deep learning mesh-free neural network representation.
result First study of neural network method for Benes model.
Proposes a new approach to MSDA by introducing latent covariate shift to handle varying label distributions.
problem Challenges of conventional MSDA approaches in real-world settings where label distributions vary across domains.
method Introduces latent covariate shift (LCS) and a causal generative model with latent noises, latent content variable, and latent style variable.
result Identifies latent content variable up to block identifiability, enabling more nuanced label distribution recovery.
Transfer learning framework for fragility modeling under domain shift and class imbalance
problem Data gaps in structural fragility modeling
method Transfer learning
result Improves failure detection and predictive stability in low-data regimes
Proposes CST algorithm to handle partial feedback in counterfactual classification.
problem Limited feedback in settings like pricing and marketing.
method Self-training algorithm with pseudolabeling and input consistency loss.
result Improves model performance on synthetic and real datasets.
Paper tackles distribution matching by partially matching distributions, achieving robust results.
problem Robustly aligning two probability distributions.
method Developed a partial Wasserstein adversarial network (PWAN) to efficiently approximate the partial Wasserstein-1 (PW) discrepancy.
result The PWAN effectively produces highly robust matching results, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.
Optimal transport for functional data using Hilbert-Schmidt operators.
problem Optimal transport for distributions on function spaces with partially represented stochastic maps.
method Regularization technique to restrict transport maps to Hilbert-Schmidt operators, developing an efficient algorithm.
result Existence, uniqueness, and consistency of the Hilbert-Schmidt operator estimate for the transport map.
DTA aligns multimodal data with prior correspondence knowledge.
problem Challenges in aligning data from different domains.
method Semi-supervised manifold alignment method exploiting prior correspondence knowledge.
result DTA outperforms other methods in aligning multimodal data.
This paper improves test-time adaptation for distribution shifts using confidence maximization and input transformation.
problem Improving deep networks' performance on data shifted from the training distribution.
method Proposes a novel loss function combining confidence maximization and batch-wise entropy maximization with an input transformation module.
result Significantly improves robustness of pretrained networks to corruptions on benchmarks like ImageNet-C.
New geometric conditions ensure compactness of ∂ˉ-Neumann problem.
problem Compactness of ∂ˉ-Neumann operator on specific domains. method Introduced new geometric conditions for a class of domains, proving compactness equivalence to boundary properties.
result Compactness of ∂ˉ-Neumann operator equivalent to boundary lack of analytic varieties. Convex domains have a unique boundary property related to normal vectors.
problem Characterizing convex domains using boundary properties and inequalities.
method Proving an inequality involving boundary normal vectors and distances.
result A constant cn exists such that the inequality holds for convex domains, with equality if and only if the domain is convex. CoDAG combines domain adaptation and generalization for unsupervised continual domain shift learning.
problem Acquiring knowledge in unsupervised continual domain shift learning.
method Complementary Domain Adaptation and Generalization (CoDAG) framework.
result CoDAG outperforms state-of-the-art models in all datasets and evaluation metrics.
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.
Method generates intermediate domains to align source and target domains.
problem Challenges of domain adaptation with significant domain divergence.
method Progressive domain augmentation via domain interpolation and multiple subspace alignment.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple domain adaptation tasks.
The paper improves generalization bounds for domain adaptation.
problem Improving generalization bounds for domain adaptation under practical conditions.
method Derives generalization bounds for domain adaptation based on finitely many moments and smoothness conditions.
result Obtains generalization bounds for domain adaptation.
Paper presents a Transformer model for automatic domain adaptation.
problem Challenges in selecting or designing domain adaptation algorithms.
method Transformer model approximates and selects domain adaptation algorithms.
result Transformers can approximate and automatically select domain adaptation algorithms.
Dynamic residual adapters improve performance across multiple latent domains without domain labels.
problem Overfitting to large domains and ignoring smaller ones in multi-domain learning.
method Dynamic residual adapters and augmentation strategies inspired by style transfer.
result Dynamic residual adapters significantly outperform standard models on multiple latent domains.
This paper analyzes MaskGIT sampler and introduces a moment sampler for faster masked diffusion sampling.
problem Efficiently sampling from masked diffusion models.
method Theoretical analysis of MaskGIT sampler, introduction of moment sampler, and two innovations for improving choose-then-sample efficiency.
result The moment sampler is an asymptotically equivalent, more interpretable alternative to MaskGIT.
The capability to learn and adapt to changes in the driving environment is crucial for developing autonomous driving systems that are scalable beyond geo-fenced operational design domains. Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides a promising and scalable framework for developing adaptive learning based solutions. Deep…