New method removes pseudo-label bias for unsupervised domain adaptation.
problem Class imbalance and distribution shift between domains.
method Implicit class-conditioned domain alignment without explicit pseudo-label optimization.
result Effective in handling within-domain class imbalance and between-domain class distribution shift.
Method trains shared embedding to align inputs and outputs for domain adaptation.
problem Unsupervised domain adaptation between different data domains.
method Regularized conditional alignment objective function and adversarial regularization.
result Improves classifier performance on unseen domain.
Solves biased pseudo-labels in imbalanced SSL by refining them.
problem Imbalanced class distributions in semi-supervised learning lead to biased pseudo-labels.
method Formulates a convex optimization problem to refine pseudo-labels and develops an efficient algorithm, DARP.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of DARP in various imbalanced semi-supervised scenarios.
Deep neural networks, trained with large amount of labeled data, can fail to generalize well when tested with examples from a \emph{target domain} whose distribution differs from the training data distribution, referred as the \emph{source domain}. It can be expensive or even infeasible to obtain required amount of lab…
New method improves domain adaptation by aligning sub-domains.
problem Real-world domain adaptation with shifted class distributions.
method Rebalanced sub-domain alignment and novel generalization bound.
result Improves performance in shifted class distribution scenarios.
Study improves understanding and performance of FA learning rules in neural networks.
problem Lack of theoretical understanding and limited applications of Feedback Alignment (FA) methods.
method Introduces a unified framework linking synaptic weight changes to implicit regularization, providing convergence conditions and empirical evidence.
result Better alignment can enhance FA performance on complex multi-class tasks.
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.
Extends reinforcement learning alignment to scalar rewards, improving math reasoning.
problem Designing reinforcement learning algorithms for general LLM alignment.
method Introduces f-GRPO and f-HAL, estimating f-divergences between reward-aligned and unaligned distributions.
result Improves math reasoning RLVR tasks and mitigates reward hacking.
This paper tackles UDA by learning domain-invariant embeddings using distribution alignment and pseudo-labels.
problem Unsupervised domain adaptation between two visual domains.
method Shared deep encoder, Sliced-Wasserstein Distance, deep classifier, pseudo-labels for class alignment.
result Effective solution for training deep classification networks on source domain to generalize to target domain.
Recently, considerable effort has been devoted to deep domain adaptation in computer vision and machine learning communities. However, most of existing work only concentrates on learning shared feature representation by minimizing the distribution discrepancy across different domains. Due to the fact that all the domai…
Proposes DFDG for robust domain generalization without source domain labels.
problem Robustness of deep learning models in real-world applications where train and test distributions differ.
method Model-agnostic, class-aware alignment of class relationships through saliency maps.
result Competitive performance on time series sensor and image classification datasets.
Efficiently learns Single-Index Models with constant factor approximation.
problem Learning Single-Index Models under L22 loss with unknown link functions. method An efficient algorithm using alignment sharpness for optimization.
result Achieves constant factor approximation to optimal loss for various distributions and link functions.
FJS method improves multinomial classification accuracy.
problem Improving multinomial classification accuracy under dataset shift.
method Derive FJS representation and propose alternative methods.
result Factorizable joint shift is not fully identifiable without additional assumptions.
CoSCA improves unsupervised domain adaptation by better aligning ambiguous target samples.
problem Missing alignment of ambiguous target samples in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method CoSCA explicitly incorporates intra- and inter-class domain discrepancy, estimating label hypotheses and optimizing a contrastive loss with MMD for better global alignment.
result CoSCA outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in producing more discriminative features.
CFA improves model's ability to generalize across unseen domain-class combinations.
problem Challenges in real-world machine learning applications due to data distribution shifts and limited training data.
method Developed Compositional Feature Alignment (CFA) technique to improve CG ability of pretrained models.
result CFA outperforms common finetuning techniques in compositional generalization.
ReMixMatch improves semi-supervised learning with new techniques for data efficiency.
problem Improving semi-supervised learning with limited labeled data.
method Distribution alignment and augmentation anchoring with AutoAugment.
result Significantly more data-efficient, requiring less labeled data for similar accuracy.
A new method for aligning multiple distributions efficiently.
problem Aligning multiple distributions in a shared latent space.
method Iterative alignment of variational approximations of distribution divergences using invertible alignment maps.
result Our method achieves competitive distribution alignment at low computational cost.
This research explores various sampling methods and probability distributions for hard alignment in sequence-to-sequence TTS synthesis.
problem Improving alignment accuracy in sequence-to-sequence text-to-speech synthesis.
method Investigated various sampling methods (greedy, beam, random) and probability distributions (Bernoulli, Concrete) for hard alignment.
result Deterministic search is more preferable than stochastic search for natural alignment transition.
New method for robust distribution alignment using log-likelihood ratio and normalizing flows.
problem Distribution alignment challenges in deep learning.
method Log-likelihood ratio statistic and normalizing flows.
result Minimizing the proposed objective yields robust domain alignment.
AOT aligns LLMs on distributional preferences via optimal transport.
problem Current LLM alignment techniques lack distributional level alignment.
method Alignment via Optimal Transport (AOT) aligns LLMs on unpaired preference data.
result AOT enables alignment by penalizing reward distribution violations.
Unbalanced COOT improves feature alignment robustly to outliers.
problem Optimal transport methods are sensitive to outliers in real-world data.
method COOT infers alignment between features and samples, unbalanced COOT adds robustness.
result Unbalanced COOT is robust to noise in real-world datasets.
A novel OT-based method for aligning hyperbolic representations.
problem Aligning different hyperbolic representations of hierarchical data.
method Optimal transport (OT) on the Poincaré model of hyperbolic spaces, using gyrobarycenter mapping.
result Both Euclidean and hyperbolic OT-based methods perform similarly in retrieval tasks.
FedGTEA learns new tasks in federated learning with task embeddings and alignment.
problem Federated class-incremental learning with task-specific knowledge and model uncertainty.
method Cardinality-Agnostic Task Encoder (CATE) for Gaussian task embeddings, 2-Wasserstein distance for inter-task alignment.
result FedGTEA achieves superior classification performance and mitigates forgetting.
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.
New research shows input-gradients can be manipulated without changing model's core function, challenging their use for model interpretation.
problem Current methods for model interpretability using input-gradients are flawed due to their arbitrary manipulability.
method Investigated by reinterpreting logits as unnormalized log-densities, proposing novel approximations for score-matching.
result Improving alignment between implicit density model and data distribution enhances gradient structure and explanatory power.
New approach improves domain adaptation by relaxing distribution alignment constraints.
problem Improving domain adaptation when target distribution differs from source distribution.
method Asymmetrically-relaxed distribution alignment to minimize target error under varying conditions.
result Empirical and theoretical benefits demonstrated on synthetic and real datasets.
We tackle class imbalance in unsupervised domain adaptation using latent codes.
problem Class imbalance in unsupervised domain adaptation where target domain has under-represented classes.
method Adversarial domain adaptation framework with latent codes to identify and estimate target labels.
result Latent codes can disentangle target domain structure and identify under-represented classes.
Better data representations can simplify learning tasks by aligning model distributions with true data distributions.
problem Learning complexity influenced by the alignment of model distributions with true data distributions.
method Analyzed the effect of data representations on learning complexity using a task complexity score and information coding length.
result Better representations can simplify learning tasks by aligning model distributions with true data distributions, improving learning outcomes.
FedAVOT improves federated learning by aligning user distributions.
problem Partial client participation leads to biased and unstable updates in federated learning.
method Formulates aggregation as masked optimal transport to align availability and importance distributions.
result Achieves a standard O(1/√T) rate, independent of the number of participating users per round.
Jointly optimizes domain alignment and classifier learning for unsupervised domain adaptation.
problem Transfer classifier from source to target domain without labeled data.
method Jointly optimizes semantic domain alignment and target classifier learning.
result Joint optimization yields best performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Kernel alignment measures the degree of similarity between two kernels. In this paper, inspired from kernel alignment, we propose a new Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) formulation, kernel alignment LDA (kaLDA). We first define two kernels, data kernel and class indicator kernel. The problem is to find a subspace to …
A new flow optimizes synthetic data alignment for generative modeling.
problem Optimizing synthetic data to match target distributions.
method Score difference (SD) flow to reduce KL divergence.
result SD flow provides a theoretical link between generative models.
Optimal transport aligns source and target distributions for domain adaptation.
problem Unsupervised domain adaptation with joint class-conditional and label shifts.
method Minimizes importance weighted loss and Wasserstein distance for aligned marginals and class-conditional distributions.
result Our method outperforms competitors on various domain adaptation tasks.
Extends Popularity Bias Memorization theorem to new conditions.
problem Estimating alignment with top-k singular hyperspace.
method Extending theorem to arbitrary degree distributions and proving upper and lower bounds.
result Upper and lower estimates for alignment with top-k singular hyperspace.
Aligns attention distributions for improved accuracy and robustness.
problem Improving the accuracy and robustness of neural networks using attention mechanisms.
method Alignment attention that encourages key and query distributions to match within each head.
result Alignment attention leads to better accuracy, uncertainty estimation, and robustness across various tasks.
Improved deep learning for one-shot and open-set classification using alignment-based matching.
problem Limited data for one-shot classification and open-set recognition.
method Aligns images to reference images for classification, learns alignment mechanism.
result Significantly improved classification accuracy (e.g., 1.4% error rate in Omniglot, 46.5% in MiniImageNet).
This paper improves cross-domain learning using random forests for manifold alignment.
problem Improving cross-domain learning and feature integration.
method Semi-supervised manifold alignment using random forest proximities.
result Random forest proximities enhance downstream classification accuracy.
A new method for unsupervised domain adaptation using Gaussian processes.
problem Reducing target domain error by aligning input and output distributions.
method Max-margin Gaussian process approach to achieve hypothesis consistency.
result Our method effectively minimizes maximum discrepancy and maximizes margins.
Unified theory for semiparametric data fusion with individual-level data.
problem Handling data fusion problems, especially in settings with diverse data sources and designs.
method Extending a comprehensive theory to handle conditional and marginal distribution alignments, providing universal results for influence functions and efficient influence functions.
result Paves the way for machine-learning debiased, semiparametric efficient estimation.
New finding: Perceptually-aligned gradients occur in adversarially-robust classifiers.
problem Understanding adversarial robustness in neural networks.
method Investigated perceptual alignment in adversarially-trained and smoothed classifiers.
result Perceptually-aligned gradients are a general property of robust classifiers.
SIG model identifies invariant variables for MSDA with fewer domain constraints.
problem Challenges in enforcing minimal changes across domains for MSDA.
method Subspace identification theory and variational inference.
result SIG model outperforms existing techniques on various benchmark datasets.
Detects underspecification in pre-trained models using local ensembles.
problem Underspecification in pre-trained models where many predictors are consistent with training data.
method Uses local second-order information to approximate prediction variance across an ensemble of models.
result Capable of detecting underspecification in pre-trained models on test data.
Improves domain adaptation by aligning source and target distributions and mitigating noisy labels.
problem Improving performance on target images with different acquisition conditions.
method Combines optimal transport, MixUp regularization, and robust loss for noisy labels.
result Improves domain adaptation performance on various benchmarks and real-world problems.
Bispectral OT improves dataset comparison by preserving intrinsic coherence.
problem Ignoring intrinsic coherence in dataset comparisons using pairwise geometric distances.
method Introduces Bispectral Optimal Transport, a symmetry-aware extension of discrete OT.
result Transport plans computed with Bispectral OT achieve greater class preservation accuracy.
This work shows how exploiting gradient alignment can improve distributed and federated learning performance.
problem Misalignment of gradients across clients in distributed and federated learning.
method Utilizing implicit regularization through a novel GradAlign algorithm that induces gradient alignment with large mini-batches.
result Improvements in test accuracies and generalization performance.
Proposes AMS-SFE to improve zero-shot learning by aligning semantic feature spaces.
problem Domain shift problem in zero-shot learning due to disjoint seen and unseen data.
method Expands semantic features using an autoencoder and aligns them with visual feature manifold.
result Remarkable performance improvement over existing methods.
SALT combines geometric and model-based alignment for domain adaptation.
problem Aligning source and target domains for unsupervised domain adaptation.
method SALT treats alignment as an auxiliary task, leveraging subspace geometry and gradient-based optimization.
result SALT achieves comparable or better performance than state-of-the-art methods.
Proposes a new semi-supervised learning method to reduce distribution mismatch.
problem Empirical distribution mismatch between labeled and unlabeled data in semi-supervised learning.
method Adversarial training and interpolation strategy to align labeled and unlabeled data distributions.
result Demonstrates improved performance on benchmark datasets SVHN and CIFAR10.