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48 results for domain alignment

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.

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…

2018-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a method for unsupervised domain adaptation that trains a shared embedding to align the joint distributions of inputs (domain) and outputs (classes), making any classifier agnostic to the domain. Joint alignment ensures that not only the marginal distributions of the domain are aligned, but the labels as wel…

2019-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Network alignment is a critical task to a wide variety of fields. Many existing works leverage on representation learning to accomplish this task without eliminating domain representation bias induced by domain-dependent features, which yield inferior alignment performance. This paper proposes a unified deep architectu…

2019-08-15abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Proposes a regularization method for unsupervised domain adaptation that aligns predictions with target data's top singular vectors.

problem Domain adaptation challenges in high joint error scenarios.
method Regularizes classifier to align with unsupervised target data guided by label alignment property (LAP).
result The method improves performance in MNIST-USPS domain adaptation and cross-lingual sentiment analysis.

In this paper, we propose a simple model referred as Contradistinguisher (CTDR) for unsupervised domain adaptation whose objective is to jointly learn to contradistinguish on unlabeled target domain in a fully unsupervised manner along with prior knowledge acquired by supervised learning on an entirely different domain…

2019-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

We study the question of how to imitate tasks across domains with discrepancies such as embodiment, viewpoint, and dynamics mismatch. Many prior works require paired, aligned demonstrations and an additional RL step that requires environment interactions. However, paired, aligned demonstrations are seldom obtainable an…

2019-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

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.

ADGAN improves risk tolerance prediction by aligning cross-domain data.

problem Lack of professional knowledge and domain-specific models in risk tolerance studies.
method Asymmetric cross-Domain Generative Adversarial Network (ADGAN) for domain scale inequality.
result ADGAN better handles class imbalance and unqualified data than state-of-the-art methods.

We introduce a kernel method for manifold alignment (KEMA) and domain adaptation that can match an arbitrary number of data sources without needing corresponding pairs, just few labeled examples in all domains. KEMA has interesting properties: 1) it generalizes other manifold alignment methods, 2) it can align manifold…

2015-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes novel losses for fine-grained categorical domain adaptation.

problem Fine-grained alignment of categories across domains in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Joint category-domain classifier with adversarial training losses for both domain and category levels, and vicinal domain adaptation.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.

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

Proposes a new method for manifold alignment using geometry-regularized twin autoencoders.

problem Traditional MA methods lack out-of-sample extension and real-world applicability.
method Guided representation learning with geometry-regularized twin autoencoders.
result Improves cross-domain generalization and robustness while maintaining alignment fidelity.

Unsupervised domain adaptation methods aim to alleviate performance degradation caused by domain-shift by learning domain-invariant representations. Existing deep domain adaptation methods focus on holistic feature alignment by matching source and target holistic feature distributions, without considering local feature…

2018-11-12abs ↗pdf ↗

InfoOT improves data alignment by maximizing mutual information.

problem Optimal transport's limitations in handling clusters, outliers, and new data.
method InfoOT extends optimal transport by maximizing mutual information while minimizing distances.
result InfoOT outperforms optimal transport in domain adaptation, cross-domain retrieval, and single-cell alignment.

Geometric Graph Alignment enhances IoT intrusion detection using NID data.

problem Data scarcity hinders IoT intrusion detection accuracy.
method Geometric Graph Alignment (GGA) approach to transfer knowledge between network intrusion detection and IoT intrusion detection domains.
result GGA approach boosts IoT intrusion detection performance on multiple datasets.

Geometric approach for unsupervised word embedding alignment.

problem Learning alignment between word embeddings of source and target languages.
method Formulates alignment as domain adaptation on the manifold of doubly stochastic matrices, employing Riemannian conjugate gradient algorithm.
result Empirically outperforms state-of-the-art methods on bilingual lexicon induction tasks.

Contradistinguisher learns to distinguish target domain without aligning source and target domains.

problem Difficulty in aligning source and target domains for domain adaptation.
method Direct approach to unsupervised domain adaptation that learns contrastive features and improves classification performance.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on Office-31 and VisDA-2017 datasets.

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.

A new method for unsupervised domain adaptation using manifold learning.

problem Leveraging rich source domain information to target domain without labeled data.
method Discriminative Manifold Embedding and Alignment framework.
result Consistent transferability and discriminability achieved through manifold metric alignment.

Domain adaptation addresses the common problem when the target distribution generating our test data drifts from the source (training) distribution. While absent assumptions, domain adaptation is impossible, strict conditions, e.g. covariate or label shift, enable principled algorithms. Recently-proposed domain-adversa…

2019-03-05abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

Unsupervised domain adaptation is a promising way to generalize deep models to novel domains. However, the current literature assumes that the label distribution is domain-invariant and only aligns the feature distributions or vice versa. In this work, we explore the more realistic task of Class-imbalanced Domain Adapt…

2019-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Two impossibility theorems show formal alignment certification is impossible for AI systems.

problem Formal certification of AI alignment over open-ended domains is impossible.
method Two independent impossibility theorems: Semantic and Statistical barriers.
result No procedure can simultaneously satisfy soundness, completeness, and tractability.

TMDA aligns subdomain data distribution discrepancies across domains using manifold representations.

problem Transfer learning challenges due to domain divergence.
method TMDA uses low-dimensional manifolds to represent subdomains and aligns local data distribution discrepancies across domains using M3D.
result TMDA is a promising method for various transfer learning tasks.

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.

Paper introduces MSA for weakly supervised covariance alignment in MEG signals.

problem Limited labeled signals in target datasets for MEG applications.
method Mixing model Stiefel Adaptation (MSA) leveraging unlabeled data.
result MSA outperforms recent methods in brain-age regression with MEG signals.

Paper proposes a probabilistic alignment method for domain adaptation.

problem Latent distribution mismatch and miscalibrated uncertainty in adapting large-scale models.
method Bayesian latent transport framework with PAC-Bayesian regularization.
result Reduction in latent manifold discrepancy and improved uncertainty calibration.

Hessian alignment improves OOD generalization in deep learning.

problem Improving deep learning models' ability to generalize to out-of-distribution data.
method Analyzed Hessian and gradient alignment for domain generalization using recent OOD theory.
result Hessian alignment methods achieve promising performance on various OOD benchmarks.

EnMDAP aligns conditional distributions for multi-source domain adaptation using pseudolabels.

problem Training a target model with no labeled data in the absence of target data labels.
method EnMDAP uses label-wise moment matching and ensemble learning with multiple feature extractors.
result EnMDAP achieves state-of-the-art performance in multi-source domain adaptation tasks.

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.