Learning domain-invariant representation is a dominant approach for domain generalization (DG), where we need to build a classifier that is robust toward domain shifts. However, previous domain-invariance-based methods overlooked the underlying dependency of classes on domains, which is responsible for the trade-off be…
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.
New invariant for hyperbolic surfaces, geometric criterion for domains.
problem Geometric criterion for bounded domains in complex plane.
method Renormalized volume type invariant on hyperbolic surfaces.
result New geometric criterion for bounded domains in complex plane.
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…
The paper studies invariant weighted Bergman metrics on domains.
problem Investigating invariant weighted Bergman metrics under biholomorphisms.
method Introducing invariant weight assignments, using Bergman's minimum integral method and domain version of Tian-Yau-Zelditch expansion.
result Uniform convergence of weighted Bergman kernels and metrics on uniform squeezing domains.
Cross-domain sentiment analysis is currently a hot topic in the research and engineering areas. One of the most popular frameworks in this field is the domain-invariant representation learning (DIRL) paradigm, which aims to learn a distribution-invariant feature representation across domains. However, in this work, we …
The paper explores how to make machine learning models robust to domain shifts.
problem Machine learning models are unreliable in domains different from training.
method Introducing a broad formal notion of invariance and causal structures.
result The true underlying causal structure of the data plays a critical role in robustness.
Paper develops upper-bounds for target general loss in multiple source DA and DG settings.
problem Complexity and trade-offs in multiple source domain adaptation and domain generalization.
method Defines two types of domain-invariant representations and studies their pros, cons, and trade-offs.
result Developed upper-bounds for target general loss offer insights into domain-invariant representations.
The paper proposes a method to create domain-invariant representations using Wasserstein distance.
problem Domain shifts in training data affect machine learning model performance across different domains.
method The method combines classification/regression losses with a GAN-type discriminator to minimize the Wasserstein distance between domains.
result The approach produces the highest minimum classification accuracy and most invariant representation across domains.
New approach improves domain adaptation by enforcing cluster assumption in target domain.
problem Lack of robustness in target classifier due to violation of cluster assumption.
method Enforces cluster assumption in target domain (Target Consistency) paired with Class-Level InVariance.
result Significant improvement in image classification and segmentation benchmarks.
Domain generalization aims to apply knowledge gained from multiple labeled source domains to unseen target domains. The main difficulty comes from the dataset bias: training data and test data have different distributions, and the training set contains heterogeneous samples from different distributions. Let X denote …
A new IL framework estimates invariant predictors with single domain data.
problem Deep networks inherit spurious correlations and fail on unseen domains.
method Assumes multiple labeled domains for higher-level tasks, uses single domain for target task, employs cross-validation for hyperparameter selection.
result Empirically demonstrates effectiveness and correctness of hyperparameter selection.
Adversarial techniques learn invariant representations across multiple domains.
problem Domain generalization from diverse studies to unseen domains.
method Adversarial censoring techniques for invariant representation learning.
result Limiting behavior of adversarial loss function as the number of domains grows.
Harmonization schemes limit accuracy due to domain information.
problem Harmonization schemes lead to inaccurate predictions due to domain information.
method Analysis of mutual information and real label value informativeness.
result Accuracy is limited by the domain with least information.
Transfer learning aims to improve learning in target domain by borrowing knowledge from a related but different source domain. To reduce the distribution shift between source and target domains, recent methods have focused on exploring invariant representations that have similar distributions across domains. However, w…
Proposes an alternative invariance penalty to address domain generalization issues.
problem Addressing domain generalization problems by finding invariant representations.
method Revisits the Gramian matrix of the data representation to propose an alternative invariance penalty.
result The proposed approach guarantees recovery of an invariant representation under mild conditions.
Improves transferability of representations from source to target domains with weights and invariant representations.
problem Label shift between source and target domains in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Integrates weights and invariant representations to bound the target risk, highlighting the role of inductive bias.
result Empirical evidence shows that weak inductive bias makes adaptation more robust.
Domain adaptation aims at generalizing a high-performance learner on a target domain via utilizing the knowledge distilled from a source domain which has a different but related data distribution. One solution to domain adaptation is to learn domain invariant feature representations while the learned representations sh…
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.
Paper shows regularization improves robustness in domain generalization.
problem Improving robustness in domain generalization.
method Derives novel theoretical analysis to control representation smoothness and proposes a regularization method.
result Regularization improves robustness in domain generalization.
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.
New invariant defined for Weinstein domains, related to Kirby-Thompson's invariant.
problem Defining a symplectic invariant for Weinstein domains.
method Contact cut graph, Lefschetz fibrations, multisections with divides.
result Definition of Weinstein L-invariant and its relation to Kirby-Thompson's invariant. Estimates model performance under distribution shift using domain-invariant predictors.
problem Poor performance of models on test distributions different from training distributions.
method Uses domain-invariant predictors as a proxy for unknown target labels.
result Shows that the complexity of latent representations influences target risk.
SETrLUSI combines diverse knowledge from multiple domains for faster convergence.
problem Handling diverse knowledge from multiple domains in transfer learning.
method Stochastic Ensemble Multi-Source Transfer Learning Using Statistical Invariant (SETrLUSI).
result SETrLUSI accelerates convergence and outperforms related methods.
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 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.
Study equi-affine invariants for convex domains with asymptotes.
problem Understanding geometric properties of convex domains with specific asymptotes.
method Introducing equi-affine invariants by averaging tropical structures.
result Proving a limiting description of level sets for unbounded domains with two non-parallel asymptotes.
New method identifies stable latent variables across different domains using weak distributional invariances.
problem Learning causal representations for multi-domain datasets.
method Autoencoders incorporating weak distributional invariances.
result Autoencoders can identify stable latent variables across different domains.
Due to the ability of deep neural nets to learn rich representations, recent advances in unsupervised domain adaptation have focused on learning domain-invariant features that achieve a small error on the source domain. The hope is that the learnt representation, together with the hypothesis learnt from the source doma…
New approach improves cross-domain recommendation for sparse target domains.
problem Cross-domain recommendation challenges with sparse target domains.
method Guided neural collaborative filtering with domain-invariant components across dense and sparse domains.
result Effective and scalable approach demonstrated on public and Visa datasets.
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.
Adversarial domain-invariant training (ADIT) proves to be effective in suppressing the effects of domain variability in acoustic modeling and has led to improved performance in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In ADIT, an auxiliary domain classifier takes in equally-weighted deep features from a deep neural network …
We investigate the properties of the Cheeger sets of rotationally invariant, bounded domains Ω⊂Rn. For a rotationally invariant Cheeger set C, the free boundary ∂C∩Ω consists of pieces of Delaunay surfaces, which are rotationally invariant surfaces of constant mean curvature. We show…
TCRI improves domain generalization by enforcing conditional independence constraints.
problem Limitations of existing domain generalization methods due to incomplete constraints.
method TCRI implements regularizers motivated by conditional independence constraints.
result TCRI achieves cross-domain stability and outperforms baselines in worst-domain accuracy.
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
The paper computes a tau-invariant for holomorphic curves in Stein domains and links.
problem Computing tau-invariant for holomorphic curves in Stein domains.
method Using pseudo-holomorphic curves and Stein fillable contact structures.
result New proof of Thom conjecture and topological obstructions for link types.
Learning domain-invariant representations has become a popular approach to unsupervised domain adaptation and is often justified by invoking a particular suite of theoretical results. We argue that there are two significant flaws in such arguments. First, the results in question hold only for a fixed representation and…
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.
The performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems can be significantly compromised by previously unseen conditions, which is typically due to a mismatch between training and testing distributions. In this paper, we address robustness by studying domain invariant features, such that domain information become…
Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to generalize the hypothesis trained in a source domain to an unlabeled target domain. One popular approach to this problem is to learn domain-invariant embeddings for both domains. In this work, we study, theoretically and empirically, the effect of the embedding complexity on gener…
New method estimates individual treatment effects using domain generalization.
problem Estimating causal individual treatment effects from observational data with treatment bias.
method Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM) framework to learn predictors invariant to domain-dependent factors.
result IRM-based ITE estimator shows gains over classical regression approaches in settings with pronounced support mismatch.
Study of invariant solutions for certain PDEs on Riemannian manifolds.
problem Solving PDEs with group invariance on unbounded domains.
method Reduction of unbounded domains to bounded ones using group actions.
result Presentation of a method for studying invariant solutions.
Paper establishes a new formula for Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index using eta invariants.
problem Calculating the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index without invertibility of boundary operator.
method Using an asymptotic gluing formula for eta invariants and a splitting principle.
result Formula expressing index in terms of eta invariants of domain-wall massive Dirac operators.
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.
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 learns models to adapt to domain shifts at test time.
problem Learning models robust to distribution shifts in practical applications.
method Adaptive Risk Minimization (ARM) framework.
result Performance gains of 1-4% on image classification problems.
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.