New framework tackles multi-source domain adaptation with optimism and consistency.
problem Adjusting mixture distribution weights and ensuring low error on target domain.
method Mildly optimistic objective function and consistency regularization.
result Beats current state of the art in multi-source domain adaptation.
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.
This work tackles robust multi-source domain adaptation under label shift.
problem Label shift and data contamination in multi-source domain adaptation.
method Domain-weighted empirical risk minimization framework with refinement procedure.
result The proposed method achieves superior performance in multi-category classification problems.
TASFAR adapts regression models without labeled source data.
problem Lack of labeled source data for domain adaptation.
method Uses prediction confidence to estimate target label distribution and calibrate source model.
result Substantially reduces errors in various regression tasks.
CWAN tackles multi-source heterogeneous domain adaptation with conditional weighting.
problem Learning cross-domain samples from multiple heterogeneous domains.
method CWAN uses a feature transformer, label classifier, and domain discriminator to learn from multiple sources.
result CWAN outperforms state-of-the-art methods on four real-world datasets.
Deep neural networks suffer from performance decay when there is domain shift between the labeled source domain and unlabeled target domain, which motivates the research on domain adaptation (DA). Conventional DA methods usually assume that the labeled data is sampled from a single source distribution. However, in prac…
Improves domain adaptation by combining multiple source domains and target domain data.
problem Poor performance of empirical risk minimization in distributionally shifted target domains.
method Distributionally robust model optimizing adversarial reward based on explained variance across multiple source domains.
result The robust model is a weighted average of conditional outcome models from source domains.
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.
A long standing problem in visual object categorization is the ability of algorithms to generalize across different testing conditions. The problem has been formalized as a covariate shift among the probability distributions generating the training data (source) and the test data (target) and several domain adaptation …
Clarinet uses complementary labels to train classifiers with less source data.
problem Training classifiers with true-label data from source domain is costly.
method Proposes CLARINET to train classifiers with complementary-label source data and unlabeled target data.
result CLARINET significantly outperforms baselines in unsupervised domain adaptation.
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.
Human activity recognition plays an important role in people's daily life. However, it is often expensive and time-consuming to acquire sufficient labeled activity data. To solve this problem, transfer learning leverages the labeled samples from the source domain to annotate the target domain which has few or none labe…
New method restores source features for SFDA without source data.
problem Domain adaptation without access to source data.
method Feature Restoration (FR) and Bottom-Up Feature Restoration (BUFR).
result BUFR outperforms existing SFDA methods in accuracy, calibration, and data efficiency.
Paper tackles multi-source domain adaptation for regression.
problem Predicting HDL cholesterol levels using gut microbiome data.
method Two-step procedure: 1) Extend a flexible single-source DA algorithm for classification to regression. 2) Augment with ensemble learning for multi-source DA.
result Consistent improvement in HDL cholesterol level prediction performance over existing methods.
Survey explores methods to adapt deep learning models across multiple labeled domains.
problem Difficulty in obtaining labeled data for deep learning models.
method Multi-source domain adaptation (MDA) to transfer knowledge from labeled to unlabeled or sparsely labeled target domains.
result MDA methods improve performance by minimizing domain shift.
Unsupervised domain adaptation is the problem setting where data generating distributions in the source and target domains are different, and labels in the target domain are unavailable. One important question in unsupervised domain adaptation is how to measure the difference between the source and target domains. A pr…
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.
Algorithm adapts pretrained semantic segmentation models to new domains.
problem Adapting pretrained models to new, unlabeled domains without source data.
method Learn prototypical distribution in embedding space, align target domain with source domain.
result Method achieves competitive performance on benchmark tasks.
UDA learns target domain from unlabeled data via source knowledge transfer.
problem Learning unlabeled target domain data.
method Transferring both source knowledge and target-relatedness.
result Improves UDA performance by simultaneous knowledge transfer.
A decentralized approach for multi-source domain adaptation.
problem Transfer knowledge from multiple related domains to an unlabeled target domain.
method Federated Dataset Dictionary Learning (FedDaDiL) framework, eliminating central server, using Wasserstein barycenters.
result Our decentralized approach effectively adapts source domains to an unlabeled target domain.
Paper proposes a method to adapt classifiers using complementary labels instead of true labels.
problem Training classifiers with true labels from the source domain is costly and sometimes impossible.
method Proposes a novel setting with complementary labels and a complementary label adversarial network (CLARINET).
result CLARINET significantly outperforms baselines on handwritten digits and object recognition tasks.
Current state of the art methods in Domain Adaptation follow adversarial approaches, making training a challenge. Existing non-adversarial methods learn mappings between the source and target domains, to achieve reasonable performance. However, even these methods do not focus on a key aspect: maintaining performance on…
A new method aligns source and target distributions by tuning their weights.
problem Domain adaptation on unlabeled target datasets using labeled source datasets.
method Weighted Joint Distribution Optimal Transport (WJDOT) method that finds alignment between source and target distributions and re-weighting of source distributions.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on simulated and real-life datasets.
Enhances source domain knowledge with target data for transfer learning.
problem Limited data in target domains and rigid model assumptions in transfer learning.
method Transfer learning through Enhanced Sufficient Representation (TESR).
result TESR enhances source domain knowledge with target data, improving transfer learning performance.
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…
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.
New technique for multiple-source adaptation without density estimation.
problem Multiple-source adaptation problem.
method Discriminative technique that uses conditional probabilities from unlabeled data.
result Our technique outperforms previous generative solutions and other domain adaptation baselines.
Adaptive object detection method synthesizes target domain images from source domain images.
problem Large domain gap between source and target domains in object detection.
method Cross-domain CutMix with adversarial learning.
result Higher accuracy in different domain settings compared to conventional methods.
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…
Domain adaptation aims to leverage the supervision signal of source domain to obtain an accurate model for target domain, where the labels are not available. To leverage and adapt the label information from source domain, most existing methods employ a feature extracting function and match the marginal distributions of…
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 …
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.
Prototype extraction framework for domain adaptation.
problem Statistical distance minimization issues in unsupervised domain adaptation.
method Memory and computation-efficient probabilistic framework for class prototype extraction and feature alignment.
result Competitive performance with state-of-the-art methods, no additional model parameters required.
Multi-source transfer learning has been proven effective when within-target labeled data is scarce. Previous work focuses primarily on exploiting domain similarities and assumes that source domains are richly or at least comparably labeled. While this strong assumption is never true in practice, this paper relaxes it a…
Automated sentiment classification (SC) on short text fragments has received increasing attention in recent years. Performing SC on unseen domains with few or no labeled samples can significantly affect the classification performance due to different expression of sentiment in source and target domain. In this study, w…
Transductive Adversarial Networks (TAN) is a novel domain-adaptation machine learning framework that is designed for learning a conditional probability distribution on unlabelled input data in a target domain, while also only having access to: (1) easily obtained labelled data from a related source domain, which may ha…
Supervised learning algorithms trained on medical images will often fail to generalize across changes in acquisition parameters. Recent work in domain adaptation addresses this challenge and successfully leverages labeled data in a source domain to perform well on an unlabeled target domain. Inspired by recent work in …
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.
Study shows algorithms benefit from limited target data with many source domains.
problem Adapting to new domains with scarce labeled target data.
method New family of model selection algorithms.
result Beneficial guarantees in scenarios with limited target data.
We address the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) by learning a cross-domain agnostic embedding space, where the distance between the probability distributions of the two source and target visual domains is minimized. We use the output space of a shared cross-domain deep encoder to model the embedding spac…
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.
New method recovers predictions from unobservable source subpopulation in binary classification.
problem Challenging binary classification with unobservable subpopulation in source domain.
method Distribution matching method to estimate subpopulation proportions, rigorous derivation of prediction models.
result Our method outperforms naive benchmarks in synthetic and real-world datasets.
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.
New method adapts without backprop, faster and better.
problem Efficient domain adaptation without source data.
method Computing class prototypes from pre-trained model.
result Significant accuracy improvements over pre-trained model.
The task of learning a sentiment classification model that adapts well to any target domain, different from the source domain, is a challenging problem. Majority of the existing approaches focus on learning a common representation by leveraging both source and target data during training. In this paper, we introduce a …
Recent unsupervised approaches to domain adaptation primarily focus on minimizing the gap between the source and the target domains through refining the feature generator, in order to learn a better alignment between the two domains. This minimization can be achieved via a domain classifier to detect target-domain feat…
Paper tackles online multi-source domain adaptation using Gaussian mixtures and dictionary learning.
problem Adapting multiple, heterogeneous source domains to a target domain in a streaming fashion.
method Introduces a novel approach for online fitting of Gaussian Mixture Models based on Wasserstein geometry, combined with dataset dictionary learning.
result Demonstrates ability to adapt 'on the fly' to target domain data streams.
DRDA robustly adapts models across domains with mismatched distributions.
problem Vulnerability of DA methods to noise and inability to generalize to unseen samples.
method DRDA uses distributionally robust optimization (DRO) with MMD metric to learn robust decision functions.
result DRDA outperforms existing robust learning approaches in experiments.