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Main Authors: Westfechtel, Thomas, Zhang, Dexuan, Harada, Tatsuya
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04066
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author Westfechtel, Thomas
Zhang, Dexuan
Harada, Tatsuya
author_facet Westfechtel, Thomas
Zhang, Dexuan
Harada, Tatsuya
contents Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) tries to overcome the tedious work of labeling data by leveraging a labeled source dataset and transferring its knowledge to a similar but different target dataset. Meanwhile, current vision-language models exhibit remarkable zero-shot prediction capabilities. In this work, we combine knowledge gained through UDA with the inherent knowledge of vision-language models. We introduce a strong-weak guidance learning scheme that employs zero-shot predictions to help align the source and target dataset. For the strong guidance, we expand the source dataset with the most confident samples of the target dataset. Additionally, we employ a knowledge distillation loss as weak guidance. The strong guidance uses hard labels but is only applied to the most confident predictions from the target dataset. Conversely, the weak guidance is employed to the whole dataset but uses soft labels. The weak guidance is implemented as a knowledge distillation loss with (shifted) zero-shot predictions. We show that our method complements and benefits from prompt adaptation techniques for vision-language models. We conduct experiments and ablation studies on three benchmarks (OfficeHome, VisDA, and DomainNet), outperforming state-of-the-art methods. Our ablation studies further demonstrate the contributions of different components of our algorithm.
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spellingShingle Combining inherent knowledge of vision-language models with unsupervised domain adaptation through strong-weak guidance
Westfechtel, Thomas
Zhang, Dexuan
Harada, Tatsuya
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) tries to overcome the tedious work of labeling data by leveraging a labeled source dataset and transferring its knowledge to a similar but different target dataset. Meanwhile, current vision-language models exhibit remarkable zero-shot prediction capabilities. In this work, we combine knowledge gained through UDA with the inherent knowledge of vision-language models. We introduce a strong-weak guidance learning scheme that employs zero-shot predictions to help align the source and target dataset. For the strong guidance, we expand the source dataset with the most confident samples of the target dataset. Additionally, we employ a knowledge distillation loss as weak guidance. The strong guidance uses hard labels but is only applied to the most confident predictions from the target dataset. Conversely, the weak guidance is employed to the whole dataset but uses soft labels. The weak guidance is implemented as a knowledge distillation loss with (shifted) zero-shot predictions. We show that our method complements and benefits from prompt adaptation techniques for vision-language models. We conduct experiments and ablation studies on three benchmarks (OfficeHome, VisDA, and DomainNet), outperforming state-of-the-art methods. Our ablation studies further demonstrate the contributions of different components of our algorithm.
title Combining inherent knowledge of vision-language models with unsupervised domain adaptation through strong-weak guidance
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04066