Domain Agnostic Conditional Invariant Predictions for Domain Generalization

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wang, Zongbin, Pan, Bin, Shi, Zhenwei
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866916280272945152
author Wang, Zongbin
Pan, Bin
Shi, Zhenwei
author_facet Wang, Zongbin
Pan, Bin
Shi, Zhenwei
contents Domain generalization aims to develop a model that can perform well on unseen target domains by learning from multiple source domains. However, recent-proposed domain generalization models usually rely on domain labels, which may not be available in many real-world scenarios. To address this challenge, we propose a Discriminant Risk Minimization (DRM) theory and the corresponding algorithm to capture the invariant features without domain labels. In DRM theory, we prove that reducing the discrepancy of prediction distribution between overall source domain and any subset of it can contribute to obtaining invariant features. To apply the DRM theory, we develop an algorithm which is composed of Bayesian inference and a new penalty termed as Categorical Discriminant Risk (CDR). In Bayesian inference, we transform the output of the model into a probability distribution to align with our theoretical assumptions. We adopt sliding update approach to approximate the overall prediction distribution of the model, which enables us to obtain CDR penalty. We also indicate the effectiveness of these components in finding invariant features. We evaluate our algorithm against various domain generalization methods on multiple real-world datasets, providing empirical support for our theory.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2406_05616
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Domain Agnostic Conditional Invariant Predictions for Domain Generalization
Wang, Zongbin
Pan, Bin
Shi, Zhenwei
Machine Learning
Domain generalization aims to develop a model that can perform well on unseen target domains by learning from multiple source domains. However, recent-proposed domain generalization models usually rely on domain labels, which may not be available in many real-world scenarios. To address this challenge, we propose a Discriminant Risk Minimization (DRM) theory and the corresponding algorithm to capture the invariant features without domain labels. In DRM theory, we prove that reducing the discrepancy of prediction distribution between overall source domain and any subset of it can contribute to obtaining invariant features. To apply the DRM theory, we develop an algorithm which is composed of Bayesian inference and a new penalty termed as Categorical Discriminant Risk (CDR). In Bayesian inference, we transform the output of the model into a probability distribution to align with our theoretical assumptions. We adopt sliding update approach to approximate the overall prediction distribution of the model, which enables us to obtain CDR penalty. We also indicate the effectiveness of these components in finding invariant features. We evaluate our algorithm against various domain generalization methods on multiple real-world datasets, providing empirical support for our theory.
title Domain Agnostic Conditional Invariant Predictions for Domain Generalization
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05616