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Main Authors: Zhu, Yaoyao, Cai, Xiuding, Wang, Yingkai, Miao, Dong, Fu, Zhongliang, Luo, Xu
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05765
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author Zhu, Yaoyao
Cai, Xiuding
Wang, Yingkai
Miao, Dong
Fu, Zhongliang
Luo, Xu
author_facet Zhu, Yaoyao
Cai, Xiuding
Wang, Yingkai
Miao, Dong
Fu, Zhongliang
Luo, Xu
contents Deep learning models excel in computer vision tasks but often fail to generalize to out-of-distribution (OOD) domains. Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM) aims to address OOD generalization by learning domain-invariant features. However, IRM struggles with datasets exhibiting significant diversity shifts. While data augmentation methods like Mixup and Semantic Data Augmentation (SDA) enhance diversity, they risk over-augmentation and label instability. To address these challenges, we propose a domain-shared Semantic Data Augmentation (SDA) module, a novel implementation of Variance Risk Minimization (VRM) designed to enhance dataset diversity while maintaining label consistency. We further provide a Rademacher complexity analysis, establishing a tighter generalization error bound compared to baseline methods. Extensive evaluations on OOD benchmarks, including PACS, VLCS, OfficeHome, and TerraIncognita, demonstrate consistent performance improvements over state-of-the-art domain generalization methods.
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spellingShingle Invariance Principle Meets Vicinal Risk Minimization
Zhu, Yaoyao
Cai, Xiuding
Wang, Yingkai
Miao, Dong
Fu, Zhongliang
Luo, Xu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Deep learning models excel in computer vision tasks but often fail to generalize to out-of-distribution (OOD) domains. Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM) aims to address OOD generalization by learning domain-invariant features. However, IRM struggles with datasets exhibiting significant diversity shifts. While data augmentation methods like Mixup and Semantic Data Augmentation (SDA) enhance diversity, they risk over-augmentation and label instability. To address these challenges, we propose a domain-shared Semantic Data Augmentation (SDA) module, a novel implementation of Variance Risk Minimization (VRM) designed to enhance dataset diversity while maintaining label consistency. We further provide a Rademacher complexity analysis, establishing a tighter generalization error bound compared to baseline methods. Extensive evaluations on OOD benchmarks, including PACS, VLCS, OfficeHome, and TerraIncognita, demonstrate consistent performance improvements over state-of-the-art domain generalization methods.
title Invariance Principle Meets Vicinal Risk Minimization
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05765