Decision Boundary Optimization-Informed Domain Adaptation

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Auteurs principaux: Luo, Lingkun, Hu, Shiqiang, Yang, Jie, Chen, Liming
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author Luo, Lingkun
Hu, Shiqiang
Yang, Jie
Chen, Liming
author_facet Luo, Lingkun
Hu, Shiqiang
Yang, Jie
Chen, Liming
contents Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) is widely used in a number of domain adaptation (DA) methods and shows its effectiveness in aligning data distributions across domains. However, in previous DA research, MMD-based DA methods focus mostly on distribution alignment, and ignore to optimize the decision boundary for classification-aware DA, thereby falling short in reducing the DA upper error bound. In this paper, we propose a strengthened MMD measurement, namely, Decision Boundary optimization-informed MMD (DB-MMD), which enables MMD to carefully take into account the decision boundaries, thereby simultaneously optimizing the distribution alignment and cross-domain classifier within a hybrid framework, and leading to a theoretical bound guided DA. We further seamlessly embed the proposed DB-MMD measurement into several popular DA methods, e.g., MEDA, DGA-DA, to demonstrate its effectiveness w.r.t different experimental settings. We carry out comprehensive experiments using 8 standard DA datasets. The experimental results show that the DB-MMD enforced DA methods improve their baseline models using plain vanilla MMD, with a margin that can be as high as 9.5.
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Luo, Lingkun
Hu, Shiqiang
Yang, Jie
Chen, Liming
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) is widely used in a number of domain adaptation (DA) methods and shows its effectiveness in aligning data distributions across domains. However, in previous DA research, MMD-based DA methods focus mostly on distribution alignment, and ignore to optimize the decision boundary for classification-aware DA, thereby falling short in reducing the DA upper error bound. In this paper, we propose a strengthened MMD measurement, namely, Decision Boundary optimization-informed MMD (DB-MMD), which enables MMD to carefully take into account the decision boundaries, thereby simultaneously optimizing the distribution alignment and cross-domain classifier within a hybrid framework, and leading to a theoretical bound guided DA. We further seamlessly embed the proposed DB-MMD measurement into several popular DA methods, e.g., MEDA, DGA-DA, to demonstrate its effectiveness w.r.t different experimental settings. We carry out comprehensive experiments using 8 standard DA datasets. The experimental results show that the DB-MMD enforced DA methods improve their baseline models using plain vanilla MMD, with a margin that can be as high as 9.5.
title Decision Boundary Optimization-Informed Domain Adaptation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06498