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Main Authors: Dadashzadeh, Amirhossein, Esmati, Parsa, Mirmehdi, Majid
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11669
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author Dadashzadeh, Amirhossein
Esmati, Parsa
Mirmehdi, Majid
author_facet Dadashzadeh, Amirhossein
Esmati, Parsa
Mirmehdi, Majid
contents Recent advances in Source-Free Unsupervised Video Domain Adaptation (SFUVDA) leverage vision-language models to enhance pseudo-label generation. However, challenges such as noisy pseudo-labels and over-confident predictions limit their effectiveness in adapting well across domains. We propose Co-STAR, a novel framework that integrates curriculum learning with collaborative self-training between a source-trained teacher and a contrastive vision-language model (CLIP). Our curriculum learning approach employs a reliability-based weight function that measures bidirectional prediction alignment between the teacher and CLIP, balancing between confident and uncertain predictions. This function preserves uncertainty for difficult samples, while prioritizing reliable pseudo-labels when the predictions from both models closely align. To further improve adaptation, we propose Adaptive Curriculum Regularization, which modifies the learning priority of samples in a probabilistic, adaptive manner based on their confidence scores and prediction stability, mitigating overfitting to noisy and over-confident samples. Extensive experiments across multiple video domain adaptation benchmarks demonstrate that Co-STAR consistently outperforms state-of-the-art SFUVDA methods. Code is available at: https://github.com/Plrbear/Co-Star
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spellingShingle Co-STAR: Collaborative Curriculum Self-Training with Adaptive Regularization for Source-Free Video Domain Adaptation
Dadashzadeh, Amirhossein
Esmati, Parsa
Mirmehdi, Majid
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Recent advances in Source-Free Unsupervised Video Domain Adaptation (SFUVDA) leverage vision-language models to enhance pseudo-label generation. However, challenges such as noisy pseudo-labels and over-confident predictions limit their effectiveness in adapting well across domains. We propose Co-STAR, a novel framework that integrates curriculum learning with collaborative self-training between a source-trained teacher and a contrastive vision-language model (CLIP). Our curriculum learning approach employs a reliability-based weight function that measures bidirectional prediction alignment between the teacher and CLIP, balancing between confident and uncertain predictions. This function preserves uncertainty for difficult samples, while prioritizing reliable pseudo-labels when the predictions from both models closely align. To further improve adaptation, we propose Adaptive Curriculum Regularization, which modifies the learning priority of samples in a probabilistic, adaptive manner based on their confidence scores and prediction stability, mitigating overfitting to noisy and over-confident samples. Extensive experiments across multiple video domain adaptation benchmarks demonstrate that Co-STAR consistently outperforms state-of-the-art SFUVDA methods. Code is available at: https://github.com/Plrbear/Co-Star
title Co-STAR: Collaborative Curriculum Self-Training with Adaptive Regularization for Source-Free Video Domain Adaptation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11669