Concept-Based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

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Main Authors: Xu, Xinyue, Hu, Yueying, Tang, Hui, Qin, Yi, Mi, Lu, Wang, Hao, Li, Xiaomeng
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author Xu, Xinyue
Hu, Yueying
Tang, Hui
Qin, Yi
Mi, Lu
Wang, Hao
Li, Xiaomeng
author_facet Xu, Xinyue
Hu, Yueying
Tang, Hui
Qin, Yi
Mi, Lu
Wang, Hao
Li, Xiaomeng
contents Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enhance interpretability by explaining predictions through human-understandable concepts but typically assume that training and test data share the same distribution. This assumption often fails under domain shifts, leading to degraded performance and poor generalization. To address these limitations and improve the robustness of CBMs, we propose the Concept-based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (CUDA) framework. CUDA is designed to: (1) align concept representations across domains using adversarial training, (2) introduce a relaxation threshold to allow minor domain-specific differences in concept distributions, thereby preventing performance drop due to over-constraints of these distributions, (3) infer concepts directly in the target domain without requiring labeled concept data, enabling CBMs to adapt to diverse domains, and (4) integrate concept learning into conventional domain adaptation (DA) with theoretical guarantees, improving interpretability and establishing new benchmarks for DA. Experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art CBM and DA methods on real-world datasets.
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spellingShingle Concept-Based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Xu, Xinyue
Hu, Yueying
Tang, Hui
Qin, Yi
Mi, Lu
Wang, Hao
Li, Xiaomeng
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enhance interpretability by explaining predictions through human-understandable concepts but typically assume that training and test data share the same distribution. This assumption often fails under domain shifts, leading to degraded performance and poor generalization. To address these limitations and improve the robustness of CBMs, we propose the Concept-based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (CUDA) framework. CUDA is designed to: (1) align concept representations across domains using adversarial training, (2) introduce a relaxation threshold to allow minor domain-specific differences in concept distributions, thereby preventing performance drop due to over-constraints of these distributions, (3) infer concepts directly in the target domain without requiring labeled concept data, enabling CBMs to adapt to diverse domains, and (4) integrate concept learning into conventional domain adaptation (DA) with theoretical guarantees, improving interpretability and establishing new benchmarks for DA. Experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art CBM and DA methods on real-world datasets.
title Concept-Based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05195