Efficient Test-Time Adaptation through Latent Subspace Coefficients Search

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Autori principali: Luo, Xinyu, Liu, Jie, Chen, Kecheng, Yang, Junyi, Ding, Bo, Basu, Arindam, Li, Haoliang
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author Luo, Xinyu
Liu, Jie
Chen, Kecheng
Yang, Junyi
Ding, Bo
Basu, Arindam
Li, Haoliang
author_facet Luo, Xinyu
Liu, Jie
Chen, Kecheng
Yang, Junyi
Ding, Bo
Basu, Arindam
Li, Haoliang
contents Real-world deployment often exposes models to distribution shifts, making test-time adaptation (TTA) critical for robustness. Yet most TTA methods are unfriendly to edge deployment, as they rely on backpropagation, activation buffering, or test-time mini-batches, leading to high latency and memory overhead. We propose \textbf{ELaTTA} (\textit{Efficient Latent Test-Time Adaptation}), a gradient-free framework for single-instance TTA under strict on-device constraints. ELaTTA freezes model weights and adapts each test sample by optimizing a low-dimensional coefficient vector in a source-induced principal latent subspace, pre-computed offline via truncated SVD and stored with negligible overhead. At inference, ELaTTA encourages prediction confidence by optimizing the $k$-D coefficients with CMA-ES, effectively optimizing a Gaussian-smoothed objective and improving stability near decision boundaries. Across six benchmarks and multiple architectures, ELaTTA achieves state-of-the-art accuracy under both strict and continual single-instance protocols, while reducing compute by up to \emph{63$\times$} and peak memory by up to \emph{11$\times$}. We further demonstrate on-device deployment on a ZYNQ-7020 platform.
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spellingShingle Efficient Test-Time Adaptation through Latent Subspace Coefficients Search
Luo, Xinyu
Liu, Jie
Chen, Kecheng
Yang, Junyi
Ding, Bo
Basu, Arindam
Li, Haoliang
Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
Image and Video Processing
Real-world deployment often exposes models to distribution shifts, making test-time adaptation (TTA) critical for robustness. Yet most TTA methods are unfriendly to edge deployment, as they rely on backpropagation, activation buffering, or test-time mini-batches, leading to high latency and memory overhead. We propose \textbf{ELaTTA} (\textit{Efficient Latent Test-Time Adaptation}), a gradient-free framework for single-instance TTA under strict on-device constraints. ELaTTA freezes model weights and adapts each test sample by optimizing a low-dimensional coefficient vector in a source-induced principal latent subspace, pre-computed offline via truncated SVD and stored with negligible overhead. At inference, ELaTTA encourages prediction confidence by optimizing the $k$-D coefficients with CMA-ES, effectively optimizing a Gaussian-smoothed objective and improving stability near decision boundaries. Across six benchmarks and multiple architectures, ELaTTA achieves state-of-the-art accuracy under both strict and continual single-instance protocols, while reducing compute by up to \emph{63$\times$} and peak memory by up to \emph{11$\times$}. We further demonstrate on-device deployment on a ZYNQ-7020 platform.
title Efficient Test-Time Adaptation through Latent Subspace Coefficients Search
topic Machine Learning
Audio and Speech Processing
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11068