Learning to Learn Single Domain Generalization
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We are concerned with a worst-case scenario in model generalization, in the sense that a model aims to perform well on many unseen domains while there is only one single domain available for training. We propose a new method named adversarial domain augmentation to solve this Out-of-Distribution (OOD) generalization problem. The key idea is to leverage adversarial training to create "fictitious" yet "challenging" populations, from which a model can learn to generalize with theoretical guarantees. To facilitate fast and desirable domain augmentation, we cast the model training in a meta-learning scheme and use a Wasserstein Auto-Encoder (WAE) to relax the widely used worst-case constraint. Detailed theoretical analysis is provided to testify our formulation, while extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets indicate its superior performance in tackling single domain generalization.
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- 2021FedDG: Federated Domain Generalization on Medical Image Segmentation via Episodic Learning in Continuous Frequency Spacecited by 284
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- 2021SMIL: Multimodal Learning with Severely Missing Modalitycited by 243
- 2022Improving Out-of-Distribution Robustness via Selective Augmentationcited by 202
- 2021Learning to Diversify for Single Domain Generalizationcited by 170
- 2021FSDR: Frequency Space Domain Randomization for Domain Generalizationcited by 163
- 2021Deep Stable Learning for Out-Of-Distribution Generalizationcited by 153
- 2022Exact Feature Distribution Matching for Arbitrary Style Transfer and Domain Generalizationcited by 122
- 2021Causality-inspired Single-source Domain Generalization for Medical Image Segmentationcited by 118
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- 2026VFM4SDG: Unveiling the Power of VFMs for Single-Domain Generalized Object Detection23 Apr 2026
- 2026Zero-Shot Synthetic-to-Real Handwritten Text Recognition via Task Analogies8 Apr 2026
- 2026Bi-Level Optimization for Single Domain Generalization7 Apr 2026
- 2026ELViS: Efficient Visual Similarity from Local Descriptors that Generalizes Across Domains30 Mar 2026
- 2026Manifold-Aware Temporal Domain Generalization for Large Language Models12 Feb 2026
- 2026Implicit Non-Causal Factors are Out via Dataset Splitting for Domain Generalization Object Detection27 Jan 2026
- 2026SemAlign: Language Guided Semi-supervised Domain Generalization16 Jan 2026
- 2026Fine-Grained Generalization via Structuralizing Concept and Feature Space into Commonality, Specificity and Confounding6 Jan 2026
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