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Learning to Generate Novel Domains for Domain Generalization

arXiv 2007.03304 ↗First posted 7 Jul 2020cs.CVcited by 296

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This paper focuses on domain generalization (DG), the task of learning from multiple source domains a model that generalizes well to unseen domains. A main challenge for DG is that the available source domains often exhibit limited diversity, hampering the model's ability to learn to generalize. We therefore employ a data generator to synthesize data from pseudo-novel domains to augment the source domains. This explicitly increases the diversity of available training domains and leads to a more generalizable model. To train the generator, we model the distribution divergence between source and synthesized pseudo-novel domains using optimal transport, and maximize the divergence. To ensure that semantics are preserved in the synthesized data, we further impose cycle-consistency and classification losses on the generator. Our method, L2A-OT (Learning to Augment by Optimal Transport) outperforms current state-of-the-art DG methods on four benchmark datasets.

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  1. 2021Generalizing to Unseen Domains: A Survey on Domain Generalizationcited by 762
  2. 2021Domain Generalization: A Surveycited by 760
  3. 2021Domain Generalization with MixStylecited by 563
  4. 2021Towards Out-Of-Distribution Generalization: A Surveycited by 431
  5. 2021A Fourier-based Framework for Domain Generalizationcited by 287
  6. 2021FedDG: Federated Domain Generalization on Medical Image Segmentation via Episodic Learning in Continuous Frequency Spacecited by 284
  7. 2021Gradient Matching for Domain Generalizationcited by 258
  8. 2021RobustNet: Improving Domain Generalization in Urban-Scene Segmentation via Instance Selective Whiteningcited by 213
  9. 2021Learning to Diversify for Single Domain Generalizationcited by 170
  10. 2021Deep Stable Learning for Out-Of-Distribution Generalizationcited by 153
  11. 2022Federated Learning from Pre-Trained Models: A Contrastive Learning Approachcited by 141
  12. 2022Causality Inspired Representation Learning for Domain Generalizationcited by 136
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  1. 2022GAPartNet: Cross-Category Domain-Generalizable Object Perception and Manipulation via Generalizable and Actionable Partscited by 135
  2. 2022Domain Generalization by Mutual-Information Regularization with Pre-trained Modelscited by 133
  3. 2022Uncertainty Modeling for Out-of-Distribution Generalizationcited by 122
  4. 2022Exact Feature Distribution Matching for Arbitrary Style Transfer and Domain Generalizationcited by 122
  5. 2021OoD-Bench: Quantifying and Understanding Two Dimensions of Out-of-Distribution Generalizationcited by 86
  6. 2021Adversarially Adaptive Normalization for Single Domain Generalizationcited by 85
  7. 2022Semantic-Aware Domain Generalized Segmentationcited by 78
  8. 2021Generalizable Person Re-identification with Relevance-aware Mixture of Expertscited by 77
  9. 2022Improving Test-Time Adaptation via Shift-agnostic Weight Regularization and Nearest Source Prototypescited by 67
  10. 2021MixStyle Neural Networks for Domain Generalization and Adaptationcited by 64
  11. 2023PromptStyler: Prompt-driven Style Generation for Source-free Domain Generalizationcited by 59
  12. 2023Feed Two Birds with One Scone: Exploiting Wild Data for Both Out-of-Distribution Generalization and Detectioncited by 57
  13. 2021Non-Transferable Learning: A New Approach for Model Ownership Verification and Applicability Authorizationcited by 50
  14. 2022Pin the Memory: Learning to Generalize Semantic Segmentationcited by 48
  15. 2021Style Normalization and Restitution for Domain Generalization and Adaptationcited by 46
  16. 2021Generalizable Cross-modality Medical Image Segmentation via Style Augmentation and Dual Normalizationcited by 45
  17. 2022Out-of-distribution Generalization with Causal Invariant Transformationscited by 45
  18. 2021Semi-Supervised Domain Generalization with Stochastic StyleMatchcited by 43
  19. 2023Meta-causal Learning for Single Domain Generalizationcited by 43
  20. 2021Federated Learning with Domain Generalizationcited by 41
  21. 2021Towards Unsupervised Domain Generalizationcited by 40
  22. 2021Feature Stylization and Domain-aware Contrastive Learning for Domain Generalizationcited by 40
  23. 2022Compound Domain Generalization via Meta-Knowledge Encodingcited by 40
  24. 2023StyLIP: Multi-Scale Style-Conditioned Prompt Learning for CLIP-based Domain Generalizationcited by 36
  25. 2023What is Essential for Unseen Goal Generalization of Offline Goal-conditioned RL?cited by 36
  26. 2021Domain Generalization via Inference-time Label-Preserving Target Projectionscited by 35
  27. 2022Self-Distilled Vision Transformer for Domain Generalizationcited by 35
  28. 2021Feature-based Style Randomization for Domain Generalizationcited by 34
  29. 2023Progressive Random Convolutions for Single Domain Generalizationcited by 33
  30. 2021A Style and Semantic Memory Mechanism for Domain Generalizationcited by 32
  31. 2023Test-Time Domain Adaptation by Learning Domain-Aware Batch Normalizationcited by 31
  32. 2024On the Out-Of-Distribution Generalization of Multimodal Large Language Modelscited by 30
  33. 2022BatchFormer: Learning to Explore Sample Relationships for Robust Representation Learningcited by 29
  34. 2022TeST: Test-time Self-Training under Distribution Shiftcited by 29
  35. 2023Learning Content-enhanced Mask Transformer for Domain Generalized Urban-Scene Segmentationcited by 29
  36. 2024Improving Single Domain-Generalized Object Detection: A Focus on Diversification and Alignmentcited by 29
  37. 2021NAS-OoD: Neural Architecture Search for Out-of-Distribution Generalizationcited by 28
  38. 2023ALOFT: A Lightweight MLP-like Architecture with Dynamic Low-frequency Transform for Domain Generalizationcited by 28

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