MixNorm: Test-Time Adaptation Through Online Normalization Estimation
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Abstract (arXiv)
We present a simple and effective way to estimate the batch-norm statistics during test time, to fast adapt a source model to target test samples. Known as Test-Time Adaptation, most prior works studying this task follow two assumptions in their evaluation where (1) test samples come together as a large batch, and (2) all from a single test distribution. However, in practice, these two assumptions may not stand, the reasons for which we propose two new evaluation settings where batch sizes are arbitrary and multiple distributions are considered. Unlike the previous methods that require a large batch of single distribution during test time to calculate stable batch-norm statistics, our method avoid any dependency on large online batches and is able to estimate accurate batch-norm statistics with a single sample. The proposed method significantly outperforms the State-Of-The-Art in the newly proposed settings in Test-Time Adaptation Task, and also demonstrates improvements in various other settings such as Source-Free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation and Zero-Shot Classification.
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- 2023A Comprehensive Survey on Test-Time Adaptation under Distribution Shiftscited by 359
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- 2025Adapt in the Wild: Test-Time Entropy Minimization with Sharpness and Feature Regularization5 Sep 2025
- 2025Beyond Entropy: Region Confidence Proxy for Wild Test-Time Adaptation27 May 2025
- 2025SEVA: Leveraging Single-Step Ensemble of Vicinal Augmentations for Test-Time Adaptation7 May 2025
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- 2025SCAP: Transductive Test-Time Adaptation via Supportive Clique-based Attribute Prompting17 Mar 2025
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- 2025GeneralizeFormer: Layer-Adaptive Model Generation across Test-Time Distribution Shifts15 Feb 2025
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- 2024Test-time Training for Hyperspectral Image Super-resolution13 Sep 2024
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- 2024Protected Test-Time Adaptation via Online Entropy Matching: A Betting Approach14 Aug 2024
- 2024Feature Diversification and Adaptation for Federated Domain Generalization11 Jul 2024
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- 2024A Modular System for Enhanced Robustness of Multimedia Understanding Networks via Deep Parametric Estimation28 Feb 2024
- 2024Towards Robust and Efficient Cloud-Edge Elastic Model Adaptation via Selective Entropy Distillation27 Feb 2024
- 2024Channel-Selective Normalization for Label-Shift Robust Test-Time Adaptation7 Feb 2024
- 2024Un-Mixing Test-Time Normalization Statistics: Combatting Label Temporal Correlation16 Jan 2024
- 2024Decoupled Prototype Learning for Reliable Test-Time Adaptation15 Jan 2024
- 2024Online Test-Time Adaptation of Spatial-Temporal Traffic Flow Forecasting8 Jan 2024
- 2023Test-Time Domain Adaptation by Learning Domain-Aware Batch Normalization15 Dec 2023
- 2023In Search of Lost Online Test-time Adaptation: A Survey31 Oct 2023
- 2023Optimization-Free Test-Time Adaptation for Cross-Person Activity Recognition28 Oct 2023
- 2023Towards Unified and Effective Domain Generalization16 Oct 2023
- 2023Batch Calibration: Rethinking Calibration for In-Context Learning and Prompt Engineering29 Sep 2023
- 2023ATTA: Anomaly-aware Test-Time Adaptation for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Segmentation12 Sep 2023
- 2023Is it an i or an l: Test-time Adaptation of Text Line Recognition Models29 Aug 2023
- 2023A Comprehensive Survey on Test-Time Adaptation under Distribution Shifts27 Mar 2023
- 2023EcoTTA: Memory-Efficient Continual Test-time Adaptation via Self-distilled Regularization3 Mar 2023
- 2023Towards Stable Test-Time Adaptation in Dynamic Wild World24 Feb 2023
- 2023TTN: A Domain-Shift Aware Batch Normalization in Test-Time Adaptation10 Feb 2023
- 2023Uncovering Adversarial Risks of Test-Time Adaptation29 Jan 2023
- 2022Learning Less Generalizable Patterns with an Asymmetrically Trained Double Classifier for Better Test-Time Adaptation17 Oct 2022
- 2022Adaptive Domain Generalization via Online Disagreement Minimization3 Aug 2022
- 2022A Simple Test-Time Method for Out-of-Distribution Detection17 Jul 2022
- 2022CAFA: Class-Aware Feature Alignment for Test-Time Adaptation1 Jun 2022
- 2022Test-time Batch Normalization20 May 2022
- 2022Learning Instance-Specific Adaptation for Cross-Domain Segmentation30 Mar 2022
- 2022Listen, Adapt, Better WER: Source-free Single-utterance Test-time Adaptation for Automatic Speech Recognition27 Mar 2022
- 2022Continual Test-Time Domain Adaptation25 Mar 2022
- 2021SITA: Single Image Test-time Adaptation4 Dec 2021
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- 2023Towards Stable Test-Time Adaptation in Dynamic Wild Worldcited by 415
- 2023A Comprehensive Survey on Test-Time Adaptation under Distribution Shiftscited by 359
- 2023EcoTTA: Memory-Efficient Continual Test-time Adaptation via Self-distilled Regularizationcited by 123
- 2023TTN: A Domain-Shift Aware Batch Normalization in Test-Time Adaptationcited by 101
- 2024Test-Time Model Adaptation with Only Forward Passescited by 74
- 2021SITA: Single Image Test-time Adaptationcited by 59
- 2024Beyond Model Adaptation at Test Time: A Surveycited by 59
- 2023In Search of Lost Online Test-time Adaptation: A Surveycited by 44
- 2023Test-Time Domain Adaptation by Learning Domain-Aware Batch Normalizationcited by 31
- 2024Protected Test-Time Adaptation via Online Entropy Matching: A Betting Approachcited by 23
- 2022CAFA: Class-Aware Feature Alignment for Test-Time Adaptationcited by 21
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- 2025Adapt in the Wild: Test-Time Entropy Minimization with Sharpness and Feature Regularization5 Sep 2025
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- 2025SEVA: Leveraging Single-Step Ensemble of Vicinal Augmentations for Test-Time Adaptation7 May 2025
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