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Domain Generalization by Joint-Product Distribution Alignment

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posted on 2024-11-17, 16:51 authored by Sentao Chen, Lei Wang, Zijie Hong, Xiaowei Yang
In this work, we address the problem of domain generalization for classification, where the goal is to learn a classification model on a set of source domains and generalize it to a target domain. The source and target domains are different, which weakens the generalization ability of the learned model. To tackle the domain difference, we propose to align a joint distribution and a product distribution using a neural transformation, and minimize the Relative Chi-Square (RCS) divergence between the two distributions to learn that transformation. In this manner, we conveniently achieve the alignment of multiple domains in the neural transformation space. Specifically, we show that the RCS divergence can be explicitly estimated as the maximal value of a quadratic function, which allows us to perform joint-product distribution alignment by minimizing the divergence estimate. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our solution through comparison with the state-of-the-art methods on several image classification datasets.

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Shantou University (NTF21035)

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Journal title

Pattern Recognition

Volume

134

Language

English

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