Novel Domain Adaptation
Novel domain adaptation tackles the challenge of transferring knowledge learned from a labeled data source to an unlabeled target domain with differing characteristics. Current research emphasizes techniques like contrastive learning, which focuses on learning domain-invariant features, and the use of attention mechanisms to highlight discriminative information. These methods are applied across diverse fields, including time series analysis, image classification, and natural language processing, improving model performance in scenarios with limited labeled data for the target domain. The resulting advancements have significant implications for various applications where labeled data is scarce or expensive to obtain, enhancing the generalizability and robustness of machine learning models.
Papers
Building Manufacturing Deep Learning Models with Minimal and Imbalanced Training Data Using Domain Adaptation and Data Augmentation
Adrian Shuai Li, Elisa Bertino, Rih-Teng Wu, Ting-Yan Wu
Deep into The Domain Shift: Transfer Learning through Dependence Regularization
Shumin Ma, Zhiri Yuan, Qi Wu, Yiyan Huang, Xixu Hu, Cheuk Hang Leung, Dongdong Wang, Zhixiang Huang