Cross-Domain Generalization

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Cross-domain generalization asks whether a model trained in one setting can work in a different one, such as a new hospital, camera, country, or sensor. Common approaches learn domain-invariant features, diversify training data with augmentation or simulated domains, align representations across domains, and use causal or pretrained models to identify transferable structure. Researchers test these methods with zero-shot and few-shot transfer, leave-one-domain-out protocols, and benchmarks such as DomainBed, cross-site medical imaging, and cross-dataset detection. A central tension is that removing domain-specific information can also discard useful signals, while strong in-domain results often fail to predict performance on genuinely unseen domains.

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  1. Rural Readiness: Domain Generalization with Adversarially Chosen Domains

    Oct 29, 2026Cynthia Dwork, Andisheh Ghasemi, Lunjia HuDomain GeneralizationCross-Domain Generalization

    Harvard University · Northeastern University

  2. Robust LIDAR Sensor-to-Sensor Domain Generalization via Accumulated-Point Scene Completion

    Oct 29, 2026Christoph B Rist, Larissa T Triess, Markus Enzweiler +1Cross-Domain GeneralizationDomain Generalization for Semantic Segmentation

    Technical University Delft, Intelligent Vehicles Group, The Netherlands · Hochschule Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany

  3. Data Scaling Laws in Stereo Matching: From In-domain Fitting to Cross-domain Generalization

    Oct 28, 2026Tong Zhao, Di Liang, Yiming Zeng +3Stereo MatchingAI Scaling Laws

    XPENG Motors

  4. GIFT: Representation Geometry Matters for Single-Domain Generalized Object Detection

    Oct 26, 2026Yin Zhang, Yaoyue Zheng, Yongqiang Zhang +2Cross-Domain GeneralizationObject Detection

    School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology · Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University +1

  5. GADAR: Generalizing Across Domains via Action Ranking for Classical Planning

    Oct 26, 2026Rajesh Mangannavar, Pranay Dugar, Prasad TadepalliCross-Domain GeneralizationSymbolic Planning

    Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA

  6. SKG in Practice: OOD Generalization Cases Across FourDomains

    Oct 23, 2026Jian An, Chaoshi Wu, Xinpan LuoScientific MLOOD Generalization

  7. Enhancing Cross-Grade Generalization in Banana Variety Classification via Hybrid CNN-Transformers and Knowledge Self-Distillation

    Oct 21, 2026Khush Kataruka, Mohammad Muzammila, Zahid Akhtar +2ClassificationCross-Domain Generalization

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India. · Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, Utica, New York, USA. · Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gjovik, Norway.

  8. Characterizing Cross-Relay Generalization Failure in Machine Learning-Based Power System Protection

    Oct 20, 2026Nithin Pradeep Nadayil Kizhakkethil, Julian Oelhaf, Christian Bergler +2Neural Network GeneralizationPower System Fault Diagnosis

    Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · Department of Electrical Engineering, Media and Computer Science, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden

  9. Scaling Vision Foundation Models for Toxicologic Pathology

    Oct 19, 2026Jessica Loo, Theodoros Pissas, Byunghak Kang +7Pathology Foundation ModelsComputational Pathology

    Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA · Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland · Novartis Ireland Limited, Dublin, Ireland

  10. When Participant Disjoint Validation Is Not Enough to Establish Generalization in Parkinson's Gait Classification

    Oct 12, 2026Md. Sifat, Sania Akter, Akif Islam +1Parkinson's Disease ClassificationCross-Domain Generalization

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Rajshahi, Motihar, Rajshahi, 6205, Bangladesh

  11. Adaptive Compression and Targeted Perturbation: A Unified Framework for Generalized Audio Deepfake Detection

    Oct 12, 2026Jianqiao Cui, Haoxian Zhu, Hanbiao Meng +1Audio Deepfake DetectionAudio Deepfake Detection Robustness

    Imperial College London, London, UK · Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China

  12. Joint Contrastive-Adversarial Representation Learning for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

    Oct 11, 2026Yuling Jiao, Lican Kang, Jerry Zhijian Yang +2Unsupervised Domain AdaptationRepresentation Learning

  13. Fixed-Reference Pose Residuals for Measuring Cross-Dataset Cue Transfer in Human-Robot Interaction Anticipation

    Oct 8, 2026Bowen Yang, Xinliang Xiao, Wenjing Zhang +2Human-Robot InteractionCross-Domain Generalization

    School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China.

  14. Behind-the-Meter Photovoltaic Visibility from Net Smart Meters: Deployment Regimes and Operational Insights

    Oct 8, 2026Jack Zheng, Hao WangPower SystemsCross-Domain Generalization

    Department of Data Science and AI, Faculty of IT, Monash University, Australia · Monash Energy Institute, Monash University, Australia

  15. Cross-Domain Pretraining for Steady-State Neural CFD Surrogates

    Oct 7, 2026Anthony Zhou, Amir Barati Farimani, Shirley Ho +1Cross-Domain GeneralizationPDE Surrogate Modeling

    Carnegie Mellon University · New York University · Polymathic AI +4

  16. A Strength-Monotonic Law for Domain Alignment in Frozen-Embedding Bioacoustic Classification

    Oct 7, 2026Yucheng Gong, Rui Zhou, Binbin Zeng +2Cross-Domain GeneralizationAudio Classification

    Department of Software Engineering, School of Software, Chongqing Finance and Economics College Chongqing Key Laboratory of Data Mining and Integrated Application for Ecological Environment

  17. CoDG-Net: Structure-Guided Style Diffusion and Collaborative Learning to Mitigate Catastrophic Forgetting in Medical Image Domain Generalization

    Oct 4, 2026Yucheng Song, Jincan Wang, Haokang Ding +3Data AugmentationCross-Domain Generalization

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China · School of Software Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China · College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  18. Event Cameras for Melt-Pool Monitoring in Additive Manufacturing: A Benchmark and a Cross-Machine Transfer Analysis

    Oct 3, 2026Mohamad Yazan Sadoun, Sarah Sharif, Yingtao Liu +2Additive ManufacturingEvent-Based Vision

    School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA. · INQUIRE Lab, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA. · School of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.

  19. Multi-Crop Leaf Disease Recognition: A Unified Benchmark and Cross-Region Study

    Oct 3, 2026Rosemary Nalwanga, Sebastian Bunda, Godliver Owomugisha +2Plant Disease ClassificationCross-Domain Generalization

    Data Management and Biometrics University of Twente Enschede, Netherlands · Department of Computer Engineering Busitema University Tororo, Uganda

  20. StanceEval 2026: The Second Stance Detection Shared Task

    Oct 2, 2026Rasha Albalawi, Nuha Albadi, Hamzah Luqman +6Stance DetectionCross-Domain Generalization

    Information and Computer Science Department, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia · SDAIA–KFUPM Joint Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saudi Arabia · HUMAIN, Saudi Arabia

  21. ULTRADISCOVERY: Abductive Exploration in an Interconnected, Epistemically Open Universe

    Oct 2, 2026Weihan Li, Tianshi Zheng, Yangqiu Song +2Autonomous Scientific DiscoveryAbductive Reasoning

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST, Hong Kong SAR, China · NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC), NVIDIA, Santa Clara, USA

  22. Reliability-Aware Checkpoint Selection for Domain Generalization

    Sep 30, 2026Jinshi Liu, Jiahao Li, Pan Liu +5Probability CalibrationDomain Generalization

    Shenzhen University · Xiamen University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) +3

  23. RainAtlas: A Multi-Continental Dataset for Precipitation Downscaling

    Sep 30, 2026Pierre-Louis Lemaire, Luca Schmidt, Wietze Suijker +2Precipitation DownscalingCross-Domain Generalization

    connAIx Research School, Tübingen AI Center, University of Tübingen · Mila - Quebec AI Institute · Cluster of Excellence Machine Learning, University of Tübingen +3

  24. How Many Samples Are Enough for Learning Across Domains?

    Sep 30, 2026Hong ZhengSample ComplexityDomain Generalization

    This work was completed during my Ph.D. period and was the result of a flash of inspiration. I decided to submit it to arXiv and leave its value to the readers.

  25. Exploring In-Context Learning for Handwritten Text Recognition

    Sep 29, 2026Eric Ayllon, Abel Gandia, Jorge Calvo-ZaragozaIn-Context Example SelectionVision-Language Models

  26. A Multi-Dataset Benchmark of YOLO-Based Weed Detection in Precision Agriculture

    Sep 27, 2026Hristina Zdraveska, Vlatko Spasev, Ivica Dimitrovski +2Multi-Source Domain AdaptationWeed Detection

    Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University Ss Cyril and Methodius, Rudzer Boshkovikj 16, P.O. 393, Skopje, 1000, North Macedonia

  27. Measurement-Gated Provenance Attenuation for Frozen EEG Representations

    Sep 26, 2026Anuar Aimoldin, Yankai Chen, Ayana Mussabayeva +2Invariant Representation LearningDistribution Shift

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

  28. System Attribution in LLM Brand Recommendations: Single Responses Identify the System, Aggregated Brand Profiles Do Not Transfer

    Sep 23, 2026Dmitrij ŻatuchinLLM AuditingLanguage Model Fingerprinting

    Department of Information Technologies, Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences (EUAS), Tallinn, Estonia.

  29. Evaluating Cross-region Generalization for Wavelet-Diffusion Precipitation Downscaling

    Sep 23, 2026Weikang Qian, Yixin Wen, Chugang Yi +3Spatial GeneralizationPrecipitation Downscaling

    University of Florida, Department of Geography, Gainesville, FL, USA · School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA · Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, NY, USA +5

  30. Mitigating Entity Type Confusion in Cross-Domain NER via Multidimensional Quantification and Reasoning Enhancement

    Sep 21, 2026Jingyu Wang, Shijie Wu, Fusheng JinNamed Entity RecognitionCross-Domain Generalization

    Beijing Institute of Technology