Domain-Adversarial Learning

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Domain-adversarial learning studies how to make models work across domains, such as different hospitals, devices, users, imaging modalities, or time periods. A common approach uses a domain discriminator and gradient reversal to encourage domain-invariant features, often combined with feature alignment, contrastive learning, class prototypes, or pseudo-labeling. These methods are used in supervised and unsupervised adaptation, including settings where target-domain labels are scarce or unavailable. A central tension is that removing domain information can also discard useful task information: alignment may fail under label shift or harm representations that already encode relevant domain knowledge, so invariance does not guarantee better transfer.

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  1. International Multi-Centre Validation of Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Precise Discrimination between Normal and Abnormal Retinal Development

    Oct 15, 2026Zhanhan Tu, Nikhil Reddy, Helen J. Kuht +27Unsupervised Domain AdaptationOptical Coherence Tomography

    The University of Leicester Ulverscroft Eye Unit, School of Psychology and Vision Sciences, University of Leicester, RKCSB, PO Box 65, Leicester, LE2 7LX, UK · International Institute of Information Technology, Gachibowli, Hyderabad - 500 032, India · inAmind Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester, George Davies Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK. +11

  2. Trajectory Prediction Method for person under WSN with Hierarchical Envelope Adversarial Domain Adaptation

    Oct 15, 2026Wenqian Jiang, Qifeng Sun, Xiaosong Gao +4Pedestrian Trajectory PredictionPedestrian Behavior Modeling

    Guangxi Power Grid Co., Ltd., Nanning, Guangxi 530000, China · Chongqing Liangjiang Satellite Mobile Communication Co., Ltd., Chongqing 400004, China · School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China

  3. CrossPortrait: Cross-Species Portrait Animation via Adversarial Motion Alignment

    Oct 13, 2026Gezhong Pan, Zhe Li, Yunfan Tao +7Cross-Embodiment TransferDomain-Adversarial Learning

    University of Science and Technology of China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute · Huawei Technologies Ltd. +1

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

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

  5. Weather-Aware Domain Adaptation for Street-View Weather Recognition

    Oct 1, 2026Hossein Maghsoumi, George Atia, Yaser P. FallahMulti-Source Domain AdaptationAutonomous Driving Benchmarks

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA · Department of Computer Science University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

  6. Template-Search Domain Adaptation via Multi-Stage Feature Alignment for Cross-Modal Object Tracking

    Sep 29, 2026Fereshteh Aghaee Meibodi, Amir Mehdi Soufi Enayati, Shadi Alijani +1Multimodal Visual Object TrackingDomain-Adversarial Learning

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Victoria 3800 Finnerty Road Victoria, BC, Canada · Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Victoria 3800 Finnerty Road Victoria, BC, Canada

  7. Unified CT and MRI Pancreas Segmentation for Label-Efficient Cross-Modality Subregion Transfer

    Sep 11, 2026Ziliang Hong, Hongyi Pan, Halil Ertugrul Aktas +7Domain-Adversarial LearningCross-Modality Medical Image Segmentation

    Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA · Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA · Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

  8. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Symbol Spotting in Historical Encrypted Manuscripts

    Sep 7, 2026Giuseppe De Gregorio, Alicia Fornés, Lei Kang +1Domain-Adversarial LearningHistorical Document Analysis

    Computer Vision Center (CVC), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain · Stockholm University, Sweden

  9. An Adversarial Zero-Shot Learning Approach for Anomaly Detection in Multivariate IoT Traffic Data

    Sep 3, 2026Mahshid Rezakhani, Tolunay Seyfi, Fatemeh AfghahDomain-Adversarial LearningUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

    Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, 29634 SC, USA

  10. Safe Domain Adaptation for Physics: Overcoming Nuisances, Label Shifts, and Simulation Priors

    Aug 18, 2026Ivan KharukDomain AdaptationDomain-Adversarial Learning

    Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences · Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology · Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 60th October Anniversary Prospect 7a, Moscow, 117312, Russia +1

  11. Decodable but Not Accessible: Auditing Distance-Based Reliability Estimation on Disentangled Skin-Lesion Representations

    Aug 10, 2026Duc-Vinh TranDomain-Adversarial LearningDisentangled Representation Learning

    School of Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, 1 Dai Co Viet Road, Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam

  12. Towards Multi-Label Graph Foundation Models: from Single-Vector Representation Learning to Multi-Semantic Basis Learning

    Jul 31, 2026Dongxiao He, Jiayu Zhang, Jitao Zhao +2Domain-Adversarial LearningRepresentation Learning

    Tianjin University Tianjin, China

  13. Domain-Adaptive Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding for Image Classification

    Jul 31, 2026Yishen Li, Xuechen Chen, Xiaoheng Deng +1Domain-Adversarial LearningDeep Joint Source-Channel Coding

    School of Electronic Information, Central South University, Changsha 410075, China

  14. Device Invariance using Domain Adaptation on Acoustic Scene Classification

    Jul 28, 2026Abhishek dileep, Shubham Sharma, Padmanabhan RajanDomain-Adversarial LearningUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

    School of Computing and Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India

  15. ASFR-Net: Adversarial Alignment and Spatio-Frequency Refinement Network for Heterogeneous Remote Sensing Image Change Detection

    Jul 8, 2026Xin-Jie Wu, Zhi-Hui You, Si-Bao Chen +4Domain-Adversarial LearningRemote Sensing Change Detection

    MOE Key Laboratory of ICSP, IMIS Laboratory of Anhui Province, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Multimodal Cognitive Computation, Zenmorn-AHU AI Joint Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China

  16. Is Domain Adaptation Always Helpful? A Frozen-Backbone Study of Cross-Domain Sentiment Transfer

    Jul 7, 2026Phat Tran, Artin Lahni, Pranav Kulkarni +1Domain-Adversarial LearningDomain Adaptation

    Oregon State University

  17. ClinRAG-GRAPH: Clinical-prior Retrieval-Augmented Graph Model with Domain Adversarial Learning for Breast pCR Prediction

    Jul 1, 2026Yaofei Duan, Yuhao Huang, Tianyu Zhang +12Domain-Adversarial LearningRetrieval-Augmented Generation

    Department of Medical Imaging, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands · The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Faculty of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macau, China +5

  18. Cross-Domain Molecular Relational Learning: Leveraging Chemical Structure-Activity Analysis

    May 16, 2026Peiliang Zhang, Jingling Yuan, Shiqing Wu +4Domain-Adversarial LearningCross-Modal Representation Learning

    Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan, Hubei, China · Hubei Key Laboratory of Transportation Internet of Things State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan, Hubei, China · Yonsei University Seoul, Republic of Korea +3

  19. Bridging Passive and Active: Enhancing Conversation Starter Recommendation via Active Expression Modeling

    May 7, 2026Yiqing Wu, Haoming Li, Guanyu Jiang +4Domain-Adversarial LearningConversational Search

    Bytedance Beijing, China

  20. MultiSense-Pneumo: A Multimodal Learning Framework for Pneumonia Screening in Resource-Constrained Settings

    May 4, 2026Dineth Jayakody, Pasindu Thenahandi, Chameli DommanigeDomain-Adversarial LearningClinical Triage

    Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, VA, USA

  21. GMGaze: MoE-Based Context-Aware Gaze Estimation with CLIP and Multiscale Transformer

    May 1, 2026Xinyuan Zhao, Yihang Wu, Ahmad Chaddad +2Domain-Adversarial LearningGaze Estimation

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, China · The Laboratory for Imagery, Vision and Artificial Intelligence, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada · Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia +2

  22. FryNet: Dual-Stream Adversarial Fusion for Non-Destructive Frying Oil Oxidation Assessment

    Apr 23, 2026Khaled R Ahmed, Toqi Tahamid Sarker, Taminul Islam +2Domain-Adversarial LearningThermal Imaging

    Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA · Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

  23. RoIt-XMASA: Multi-Domain Multilingual Sentiment Analysis Dataset for Romanian and Italian

    Apr 18, 2026Andrei-Marius Avram, Aureliu Valentin Antonie, Cosmin-Mircea Croitoru +2Domain-Adversarial LearningUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

    National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

  24. Shortcut Learning in Glomerular AI: Adversarial Penalties Hurt, Entropy Helps

    Apr 9, 2026Mohammad Daouk, Jan Ulrich Becker, Neeraja Kambham +3Shortcut LearningHistopathology Image Classification

    University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA · University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany · Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA +1

  25. Bridging the Simulation-to-Experiment Gap with Generative Models using Adversarial Distribution Alignment

    Apr 1, 2026Kai Nelson, Tobias Kreiman, Sergey Levine +1Generative ModelingSynthetic-to-Real Domain Adaptation

    University of California, Berkeley · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)

  26. MIRANDA: MId-feature RANk-adversarial Domain Adaptation toward climate change-robust ecological forecasting with deep learning

    Apr 1, 2026Yuchang Jiang, Jan Dirk Wegner, Vivien Sainte Fare GarnotDomain AdaptationDomain-Adversarial Learning

    DM3L, UZH, Zurich, Switzerland

  27. Feature-level Site Leakage Reduction for Cross-Hospital Chest X-ray Transfer via Self-Supervised Learning

    Mar 31, 2026Ayoub Louaye Bouaziz, Lokmane CheboubaCross-Domain Transfer LearningCross-Dataset Generalization

    University of Mentouri Brothers Constantine 1, Constantine, Algeria · University of Paris-VIII-Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France · LRIA Laboratory, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB), Bab-Ezzouar, Algeria +1

  28. Denoise and Align: Towards Source-Free UDA for Robust Panoramic Semantic Segmentation

    Mar 26, 2026Yaowen Chang, Zhen Cao, Xu Zheng +2Semantic SegmentationSource-Free Domain Adaptation

    Wuhan University · HKUST (Guangzhou) · Wuhan University of Technology

  29. Enhancing Multi-Corpus Training in SSL-Based Anti-Spoofing Models: Domain-Invariant Feature Extraction

    Mar 19, 2026Anh-Tuan Dao, Driss Matrouf, Mickael Rouvier +1Domain GeneralizationDomain-Adversarial Learning

    Laboratoire d’informatique d’Avignon, France · EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France

  30. ALIGN: Adversarial Learning for Generalizable Speech Neuroprosthesis

    Mar 18, 2026Zhanqi Zhang, Shun Li, Bernardo L. Sabatini +2Brain-Computer InterfacesNeural Decoding

    Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA · Halıcıo˘glu Data Science Institute, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA