Domain Generalization

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Domain generalization studies how models trained on one or more source environments can make reliable predictions when data shift across hospitals, cameras, sensors, users, locations, or time. Common approaches include learning invariant or disentangled features, causal modeling, adversarial and style-based augmentation, and adapting pretrained models with prompts, adapters, or mixtures of experts. Evaluation often uses leave-one-domain-out and cross-dataset tests, including benchmarks such as PACS and OfficeHome, alongside domain-specific measures of calibration and robustness. A central tension is that enforcing invariance can discard useful information or cause negative transfer, while many proposed methods offer only modest gains over empirical risk minimization and may not reflect deployment conditions.

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  1. FGML-DG: Feynman-Inspired Cognitive Science Paradigm for Cross-Domain Medical Image Segmentation

    Apr 12, 2026Yucheng Song, Chenxi Li, Haokang Ding +2Domain GeneralizationCross-Domain Generalization

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China · School of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK

  2. Context Matters: Vision-Based Depression Detection Comparing Classical and Deep Approaches

    Apr 11, 2026Maneesh Bilalpur, Saurabh Hinduja, Sonish Sivarajkumar +4Depression DetectionDomain Generalization

    Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA · CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc, USA · University of Oregon, USA +3

  3. Towards Multi-Source Domain Generalization for Sleep Staging with Noisy Labels

    Apr 11, 2026Kening Wang, Di Wen, Yufan Chen +6Sleep Stage ClassificationDomain Generalization

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology · ETH Zurich · Hunan University +1

  4. Improving Pediatric Emergency Department Triage with Modality Dropout in Late Fusion Multimodal EHR Models

    Apr 10, 2026Tyler Yang, Romal MitrClinical TriageHealthcare

    Department of Computer Science, Stanford University · Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University

  5. Continual Distillation of Teachers from Different Domains

    Apr 10, 2026Nicolas Michel, Maorong Wang, Jiangpeng He +1Knowledge DistillationCatastrophic Forgetting

    The University of Tokyo · Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics, CNRS · National Institute of Informatics +1

  6. Domain-generalizable Face Anti-Spoofing with Patch-based Multi-tasking and Artifact Pattern Conversion

    Apr 10, 2026Seungjin Jung, Yonghyun Jeong, Minha Kim +3Face Anti-SpoofingDomain Generalization

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, 06974, Korea · Team of Image Vision, Naver Cloud, Seongnam, 13561, Korea · Department of Human-centric AI, Nota AI, Seoul, 06164, Korea +2

  7. Beyond Surface Artifacts: Capturing Shared Latent Forgery Knowledge Across Modalities

    Apr 9, 2026Jingtong Dou, Chuancheng Shi, Jian Wang +3Multimodal Deepfake DetectionMultimodal Domain Generalization

    The University of Sydney · Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications · National University of Singapore

  8. Multiple Domain Generalization Using Category Information Independent of Domain Differences

    Apr 8, 2026Reiji Saito, Kazuhiro HottaDomain GeneralizationCross-Domain Generalization

    Meijo University, 1-501 Shiogamaguchi, Tempaku-ku, Nagoya 468-8502, Japan

  9. SVC 2026: the Second Multimodal Deception Detection Challenge and the First Domain Generalized Remote Physiological Measurement Challenge

    Apr 7, 2026Dongliang Zhu, Zhiyi Niu, Bo Zhao +14Multimodal Deception DetectionRemote Photoplethysmography

    Wuhan University · Hefei University of Technology · Great Bay University +4

  10. Evaluation of Randomization through Style Transfer for Enhanced Domain Generalization

    Apr 7, 2026Dustin Eisenhardt, Timothy Schaumlöffel, Alperen Kantarci +1Domain GeneralizationCross-Domain Generalization

    German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany · German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site Frankfurt/Mainz, a partnership between DKFZ and UCT Frankfurt-Marburg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany · Goethe University Frankfurt, Department of Computer Science, Frankfurt am Main, Germany +1

  11. CRISP: Rank-Guided Iterative Squeezing for Robust Medical Image Segmentation under Domain Shift

    Apr 7, 2026Yizhou Fang, Pujin Cheng, Yixiang Liu +2Image SegmentationMedical Image Segmentation

    Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China · The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Jiaxing Research Institute, Southern University of Science and Technology, Jiaxing, China +1

  12. LUMOS: Universal Semi-Supervised OCT Retinal Layer Segmentation with Hierarchical Reliable Mutual Learning

    Apr 7, 2026Yizhou Fang, Jian Zhong, Li Lin +1Semi-Supervised Medical Image SegmentationMedical Image Segmentation

    Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, Shenzhen, China · Jiaxing Research Institute, Southern University of Science and Technology, Jiaxing, China

  13. Cross-Machine Anomaly Detection Leveraging Pre-trained Time-series Model

    Apr 7, 2026Yangmeng Li, Kei Sano, Toshihiro Kitao +4Anomaly DetectionIndustrial Anomaly Detection

    Program of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 204 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78712-1139, USA. · Equipment Intelligence & App R&D Department, Tokyo Electron Ltd., Daido Seimei Sapporo Building, 1-3 Kita 3-jo Nishi, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0003, Japan. · Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 204 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78712-1139, USA.

  14. HorizonWeaver: Generalizable Multi-Level Semantic Editing for Driving Scenes

    Apr 6, 2026Mauricio Soroco, Francesco Pittaluga, Zaid Tasneem +5Text-Guided Image EditingAutonomous Driving Scenario Generation

    Simon Fraser University · NEC Labs America

  15. ECG Biometrics with ArcFace-Inception: External Validation on MIMIC and HEEDB

    Apr 6, 2026Arjuna ScagnettoBiometric IdentificationElectrocardiography

  16. Context is All You Need

    Apr 6, 2026Jean Erik Delanois, Shruti Joshi, Ryan Golden +2Neural Network RobustnessTest-Time Adaptation

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA · Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA · Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA

  17. Robust Multi-Source Covid-19 Detection in CT Images

    Apr 2, 2026Asmita Yuki Pritha, Jason Xu, Daniel Ding +4Medical Image ClassificationDomain Generalization

    Capstone School Dhaka, Bangladesh · Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana, USA · Clarkstown High School South, West Nyack, New York, USA +2

  18. Multicentric thrombus segmentation using an attention-based recurrent network with gradual modality dropout

    Apr 1, 2026Sofia Vargas-Ibarra, Vincent Vigneron, Hichem Maaref +1Medical Image Segmentation3D Medical Image Segmentation

    Universite Evry Paris-Saclay, IBISC, 34 Rue du Pelvoux, Evry-Courcouronnes, France · SAMOVAR, Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 34 Rue du Pelvoux, Palaiseau, France

  19. PASM: Population Adaptive Symbolic Mixture-of-Experts Model for Cross-location Hurricane Evacuation Decision Prediction

    Mar 31, 2026Xiao Qian, Shangjia DongDomain GeneralizationMixture-of-Experts Models

    Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

  20. Domain-Invariant Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models

    Mar 30, 2026Arsham Gholamzadeh Khoee, Yinan Yu, Robert FeldtVLM AdaptationVisual Prompt Learning

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

  21. Decoupling Wavelet Sub-bands for Single Source Domain Generalization in Fundus Image Segmentation

    Mar 30, 2026Shramana Dey, Varun Ajith, Abhirup Banerjee +1Optic Disc SegmentationDomain Generalization

    Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India · Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom · Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  22. RecycleLoRA: Rank-Revealing QR-Based Dual-LoRA Subspace Adaptation for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation

    Mar 30, 2026Chanseul Cho, Seokju Yun, Jeaseong Jeon +2Domain Generalization for Semantic SegmentationDomain Generalization

    Machine Intelligence Laboratory, University of Seoul, Korea

  23. Embedding-Only Uplink for Onboard Retrieval Under Shift in Remote Sensing

    Mar 30, 2026Sangcheol SimDomain GeneralizationDense Retrieval

    Telepix

  24. Hg-I2P: Bridging Modalities for Generalizable Image-to-Point-Cloud Registration via Heterogeneous Graphs

    Mar 30, 2026Pei An, Junfeng Ding, Jiaqi Yang +32D-3D Image RegistrationPoint Cloud Registration

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China · Northwestern Polytechnical University, China · Huazhong Agricultural University, China +1

  25. Towards Intrinsic-Aware Monocular 3D Object Detection

    Mar 28, 2026Zhihao Zhang, Abhinav Kumar, Xiaoming Liu3D Object DetectionMonocular 3D Object Detection

    Michigan State University · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  26. Real-time Appearance-based Gaze Estimation for Open Domains

    Mar 27, 2026Zhenhao Li, Zheng Liu, Seunghyun Lee +2Gaze EstimationDomain Generalization

    Huawei Technologies Canada · University of Toronto

  27. Koopman Operator Identification of Model Parameter Trajectories for Temporal Domain Generalization (KOMET)

    Mar 27, 2026Randy C. Hoover, Jacob James, Paul May +1Extended Dynamic Mode DecompositionDrifting Models

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), South Dakota Mines, Rapid City, SD 57702, USA · Data Science and Engineering Program within EECS, South Dakota Mines, Rapid City, SD 57702, USA · Department of Mathematics, South Dakota Mines, Rapid City, SD 57702, USA

  28. An Experimental Comparison of the Most Popular Approaches to Fake News Detection

    Mar 26, 2026Pietro Dell'Oglio, Alessandro Bondielli, Francesco Marcelloni +1Fake News DetectionDomain Generalization

    Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1, Pisa, Italy · Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo, 3, Pisa, Italy

  29. CIV-DG: Conditional Instrumental Variables for Domain Generalization in Medical Imaging

    Mar 26, 2026Shaojin Bai, Yuting Su, Weizhi NieDomain GeneralizationCross-Domain Generalization

    School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  30. Is Geometry Enough? An Evaluation of Landmark-Based Gaze Estimation

    Mar 25, 2026Daniele Agostinelli, Thomas Agostinelli, Andrea Generosi +1Gaze EstimationDomain Generalization

    Department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, Universit`a Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, 12, Ancona, 60131, Italy · Department of Science and Information Technology, Universit`a Pegaso, piazza Trieste e Trento, 48, Napoli, 80132, Italy