Domain Generalization

Ask about this topic

Overview

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.

Latest papers

CardsList

376 papers37 papers in the last four weeks, level with the four weeks before. 0.2% of all new papers.

  1. KAGE-Bench: Fast Known-Axis Visual Generalization Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning

    Jan 20, 2026Egor Cherepanov, Daniil Zelezetsky, Alexey K. Kovalev +1RL BenchmarksReinforcement Learning

    1AXXX, Moscow, Russia · 2MIRAI, Moscow, Russia

  2. AnySleep: a channel-agnostic deep learning system for high-resolution sleep staging in multi-center cohorts

    Dec 16, 2025Niklas Grieger, Jannik Raskob, Siamak Mehrkanoon +1ElectroencephalographySleep Stage Classification

    Department of Medical Engineering and Technomathematics, FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, 52428 Jülich, Germany · Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands · Institute for Data-Driven Technologies, FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, 52428 Jülich, Germany

  3. DUPLE: An Intelligent Cross-Deployment Recognition Framework for Fiber-Optic Perimeter Security under Scarce Target Labels

    Nov 22, 2025Yifan He, Haodong Zhang, Qiuheng Song +4Distribution Shift RobustnessMeta-Learning

    College of Smart Materials and Future Energy, Fiber-Optic Research Center, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China · School of Software, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China · Sichuan Fujinan Technology Co., Ltd., Chengdu 611400, China +1

  4. IBIS: A Hybrid Inception-BiLSTM and SVM Ensemble for Robust Doppler-based Human Activity Recognition

    Oct 28, 2025Alison M. Fernandes, Hermes I. Del Monego, Bruno S. Chang +3Human Activity RecognitionDomain Generalization

    Universidade Tecnol´ogica Federal do Paran´a (UTFPR), Programa de P´os-Graduac¸ ˜ao em Engenharia El´etrica e Inform´atica Industrial (CPGEI-CT), Av. Sete de Setembro, 3165, Curitiba, 80230-901, Brazil · INESC TEC, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Porto, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

  5. R2^2M: Real-Aware Residual Model Merging for Robust and Generalizable Deepfake Detection

    Sep 29, 2025Jinhee Park, Guisik Kim, Choongsang Cho +1Domain GeneralizationDeepfake Detection

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Korea · Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), Korea

  6. Confidence-Calibrating Regularization for Robust Brain MRI Segmentation Under Domain Shift

    Sep 27, 2025Behraj Khan, Tahir Qasim Syed, Syed Ahmad Chan BukhariImage SegmentationPromptable Image Segmentation

    St. John’s University New York, USA · Institute of Business Administration Karachi Pakistan

  7. CoDoL: Conditional Domain Prompt Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

    Sep 18, 2025Min Zhang, Yuyin Wang, Zhongxiang Dai +4VLM AdaptationDomain Generalization

    East China Normal University · Xidian University · Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) Network and Data Security +3

  8. FedIA: Importance-Aware Aggregation for Domain-Robust Federated Graph Learning

    Sep 17, 2025Zhanting Zhou, Zeyu Ma, Ziqiang Zheng +1Federated Learning AggregationDomain Generalization

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No. 2006, Xiyuan Ave, West Hi-Tech Zone, Chengdu, Sichuan 611731, China

  9. Learning Domain- and Class-Disentangled Prototypes for Domain-Generalized EEG Emotion Recognition

    Sep 1, 2025Guangli Li, Canbiao Wu, Zhehao Zhou +3Cross-Subject EEG DecodingPrototype-Based Classification

    School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou 412008, China · School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China · Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen 518060, China +1

  10. Discovering Hierarchy-Grounded Domains with Adaptive Granularity for Clinical Domain Generalization

    Jun 8, 2025Pengfei Hu, Xiaoxue Han, Fei Wang +1HealthcareDomain Generalization

    School of Computing Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, New Jersey, United States · Weill Cornell Medicine Cornell University New York, New York, United States

  11. Benchmarking Classification Tasks of Chest X-ray AI Across Multinational Public and Private Datasets: a retrospective diagnostic accuracy study

    May 21, 2025Qinmei Xu, Yiheng Li, Wenya Zhao +21Chest X-Ray ClassificationMedical Image Benchmarks

    Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR), Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA · Department of Radiology, the Second Hospital of Nanjing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China · Stanford Breast Imaging, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA +3

  12. Bridging the Inter-Domain Gap through Low-Level Features for Cross-Modal Medical Image Segmentation

    May 17, 2025Pengfei Lyu, Pak-Hei Yeung, Jing Xia +5Cross-Modal LearningCross-Modality Medical Image Segmentation

    Northeastern University, Shenyang, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  13. Purify then Guide: Rethinking Domain Generalization for Multimodal Face Anti-Spoofing

    May 14, 2025Yingjie Ma, Xun Lin, Zitong Yu +7Cross-Modal AlignmentDomain Generalization

    College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University · School of Computing and Information Technology, Great Bay University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +5

  14. CLIP-Powered Domain Generalization and Domain Adaptation: A Comprehensive Survey

    Apr 19, 2025Jindong Li, Yongguang Li, Yali Fu +4Source-Free Domain AdaptationDomain Adaptation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · The Jilin University, Changchun, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China +1

  15. Generative Classifier for Domain Generalization

    Apr 3, 2025Shaocong Long, Qianyu Zhou, Dexuan Zhang +1Domain GeneralizationCross-Domain Generalization

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · College of Computer Science and Technology and the Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, China

  16. Evaluating Synthetic Data Generation for Domain Generalization in Fetal Brain MRI Segmentation

    Nov 11, 2024Vladyslav Zalevskyi, Thomas Sanchez, Margaux Roulet +10Domain RandomizationCross-Modality Medical Image Segmentation

    Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland · CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging, Lausanne, Switzerland · Institute for Information Processing, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany +5