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. DECKER: Domain-invariant Embedding for Cross-Keyboard Extraction and Recognition

    May 5, 2026Bikrant Bikram Pratap Maurya, Nitin Choudhury, Daksh Agarwal +1Domain Generalization

    IIIT-Delhi India · Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi India

  2. Validation of an AI-based end-to-end model for prostate pathology using long-term archived routine samples

    May 4, 2026Xiaoyi Ji, Renata Zelic, Oskar Aspegren +11Computational PathologyDomain Generalization

    Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden · Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden · Department of Pelvic Cancer, Cancer Theme, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden +8

  3. MER-DG: Modality-Entropy Regularization for Multimodal Domain Generalization

    May 3, 2026Yavuz Yarici, Ghassan AlRegibMultimodal Domain GeneralizationDomain Generalization

    1OLIVES at the Center for Signal and Information Processing CSIP, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.

  4. A Proof-of-Concept Study of Multitask Learning for Cranial Synthetic CT Generation Across Heterogeneous MRI Field Strengths

    Apr 30, 2026Zhuoyao Xin, Yiren Zhang, Christopher Wu +6Domain GeneralizationMulti-Task Learning

    F.M. Kirby Research Center for Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, 21205, United States. · Neurosection, Division of MR Research, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21287, United States. · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218, United States. +6

  5. Dreaming Across Towns: Semantic Rollout and Town-Adversarial Regularization for Zero-Shot Held-Out-Town Fixed-Route Driving in CARLA

    Apr 30, 2026Feeza Khan Khanzada, Jaerock KwonDomain GeneralizationCross-Domain Generalization

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan–Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 48128 USA

  6. A generalised pre-training strategy for deep learning networks in semantic segmentation of remotely sensed images

    Apr 30, 2026Yuan Fang, Yuanzhi Cai, Jagannath Aryal +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationDomain Generalization

    Department of Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215000, China · CSIRO Mineral Resources, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia · Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia

  7. Bridge: Basis-Driven Causal Inference Marries VFMs for Domain Generalization

    Apr 29, 2026Mingbo Hong, Feng Liu, Caroline Gevaert +2Domain GeneralizationCross-Domain Generalization

    University of Twente · 2Drexel University

  8. Robust Representation Learning through Explicit Environment Modeling

    Apr 28, 2026Yuli Slavutsky, David M. BleiRepresentation LearningDomain Generalization

    Department of Statistics Columbia University · Departments of Statistics and Computer Science Columbia University

  9. A Hierarchical Ensemble Inference Pipeline for Robust White Blood Cell Classification Under Domain Shifts

    Apr 25, 2026Ruyi Dai, Tingkwong Ng, Hao ChenHierarchical ClassificationEnsemble Learning

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China · Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China · Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China +2

  10. EV-CLIP: Efficient Visual Prompt Adaptation for CLIP in Few-shot Action Recognition under Visual Challenges

    Apr 24, 2026Hyo Jin Jon, Longbin Jin, Eun Yi KimVLM AdaptationDomain Generalization

    Computer Vision Lab., Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea

  11. Are Natural-Domain Foundation Models Effective for Accelerated Cardiac MRI Reconstruction?

    Apr 24, 2026Anam Hashmi, Mayug Maniparambil, Julia Dietlmeier +2Domain GeneralizationVision Foundation Model Adaptation

    1Dublin City University, Ireland · University College Dublin, Ireland

  12. Generalizable CT-Free PET Attenuation and Scatter Correction for Pediatric Patients

    Apr 24, 2026Jia-Mian Wu, Jun Liu, Siqi Li +7Medical ImagingDomain Generalization

    School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 611130, China · Department of Nuclear Medicine, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China · Department of Radiology, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children’s Health, Beijing 100045, China

  13. Generalizing Numerical Reasoning in Table Data through Operation Sketches and Self-Supervised Learning

    Apr 23, 2026Hanjun Cho, Gahyun Yoo, Hanseong Kim +1Table QASelf-Supervised Pre-Training

    Seoul National University · Soongsil University

  14. Explainable Disentangled Representation Learning for Generalizable Authorship Attribution in the Era of Generative AI

    Apr 23, 2026Hieu Man, Van-Cuong Pham, Nghia Trung Ngo +2Variational AutoencodersDisentangled Representation Learning

    University of Oregon, OR, USA · Adobe Research, CA, USA

  15. Robust Cross-Domain WiFi Fall Detection via Physics-Driven Attention-Enhanced Transformers

    Apr 23, 2026Yingzhe Wang, Cunhua Pan, Ruijing Liu +4Data AugmentationHybrid CNN-Transformer Architectures

    National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China · Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London, UB8 3PH Uxbridge, U.K. · Pervasive Communication Research Center, Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing 211111, China

  16. Benchmarking Vision Foundation Models for Domain-Generalizable Face Anti-Spoofing

    Apr 21, 2026Mika Feng, Pierre Gallin-Martel, Koichi Ito +1Vision Foundation ModelsDomain Generalization

    Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan

  17. Match-Any-Events: Zero-Shot Motion-Robust Feature Matching Across Wide Baselines for Event Cameras

    Apr 20, 2026Ruijun Zhang, Hang Su, Kostas Daniilidis +1Event-Based VisionDomain Generalization

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 21218, USA · ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China · University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA +1

  18. A Controlled Benchmark of Visual State-Space Backbones with Domain-Shift and Boundary Analysis for Remote-Sensing Segmentation

    Apr 20, 2026Nichula Wasalathilaka, Dineth Perera, Oshadha Samarakoon +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationDomain Generalization

    University of Peradeniya Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

  19. From Adaptation to Generalization: Adaptive Visual Prompting for Medical Image Segmentation

    Apr 19, 2026Evren Çetinkaya, Sangmin Lee, Jung Uk Kim +2Domain GeneralizationMedical Image Segmentation

    Technical University of Munich · Korea University · Kyung Hee University +1

  20. CrossFlowDG: Bridging the Modality Gap with Cross-modal Flow Matching for Domain Generalization

    Apr 18, 2026Antonios Kritikos, Nikolaos Spanos, Athanasios VoulodimosCross-Modal LearningCross-Modal Alignment

    National Technical University of Athens

  21. LADDER: Landmark-Only Lip-Sync Deepfake Detection Across Generators and Languages

    Apr 18, 2026Hao Chen, Junnan XuDomain GeneralizationDeepfake Detection

    Independent Researcher

  22. Continuous ageing trajectory representations for knee-aware lifetime prediction of lithium-ion batteries across heterogeneous dataset

    Apr 17, 2026Agnieszka Pregowska, Stefan MarynowiczRUL EstimationDomain Generalization

  23. NeuroLip: An Event-driven Spatiotemporal Learning Framework for Cross-Scene Lip-Motion-based Visual Speaker Recognition

    Apr 17, 2026Junguang Yao, Wenye Liu, Stjepan Picek +1Event-Based VisionDomain Generalization

    School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518172, P.R. China · independent researcher · Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia +1

  24. P3T: Prototypical Point-level Prompt Tuning with Enhanced Generalization for 3D Vision-Language Models

    Apr 17, 2026Geunyoung Jung, Soohong Kim, Kyungwoo Song +1Point Cloud ClassificationVLM Adaptation

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Seoul, South Korea · Department of Applied Statistics, Yonsei University, South Korea

  25. CXR-LT 2026 Challenge: Multi-Center Long-Tailed and Zero Shot Chest X-ray Classification

    Apr 16, 2026Hexin Dong, Yi Lin, Pengyu Zhou +25Zero-Shot LearningLong-Tailed Classification

    Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA · Department of Radiology, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China · Department of Radiology, West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Sichuan University Affiliated Chengdu Second People’s Hospital, Chengdu Second People’s Hospital, Chengdu, China +20

  26. Attention-Gated Convolutional Networks for Scanner-Agnostic Quality Assessment

    Apr 16, 2026Chinmay Bakhale, Anil SaoHybrid CNN-Transformer ArchitecturesMedical Image Analysis

    Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai, India

  27. Open-Set Vein Biometric Recognition with Deep Metric Learning

    Apr 16, 2026Paweł Pilarek, Marcel Musiałek, Anna GórskaBiometric IdentificationDomain Generalization

    Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

  28. GeoLink: A 3D-aware Framework to Improve Generalization for Cross-view Geo-localization

    Apr 14, 2026Hongyang Zhang, Yinhao Liu, Haitao Zhang +4Cross-View Geo-LocalizationGeospatial Representation Learning

    Xiamen University · Tongji University

  29. Towards Brain MRI Foundation Models for the Clinic: Findings from the FOMO25 Challenge

    Apr 13, 2026Asbjørn Munk, Stefano Cerri, Vardan Nersesjan +81Medical Imaging Foundation ModelsSelf-Supervised Pre-Training

  30. BRIDGE and TCH-Net: Heterogeneous Benchmark and Multi-Branch Baseline for Cross-Domain IoT Botnet Detection

    Apr 13, 2026Ammar Bhilwarawala, Likhamba Rongmei, Harsh Sharma +4IoT Intrusion DetectionDomain Generalization

    School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751024, India