Bures Joint Distribution Alignment with Dynamic Margin for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.06836v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 03:20:01 GMT
• Title: Bures Joint Distribution Alignment with Dynamic Margin for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
• Authors: Yong-Hui Liu, Chuan-Xian Ren, Xiao-Lin Xu, Ke-Kun Huang
• Abstract summary: Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is one of the prominent tasks of transfer learning. We propose a novel alignment loss term that minimizes the kernel Bures-Wasserstein distance between the joint distributions. Experiments show that BJDA is very effective for the UDA tasks, as it outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in most experimental settings.
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• Abstract: Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is one of the prominent tasks of transfer learning, and it provides an effective approach to mitigate the distribution shift between the labeled source domain and the unlabeled target domain. Prior works mainly focus on aligning the marginal distributions or the estimated class-conditional distributions. However, the joint dependency among the feature and the label is crucial for the adaptation task and is not fully exploited. To address this problem, we propose the Bures Joint Distribution Alignment (BJDA) algorithm which directly models the joint distribution shift based on the optimal transport theory in the infinite-dimensional kernel spaces. Specifically, we propose a novel alignment loss term that minimizes the kernel Bures-Wasserstein distance between the joint distributions. Technically, BJDA can effectively capture the nonlinear structures underlying the data. In addition, we introduce a dynamic margin in contrastive learning phase to flexibly characterize the class separability and improve the discriminative ability of representations. It also avoids the cross-validation procedure to determine the margin parameter in traditional triplet loss based methods. Extensive experiments show that BJDA is very effective for the UDA tasks, as it outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in most experimental settings. In particular, BJDA improves the average accuracy of UDA tasks by 2.8% on Adaptiope, 1.4% on Office-Caltech10, and 1.1% on ImageCLEF-DA.

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