In Search of Lost Online Test-time Adaptation: A Survey

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20199v3
• Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:58:02 GMT
• Title: In Search of Lost Online Test-time Adaptation: A Survey
• Authors: Zixin Wang, Yadan Luo, Liang Zheng, Zhuoxiao Chen, Sen Wang, Zi Huang,
• Abstract summary: This article presents a comprehensive survey of online test-time adaptation (OTTA) We classify OTTA techniques into three primary categories and benchmark them using a modern backbone, the Vision Transformer (ViT) Our findings diverge from existing literature, revealing that transformers demonstrate heightened resilience to diverse domain shifts.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: This article presents a comprehensive survey of online test-time adaptation (OTTA), focusing on effectively adapting machine learning models to distributionally different target data upon batch arrival. Despite the recent proliferation of OTTA methods, conclusions from previous studies are inconsistent due to ambiguous settings, outdated backbones, and inconsistent hyperparameter tuning, which obscure core challenges and hinder reproducibility. To enhance clarity and enable rigorous comparison, we classify OTTA techniques into three primary categories and benchmark them using a modern backbone, the Vision Transformer (ViT). Our benchmarks cover conventional corrupted datasets such as CIFAR-10/100-C and ImageNet-C, as well as real-world shifts represented by CIFAR-10.1, OfficeHome, and CIFAR-10-Warehouse. The CIFAR-10-Warehouse dataset includes a variety of variations from different search engines and synthesized data generated through diffusion models. To measure efficiency in online scenarios, we introduce novel evaluation metrics, including GFLOPs, wall clock time, and GPU memory usage, providing a clearer picture of the trade-offs between adaptation accuracy and computational overhead. Our findings diverge from existing literature, revealing that (1) transformers demonstrate heightened resilience to diverse domain shifts, (2) the efficacy of many OTTA methods relies on large batch sizes, and (3) stability in optimization and resistance to perturbations are crucial during adaptation, particularly when the batch size is 1. Based on these insights, we highlight promising directions for future research. Our benchmarking toolkit and source code are available at https://github.com/Jo-wang/OTTA_ViT_survey.

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