ElimPCL: Eliminating Noise Accumulation with Progressive Curriculum Labeling for Source-Free Domain Adaptation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23712v1
• Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:28:27 GMT
• Title: ElimPCL: Eliminating Noise Accumulation with Progressive Curriculum Labeling for Source-Free Domain Adaptation
• Authors: Jie Cheng, Hao Zheng, Meiguang Zheng, Lei Wang, Hao Wu, Jian Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) aims to train a target model without source data, and the key is to generate pseudo-labels.<n>We observe that the source model often produces highly uncertain pseudo-labels for hard samples, particularly those heavily affected by domain shifts.<n>We propose a novel Progressive Curriculum Labeling (ElimPCL) method, which iteratively filters trustworthy pseudo-labeled samples.<n>Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of ElimPCL, achieving up to a 3.4% improvement on challenging tasks.
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• Abstract: Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) aims to train a target model without source data, and the key is to generate pseudo-labels using a pre-trained source model. However, we observe that the source model often produces highly uncertain pseudo-labels for hard samples, particularly those heavily affected by domain shifts, leading to these noisy pseudo-labels being introduced even before adaptation and further reinforced through parameter updates. Additionally, they continuously influence neighbor samples through propagation in the feature space.To eliminate the issue of noise accumulation, we propose a novel Progressive Curriculum Labeling (ElimPCL) method, which iteratively filters trustworthy pseudo-labeled samples based on prototype consistency to exclude high-noise samples from training. Furthermore, a Dual MixUP technique is designed in the feature space to enhance the separability of hard samples, thereby mitigating the interference of noisy samples on their neighbors.Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of ElimPCL, achieving up to a 3.4% improvement on challenging tasks compared to state-of-the-art methods.

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