C-DGPA: Class-Centric Dual-Alignment Generative Prompt Adaptation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16164v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:30:53 GMT
• Title: C-DGPA: Class-Centric Dual-Alignment Generative Prompt Adaptation
• Authors: Chao Li, Dasha Hu, Chengyang Li, Yuming Jiang, Yuncheng Shen,
• Abstract summary: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation transfers knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain.<n>Existing prompt-tuning strategies primarily align marginal distribution discrepancies.<n>C-DGPA integrates domain knowl edge into prompt learning via synergistic optimization.<n>It achieves new state-of-the-art results on all benchmarks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation transfers knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Directly deploying Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with prompt tuning in downstream UDA tasks faces the signifi cant challenge of mitigating domain discrepancies. Existing prompt-tuning strategies primarily align marginal distribu tion, but neglect conditional distribution discrepancies, lead ing to critical issues such as class prototype misalignment and degraded semantic discriminability. To address these lim itations, the work proposes C-DGPA: Class-Centric Dual Alignment Generative Prompt Adaptation. C-DGPA syner gistically optimizes marginal distribution alignment and con ditional distribution alignment through a novel dual-branch architecture. The marginal distribution alignment branch em ploys a dynamic adversarial training framework to bridge marginal distribution discrepancies. Simultaneously, the con ditional distribution alignment branch introduces a Class Mapping Mechanism (CMM) to align conditional distribu tion discrepancies by standardizing semantic prompt under standing and preventing source domain over-reliance. This dual alignment strategy effectively integrates domain knowl edge into prompt learning via synergistic optimization, ensur ing domain-invariant and semantically discriminative repre sentations. Extensive experiments on OfficeHome, Office31, and VisDA-2017 validate the superiority of C-DGPA. It achieves new state-of-the-art results on all benchmarks.

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