Reliability-Guided Adaptive Ensembling for Robust Test-Time Adaptation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22351v1
• Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:20:22 GMT
• Title: Reliability-Guided Adaptive Ensembling for Robust Test-Time Adaptation
• Abstract summary: Test-time adaptation (TTA) can domain shift without source data, but it is highly brittle under adversarially contaminated test streams.<n>We study robust test-time adaptation (RTTA) in the adversarial-stream setting, which remains comparatively underexplored relative to standard TTA.<n>We propose SAFER, a training-free reliability-guided augmentation wrapper for RTTA.
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• Abstract: Test-time adaptation (TTA) can mitigate domain shift without source data, but it is highly brittle under adversarially contaminated test streams, where corrupted inputs also destabilize online updates. We study robust test-time adaptation (RTTA) in the adversarial-stream setting, which remains comparatively underexplored relative to standard TTA, and propose SAFER (Stochastic Augmentation Framework for Enhanced Robustness), a training-free reliability-guided augmentation wrapper for RTTA. SAFER preserves the wrapped TTA objective while replacing brittle single-view predictions with a reliability-guided pooled predictor. For each test sample, SAFER generates stochastic augmentations and aggregates their predictions through correlation-weighted pooling with outlier detection. We further study an adaptive-mixing extension that improves clean-performance retention by adjusting original-versus-augmentation weighting using feature disagreement signals. We evaluate on PACS, VLCS, and OfficeHome under PGD attacks at various attack rates. Across benchmarks, SAFER improves resilience of TTA methods to adversarial attacks while maintaining competitive clean performance.

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