Consistent Assistant Domains Transformer for Source-Free Domain Adaptation
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.This study introduces Consistent Assistant Domains Transformer (CADTrans) for source-free domain adaptation, enhancing feature consistency and diversity. CADTrans effectively addresses domain bias and hard samples, improving model performance without source data access.
Area Of Science
- Computer Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
Background
- Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) faces challenges due to inaccessible source data, hindering the extraction of deterministic invariable features.
- Existing SFDA methods often struggle with hard samples and domain bias by focusing on target domain features resembling the source domain.
Purpose Of The Study
- To propose a novel method, Consistent Assistant Domains Transformer (CADTrans), for effective SFDA.
- To address limitations in feature representation diversity and improve robustness against domain bias and hard samples in SFDA.
Main Methods
- Developed an assistant domain module within CADTrans to generate diversified feature representations from aggregated global attentions.
- Employed multiple consistent strategies using assistant and target domains to obtain invariable feature representations for distinguishing easy and hard samples.
- Introduced a conditional multi-kernel max mean discrepancy (CMK-MMD) strategy to align hard samples with easy samples by differentiating between intra-class and inter-class samples.
Main Results
- CADTrans demonstrates significant performance improvements across various benchmarks, including Office-31, Office-Home, VISDA-C, and DomainNet-126.
- The proposed methods effectively construct invariable feature representations with domain consistency.
- The approach successfully distinguishes and aligns hard samples, mitigating issues of domain bias.
Conclusions
- CADTrans offers a robust solution for SFDA by enhancing feature consistency and diversity.
- The method shows superior performance compared to existing approaches on standard SFDA benchmarks.
- The developed techniques provide a promising direction for future research in domain adaptation without source data.
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