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CLIP-Powered Domain Generalization and Domain Adaptation: A Comprehensive Survey
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
|January 12, 2026
Summary
This survey offers a comprehensive overview of Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) applications in domain generalization (DG) and domain adaptation (DA). It categorizes methods, analyzes trends, and discusses challenges for robust AI systems.
Area of Science:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Computer Vision
Background:
- Domain generalization (DG) and domain adaptation (DA) are vital for AI model robustness across diverse environments.
- Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) offers strong zero-shot capabilities for unseen domains.
- A systematic review of CLIP's role in DG and DA is needed.
Purpose of the Study:
- To provide a unified and in-depth overview of CLIP-driven DG and DA.
- To establish a taxonomy for DG/DA scenarios (source accessibility, number, label relations).
- To synthesize existing studies and identify research gaps.
Main Methods:
- Categorization of DG methods: prompt optimization and CLIP-as-backbone architectures.
- Examination of DA approaches: source-available and source-free, focusing on knowledge transfer.
- Consolidated trend analyses for DG and DA, identifying patterns and principles.
Main Results:
- CLIP significantly enhances DG and DA by providing transferable features and zero-shot capabilities.
- A structured taxonomy aids in understanding diverse DG/DA scenarios.
- Trend analyses reveal methodological principles and scenario-dependent behaviors.
Conclusions:
- This survey synthesizes CLIP-based DG/DA research, offering insights for practitioners.
- Identifies challenges like deployment, LLM integration, interpretability, and catastrophic forgetting.
- Outlines future directions for scalable and trustworthy CLIP-based DG/DA systems.
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