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On Challenges in Unsupervised Domain Generalization
V. Narayanan, A.A. Deshmukh, U. Dogan,
Published in ML Research Press
2022
Volume: 181
   
Pages: 42 - 58
Abstract
Domain Generalization (DG) aims to learn a model from a labeled set of source domains which can generalize to an unseen target domain. Although an important stepping stone towards building general purpose models, the reliance of DG on labeled source data is a problem if we are to deploy scalable ML algorithms in the wild. We thus propose to study a novel and more challenging setting which shares the same goals as that of DG, but without source labels. We name this setting as Unsupervised Domain Generalization (UDG), where the objective is to learn a model from an unlabeled set of source domains that can semantically cluster images in an unseen target domain. We investigate the challenges involved in solving UDG as well as potential methods to address the same. Our experiments indicate that learning a generalizable feature representation using self-supervision is a strong baseline for UDG, even outperforming sophisticated methods explicitly designed to address domain shift and clustering. © 2022 V. Narayanan, A.A. Deshmukh, U. Dogan & V.N. Balasubramanian.
About the journal
JournalProceedings of Machine Learning Research
PublisherML Research Press
ISSN26403498