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Contrastive Vicinal Space for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

26 Nov 2021arXiv:2111.13353archive 2025-07-28

Jaemin Na, Dongyoon Han, Hyung Jin Chang, Wonjun Hwang

Recent unsupervised domain adaptation methods have utilized vicinal space between the source and target domains. However, the equilibrium collapse of labels, a problem where the source labels are dominant over the target labels in the predictions of vicinal instances, has never been addressed. In this paper, we propose an instance-wise minimax strategy that minimizes the entropy of high uncertainty instances in the vicinal space to tackle the stated problem. We divide the vicinal space into two subspaces through the solution of the minimax problem: contrastive space and consensus space. In the contrastive space, inter-domain discrepancy is mitigated by constraining instances to have contrastive views and labels, and the consensus space reduces the confusion between intra-domain categories. The effectiveness of our method is demonstrated on public benchmarks, including Office-31, Office-Home, and VisDA-C, achieving state-of-the-art performances. We further show that our method outperforms the current state-of-the-art methods on PACS, which indicates that our instance-wise approach works well for multi-source domain adaptation as well. Code is available at https://github.com/NaJaeMin92/CoVi.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Domain Adaptation Office-31 CoVi Average Accuracy 91.8 #6 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Domain Adaptation Office-Home CoVi Accuracy 73.1 #15 of 29 Archive leaderboard report
Domain Adaptation VisDA2017 CoVi Accuracy 88.5 #10 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation PACS CoVi Average Accuracy 93.52 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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