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Deep CORAL: Correlation Alignment for Deep Domain Adaptation

6 Jul 2016arXiv:1607.01719archive 2025-07-28

Baochen Sun, Kate Saenko

Deep neural networks are able to learn powerful representations from large quantities of labeled input data, however they cannot always generalize well across changes in input distributions. Domain adaptation algorithms have been proposed to compensate for the degradation in performance due to domain shift. In this paper, we address the case when the target domain is unlabeled, requiring unsupervised adaptation. CORAL is a "frustratingly easy" unsupervised domain adaptation method that aligns the second-order statistics of the source and target distributions with a linear transformation. Here, we extend CORAL to learn a nonlinear transformation that aligns correlations of layer activations in deep neural networks (Deep CORAL). Experiments on standard benchmark datasets show state-of-the-art performance.

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Tasks

Domain AdaptationDomain GeneralizationImage ClassificationUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Domain Generalization NICO Animal CORAL (Resnet-18) Accuracy 80.27 #4 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Domain Generalization NICO Vehicle CORAL (Resnet-18) Accuracy 71.64 #5 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification iWildCam2020-WILDS CORAL Accuracy (Top-1) 73.3 #2 of 6 Archive leaderboard report

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