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Domain Generalization via Model-Agnostic Learning of Semantic Features

29 Oct 2019NeurIPS 2019 12arXiv:1910.13580archive 2025-07-28

Qi Dou, Daniel C. Castro, Konstantinos Kamnitsas, Ben Glocker

Generalization capability to unseen domains is crucial for machine learning models when deploying to real-world conditions. We investigate the challenging problem of domain generalization, i.e., training a model on multi-domain source data such that it can directly generalize to target domains with unknown statistics. We adopt a model-agnostic learning paradigm with gradient-based meta-train and meta-test procedures to expose the optimization to domain shift. Further, we introduce two complementary losses which explicitly regularize the semantic structure of the feature space. Globally, we align a derived soft confusion matrix to preserve general knowledge about inter-class relationships. Locally, we promote domain-independent class-specific cohesion and separation of sample features with a metric-learning component. The effectiveness of our method is demonstrated with new state-of-the-art results on two common object recognition benchmarks. Our method also shows consistent improvement on a medical image segmentation task.

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Domain GeneralizationGeneral KnowledgeImage SegmentationMedical Image SegmentationMetric LearningObject RecognitionSemantic Segmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Domain Generalization PACS MASF (Resnet-50) Average Accuracy 82.67 #75 of 133 Archive leaderboard report
Domain Generalization PACS MASF (Resnet-18) Average Accuracy 81.04 #90 of 133 Archive leaderboard report
Domain Generalization PACS MASF (Alexnet) Average Accuracy 75.21 #105 of 133 Archive leaderboard report

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