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Domain Adaptation

2,400 papers with code · 58 benchmarks · 96 datasets archive 2025-07-28

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Domain Adaptation is the task of adapting models across domains. This is motivated by the challenge where the test and training datasets fall from different data distributions due to some factor. Domain adaptation aims to build machine learning models that can be generalized into a target domain and dealing with the discrepancy across domain distributions.

Further readings:

  • A Brief Review of Domain Adaptation

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Description from the archive archive 2025-07-28.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

58 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 58 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted. 10 shown of 58 until expanded.

DatasetBest model (first row in archive order)PaperCodeSyntologyCompare
Office-31 (40 rows) FFTAT Feature Fusion Transferability Aware Transformer for Unsupervised... code — Compare
SYNTHIA-to-Cityscapes (33 rows) HALO Hyperbolic Active Learning for Semantic Segmentation under Domain Shift code Syntology ran 3 of 8 samples · 5 unverified Compare
Office-Home (29 rows) SWG Combining inherent knowledge of vision-language models with... code — Compare
GTA5 to Cityscapes (28 rows) HALO Hyperbolic Active Learning for Semantic Segmentation under Domain Shift code Syntology ran 3 of 8 samples · 5 unverified Compare
VisDA2017 (28 rows) FFTAT Feature Fusion Transferability Aware Transformer for Unsupervised... code — Compare
ImageCLEF-DA (17 rows) CMKD Unsupervised Domain Adaption Harnessing Vision-Language Pre-training code — Compare
Cityscapes to ACDC (16 rows) SoRA SoRA: Singular Value Decomposed Low-Rank Adaptation for Domain... code — Compare
MNIST-to-USPS (14 rows) FACT FACT: Federated Adversarial Cross Training code — Compare
SVHN-to-MNIST (14 rows) Mean teacher Self-ensembling for visual domain adaptation code — Compare
USPS-to-MNIST (14 rows) FAMCD Unsupervised domain adaptation using feature aligned maximum... — — Compare
SVNH-to-MNIST (9 rows) SRDA (RAN) Learning Smooth Representation for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation code — Compare
MoLane (8 rows) UFLD-SGPCS-ResNet18 CARLANE: A Lane Detection Benchmark for Unsupervised Domain... code — Compare
MuLane (8 rows) UFLD-SGADA-ResNet32 CARLANE: A Lane Detection Benchmark for Unsupervised Domain... code — Compare
Office-Caltech (8 rows) SPL Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via Structured Prediction Based... code — Compare
TuLane (8 rows) UFLD-SGPCS-ResNet32 CARLANE: A Lane Detection Benchmark for Unsupervised Domain... code — Compare
Cityscapes-to-FoggyZurich (6 rows) CoDA CoDA: Instructive Chain-of-Domain Adaptation with Severity-Aware... code — Compare
GTAV+Synscapes to Cityscapes (6 rows) DDB Deliberated Domain Bridging for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation code — Compare
SYNSIG-to-GTSRB (6 rows) DFA-MCD Discriminative Feature Alignment: Improving Transferability of... code Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified Compare
Cityscapes-to-FoggyDriving (5 rows) CoDA CoDA: Instructive Chain-of-Domain Adaptation with Severity-Aware... code — Compare
GTA5+Synscapes to Cityscapes (5 rows) MSCL Multi-Source Domain Adaptation with Collaborative Learning for... — — Compare
HMDBfull-to-UCF (5 rows) UNITE Unsupervised Video Domain Adaptation with Masked Pre-Training and... code — Compare
MNIST-to-MNIST-M (5 rows) DRANet DRANet: Disentangling Representation and Adaptation Networks for... code Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified Compare
Panoptic SYNTHIA-to-Cityscapes (5 rows) MC-PanDA MC-PanDA: Mask Confidence for Panoptic Domain Adaptation code — Compare
Panoptic SYNTHIA-to-Mapillary (5 rows) MC-PanDA MC-PanDA: Mask Confidence for Panoptic Domain Adaptation code — Compare
UCF --> HMDB (full) (5 rows) UNITE Unsupervised Video Domain Adaptation with Masked Pre-Training and... code — Compare
UCF-to-HMDBfull (5 rows) UNITE Unsupervised Video Domain Adaptation with Masked Pre-Training and... code — Compare
DomainNet (4 rows) SPM Shuffle PatchMix Augmentation with Confidence-Margin Weighted... code — Compare
GTAV to Cityscapes+Mapillary (4 rows) Rein Stronger, Fewer, & Superior: Harnessing Vision Foundation Models... code — Compare
HMDB --> UCF (full) (4 rows) TranSVAE — — — Compare
Synth Digits-to-SVHN (4 rows) DSN (DANN) Domain Separation Networks code Syntology ran 5 of 14 samples · 9 unverified Compare
Synth Signs-to-GTSRB (4 rows) Mean teacher Self-ensembling for visual domain adaptation code — Compare
HMDBsmall-to-UCF (3 rows) TA3N Temporal Attentive Alignment for Video Domain Adaptation code — Compare
Olympic-to-HMDBsmall (3 rows) TA3N Temporal Attentive Alignment for Video Domain Adaptation code — Compare
Synscapes-to-Cityscapes (3 rows) ProDA+CRA Cross-Region Domain Adaptation for Class-level Alignment — — Compare
UCF-to-HMDBsmall (3 rows) TA3N Temporal Attentive Alignment for Video Domain Adaptation code — Compare
UCF-to-Olympic (3 rows) TA3N Temporal Attentive Alignment for Video Domain Adaptation code — Compare
Comic2k (2 rows) DDT Diffusion Domain Teacher: Diffusion Guided Domain Adaptive Object Detector code — Compare
Rotating MNIST (2 rows) PCIDA Continuously Indexed Domain Adaptation code — Compare
Canon RAW Low Light (1 row) FSDA-LL Sony -> Canon Few-Shot Domain Adaptation for Low Light RAW Image Enhancement code Syntology ran 0 of 9 samples · 9 unverified Compare
Foggy Cityscapes (1 row) MILA MILA: Memory-Based Instance-Level Adaptation for Cross-Domain... code — Compare
GTA-to-FoggyCityscapes (1 row) FogAdapt+ FogAdapt: Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Semantic... — — Compare
LeukemiaAttri (1 row) ConfMix [23] L_100x_C2 A Large-scale Multi Domain Leukemia Dataset for the White Blood... code — Compare
MNIST-M-to-MNIST (1 row) DRANet DRANet: Disentangling Representation and Adaptation Networks for... code Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified Compare
MSDA (1 row) MetaSelf-Learning Meta Self-Learning for Multi-Source Domain Adaptation: A Benchmark code — Compare
Nikon RAW Low Light (1 row) FSDA-LL Sony -> Nikon Few-Shot Domain Adaptation for Low Light RAW Image Enhancement code Syntology ran 0 of 9 samples · 9 unverified Compare
Noisy-Amazon (20%) (1 row) Butterfly Butterfly: One-step Approach towards Wildly Unsupervised Domain Adaptation code Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified Compare
Noisy-Amazon (45%) (1 row) Butterfly Butterfly: One-step Approach towards Wildly Unsupervised Domain Adaptation code Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified Compare
Noisy-MNIST-to-SYND (1 row) Butterfly Butterfly: One-step Approach towards Wildly Unsupervised Domain Adaptation code Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified Compare
Noisy-SYND-to-MNIST (1 row) Butterfly Butterfly: One-step Approach towards Wildly Unsupervised Domain Adaptation code Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified Compare
Office-Caltech-10 (1 row) MEDA Visual Domain Adaptation with Manifold Embedded Distribution Alignment code — Compare
PACS (1 row) SSGEN Learning to Generalize across Domains on Single Test Samples code — Compare
S2RDA-49 (1 row) PGA Enhancing Domain Adaptation through Prompt Gradient Alignment code Syntology ran 6 of 12 samples · 6 unverified Compare
S2RDA-MS-39 (1 row) PGA Enhancing Domain Adaptation through Prompt Gradient Alignment code Syntology ran 6 of 12 samples · 6 unverified Compare
Sim10k (1 row) MILA MILA: Memory-Based Instance-Level Adaptation for Cross-Domain... code — Compare
Synth Objects-to-LINEMOD (1 row) DSN (DANN) Domain Separation Networks code Syntology ran 5 of 14 samples · 9 unverified Compare
SYNTHIA-to-FoggyCityscapes (1 row) FogAdapt+ FogAdapt: Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Semantic... — — Compare
SYNTHIA-to-Cityscapes Labels (1 row) MRNet Unsupervised Scene Adaptation with Memory Regularization in vivo code Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified Compare
VIPER-to-Cityscapes (1 row) STPL Spatio-Temporal Pixel-Level Contrastive Learning-based Source-Free... code — Compare

Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

96 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count. 30 shown of 96 until expanded.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

13 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 2,400 papers with code (6,439 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

  • 28 May 2020 67 repositories listed Syntology ran 15 of 65 samples · 50 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
    By contrast, humans can generally perform a new language task from only a few examples or from simple instructions - something which current NLP systems still largely struggle to do.
  • 28 May 2015 37 repositories listed Syntology ran 33 of 52 samples · 19 unverified · 22 pointer-only (licence)
    Our approach is directly inspired by the theory on domain adaptation suggesting that, for effective domain transfer to be achieved, predictions must be made based on features that cannot discriminate between the…
  • 20 Dec 2017 36 repositories listed Syntology ran 11 of 11 samples · 0 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
    This paper presents a self-supervised framework for training interest point detectors and descriptors suitable for a large number of multiple-view geometry problems in computer vision.
  • 28 Oct 2017 30 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 27 samples · 23 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
    In this paper, we propose a new loss function called generalized end-to-end (GE2E) loss, which makes the training of speaker verification models more efficient than our previous tuple-based end-to-end (TE2E) loss…
  • 25 Jul 2018 25 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 16 samples · 12 unverified
    IBN-Net carefully integrates Instance Normalization (IN) and Batch Normalization (BN) as building blocks, and can be wrapped into many advanced deep networks to improve their performances.
  • 26 Sep 2014 22 repositories listed Syntology ran 34 of 41 samples · 7 unverified · 14 pointer-only (licence)
    Here, we propose a new approach to domain adaptation in deep architectures that can be trained on large amount of labeled data from the source domain and large amount of unlabeled data from the target domain (no labeled…
  • 17 Feb 2017 20 repositories listed Syntology ran 14 of 48 samples · 34 unverified · 12 pointer-only (licence)
    Adversarial learning methods are a promising approach to training robust deep networks, and can generate complex samples across diverse domains.
  • 28 Feb 2018 12 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 7 samples · 1 unverified · 7 pointer-only (licence)
    In this paper, we propose an adversarial learning method for domain adaptation in the context of semantic segmentation.
  • 15 Oct 2019 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 9 samples · 3 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
    An effective person re-identification (re-ID) model should learn feature representations that are both discriminative, for distinguishing similar-looking people, and generalisable, for deployment across datasets without…
  • 7 Dec 2017 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
    To solve these problems, we introduce a new approach that attempts to align distributions of source and target by utilizing the task-specific decision boundaries.
  • 22 Dec 2016 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 8 samples · 6 unverified
    With recent progress in graphics, it has become more tractable to train models on synthetic images, potentially avoiding the need for expensive annotations.
  • 6 Jul 2016 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 10 of 16 samples · 6 unverified · 10 pointer-only (licence)
    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.
  • 16 Jan 2019 8 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 4 samples · 0 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
    Predicting structured outputs such as semantic segmentation relies on expensive per-pixel annotations to learn supervised models like convolutional neural networks.
  • 8 Mar 2018 8 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 8 samples · 7 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)
    The results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach for robust object detection in various domain shift scenarios.
  • 5 Jul 2017 8 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 2 samples · 0 unverified
    Inspired by Wasserstein GAN, in this paper we propose a novel approach to learn domain invariant feature representations, namely Wasserstein Distance Guided Representation Learning (WDGRL).
  • 2 Mar 2017 8 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 9 samples · 8 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
    Unsupervised image-to-image translation aims at learning a joint distribution of images in different domains by using images from the marginal distributions in individual domains.
  • 6 Oct 2013 8 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 7 samples · 6 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
    We evaluate whether features extracted from the activation of a deep convolutional network trained in a fully supervised fashion on a large, fixed set of object recognition tasks can be re-purposed to novel generic…
  • 5 Sep 2024 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 5 samples · 0 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
    The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) for domain applications in fields such as materials science and engineering depends on the development of fine-tuning strategies that adapt models for specialized,…
  • 23 Jun 2020 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 18 samples · 15 unverified
    This paper introduces the pipeline to extend the largest dataset in egocentric vision, EPIC-KITCHENS.
  • 1 Feb 2019 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 10 samples · 7 unverified
    A key learning scenario in large-scale applications is that of federated learning, where a centralized model is trained based on data originating from a large number of clients.
  • 31 Jan 2019 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 13 samples · 8 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
    In this paper, we present a Multi-Task Deep Neural Network (MT-DNN) for learning representations across multiple natural language understanding (NLU) tasks.
  • 2 Aug 2018 7 repositories listed
    Our model takes the encoded content features extracted from a given input and the attribute vectors sampled from the attribute space to produce diverse outputs at test time.
  • 22 Jun 2017 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
    Domain adaptation or transfer learning algorithms address this challenge by leveraging labeled data in a different, but related source domain, to develop a model for the target domain.
  • 10 Dec 2014 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
    Recent reports suggest that a generic supervised deep CNN model trained on a large-scale dataset reduces, but does not remove, dataset bias on a standard benchmark.
  • 7 Sep 2022 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 8 samples · 2 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
    The idea of rectified flow is to learn the ODE to follow the straight paths connecting the points drawn from \pi_0 and \pi_1 as much as possible.
  • 8 Jun 2021 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 8 of 20 samples · 12 unverified · 9 pointer-only (licence)
    We extend semi-supervised learning to the problem of domain adaptation to learn significantly higher-accuracy models that train on one data distribution and test on a different one.
  • 14 Apr 2021 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 4 samples · 4 unverified
    Learning sentence embeddings often requires a large amount of labeled data.
  • 31 Oct 2019 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 10 samples · 5 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
    Instead, we evaluate MLMs out of the box via their pseudo-log-likelihood scores (PLLs), which are computed by masking tokens one by one.
  • 11 Apr 2019 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
    We introduce Margin Disparity Discrepancy, a novel measurement with rigorous generalization bounds, tailored to the distribution comparison with the asymmetric margin loss, and to the minimax optimization for easier…
  • 4 Sep 2018 6 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
    Recent advances in deep domain adaptation reveal that adversarial learning can be embedded into deep networks to learn transferable features that reduce distribution discrepancy between the source and target domains.

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