Summary of Parameter-selective Continual Test-time Adaptation, by Jiaxu Tian et al.
Parameter-Selective Continual Test-Time Adaptation
by Jiaxu Tian, Fan Lyu
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper presents a new approach to continual test-time adaptation (CTTA), which aims to adapt a pre-trained model to changing environments during the testing phase under continuous domain shifts. The proposed method, called Parameter-Selective Mean Teacher (PSMT), is based on the Mean Teacher (MT) structure, but it selectively updates critical parameters within the MT network to mitigate error accumulation and catastrophic forgetting. To achieve this, PSMT introduces a selective distillation mechanism in the student model to regularize novel knowledge and apply preservation measures to crucial parameters in the teacher model via exponential moving average. Experimental results show that PSMT outperforms state-of-the-art methods across multiple benchmark datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary CTTTA is a way to make machine learning models adapt to new situations during testing, when there are changes in what’s being learned. The current approaches for this use something called the Mean Teacher (MT) structure, which has two parts: a student and a teacher model. The student uses labels from the teacher to learn, and then the teacher gets updated by averaging previous results. But sometimes important information is lost during this process, making it harder for the model to adapt in the future. This paper introduces a new approach called PSMT that solves this problem by being more careful about which parts of the model get updated. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Distillation » Machine learning » Student model » Teacher model
