Summary of Distribution Alignment For Fully Test-time Adaptation with Dynamic Online Data Streams, by Ziqiang Wang et al.
Distribution Alignment for Fully Test-Time Adaptation with Dynamic Online Data Streams
by Ziqiang Wang, Zhixiang Chi, Yanan Wu, Li Gu, Zhi Liu, Konstantinos Plataniotis, Yang Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 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 The paper proposes a novel approach to Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) for adapting pre-trained models to new test data streams with domain shifts. Current TTA methods optimize the model for each incoming test batch using self-training loss, but these approaches falter when faced with non-independent and identically distributed (non-i.i.d.) test data streams that exhibit prominent label shifts. The authors instead reverse the adaptation process and introduce a Distribution Alignment loss to guide test-time features back towards the source distributions, ensuring compatibility with the well-trained source model. Additionally, they develop a domain shift detection mechanism to extend their proposed method’s performance in continual domain shift scenarios. The paper presents extensive experiments on six benchmark datasets, demonstrating competitive performance under ideal i.i.d. assumptions and surpassing existing methods in non-i.i.d. scenarios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about a way to improve how machines learn from new data that might be very different from what they learned before. Right now, machines are not very good at this process because they try to adjust too much to each new piece of data. This can actually make things worse! The authors have come up with a new approach that helps the machine learn better by making sure it’s still connected to what it already knows. They also developed a way to figure out when the new data is very different from what the machine learned before, so they can adjust accordingly. The results show that their method works well in many different situations. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Self training
