Summary of Uda-bench: Revisiting Common Assumptions in Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Using a Standardized Framework, by Tarun Kalluri et al.
UDA-Bench: Revisiting Common Assumptions in Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Using a Standardized Framework
by Tarun Kalluri, Sreyas Ravichandran, Manmohan Chandraker
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Sep 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 presents a comprehensive study on the factors influencing the effectiveness of modern unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods. A novel PyTorch framework called UDA-Bench is developed to standardize training and evaluation for fair comparisons across various UDA methods. The study reveals that backbone architectures, unlabeled data quantity, and pre-training datasets significantly impact UDA performance. Specifically, it shows that advanced backbones reduce the benefits of adaptation methods, current methods underutilize unlabeled data, and pre-training data affects downstream adaptation in both supervised and self-supervised settings. The findings validate several practitioner intuitions and uncover novel properties of unsupervised adaptation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper looks at how different factors affect a type of machine learning called domain adaptation. Domain adaptation is when we train a model on one kind of data, like pictures of cats, but want it to work well on another kind of data, like videos of cats. The researchers made a special tool called UDA-Bench that helps compare different methods for doing this. They found that some things that might seem important aren’t as important as we thought, and that there are some surprises too! This study can help people working with machine learning make better choices about how to do domain adaptation. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Domain adaptation » Machine learning » Self supervised » Supervised » Unsupervised
