Blending-target Domain Adaptation by Adversarial Meta-Adaptation
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Blending-target Domain Adaptation by Adversarial Meta-Adaptation Networks
Ziliang Chen Jingyu Zhuang Xiaodan Liang Liang Lin

Abstract
(Unsupervised) Domain Adaptation (DA) seeks for classifying target instanceswhen solely provided with source labeled and target unlabeled examples fortraining. Learning domain-invariant features helps to achieve this goal,whereas it underpins unlabeled samples drawn from a single or multiple explicittarget domains (Multi-target DA). In this paper, we consider a more realistictransfer scenario: our target domain is comprised of multiple sub-targetsimplicitly blended with each other, so that learners could not identify whichsub-target each unlabeled sample belongs to. This Blending-target DomainAdaptation (BTDA) scenario commonly appears in practice and threatens thevalidities of most existing DA algorithms, due to the presence of domain gapsand categorical misalignments among these hidden sub-targets. To reap the transfer performance gains in this new scenario, we proposeAdversarial Meta-Adaptation Network (AMEAN). AMEAN entails two adversarialtransfer learning processes. The first is a conventional adversarial transferto bridge our source and mixed target domains. To circumvent the intra-targetcategory misalignment, the second process presents as learning to adapt'': Itdeploys an unsupervised meta-learner receiving target data and their ongoingfeature-learning feedbacks, to discover target clusters as ourmeta-sub-target'' domains. These meta-sub-targets auto-design ourmeta-sub-target DA loss, which empirically eliminates the implicit categorymismatching in our mixed target. We evaluate AMEAN and a variety of DAalgorithms in three benchmarks under the BTDA setup. Empirical results showthat BTDA is a quite challenging transfer setup for most existing DAalgorithms, yet AMEAN significantly outperforms these state-of-the-artbaselines and effectively restrains the negative transfer effects in BTDA.
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Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Methodology | Metrics |
|---|---|---|
| multi-target-domain-adaptation-on-office-31 | AMEAN | Accuracy: 80.2 |
| multi-target-domain-adaptation-on-office-home | AMEAN | Accuracy: 64.0 |
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