Associative Partial Domain Adaptation
This addresses a practical scenario in domain adaptation for machine learning, but it is incremental as it builds on existing PDA methods.
The paper tackles the problem of partial domain adaptation (PDA), where the target domain has only a subset of source classes, by proposing APDA to exploit multi-level associations for mitigating negative transfer. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on public datasets.
Partial Adaptation (PDA) addresses a practical scenario in which the target domain contains only a subset of classes in the source domain. While PDA should take into account both class-level and sample-level to mitigate negative transfer, current approaches mostly rely on only one of them. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to fully exploit multi-level associations that can arise in PDA. Our Associative Partial Domain Adaptation (APDA) utilizes intra-domain association to actively select out non-trivial anomaly samples in each source-private class that sample-level weighting cannot handle. Additionally, our method considers inter-domain association to encourage positive transfer by mapping between nearby target samples and source samples with high label-commonness. For this, we exploit feature propagation in a proposed label space consisting of source ground-truth labels and target probabilistic labels. We further propose a geometric guidance loss based on the label commonness of each source class to encourage positive transfer. Our APDA consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance across public datasets.