Entropy Minimization vs. Diversity Maximization for Domain Adaptation

5 Feb 2020  ·  Xiaofu Wu, Suofei hang, Quan Zhou, Zhen Yang, Chunming Zhao, Longin Jan Latecki ·

Entropy minimization has been widely used in unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA). However, existing works reveal that entropy minimization only may result into collapsed trivial solutions. In this paper, we propose to avoid trivial solutions by further introducing diversity maximization. In order to achieve the possible minimum target risk for UDA, we show that diversity maximization should be elaborately balanced with entropy minimization, the degree of which can be finely controlled with the use of deep embedded validation in an unsupervised manner. The proposed minimal-entropy diversity maximization (MEDM) can be directly implemented by stochastic gradient descent without use of adversarial learning. Empirical evidence demonstrates that MEDM outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on four popular domain adaptation datasets.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Domain Adaptation ImageCLEF-DA MEDM Accuracy 88.9 # 6
Domain Adaptation Office-31 MEDM Average Accuracy 89.2 # 16
Domain Adaptation Office-Home MEDM Accuracy 69.5 # 20

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