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A feature-transfer-model based domain generalization method with a mixed contrastive loss

  • Department of Statistics and Finance, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

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    Yuesong Wang is currently a graduate student under the tutelage of Prof. Hong Zhang at the University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests focus on machine learning

    Hong Zhang is a Full Professor with the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his Bachelor’ s degree in Mathematics and Ph.D. degree in Statistics from USTC in 1997 and 2003, respectively. His major research interests include statistical genetics, causal inference, and machine learning

  • Received Date: 20 January 2023
  • Accepted Date: 04 May 2023
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    When domains, which represent underlying data distributions, differ between training and test datasets, traditional deep neural networks suffer from a substantial drop in their performance. Domain generalization methods aim to boost generalizability on an unseen target domain by using only training data from source domains. Mainstream domain generalization algorithms usually make modifications on some popular feature extraction networks such as ResNet, or add more complex parameter modules after the feature extraction networks. Popular feature extraction networks are usually well pre-trained on large-scale datasets, so they have strong feature extraction abilities, while modifications can weaken such abilities. Adding more complex parameter modules results in a deeper network and is much more computationally demanding. In this paper, we propose a novel feature transfer model based on popular feature extraction networks in domain generalization, without making any changes or adding any module. The generalizability of this feature transfer model is boosted by incorporating a contrastive loss and a data augmentation strategy (i.e., Mixup), and a new sample selection strategy is proposed to coordinate Mixup and contrastive loss. Experiments on the benchmarks PACS and Domainnet demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method against conventional domain generalization methods.

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    When domains, which represent underlying data distributions, differ between training and test datasets, traditional deep neural networks suffer from a substantial drop in their performance. Domain generalization methods aim to boost generalizability on an unseen target domain by using only training data from source domains. Mainstream domain generalization algorithms usually make modifications on some popular feature extraction networks such as ResNet, or add more complex parameter modules after the feature extraction networks. Popular feature extraction networks are usually well pre-trained on large-scale datasets, so they have strong feature extraction abilities, while modifications can weaken such abilities. Adding more complex parameter modules results in a deeper network and is much more computationally demanding. In this paper, we propose a novel feature transfer model based on popular feature extraction networks in domain generalization, without making any changes or adding any module. The generalizability of this feature transfer model is boosted by incorporating a contrastive loss and a data augmentation strategy (i.e., Mixup), and a new sample selection strategy is proposed to coordinate Mixup and contrastive loss. Experiments on the benchmarks PACS and Domainnet demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method against conventional domain generalization methods.

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    • We propose a feature transfer model for domain generalization and a new sampling strategy based on Mixup in cooperation with contrastive loss.
    • Experiments on two mainstream datasets demonstrate the superiority of our method.

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    Figure  1.  Illustration of our proposed method.

    Figure  2.  A causal model underlying our proposed method. $ y $: label variable; $ f_y $: label feature; $ d $: domain variable; $ f_d $: domain feature; $ z $: hidden variable; $ f_z $: hidden feature; $ x $: sample; $ f_x $: sample feature; $ f(x) $: domain invariable feature (extracted from CNN); $ \hat d $: new domain variable; $ f_{\hat d} $: new domain feature; $ f_{x,\hat d} $: new feature generated by $ f(x) $ and $ f_{\hat d} $. Solid arrow: causal relationship; dotted arrow: prediction.

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    Shao R, Lan X, Li J, et al. Multi-adversarial discriminative deep domain generalization for face presentation attack detection. In: 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Long Beach, CA, USA: IEEE, 2020 : 10015–10023.
    [2]
    Ouyang C, Chen C, Li S, et al. Causality-inspired single-source domain generalization for medical image segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2023, 42: 1095–1106. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2022.3224067
    [3]
    Guo L L, Pfohl S R, Fries J, et al. Evaluation of domain generalization and adaptation on improving model robustness to temporal dataset shift in clinical medicine. Scientific Reports, 2022, 12: 2726. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-06484-1
    [4]
    Motiian S, Piccirilli M, Adjeroh D A, et al. Unified deep supervised domain adaptation and generalization. In: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Venice, Italy: IEEE, 2017 : 5716–5726.
    [5]
    Li H, Pan S J, Wang S, et al. Domain generalization with adversarial feature learning. In: 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: IEEE, 2018 : 5400–5409.
    [6]
    Li D, Yang Y, Song Y Z, et al. Learning to generalize: Meta-learning for domain generalization. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018, 32 (1). doi: 10.1609/aaai.v32i1.11596
    [7]
    Mancini M, Bulò S R, Caputo B, et al. Robust place categorization with deep domain generalization. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2018, 3: 2093–2100. doi: 10.1109/LRA.2018.2809700
    [8]
    Mancini M, Bulò S R, Caputo B, et al. Best sources forward: Domain generalization through source-specific nets. In: 2018 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP). Athens, Greece: IEEE, 2018 : 1353–1357.
    [9]
    Segu M, Tonioni A, Tombari F. Batch normalization embeddings for deep domain generalization. Pattern Recognition, 2023, 135: 109115. doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2022.109115
    [10]
    Zhang H, Cisse M, Dauphin Y N, et al. Mixup: Beyond empirical risk minimization. arXiv: 1710.09412, 2017.
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    Ding Z, Fu Y. Deep domain generalization with structured low-rank constraint. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2018, 27: 304–313. doi: 10.1109/TIP.2017.2758199
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    Nalisnick E, Matsukawa A, Teh Y W, et al. Do deep generative models know what they don’t know? arXiv: 1810.09136, 2019 .
    [13]
    Li Y, Tian X, Gong M, et al. Deep domain generalization via conditional invariant adversarial networks. In: Ferrari V, Hebert M, Sminchisescu C, editors. Computer Vision–ECCV 2018. Cham: Springer, 2018 , 11219: 647–663.
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    Bousmalis K, Silberman N, Dohan D, et al. Unsupervised pixel-level domain adaptation with generative adversarial networks. In: 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Honolulu, HI, USA: IEEE, 2017 : 95–104.
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    Cai Q, Wang Y, Pan Y, et al. Joint contrastive learning with infinite possibilities. In: Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. New York: ACM, 2020 : 12638–12648.
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    Chen T, Kornblith S, Norouzi M, et al. A simple framework for contrastive learning of visual representations. In: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning. New York: ACM, 2020 : 1597–1607.
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    Li D, Yang Y, Song Y Z, et al. Deeper, broader and artier domain generalization. In: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Venice, Italy: IEEE, 2017 : 5543–5551.
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    Carlucci F M, D'Innocente A, Bucci S, et al. Domain generalization by solving jigsaw puzzles. In: 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Long Beach, CA, USA: IEEE, 2020 : 2224–2233.
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    Nam H, Lee H, Park J, et al. Reducing domain gap by reducing style bias. arXiv: 1910.11645, 2019.
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    Zhou K, Yang Y, Hospedales T, et al. Deep domain-adversarial image generation for domain generalisation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020, 34: 13025–13032. doi: 10.1609/aaai.v34i07.7003
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