In plain words: With a few labeled target examples, a classifier sorts data by matching features to class prototypes, while a tug-of-war makes it unsure about unlabeled target data and the feature finder confident. It beat both feature-matching and few-shot learners, setting the best results.
Abstract · Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation via Minimax Entropy
Contemporary domain adaptation methods are very effective at aligning feature distributions of source and target domains without any target supervision. However, we show that these techniques perform poorly when even a few labeled examples are available in the target. To address this semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) setting, we propose a novel Minimax Entropy (MME) approach that adversarially optimizes an adaptive few-shot model. Our base model consists of a feature encoding network, followed by a classification layer that computes the features' similarity to estimated prototypes (representatives of each class). Adaptation is achieved by alternately maximizing the conditional entropy of unlabeled target data with respect to the classifier and minimizing it with respect to the feature encoder. We empirically demonstrate the superiority of our method over many baselines, including conventional feature alignment and few-shot methods, setting a new state of the art for SSDA.
Kuniaki Saito, Donghyun Kim, Stan Sclaroff, Trevor Darrell, Kate Saenko
arXiv:1904.06487 · cs.CV · submitted Apr 13, 2019 · updated Sep 14, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · accepted to ICCV2019. ICCV paper version