Domain Generalization through the Lens of Angular Invariance

Domain Generalization through the Lens of Angular Invariance

Yujie Jin, Xu Chu, Yasha Wang, Wenwu Zhu

Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 995-1001. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/139

Domain generalization (DG) aims at generalizing a classifier trained on multiple source domains to an unseen target domain with domain shift. A common pervasive theme in existing DG literature is domain-invariant representation learning with various invariance assumptions. However, prior works restrict themselves to an impractical assumption for real-world challenges: If a mapping induced by a deep neural network (DNN) could align the source domains well, then such a mapping aligns a target domain as well. In this paper, we simply take DNNs as feature extractors to relax the requirement of distribution alignment. Specifically, we put forward a novel angular invariance and the accompanied norm shift assumption. Based on the proposed term of invariance, we propose a novel deep DG method dubbed Angular Invariance Domain Generalization Network (AIDGN). The optimization objective of AIDGN is developed with a von-Mises Fisher (vMF) mixture model. Extensive experiments on multiple DG benchmark datasets validate the effectiveness of the proposed AIDGN method.
Keywords:
Computer Vision: Transfer, low-shot, semi- and un- supervised learning   
Computer Vision: Machine Learning for Vision
Machine Learning: Classification