Correlation alignment and the maximum mean discrepancy are two widely used distribution-matching frameworks for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA). However, high variance in these losses has been shown to undermine their effectiveness in minibatch optimisation settings.
arXiv:2607. 20367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Correlation alignment and the maximum mean discrepancy are two widely used distribution-matching frameworks for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA).
By Andrea Napoli
arXiv:2606. 31524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Self-Improving Alignment (SAIL) algorithm addresses distribution shift by reducing a bilevel formulation of the problem to an efficient, single-level method.
By Xudong Wu, Pangpang Liu, Vaneet Aggarwal, Jiayu Chen
arXiv:2607. 18885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kernel-based alignment of CLIP toward a vision centric teacher such as DINOv2 (KUEA) improves CLIP's visual representations while preserving text-encoder compatibility, using a fixed trade-off weight tuned on curated ImageNet-1K.
By Micha{\l} Paw{\l}owicz
arXiv:2602. 11995v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In large-scale data processing scenarios, data often arrive in sequential streams generated by complex systems that exhibit drifting distributions and time-varying system parameters.
By Yifei Jin, Xin Zheng, Lei Guo
arXiv:2606. 08574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data pruning (DP), as an oft-stated strategy to alleviate heavy training burdens, reduces the volume of training samples according to a well-defined pruning method while striving for near-lossless performance.
By Chenhan Jin, Shengze Xu, Qingsong Wang, Fan Jia, Dingshuo Chen, Tieyong Zeng
arXiv:2407. 21311v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to mitigate domain shift, where the distribution of labeled source data differs from that of unlabeled target data.
By Ali Abedi, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Ning Zhang, Farhad Pourpanah
arXiv:2606. 18650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Model (LLM) datasets scale to trillions of tokens, data selection has emerged as a critical frontier to filter out uninformative noise and construct adaptive learning trajectories.
By Jiaxing Wang, Deping Xiang, Jin Xu, Zirui Liu, Zicheng Zhang, Guoqiang Gong, Jun Fang, Chao Liu, Pengzhang Liu, Tongxuan Liu, Ke Zhang, Qixia Jiang
arXiv:2607. 25299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimization over the Stiefel manifold plays a significant role in various machine learning tasks.
By Yuan Zhang, Jiang Hu, Zhijian Lai, Lin Lin, Zaiwen Wen
arXiv:2601. 09172v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly shape online content, removing targeted information from well-trained LLMs (also known as LLM unlearning) has become critical for web governance.
By Pengyang Shao, Naixin Zhai, Lei Chen, Yonghui Yang, Fengbin Zhu, Xun Yang, Meng Wang
arXiv:2510. 24561v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LoRA has become a widely adopted method for PEFT, and its initialization methods have attracted increasing attention.
By Qingyue Zhang, Chang Chu, Tianren Peng, Qi Li, Xiangyang Luo, Zhihao Jiang, Shao-Lun Huang
arXiv:2606. 00399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training samples while preserving the model's utility.
By Rasa Khosrowshahli, Stephen Asobiela, Beatrice Ombuki-Berman, Shahryar Rahnamayan