arXiv:2606. 23758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Domain generalization learns from multiple source domains to generalize to unseen target domains.
arXiv:2303. 18031v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In real-world applications, a machine learning model is required to handle an open-set recognition (OSR), where unknown classes appear during the inference, in addition to a domain shift, where the data distribution differs between the training and inference phases.
arXiv:2607. 02850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Meta-learning without labeled data is crucial for real-world applications, where obtaining labeled datasets can be expensive or restricted due to privacy concerns.
Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP enable zero-shot classification by comparing image features with text prompts in a shared embedding space. A fundamental property underlying this capability is the global comparability of logits across arbitrary candidate classes.
arXiv:2602. 14761v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current meta-learning methods are constrained to narrow task distributions with fixed feature and label spaces, limiting applicability.
The paper critically evaluates common few‑shot learning protocols that rely on pre‑training a model on a large auxiliary set with classes disjoint from the target but drawn from the same visual domain. By comparing no pre‑training, class‑disjoint in‑domain pre‑training, supervised out‑of‑domain pre‑training, and label‑free out‑of‑domain pre‑training across eight datasets and three architectures, the authors find that in‑domain pre‑training yields a 33.41‑point average improvement, while out‑of‑domain pre‑training offers a 23.75‑point gain, revealing a 9.66‑point optimistic bias due to domain overlap. They also demonstrate that a label‑free augmentation strategy can match supervised out‑of‑domain performance and propose a descriptor‑based source‑selection method that closely approximates oracle selection, underscoring the need to move beyond in‑domain pre‑training as the default evaluation protocol.
The paper introduces TESS, a scalable data‑selection framework that replaces per‑sample weights with a selection network to improve transferability across datasets and model sizes. It identifies instability in existing meta‑learning for training‑data selection (MTS) due to weight suppression and overreliance on easy features, and proposes a Pointwise Value Matching objective to address these issues. Experiments on large language model safety and instruction tuning show strong transfer from subsets to full corpora and from smaller to larger models.
arXiv:2608. 00632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern machine learning pipelines increasingly rely on reusing pretrained and foundation models across downstream tasks.
arXiv:2512.01152v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As we deploy machine learning systems in the real world, a core challenge is to maintain a model that is performant even as the data shifts....
arXiv:2607. 17467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Few-shot Test-Time Domain Adaptation (FSTT-DA) seeks to adapt models to novel domains using only a handful of unlabeled target samples.
arXiv:2606. 26973v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-set semi-supervised learning aims to leverage unlabeled data that may contain out-of-distribution outliers while maintaining performance on in-distribution classes.
arXiv:2609.31356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit remarkable zero-shot generalization, yet they often encode unwanted or hazardous stylistic domains such as ideali...
arXiv:2602. 17187v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The problem of domain generalization concerns learning predictive models that are robust to distribution shifts when deployed in new, previously unseen environments.