arXiv AI
Sep 4

On the Interaction Between Model Compression and Test-Time Adaptation

The paper investigates how model compression impacts test-time adaptation (TTA) in deep neural networks. Using ResNet‑18 and ViT‑Base on CIFAR‑10‑C and ImageNet‑C, the authors evaluate several compression techniques alongside standard TTA methods, introducing a diagnostic framework to assess representational expressivity and adaptation subspace compatibility. Results show that while compressed models maintain high accuracy under supervised adaptation, their TTA performance deteriorates with increased compression due to reduced representational diversity and structural constraints that limit recoverability.

By Francesco Corti, Dong Wang, Young D. Kwon, Cecilia Mascolo, Olga Saukh
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 24

Continual Test-Time Adaptation in Computer Vision: Methods, Benchmarks, and Future Directions

The paper surveys Continual Test-Time Adaptation (CTTA), a framework that adapts pretrained computer‑vision models to non‑stationary target distributions without source data or labeled targets, while avoiding catastrophic forgetting and error accumulation. It formally defines the CTTA problem, categorizes existing methods into optimization‑based, parameter‑efficient, and architecture‑based families, and reviews representative techniques and benchmarks across standard evaluation settings. The survey also outlines current limitations and proposes future research directions, such as adapting foundation models and black‑box systems.

By Sarthak Kumar Maharana, Shambhavi Mishra, Yunbei Zhang, Shuaicheng Niu, Taki Hasan Rafi, Jihun Hamm, Marco Pedersoli, Jose Dolz, Yunhui Guo
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 9

Continual Test-Time Adaptation in Computer Vision: Methods, Benchmarks, and Future Directions

Deep neural nets achieve remarkable performance when training and test data share the same distribution, but this assumption frequently breaks in real-world deployment, where data undergoes continual distributional shifts. Continual Test-Time Adaptation (CTTA) addresses this challenge by adapting pretrained models to non-stationary target distributions on-the-fly, without access to source data or labeled targets, while mitigating two critical failure modes: catastrophic forgetting of source knowledge and error accumulation from noisy pseudo-labels over extended time horizons.