Poster
Bridging Theory and Algorithm for Domain Adaptation
Yuchen Zhang · Tianle Liu · Mingsheng Long · Michael Jordan

Thu Jun 13th 06:30 -- 09:00 PM @ Pacific Ballroom #184
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This paper addresses the problem of unsupervised domain adaption from theoretical and algorithmic perspectives. Existing domain adaptation theories naturally imply minimax optimization algorithms, which connect well with the domain adaptation methods based on adversarial learning. However, several disconnections still exist and form the gap between theory and algorithm. We extend previous theories (Mansour et al., 2009c; Ben-David et al., 2010) to multiclass classification in domain adaptation, where classifiers based on the scoring functions and margin loss are standard choices in algorithm design. We introduce Margin Disparity Discrepancy, a novel measurement with rigorous generalization bounds, tailored to the distribution comparison with the asymmetric margin loss, and to the minimax optimization for easier training. Our theory can be seamlessly transformed into an adversarial learning algorithm for domain adaptation, successfully bridging the gap between theory and algorithm. A series of empirical studies show that our algorithm achieves the state of the art accuracies on challenging domain adaptation tasks.

Keywords: Algorithms · Transfer and Multitask Learning

Author Information

Yuchen Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Tianle Liu (Tsinghua University)
Mingsheng Long (Tsinghua University)
Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley)

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