Deep unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) has recently received increasing attention from researchers. However, existing methods are computationally intensive due to the computation cost of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) adopted by most work. To date, there is no effective network compression method for accelerating these models. In this paper, we propose a unified Transfer Channel Pruning (TCP) approach for accelerating UDA models. TCP is capable of compressing the deep UDA model by pruning less important channels while simultaneously learning transferable features by reducing the cross-domain distribution divergence. Therefore, it reduces the impact of negative transfer and maintains competitive performance on the target task. To the best of our knowledge, TCP is the first approach that aims at accelerating deep UDA models. TCP is validated on two benchmark datasets-Office-31 and ImageCLEF-DA with two common backbone networks-VGG16 and ResNet50. Experimental results demonstrate that TCP achieves comparable or better classification accuracy than other comparison methods while significantly reducing the computational cost. To be more specific, in VGG16, we get even higher accuracy after pruning 26 floating point operations (FLOPs); in ResNet50, we also get higher accuracy on half of the tasks after pruning 12 FLOPs. We hope that TCP will open a new door for future research on accelerating transfer learning models.
UDA is a specific area of transfer learning @cite_5 , which is to learn a discriminative model in the presence of the domain-shifts between domains. The main problem of UDA is how to reduce the domain shift between the source and target domains. There are many methods to tackle this problem: traditional (shallow) learning and deep learning.
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Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer domain knowledge from existing well-defined tasks to new ones where labels are unavailable. In the real-world applications, as the domain (task) discrepancies are usually uncontrollable, it is significantly motivated to match the feature distributions even if the domain discrepancies are disparate. Additionally, as no label is available in the target domain, how to successfully adapt the classifier from the source to the target domain still remains an open question. In this paper, we propose the Re-weighted Adversarial Adaptation Network (RAAN) to reduce the feature distribution divergence and adapt the classifier when domain discrepancies are disparate. Specifically, to alleviate the need of common supports in matching the feature distribution, we choose to minimize optimal transport (OT) based Earth-Mover (EM) distance and reformulate it to a minimax objective function. Utilizing this, RAAN can be trained in an end-to-end and adversarial manner. To further adapt the classifier, we propose to match the label distribution and embed it into the adversarial training. Finally, after extensive evaluation of our method using UDA datasets of varying difficulty, RAAN achieved the state-of-the-art results and outperformed other methods by a large margin when the domain shifts are disparate. In this work, we present a method for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), where we aim to transfer knowledge from a label-rich domain (i.e., a source domain) to an unlabeled domain (i.e., a target domain). Many adversarial learning methods have been proposed for this task. These methods train domain classifier networks (i.e., a discriminator) to discriminate distinguish the features as either a source or target and train a feature generator network to mimic the discriminator.However, the domain classifier only tries to distinguish the features as a source or target and thus does not consider task-specific decision boundaries between classes. Therefore, a trained generator can generate ambiguous features near class boundaries. To solve the problem, we propose a new approach that attempts to align distributions of source and target by utilizing the task-specific decision boundaries. We propose to utilize task-specific classifiers as discriminators that try to detect target samples that are far from the support of the source. A feature generator learns to generate target features inside the support to fool the classifiers. Since the generator uses feedback from task-specific classifiers, it avoids generating target features near class boundaries. Our method outperforms other methods on several datasets of image classification and semantic segmentation. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to learn the unlabeled target domain by transferring the knowledge of the labeled source domain. To date, most of the existing works focus on the scenario of one source domain and one target domain (1S1T), and just a few works concern the scenario of multiple source domains and one target domain (mS1T). While, to the best of our knowledge, almost no work concerns the scenario of one source domain and multiple target domains (1SmT), in which these unlabeled target domains may not necessarily share the same categories, therefore, contrasting to mS1T, 1SmT is more challenging. Accordingly, for such a new UDA scenario, we propose a UDA framework through the model parameter adaptation (PA-1SmT). A key ingredient of PA-1SmT is to transfer knowledge through adaptive learning of a common model parameter dictionary, which is completely different from existing popular methods for UDA, such as subspace alignment, distribution matching etc., and can also be directly used for DA of privacy protection due to the fact that the knowledge is transferred just via the model parameters rather than data itself. Finally, our experimental results on three domain adaptation benchmark datasets demonstrate the superiority of our framework. Person re-identification (re-ID) poses unique challenges for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) in that classes in the source and target sets (domains) are entirely different and that image variations are largely caused by cameras. Given a labeled source training set and an unlabeled target training set, we aim to improve the generalization ability of re-ID models on the target testing set. To this end, we introduce a Hetero-Homogeneous Learning (HHL) method. Our method enforces two properties simultaneously: (1) camera invariance, learned via positive pairs formed by unlabeled target images and their camera style transferred counterparts; (2) domain connectedness, by regarding source target images as negative matching pairs to the target source images. The first property is implemented by homogeneous learning because training pairs are collected from the same domain. The second property is achieved by heterogeneous learning because we sample training pairs from both the source and target domains. On Market-1501, DukeMTMC-reID and CUHK03, we show that the two properties contribute indispensably and that very competitive re-ID UDA accuracy is achieved. Code is available at: https: github.com zhunzhong07 HHL.