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Learning Smooth Representation for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Learning Smooth Representation for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Guanyu Cai Lianghua He Mengchu Zhou Fellow, IEEE Hesham Alhumade Die Hu
Abstract
Typical adversarial-training-based unsupervised domain adaptation methods are vulnerable when the source and target datasets are highly-complex or exhibit a large discrepancy between their data distributions. Recently, several Lipschitz-constraint-based methods have been explored. The satisfaction of Lipschitz continuity guarantees a remarkable performance on a target domain. However, they lack a mathematical analysis of why a Lipschitz constraint is beneficial to unsupervised domain adaptation and usually perform poorly on large-scale datasets. In this paper, we take the principle of utilizing a Lipschitz constraint further by discussing how it affects the error bound of unsupervised domain adaptation. A connection between them is built and an illustration of how Lipschitzness reduces the error bound is presented. A \textbf{local smooth discrepancy} is defined to measure Lipschitzness of a target distribution in a pointwise way. When constructing a deep end-to-end model, to ensure the effectiveness and stability of unsupervised domain adaptation, three critical factors are considered in our proposed optimization strategy, i.e., the sample amount of a target domain, dimension and batchsize of samples. Experimental results demonstrate that our model performs well on several standard benchmarks. Our ablation study shows that the sample amount of a target domain, the dimension and batchsize of samples indeed greatly impact Lipschitz-constraint-based methods' ability to handle large-scale datasets. Code is available at https://github.com/CuthbertCai/SRDA.