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The maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) as a representative distribution metric between source domain and target domain has been widely applied in unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), where both domains follow different distributions, and the labels from source domain are merely available. However, MMD and its class-wise variants possibly ignore the intra-class compactness, thus canceling out discriminability of feature representation. In this paper, we endeavor to improve the discriminative ability of MMD from two aspects: 1) we re-design the weights for MMD in order to align the distribution of relatively hard classes across domains; 2) we explore a focally contrastive loss to trade-off the positive sample pairs and negative ones for better discrimination. The intergration of both losses makes the intra-class features close as well as push away the inter-class features far from each other. Moreover, the improved loss is simple yet effective. Our model shows state-of-the-art compared to the most domain adaptation methods.
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Sun, D. et al. (2021). A Focally Discriminative Loss for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation. In: Mantoro, T., Lee, M., Ayu, M.A., Wong, K.W., Hidayanto, A.N. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13108. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92185-9_5
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