Towards Better Robustness against Common Corruptions for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Zhiqiang Gao, Kaizhu Huang*, Rui Zhang, Dawei Liu, Jieming Ma

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Abstract

Recent studies have investigated how to achieve robustness for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA). While most efforts focus on adversarial robustness, i.e. how the model performs against unseen malicious adversarial perturbations, robustness against benign common corruption (RaCC) surprisingly remains under-explored for UDA. Towards improving RaCC for UDA methods in an unsupervised manner, we propose a novel Distributionally and Discretely Adversarial Regularization (DDAR) framework in this paper. Formulated as a min-max optimization with a distribution distance, DDAR1 is theoretically well-founded to ensure generalization over unknown common corruptions. Meanwhile, we show that our regularization scheme effectively reduces a surrogate of RaCC, i.e., the perceptual distance between natural data and common corruption. To enable a abetter adversarial regularization, the design of the optimization pipeline relies on an image discretization scheme that can transform "out-of-distribution"adversarial data into "in-distribution"data augmentation. Through extensive experiments, in terms of RaCC, our method is superior to conventional unsupervised regularization mechanisms, widely improves the robustness of existing UDA methods, and achieves state-of-the-art performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages18836-18847
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9798350307184
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jan 2024
Event2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023 - Paris, France
Duration: 2 Oct 20236 Oct 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
ISSN (Print)1550-5499

Conference

Conference2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period2/10/236/10/23

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