Progressive Distribution Alignment Based on Label Correction for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Abstract

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge between different domains. Most of the existing UDA methods try to align the conditional distribution between the source and target domains by utilizing the information of pseudo labels induced from the target domain. To tackle the negative transfer caused by inaccurate pseudo labels, we propose a novel UDA method named progressive distribution alignment based on label correction (PDALC). Specifically, PDALC uses the class discriminative information to perform subspace learning to obtain the domain invariance subspace. Furthermore, a new mechanism of pseudo label correction is introduced to measure the reliability of pseudo labels and utmostly correct the inaccurate pseudo labels. By combining subspace learning with label correction, the performance of PDALC can be continuously improved, which in turn reduces the generation of inaccurate pseudo labels. The experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art UDA methods.