Domain Adaptation of Majority Votes via Perturbed Variation-based Label Transfer

We tackle the PAC-Bayesian Domain Adaptation (DA) problem. This arrives when one desires to learn, from a source distribution, a good weighted majority vote (over a set of classifiers) on a different target distribution. In this context, the disagreement between classifiers is known crucial to control. In non-DA supervised setting, a theoretical bound - the C-bound - involves this disagreement and leads to a majority vote learning algorithm: MinCq. In this work, we extend MinCq to DA by taking advantage of an elegant divergence between distribution called the Perturbed Varation (PV). Firstly, justified by a new formulation of the C-bound, we provide to MinCq a target sample labeled thanks to a PV-based self-labeling focused on regions where the source and target marginal distributions are closer. Secondly, we propose an original process for tuning the hyperparameters. Our framework shows very promising results on a toy problem.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00906188
Author Morvant, Emilie
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 8, 2026, 04:47 (UTC)
Created May 8, 2026, 04:47 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00906188
Language en
Rights https://about.hal.science/hal-authorisation-v1/
contributor Laboratoire Hubert Curien (LabHC) ; Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOGS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM) ; Université Jean Monnet (EPSCPE) (UJM EPE)-Université Jean Monnet (EPSCPE) (UJM EPE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Morvant, Emilie
date 2013-05-08T00:00:00
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harvest_source_id 3374d638-d20b-4672-ba96-a23232d55657
harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
metadata_modified 2026-04-23T00:00:00
relation info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/1311.4833
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