Discriminator-free adversarial domain adaptation with information balance
Hui Jiang, Di Wu, Xing Wei, Wenhao Jiang, Xiongbo Qing · Electronic Research Archive · 2025
In the realm of Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA), adversarial learning has achieved significant progress. Existing adversarial UDA methods typically employ additional discriminators and feature extractors to engage in a max-min game. However, these methods often fail to effectively utilize the predicted discriminative information, thus resulting in the mode collapse of the generator. In this paper, we propose a Dynamic Balance-based Domain Adaptation (DBDA) method for self-correlated domain adaptive image classification. Instead of adding extra discriminators, we repurpose the classifier as a discriminator and introduce a dynamic balancing learning approach. This approach ensures an explicit domain alignment and category distinction, thus enabling DBDA to fully leverage the predicted discriminative information for an effective feature alignment. We conducted experiments on multiple datasets, therefore demonstrating that the proposed method maintains a robust classification performance across various scenarios.