Regularized Learning for  Domain Adaptation under Label Shifts
Authors: Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Anqi Liu, Fanny Yang, Animashree Anandkumar
Keywords: Deep Learning, Domain Adaptation, Label Shift, Importance Weights, Generalization
TL;DR: A practical and provably guaranteed approach for training efficiently classifiers in the presence of label shifts between Source and Target data sets
Abstract: We propose Regularized Learning under Label shifts (RLLS), a principled and a practical domain-adaptation algorithm to correct for shifts in the label distribution between a source and a target domain. We first estimate importance weights using labeled source data and unlabeled target data, and then train a classifier on the weighted source samples. We derive a generalization bound for the classifier on the target domain which is independent of the (ambient) data dimensions, and instead only depends on the complexity of the function class. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first generalization bound for the label-shift problem where the labels in the target domain are not available. Based on this bound, we propose a regularized estimator for the small-sample regime which accounts for the uncertainty in the estimated weights. Experiments on the CIFAR-10 and MNIST datasets show that RLLS improves classification accuracy, especially in the low sample and large-shift regimes, compared to previous methods.