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arXiv 2401.02561cs.LG

CONTRAST:面向动态分布的持续多源适配

CONTRAST: Continual Multi-source Adaptation to Dynamic Distributions

Brookhaven National Laboratory(布鲁克海文国家实验室);University of California, Riverside(加州大学河滨分校);AWS AI Labs(亚马逊云科技人工智能实验室);University of Michigan, Ann Arbor(密歇根大学安娜堡分校)

Sk Miraj Ahmed, Fahim Faisal Niloy, Xiangyu Chang, Dripta S. Raychaudhuri, Samet Oymak, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

AI总结:

CONTRAST方法通过最优组合多个源模型并选择性更新最相关模型,解决小批量动态分布下的持续适配问题,兼具理论保证与鲁棒性。

摘要:

适应动态数据分布是一项实用但具有挑战性的任务。一种有效的策略是使用模型集成,利用不同模型的多样化专业知识将知识迁移到不断变化的数据分布中。然而,当动态测试分布仅以小批量形式可用且无法访问原始源数据时,这种方法面临困难。为了应对这种实际设置中适应动态分布的挑战,我们提出了持续多源适配动态分布(CONTRAST)方法,这是一种新颖的方法,能够最优地组合多个源模型以适应动态测试数据。CONTRAST具有两个显著特点。首先,它高效地计算最优组合权重,以随时间连续地组合源模型来适应测试数据分布。其次,它识别应更新哪些源模型参数,使得仅更新与目标数据最相关的模型,而保持相关性较低的模型不变;通过仅关注与测试批次分布相关性最强的源模型,这缓解了“遗忘”源模型参数的问题。通过理论分析,我们证明了所提出的方法能够最优地组合源模型,并优先更新最不易遗忘的模型。在多种数据集上的实验分析表明,多个源模型的组合至少与最佳源模型(具有事后知识)表现相当,并且随着测试数据分布随时间变化,性能不会下降(对遗忘具有鲁棒性)。

英文摘要:

Adapting to dynamic data distributions is a practical yet challenging task. One effective strategy is to use a model ensemble, which leverages the diverse expertise of different models to transfer knowledge to evolving data distributions. However, this approach faces difficulties when the dynamic test distribution is available only in small batches and without access to the original source data. To address the challenge of adapting to dynamic distributions in such practical settings, we propose Continual Multi-source Adaptation to Dynamic Distributions (CONTRAST), a novel method that optimally combines multiple source models to adapt to the dynamic test data. CONTRAST has two distinguishing features. First, it efficiently computes the optimal combination weights to combine the source models to adapt to the test data distribution continuously as a function of time. Second, it identifies which of the source model parameters to update so that only the model which is most correlated to the target data is adapted, leaving the less correlated ones untouched; this mitigates the issue of ``forgetting" the source model parameters by focusing only on the source model that exhibits the strongest correlation with the test batch distribution. Through theoretical analysis we show that the proposed method is able to optimally combine the source models and prioritize updates to the model least prone to forgetting. Experimental analysis on diverse datasets demonstrates that the combination of multiple source models does at least as well as the best source (with hindsight knowledge), and performance does not degrade as the test data distribution changes over time (robust to forgetting).

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