Variational Feature Disentanglement for Few-Shot Domain Adaptation

In this paper, we focus on the few-shot domain adaptation problem. With limited training data in target domain, a new approach is emerging to acquire the transferable knowledge from the source domain. Previous methods aligned the embedding space between domains by reducing the pair-wise distance. However, these methods are reporting the misalignment and poor generalization. To solve this problem, we propose a variational feature disentanglement framework. The embedding features are explicitly disentangled into domaininvariant and domain-specific components. The distributions of domain-invariant variance are estimated and aligned by the variational inference. For further disentanglement, the domain-invariant and domain-specific components are separated by the orthogonal constraints of subspaces. The experiments on Digits dataset and VisDA-C dataset demonstrate that the proposed method can outperform the state-of-the-art methods.