Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to learn a task classifier that performs well on the unlabeled target domain, by utilizing the labeled source domain. Inspiring results have been acquired by learning domain-invariant deep features via domain-adversarial training. However, its parallel design of task and domain classifiers limits the ability to achieve a finer category-level domain alignment. To promote categorical domain adaptation (CatDA), based on a joint category-domain classifier, we propose novel losses of adversarial training at both domain and category levels. Since the joint classifier can be regarded as a concatenation of individual task classifiers respectively for the two domains, our design principle is to enforce consistency of category predictions between the two task classifiers. Moreover, we propose a concept of vicinal domains whose instances are produced by a convex combination of pairs of instances respectively from the two domains. Intuitively, alignment of the possibly infinite number of vicinal domains enhances that of original domains. We propose novel adversarial losses for vicinal domain adaptation (VicDA) based on CatDA, leading to Vicinal and Categorical Domain Adaptation (ViCatDA). We also propose Target Discriminative Structure Recovery (TDSR) to recover the intrinsic target discrimination damaged by adversarial feature alignment. We also analyze the principles underlying the ability of our key designs to align the joint distributions. Extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets demonstrate that we achieve the new state of the art.

提出一种促进分类域联合自适应 (CatDA) 的方法，即利用联合分类器生成对齐一致的分类预测来实现更细粒度的领域对齐，进一步将此方法用于虚拟相邻领域自适应 (VicDA) 中，以及利用目标区分性结构恢复方法来提高领域能力。该方法在多个基准数据集上实现了新的领域自适应最新技术。

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