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Test-Time Classifier Adjustment Module for Model-Agnostic Domain Generalization
This paper presents a new algorithm for domain generalization (DG), test-time template adjuster (T3A), aiming to robustify a model to unknown distribution shift. Unlike existing methods that focus on training phase, our method focuses test phase, i.e., correcting its prediction by itself during test time. Specifically, T3A adjusts a trained linear classifier (the last layer of deep neural networks) with the following procedure: (1) compute a pseudo-prototype representation for each class using online unlabeled data augmented by the base classifier trained in the source domains, (2) and then classify each sample based on its distance to the pseudoprototypes. T3A is back-propagation-free and modifies only the linear layer; therefore, the increase in computational cost during inference is negligible and avoids the catastrophic failure might caused by stochastic optimization. Despite its simplicity, T3A can leverage knowledge about the target domain by using off-the-shelf test-time data and improve performance. We tested our method on four domain generalization benchmarks, namely PACS, VLCS, OfficeHome, and TerraIncognita, along with various backbone networks including ResNet18, ResNet50, Big Transfer (BiT), Vision Transformers (ViT), and MLP-Mixer. The results show T3A stably improves performance on unseen domains across choices of backbone networks, and outperforms existing domain generalization methods.
Investigation: RAM prices are falling. Don't fall for it
When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Investigation: RAM prices are falling. A few price dips don't mean the memory crisis is over -- AI demand, tight supply, and a jittery market could keep PC upgrades expensive. Rising prices are the biggest tech story of 2026 . Well, the biggest tech story, anyway -- the biggest story in a broader sense is "AI" in general.
Archaeologists discover 7-foot-tall statue of legendary Egyptian pharaoh
The over 3,000-year-old statement piece belonged to Ramses the Great. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Ramses is considered the greatest pharaoh of ancient Egypt's New Kingdom. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Ramses II (1303-1213 BCE), aka Ramses the Great, is easily one of ancient Egyptian history's most recognizable rulers.
Voxel-based 3DDetection and Reconstruction of Multiple Objects from a Single Image
Inferring 3D locations and shapes of multiple objects from a single 2D image is a long-standing objective of computer vision. Most of the existing works either predict one of these 3D properties or focus on solving both for a single object. One fundamental challenge lies in how to learn an effective representation of the image that is well-suited for 3D detection and reconstruction. In this work, we propose to learn a regular grid of 3D voxel features from the input image which is aligned with 3D scene space via a 3D feature lifting operator. Based on the 3D voxel features, our novel CenterNet-3D detection head formulates the 3D detection as keypoint detection in the 3D space. Moreover, we devise an efficient coarse-to-fine reconstruction module, including coarse-level voxelization and a novel local PCASDF shape representation, which enables fine detail reconstruction and one order of magnitude faster inference than prior methods. With complementary supervision from both 3D detection and reconstruction, one enables the 3D voxel features to be geometry and context preserving, benefiting both tasks. The effectiveness of our approach is demonstrated through 3D detection and reconstruction in single object and multiple object scenarios. Code is available at http://cvlab.cse.
What you need to know as Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman begins
What you need to know as Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman begins It's sure to be cringe, and may end up costing OpenAI billions. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit on March 11, 2026 in Washington, DC. In a few short days, jury selection will begin in the long-awaited case. At the end of that process, an Oakland federal court will task nine regular people with deciding if OpenAI defrauded Elon Musk when it announced, and recently completed, its reorganization to become a more traditional for-profit business . More than just being the venue where two billionaires will air their grievances against one another in public, the trial has the potential to reshape the AI industry.
Dynamic pricing and assortment under a contextual MNL demand
We consider dynamic multi-product pricing and assortment problems under an unknown demand over T periods, where in each period, the seller decides on the price for each product or the assortment of products to offer to a customer who chooses according to an unknown Multinomial Logit Model (MNL). Such problems arise in many applications, including online retail and advertising. We propose a randomized dynamic pricing policy based on a variant of the Online Newton Step algorithm (ONS) that achieves a O(d T log(T))regret guarantee under an adversarial arrival model. We also present a new optimistic algorithm for the adversarial MNL contextual bandits problem, which achieves a better dependency than the state-of-the-art algorithms in a problem-dependent constant ฮบ2 (potentially exponentially small). Our regret upper bound scales as O(d ฮบ2T +log(T)/ฮบ2), which gives a stronger bound than the existing O(d T/ฮบ2)guarantees.
Dynamic pricing and assortment under a contextual MNL demand
We consider dynamic multi-product pricing and assortment problems under an unknown demand over T periods, where in each period, the seller decides on the price for each product or the assortment of products to offer to a customer who chooses according to an unknown Multinomial Logit Model (MNL). Such problems arise in many applications, including online retail and advertising. We propose a randomized dynamic pricing policy based on a variant of the Online Newton Step algorithm (ONS) that achieves a O(d T log(T))regret guarantee under an adversarial arrival model. We also present a new optimistic algorithm for the adversarial MNL contextual bandits problem, which achieves a better dependency than the state-of-the-art algorithms in a problem-dependent constant ฮบ2 (potentially exponentially small). Our regret upper bound scales as O(d ฮบ2T +log(T)/ฮบ2), which gives a stronger bound than the existing O(d T/ฮบ2)guarantees.
Preserved central model for faster bidirectional compression in distributed settings
We develop a new approach to tackle communication constraints in a distributed learning problem with a central server. We propose and analyze a new algorithm that performs bidirectional compression and achieves the same convergence rate as algorithms using only uplink (from the local workers to the central server) compression. To obtain this improvement, we design MCM, an algorithm such that the downlink compression only impacts local models, while the global model is preserved. As a result, and contrary to previous works, the gradients on local servers are computed on perturbed models. Consequently, convergence proofs are more challenging and require a precise control of this perturbation. To ensure it, MCMadditionally combines model compression with a memory mechanism. This analysis opens new doors, e.g.