On Learning Invariant Representations for Domain Adaptation

In domain adaptation the source (training) domain is related to but different from the target (testing) domain. During training, the algorithm can only have access to labeled samples from source domain and unlabeled samples from target domain. The goal is to generalize on the target domain. One of the backbone assumptions underpinning the generalization theory of supervised learning algorithms is that the test distribution should be the same as the training distribution. However in many real-world applications it is usually time-consuming or even infeasible to collect labeled data from all the possible scenarios where our learning system is going to be deployed.