arXiv:2602.08730cs.CV2026-02

解决无源域适应中的类别混淆问题,提升细粒度识别效果。

Closing the Confusion Loop: CLIP-Guided Alignment for Source-Free Domain Adaptation

  • 通过分析源模型在目标域的预测,识别出单向混淆类别对。
  • 利用CLIP构建带上下文提示的伪标签,减少误判。
  • 结合对比学习对齐特征空间,增强类别区分能力,适合安全场景应用。

无源域适应(SFDA)旨在不访问源数据的情况下,将预训练的源模型适配到未标注的目标域,特别适用于数据安全领域。尽管伪标签策略已证明有效,但在细粒度场景中常因类间相似性导致失败。关键问题是存在不对称且动态的类别混淆,即视觉相似类别被源模型不均衡地误分类。现有方法通常忽略此类混淆模式,导致伪标签噪声大、目标域判别力差。为此,我们提出CLIP引导对齐(CGA)框架,显式建模并缓解SFDA中的类别混淆。该方法包含三部分:(1) MCA:通过分析源模型在目标域的预测,检测第一级方向性混淆对;(2) MCC:利用CLIP构建混淆感知文本提示(如“看起来像公交车的卡车”),实现更敏感的伪标签生成;(3) FAM:为CLIP和源模型构建混淆引导特征库,并通过对比学习对齐,降低表示空间模糊性。大量实验证明,CGA在多个数据集上持续优于当前最优的SFDA方法,尤其在易混淆和细粒度场景中表现显著。结果强调了显式建模类间混淆对有效无源适配的重要性。代码已开源:https://github.com/soloiro/CGA。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) tackles the problem of adapting a pre-trained source model to an unlabeled target domain without accessing any source data, which is quite suitable for the field of data security. Although recent advances have shown that pseudo-labeling strategies can be effective, they often fail in fine-grained scenarios due to subtle inter-class similarities. A critical but underexplored issue is the presence of asymmetric and dynamic class confusion, where visually similar classes are unequally and inconsistently misclassified by the source model. Existing methods typically ignore such confusion patterns, leading to noisy pseudo-labels and poor target discrimination. To address this, we propose CLIP-Guided Alignment(CGA), a novel framework that explicitly models and mitigates class confusion in SFDA. Generally, our method consists of three parts: (1) MCA: detects first directional confusion pairs by analyzing the predictions of the source model in the target domain; (2) MCC: leverages CLIP to construct confusion-aware textual prompts (e.g. a truck that looks like a bus), enabling more context-sensitive pseudo-labeling; and (3) FAM: builds confusion-guided feature banks for both CLIP and the source model and aligns them using contrastive learning to reduce ambiguity in the representation space. Extensive experiments on various datasets demonstrate that CGA consistently outperforms state-of-the-art SFDA methods, with especially notable gains in confusion-prone and fine-grained scenarios. Our results highlight the importance of explicitly modeling inter-class confusion for effective source-free adaptation. Our code can be find at https://github.com/soloiro/CGA

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