提出DOCO框架,解决测试时持续遭遇新类别和领域变化的难题。
Back to Source: Open-Set Continual Test-Time Adaptation via Domain Compensation

- 动态分离已知与未知样本,仅用已知样本学习领域补偿提示。
- 通过特征统计对齐源域,使模型在新领域仍保持准确分类。
- 适合需要长期稳定部署的现实场景,如自动驾驶、医疗诊断。
测试时适应(TTA)旨在缓解训练与测试域之间的分布偏移。然而,现有方法在真实场景中表现不佳:模型需同时应对持续变化的领域及新出现的未知语义类别,这一挑战性设置称为开放集持续测试时适应(OCTTA)。领域与语义变化的耦合常导致特征空间坍塌,严重损害分类与分布外检测性能。为此,我们提出轻量级且有效的领域补偿(DOCO)框架,在闭环中协同实现领域适应与分布外检测。DOCO首先进行自适应条件下的样本动态分割,将可能的已知类(ID)与分布外(OOD)样本分离;随后,仅使用已知样本,通过特征统计对齐源域,并在结构保留正则化约束下学习领域补偿提示;该提示再传播至同批次的分布外样本,有效隔离其语义新颖性,提升检测可靠性。在多个具有挑战性的基准上大量实验表明,DOCO优于先前的持续测试时适应(CTTA)与开放集测试时适应(OSTTA)方法,在严苛的OCTTA设置下建立新基准。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) aims to mitigate distributional shifts between training and test domains during inference time. However, existing TTA methods fall short in the realistic scenario where models face both continually changing domains and the simultaneous emergence of unknown semantic classes, a challenging setting we term Open-set Continual Test-Time Adaptation (OCTTA). The coupling of domain and semantic shifts often collapses the feature space, severely degrading both classification and out-of-distribution detection. To tackle this, we propose DOmain COmpensation (DOCO), a lightweight and effective framework that robustly performs domain adaptation and OOD detection in a synergistic, closed loop. DOCO first performs dynamic, adaptation-conditioned sample splitting to separate likely ID from OOD samples. Then, using only the ID samples, it learns a domain compensation prompt by aligning feature statistics with the source domain, guided by a structural preservation regularizer that prevents semantic distortion. This learned prompt is then propagated to the OOD samples within the same batch, effectively isolating their semantic novelty for more reliable detection. Extensive experiments on multiple challenging benchmarks demonstrate that DOCO outperforms prior CTTA and OSTTA methods, establishing a new state-of-the-art for the demanding OCTTA setting.
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