Adaptive Graph Learning With Semantic Promotability for Domain Adaptation

Domain Adaptation (DA) is used to reduce cross-domain differences between the labeled source and unlabeled target domains. As the existing semantic-based DA approaches mainly focus on extracting consistent knowledge under semantic guidance, they may fail in acquiring (a) personalized knowledge between intra-class samples, and (b) local knowledge of neighbor samples from different categories. Hence, a multi-semantic-granularity and target-sample oriented approach, called Adaptive Graph Learning with Semantic Promotability (AGLSP), is proposed, which consists of three parts: (a) Adaptive Graph Embedding with Semantic Guidance (AGE-SG) that adaptively estimates the promotability of target samples and learns variant semantic and geometrical components from the source and those semantically promotable target samples; (b) Semantically Promotable Sample Enhancement (SPSE) that further increases the discriminability and adaptability of tag granularity by mining the features of intra-class source and semantically promotable target samples with multi-granularities; and (c) Adaptive Graph Learning with Implicit Semantic Preservation (AGL-ISP) that forms the tag granularity by extracting commonalities between the source and those semantically non-promotable target samples. As AGLSP learns more semantics from the two domains, more cross-domain knowledge is transferred. Mathematical proofs and extensive experiments on seven datasets demonstrate the performance of AGLSP.