Advances in Domain Adaptation Theory

Domain Adaptation Theory: Available Theoretical Results gives current, state-of-the-art results on transfer learning, with a particular focus placed on domain adaptation from a theoretical point-of-view. The book begins with a brief overview of the most popular concepts used to provide generalization guarantees, including sections on Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC), Rademacher, PAC-Bayesian, Robustness and Stability based bounds. In addition, the book explains domain adaptation problem and describes the four major families of theoretical results that exist in the literature, including the Divergence based bounds. Next, PAC-Bayesian bounds are discussed, including the original PAC-Bayesian bounds for domain adaptation and their updated version.

Additional sections present generalization guarantees based on the robustness and stability properties of the learning algorithm.

Gives an overview of current results on transfer learningFocuses on the adaptation of the field from a theoretical point-of-viewDescribes four major families of theoretical results in the literatureSummarizes existing results on adaptation in the fieldProvides tips for future research

1. Introduction
2. State-of-the-art on statistical learning theory
3. Domain adaptation problem
4. Divergence based bounds
5. PAC-Bayes bounds for domain adaptation
6. Robustness and adaptation
7. Stability and hypothesis transfer learning
8. Impossibility results
9. Conclusions and open discussions