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SHED: Style-Homogenized Embedding Alignment for Domain Generalization

Kai Gan, Tong Wei

Removing style centroids from CLIP embeddings improves generalization to unseen domains.

arxiv:2605.16973 v1 · 2026-05-16 · cs.CV · cs.LG

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SHED achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming prior methods significantly (e.g., +4.0% on DomainNet vs. standard fine-tuning).

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That subtracting estimated style centroids from embeddings preserves class semantics while removing only domain-specific information, and that projecting textual domain centroids into visual space enables effective membership-weighted inference without any target domain data.

C3one line summary

SHED improves domain generalization in CLIP by aligning style-homogenized embeddings instead of raw ones, achieving state-of-the-art results on five benchmarks including a 4% gain on DomainNet.

References

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[1] Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 1985

[2] Visual Information Extraction with Lixto 2001

[3] Brachman and James G 1985

[4] Complexity results for nonmonotonic logics 1992

[5] Hypertree Decompositions and Tractable Queries 2002

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arxiv: 2605.16973 · arxiv_version: 2605.16973v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16973 · pith_short_12: EQ5O53GIYUVC · pith_short_16: EQ5O53GIYUVCEY7B · pith_short_8: EQ5O53GI

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