Tent: Fully Test-Time Adaptation by Entropy Minimization
Dequan Wang, Evan Shelhamer, Shaoteng Liu, Bruno Olshausen, Trevor Darrell
Abstract
A model must adapt itself to generalize to new and different data during testing. In this setting of fully test-time adaptation the model has only the test data and its own parameters. We propose to adapt by test entropy minimization (tent): we optimize the model for confidence as measured by the entropy of its predictions. Our method estimates normalization statistics and optimizes channel-wise affine transformations to update online on each batch. Tent reduces generalization error for image classification on corrupted ImageNet and CIFAR-10/100 and reaches a new state-of-the-art error on ImageNet-C. Tent handles source-free domain adaptation on digit recognition from SVHN to MNIST/MNIST-M/USPS, on semantic segmentation from GTA to Cityscapes, and on the VisDA-C benchmark. These results are achieved in one epoch of test-time optimization without altering training.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{
wang2021tent,
title={Tent: Fully Test-Time Adaptation by Entropy Minimization},
author={Dequan Wang and Evan Shelhamer and Shaoteng Liu and Bruno Olshausen and Trevor Darrell},
booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations},
year={2021},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=uXl3bZLkr3c}
}