This is the novel DN4IL dataset introduced for Domain-Incremental setting in Continual Learning domain. It was introduced in the TMLR paper, "Dual Cognitive Architecture: Incorporating Biases and Multi-Memory Systems for Lifelong Learning" by Shruthi Gowda, Elahe Arani and Bahram Zonooz (https://github.com/NeurAI-Lab/DUCA)

DN4IL is a subset of the standard DomainNet dataset used in domain adaptation. It consists of six different domains: real, clipart, infograph, painting, quickdraw, and sketch. The shift in distribution between domains is challenging. A few examples and statistics of the dataset can be seen below.

These new annotations can be used with the DomainNet dataset for training and evaluation in Continual Learning

The original DomainNet consists of 59k samples with 345 classes in each domain. The classes have redundancy, and moreover, evaluating the whole dataset can be computationally expensive in a CL setting. DN4IL version considers different criteria such as relevance of classes, uniform sample distribution, computational complexity, and ease of benchmarking for CL.

All classes were grouped into semantically similar supercategories. Of these, a subset of classes was selected that had relevance to domain shift, while also having maximum overlap with other standard datasets such as CIFAR, to facilitate out-of-distribution analyses. 20 supercategories were chosen with 5 classes each (resulting in a total of 100 classes). In addition, to provide a balanced dataset, we performed a class-wise sampling. First, we sample images per class in each supercategory and maintain class balance. Second, we choose samples per domain, so that it results in a dataset that has a near-uniform distribution across all classes and domains. The final dataset DN4IL is succinct, more balanced, and more computationally efficient for benchmarking, thus facilitating research in CL. The challenging distribution shift between domains provides an apt dataset to test the capability of CL methods in the Domain-IL setting.

Details on supercategory and classes in DN4IL dataset.

@article{
  gowda2023dual,
  title={Dual Cognitive Architecture: Incorporating Biases and Multi-Memory Systems for Lifelong Learning},
  author={Shruthi Gowda and Bahram Zonooz and Elahe Arani},
  journal={Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
  issn={2835-8856},
  year={2023},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=PEyVq0hlO3}
}

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