MAPLE: Semi-Supervised Learning with Multi-Alignment and Pseudo-Learning

Data augmentation has undoubtedly enabled a significant leap forward in training a high-accuracy deep network. Besides the commonly used augmentation to target data, e.g., random cropping, flipping, and rotation, recent works have been dedicated to mining generalized knowledge by using multiple sources. However, along with plentiful data comes the huge data distribution gap between the target and different sources (hybrid shift). To mitigate this problem, existing methods tend to manually annotate more data. Unlike previous methods, this paper focuses on the study of learning deep models by gathering knowledge from multiple sources in a labor-free fashion and further proposes the "Multi-Alignment and Pseudo-Learning" method, dubbed MAPLE. MAPLE constructs the multi-alignment module, which consists of multiple discriminators to align different data distributions via an adversarial process. In addition, a novel semi-supervised learning (SSL) manner is introduced to further facilitate the utility of our MAPLE. Extensive evaluations conducted on four benchmarks show the effectiveness of the proposed MAPLE, which achieves state-of-the-art performance outperforming existing methods by an obvious margin.