GAN-TL domain-adaptive augmentation for enhanced transfer learning
摘要
Transfer learning offers a practical solution for label-scarce target domains, but its effectiveness diminishes when source and target data follow different distributions. To address this challenge, we present GAN-TL, a GAN-augmented transfer learning framework that generates target-style samples to expand target-relevant variability and couples this synthesis with adversarial feature alignment. The task model is trained on mixed real and synthetic batches, enabling improved cross-domain generalization under limited target supervision. Experiments on three benchmarks (Datasets A–C) confirm consistent improvements over standard transfer learning. On Dataset A, GAN-TL achieves 87.4% accuracy compared with 83.5% for conventional fine-tuning, and increases macro-F1 from 83.4% to 87.4%. For the regression benchmark Dataset B, mean squared error decreases from 9.72 to 7.89 while