_Objective:_ Build a network easily trainable by back-propagation to perform unsupervised domain adaptation while at the same time learning a good embedding for both source and target domains.

 _Dataset:_ [SVHN](ufldl.stanford.edu/housenumbers/), [MNIST](yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/), [USPS](https://www.otexts.org/1577), [CIFAR](https://www.cs.toronto.edu/%7Ekriz/cifar.html) and [STL](https://cs.stanford.edu/%7Eacoates/stl10/).

#### Architecture:

Very similar to RevGrad but with some differences.

Basically a shared encoder and then a classifier and a reconstructor.  
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The two losses are:

*   the usual cross-entropy with softmax for the classifier
*   the pixel-wise squared loss for reconstruction

Which are then combined using a trade-off hyper-parameter between classification and reconstruction.

They also use data augmentation to generate additional training data during the supervised training using only geometrical deformation: translation, rotation, skewing, and scaling

Plus denoising to reconstruct clean inputs given their noisy counterparts (zero-masked noise and Gaussian noise).

#### Results:

Outperforms state of the art on most tasks at the time, now outperformed itself by Generate To Adapt on most tasks.