Challenge: Existing techniques for unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) are limited by domain shift, which leads to performance degradation.
Approach: They propose a fine-tuning procedure that uses a mixed classification and Masked Language Model loss to adapt to the target domain distribution in a robust and sample efficient manner.
Outcome: The proposed procedure can adapt to the target domain distribution in a robust and sample efficient manner.

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