Domain Adaptation Through Cluster Integration and Correlation

Abstract

Domain shift is a common problem in many real-world applications using machine learning models. Most of the existing solutions are based on supervised and deep-learning models. This paper proposes a novel clustering algorithm capable of producing an adapted and/or integrated clustering model for the considered domains. Source and target domains are represented by clustering models such that each cluster of a domain models a specific scenario of the studied phenomenon by defining a range of allowable values for each attribute in a given data vector. The proposed domain integration algorithm works in two steps: (i) cross-labeling and (ii) integration. Initially, each clustering model is crossly applied to label the cluster representatives of the other model. These labels are used to determine the correlations between the two models to identify the common clusters for both domains, which must be integrated within the second step. Different features of the proposed algorithm are studied and evaluated on a publicly available human activity recognition (HAR) data set and real-world data from a smart logistics use case provided by an industrial partner. The experiment's goal on the HAR data set is to showcase the algorithm's potential in automatic data labeling. While the conducted experiments on the smart logistics use case evaluate and compare the performance of the integrated and two adapted models in different domains.