Geometric Moment Alignment for Domain Adaptation via Siegel Embeddings

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Main Authors: Gharib, Shayan, Hartmann, Marcelo, Klami, Arto
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author Gharib, Shayan
Hartmann, Marcelo
Klami, Arto
author_facet Gharib, Shayan
Hartmann, Marcelo
Klami, Arto
contents We address the problem of distribution shift in unsupervised domain adaptation with a moment-matching approach. Existing methods typically align low-order statistical moments of the source and target distributions in an embedding space using ad-hoc similarity measures. We propose a principled alternative that instead leverages the intrinsic geometry of these distributions by adopting a Riemannian distance for this alignment. Our key novelty lies in expressing the first- and second-order moments as a single symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix through Siegel embeddings. This enables simultaneous adaptation of both moments using the natural geometric distance on the shared manifold of SPD matrices, preserving the mean and covariance structure of the source and target distributions and yielding a more faithful metric for cross-domain comparison. We connect the Riemannian manifold distance to the target-domain error bound, and validate the method on image denoising and image classification benchmarks. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/shayangharib/GeoAdapt.
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spellingShingle Geometric Moment Alignment for Domain Adaptation via Siegel Embeddings
Gharib, Shayan
Hartmann, Marcelo
Klami, Arto
Machine Learning
We address the problem of distribution shift in unsupervised domain adaptation with a moment-matching approach. Existing methods typically align low-order statistical moments of the source and target distributions in an embedding space using ad-hoc similarity measures. We propose a principled alternative that instead leverages the intrinsic geometry of these distributions by adopting a Riemannian distance for this alignment. Our key novelty lies in expressing the first- and second-order moments as a single symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix through Siegel embeddings. This enables simultaneous adaptation of both moments using the natural geometric distance on the shared manifold of SPD matrices, preserving the mean and covariance structure of the source and target distributions and yielding a more faithful metric for cross-domain comparison. We connect the Riemannian manifold distance to the target-domain error bound, and validate the method on image denoising and image classification benchmarks. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/shayangharib/GeoAdapt.
title Geometric Moment Alignment for Domain Adaptation via Siegel Embeddings
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14666