Cross-Semantic Transfer Learning for High-Dimensional Linear Regression

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Main Authors: Jiang, Jiancheng, Jiang, Xuejun, Jin, Hongxia
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Published: 2025
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author Jiang, Jiancheng
Jiang, Xuejun
Jin, Hongxia
author_facet Jiang, Jiancheng
Jiang, Xuejun
Jin, Hongxia
contents Current transfer learning methods for high-dimensional linear regression assume feature alignment across domains, restricting their applicability to semantically matched features. In many real-world scenarios, however, distinct features in the target and source domains can play similar predictive roles, creating a form of cross-semantic similarity. To leverage this broader transferability, we propose the Cross-Semantic Transfer Learning (CSTL) framework. It captures potential relationships by comparing each target coefficient with all source coefficients through a weighted fusion penalty. The weights are derived from the derivative of the SCAD penalty, effectively approximating an ideal weighting scheme that preserves transferable signals while filtering out source-specific noise. For computational efficiency, we implement CSTL using the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). Theoretically, we establish that under mild conditions, CSTL achieves the oracle estimator with overwhelming probability. Empirical results from simulations and a real-data application confirm that CSTL outperforms existing methods in both cross-semantic and partial signal similarity settings.
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Jiang, Jiancheng
Jiang, Xuejun
Jin, Hongxia
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Current transfer learning methods for high-dimensional linear regression assume feature alignment across domains, restricting their applicability to semantically matched features. In many real-world scenarios, however, distinct features in the target and source domains can play similar predictive roles, creating a form of cross-semantic similarity. To leverage this broader transferability, we propose the Cross-Semantic Transfer Learning (CSTL) framework. It captures potential relationships by comparing each target coefficient with all source coefficients through a weighted fusion penalty. The weights are derived from the derivative of the SCAD penalty, effectively approximating an ideal weighting scheme that preserves transferable signals while filtering out source-specific noise. For computational efficiency, we implement CSTL using the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM). Theoretically, we establish that under mild conditions, CSTL achieves the oracle estimator with overwhelming probability. Empirical results from simulations and a real-data application confirm that CSTL outperforms existing methods in both cross-semantic and partial signal similarity settings.
title Cross-Semantic Transfer Learning for High-Dimensional Linear Regression
topic Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21689