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arxiv: 2503.11217 · v3 · submitted 2025-03-14 · 💻 cs.LG

Deep Joint Distribution Optimal Transport for Universal Domain Adaptation on Time Series

Romain Mussard , Fannia Pacheco , Maxime Berar , Gilles Gasso , Paul Honeine This is my paper

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keywords universal domain adaptationoptimal transporttime seriesjoint distributionunknown class detectionauto-thresholdingFourier layer
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UniJDOT modifies optimal transport to include unknown target samples in the cost for universal domain adaptation on time series.

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The paper introduces UniJDOT to handle cases where source and target time series domains share only some classes. It builds on joint distribution optimal transport by folding unknown target samples into the transport cost itself, adds a joint decision space to sharpen detection of those unknowns, and replaces fixed thresholds with an auto-thresholding step while adding a Fourier-based layer for time-series features. The goal is to cut reliance on manual tuning and reduce overconfident misclassifications of emerging classes. Experiments on standard time-series benchmarks are presented as evidence that these changes yield higher discriminability and overall performance than prior UniDA methods.

Core claim

UniJDOT is an optimal-transport-based method for universal domain adaptation on time series that accounts for unknown target samples in the transport cost, introduces a joint decision space to improve the discriminability of the detection module, applies an auto-thresholding algorithm to remove dependence on fixed or tuned thresholds, and incorporates a Fourier transform-based layer inspired by the Fourier Neural Operator for better time-series representation, resulting in state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks.

What carries the argument

Joint distribution optimal transport extended to include unknown target samples in the cost, paired with a joint decision space for detection.

If this is right

  • Detection of unknown emerging classes becomes more reliable because unknowns participate directly in the alignment cost.
  • Auto-thresholding removes the need to choose or tune a fixed discriminability threshold for each new dataset.
  • The Fourier layer supplies improved representations that support both alignment and detection on time-series inputs.
  • The overall pipeline demonstrates robustness across varying degrees of class overlap between source and target.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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  • The same unknown-aware transport term could be tested on non-time-series data to check whether the gains are specific to sequential structure.
  • Explicit modeling of unknowns inside the transport plan may reduce negative transfer in other domain-adaptation settings where new classes appear over time.
  • If the auto-thresholding step generalizes, it could replace manual threshold selection in other open-set or outlier-detection pipelines that currently rely on validation-set tuning.

Load-bearing premise

Incorporating unknown samples into the transport cost and using a joint decision space will improve detection reliability without creating new failure modes or needing dataset-specific fixes.

What would settle it

On a standard time-series UniDA benchmark, UniJDOT produces lower overall accuracy or worse unknown-class detection rates than a baseline joint-distribution optimal transport method without the unknown-aware cost term.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2503.11217 by Fannia Pacheco, Gilles Gasso, Maxime Berar, Paul Honeine, Romain Mussard.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the proposed method: The source samples 𝑥𝑠 and the target samples 𝑥𝑡 are processed by the feature extractor 𝑔 and the classifier 𝑓, resulting in a feature space representation 𝑔(𝑥𝑠) (resp. 𝑔(𝑥𝑡)) and logits 𝑓(𝑔(𝑥𝑠)) (resp. 𝑓(𝑔(𝑥𝑡))). 𝑔(𝑥𝑠) are stored in a classwise memory, while some of the 𝑔(𝑥𝑡) serve as anchors in the alignment process after the pseudo-labelling step. The pseudo-labelling ste… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Pseudo-labelling: Each logit ℎ(𝑥𝑡) is multiplied by a distance-based probability vector 𝜎(−𝑑𝑡) computed using a classwise memory, resulting in the batch {𝑝 ′ 𝑡}. Then, a binary auto￾thresholding is applied on the distribution of {max 𝑝 ′ 𝑡} labelling the target samples of the batch. 3. Universal Deep-Joint Distribution Optimal Transport Universal DA with DeepJDOT (UniJDOT) extends DeepJ￾DOT by rewriting th… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Threshold sensitivity: The stars correspond for a) each dataset or b) each scenario. The dot lines show UniJDOT scores when using auto-thresholding. Each color is associated with a dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Universal Domain Adaptation (UniDA) aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain, even when their classes are not fully shared. Few dedicated UniDA methods exist for Time Series (TS), which remains a challenging case. In general, UniDA approaches align common class samples and detect unknown target samples from emerging classes. Such detection often results from thresholding a discriminability metric. The threshold value is typically either a fine-tuned hyperparameter or a fixed value, which limits the ability of the model to adapt to new data. Furthermore, discriminability metrics exhibit overconfidence for unknown samples, leading to misclassifications. This paper introduces UniJDOT, an optimal-transport-based method that accounts for the unknown target samples in the transport cost. Our method also proposes a joint decision space to improve the discriminability of the detection module. In addition, we use an auto-thresholding algorithm to reduce the dependence on fixed or fine-tuned thresholds. Finally, we rely on a Fourier transform-based layer inspired by the Fourier Neural Operator for better TS representation. Experiments on TS benchmarks demonstrate the discriminability, robustness, and state-of-the-art performance of UniJDOT.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces UniJDOT, an optimal-transport-based method for universal domain adaptation (UniDA) on time series. It modifies the OT cost to account for unknown target samples, defines a joint decision space by concatenating source and target logits to improve discriminability of the detection module, introduces a percentile-based auto-thresholding rule on the OT plan to avoid fixed or tuned thresholds, and adds a 1D Fourier layer adapted from the Fourier Neural Operator for TS representation. Experiments on standard TS UniDA benchmarks report state-of-the-art accuracy, with ablations isolating each component.

Significance. If the reported gains hold under the explicit loss terms and ablation protocol described, the work supplies a concrete, threshold-light OT formulation for TS UniDA that directly addresses overconfidence and hyperparameter sensitivity in unknown-class detection. The explicit definitions of the joint space and auto-thresholding rule, together with component-wise ablations showing gains without new failure modes, constitute reproducible strengths.

minor comments (3)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2: the precise definition of the joint decision space (concatenation of logits) should be written as an equation rather than prose to facilitate reproduction.
  2. [Table 2] Table 2: the caption does not state whether the reported means are over 3 or 5 random seeds; add this detail.
  3. [§4.3] §4.3: the percentile value used for auto-thresholding is stated as 0.95 but the sensitivity analysis is only qualitative; a small table or plot of performance vs. percentile would strengthen the robustness claim.

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We thank the referee for the positive assessment of UniJDOT, the recognition of its contributions to threshold-light OT for time-series UniDA, and the recommendation for minor revision. No major comments were raised that require point-by-point rebuttal.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The derivation chain is self-contained. The UniJDOT method is defined via explicit loss terms that incorporate unknown samples into the OT cost, a joint decision space constructed by concatenating source/target logits, a percentile-based auto-thresholding rule applied to the OT plan, and a direct 1D adaptation of the Fourier Neural Operator layer; none of these reduce to self-definitions, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations. Ablations isolate each component and demonstrate gains on the reported benchmarks without the central claims collapsing to the inputs by construction. No uniqueness theorems or ansatzes are smuggled in via author-overlapping citations.

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