Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for COVID-19 Information Service with Contrastive Adversarial Domain Mixup

Huimin Zeng, Zhenrui Yue, Ziyi Kou, Lanyu Shang, Yang Zhang, Dong Wang

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Abstract

In the real-world application of COVID-19 misinformation detection, a fundamental challenge is the lack of the labeled COVID data to enable supervised end-to-end training of the models, especially at the early stage of the pandemic. To address this challenge, we propose an unsupervised domain adaptation framework using contrastive learning and adversarial domain mixup to transfer the knowledge from an existing source data domain to the target COVID-19 data domain. In particular, to bridge the gap between the source domain and the target domain, our method reduces a radial basis function (RBF) based discrepancy between these two domains. Moreover, we leverage the power of domain adversarial examples to establish an intermediate domain mixup, where the latent representations of the input text from both domains could be mixed during the training process. Extensive experiments on multiple real-world datasets suggest that our method can effectively adapt misinformation detection systems to the unseen COVID-19 target domain with significant improvements compared to the state-of-the-art baselines.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022
EditorsJisun An, Chelmis Charalampos, Walid Magdy
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages159-162
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781665456616
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022 - Virtual, Online, Turkey
Duration: Nov 10 2022Nov 13 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022

Conference

Conference14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2022
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityVirtual, Online
Period11/10/2211/13/22

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Communication

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