2022/10/06 by Huimin Zeng, Zeng, Huimin, Zhenrui Yue +9
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #COVID-19 diagnosis using AI #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2210.03250
openalex publication_date 2022/10/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.