AI RESEARCH

OT on the Map: Quantifying Domain Shifts in Geographic Space

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2604.16220v1 Announce Type: new In computer vision and machine learning for geographic data, out-of-domain generalization is a pervasive challenge, arising from uneven global data coverage and distribution shifts across geographic regions. Though models are frequently trained in one region and deployed in another, there is no principled method for determining when this cross-region adaptation will be successful. A well-defined notion of distance between distributions can effectively quantify how different a new target domain is compared to the domains used for model.