Unsupervised domain adaptation for radioisotope identification in gamma spectroscopy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05719v1
• Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:19:55 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised domain adaptation for radioisotope identification in gamma spectroscopy
• Abstract summary: Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) can improve the ability of a model trained on synthetic data to generalize to a new testing domain.<n>In this study, we demonstrate that UDA can improve the ability of a model trained on synthetic data to generalize to a new testing domain.
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• Abstract: Training machine learning models for radioisotope identification using gamma spectroscopy remains an elusive challenge for many practical applications, largely stemming from the difficulty of acquiring and labeling large, diverse experimental datasets. Simulations can mitigate this challenge, but the accuracy of models trained on simulated data can deteriorate substantially when deployed to an out-of-distribution operational environment. In this study, we demonstrate that unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) can improve the ability of a model trained on synthetic data to generalize to a new testing domain, provided unlabeled data from the target domain are available. Conventional supervised techniques are unable to utilize this data because the absence of isotope labels precludes defining a supervised classification loss. Instead, we first pretrain a spectral classifier using labeled synthetic data and subsequently leverage unlabeled target data to align the learned feature representations between the source and target domains. We compare a range of different UDA techniques, finding that minimizing the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) between source and target feature vectors yields the most consistent improvement to testing scores. For instance, using a custom transformer-based neural network, we achieved a testing accuracy of $0.904 \pm 0.022$ on an experimental LaBr$_3$ test set after performing unsupervised feature alignment via MMD minimization, compared to $0.754 \pm 0.014$ before alignment. Overall, our results highlight the potential of using UDA to adapt a radioisotope classifier trained on synthetic data for real-world deployment.

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