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When Feature Alignment Helps, Hurts, or Washes out: Carrier-Dependent Domain Adaptation for Cherenkov Telescope Event Classification

Feature alignment domain adaptation (DA) methods such as CORAL and MMD are widely used to mitigate distribution shift between training (source) and deployment (target) domains. They are typically evaluated on a single downstream classifier, which implicitly assumes that the align...