
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of cross-domain transfer learning in Latent Posterior Factors (LPF), comparing two architectural variants: LPF-SPN (Sum-Product Network aggregation) and LPF-Learned (neural aggregation). We evaluate zero-shot transfer from a compliance domain to six target domains—healthcare, academic, construction, legal, finance, and materials—and demonstrate significant improvements through few-shot adaptation. Our results reveal fundamental trade-offs between structural probabilistic reasoning and learned neural aggregation in cross-domain scenarios, with LPF-Learned achieving 42.5% average zero-shot accuracy compared to LPF-SPN's 29.0%. We further show that domain adaptation with 100-shot learning improves performance to 46.3% average accuracy while maintaining superior calibration (ECE: 0.147 vs. 0.253 zero-shot). These findings provide actionable guidance for practitioners deploying probabilistic reasoning systems across heterogeneous domains. Keywords:Cross-domain transfer learning, Latent Posterior Factors (LPF), neuro-symbolic AI, probabilistic reasoning, neural aggregation, sum-product networks (SPN), zero-shot learning, few-shot adaptation, uncertainty calibration, domain adaptation, multi-domain AI, evidence aggregation, machine learning robustness, structural vs. learned aggregation, interpretable AI, heterogeneous data, ECE calibration, applied AI systems
structural vs. learned aggregation, applied AI systems, domain adaptation, machine learning robustness, interpretable AI, heterogeneous data, few-shot adaptation, neuro-symbolic AI, neural aggregation, sum-product networks (SPN), ECE calibration, evidence aggregation, Latent Posterior Factors (LPF), Cross-domain transfer learning, zero-shot learning, uncertainty calibration, multi-domain AI, probabilistic reasoning
structural vs. learned aggregation, applied AI systems, domain adaptation, machine learning robustness, interpretable AI, heterogeneous data, few-shot adaptation, neuro-symbolic AI, neural aggregation, sum-product networks (SPN), ECE calibration, evidence aggregation, Latent Posterior Factors (LPF), Cross-domain transfer learning, zero-shot learning, uncertainty calibration, multi-domain AI, probabilistic reasoning
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