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Multi-Granularity Domain Adversarial Learning for Cross-Domain Tea Classification Using Electronic Nose Signals.

Xiaoran Wang¹, Yu Gu^1,2

¹College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China.

Foods (Basel, Switzerland)

|May 4, 2026

Summary

A new electronic nose (E-nose) network, MGDA-Net, accurately classifies tea types across different datasets. This advanced deep learning model overcomes domain shifts, offering reliable tea classification for industry screening.

Keywords:

domain adaptation domain adversarial learning electronic nose multi-granularity feature learning tea classification

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Area of Science:

Food Science
Artificial Intelligence
Sensor Technology

Background:

Conventional tea classification methods are often subjective or time-consuming.
Electronic nose (E-nose) systems offer rapid tea analysis but struggle with domain shifts across different tea types or conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a robust cross-domain tea classification method using E-nose time-series signals.
To address performance degradation in E-nose systems due to domain shifts.

Main Methods:

Proposed MGDA-Net, a multi-granularity domain adversarial network combining CNN and self-attention branches.
Implemented a branch-level adversarial alignment strategy for feature-level discrepancy reduction.
Utilized a three-stage training procedure: source pretraining, adversarial alignment, and target fine-tuning.

Main Results:

MGDA-Net achieved high accuracies (99.31% and 99.38%) in classifying oolong and jasmine teas.
Significantly outperformed existing baseline methods in cross-domain classification tasks.
Demonstrated strong performance (over 87% accuracy) even with limited target-domain labels (40%).

Conclusions:

MGDA-Net effectively handles domain shifts in E-nose data for tea classification.
The proposed network offers a promising, accurate, and data-efficient solution for automated tea screening.