“…The method utilizes the correlated knowledge among domains and features by joint l 2,1 − norm and correlation metric regularization and can process high-dimensional, sparse, outliers, and non-i.i.d EEG data at the same time. The designed method has three characteristics, which are integrated into a unified optimization formulation to find an effective emotion recognition model and align the feature distribution between source and target domains: (1) via employing the l 2,1 − norm minimization, a robust loss term is introduced to avoid the influence of noise or outliers in EEG signal, and a sparse regularization term is designed to eliminate over-fitting and a sparse feature subset is selected; (2) based on the designed regression model and the semantic distribution matching between each pair of domains, it not merely provides robustness on loss function but also retains the domain distribution (including local and global) structures and meanwhile maintains a high dependence on the (pseudo)-label knowledge of the source domains and the target domain ( Zhang et al, 2020a ) so as to obtain preferable generalization performance; and (3) through our constructed metric function of correlation, we can make full use of the correlative information among multiple sources and transfer more discriminative knowledge to the target domain. To implement these properties, in the following part, we will detail the objective formulation of the proposed method.…”