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Poster

Adapting to Latent Subgroup Shifts via Concepts and Proxies

Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin · Nicole Chiou · Alexander D'Amour · Arthur Gretton · Sanmi Koyejo · Matt Kusner · Stephen Pfohl · Olawale Salaudeen · Jessica Schrouff · Katherine Tsai

Auditorium 1 Foyer 164

Abstract:

We address the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation when the source domain differs from the target domain because of a shift in the distribution of a latent subgroup. When this subgroup confounds all observed data, neither covariate shift nor label shift assumptions apply. We show that the optimal target predictor can be non-parametrically identified with the help of concept and proxy variables available only in the source domain, and unlabeled data from the target. The identification results are constructive, immediately suggesting an algorithm for estimating the optimal predictor in the target. For continuous observations, when this algorithm becomes impractical, we propose a latent variable model specific to the data generation process at hand. We show how the approach degrades as the size of the shift changes, and verify that it outperforms both covariate and label shift adjustment.

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