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Adapting to Shifts in Latent Confounders via Observed Concepts and Proxies
Matt Kusner · Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin · Stephen Pfohl · Olawale Salaudeen · Arthur Gretton · Sanmi Koyejo · Jessica Schrouff · Alexander D'Amour

We address the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation when the source differs from the target because of a shift in the distribution of a latent confounder. In this case, neither covariate shift nor label shift assumptions apply. When all data is discrete, 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, and unlabeled data from the target.

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Matt Kusner (University College London)
Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin (Google Research)
Stephen Pfohl (Google)
Olawale Salaudeen (Google)
Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit)
Sanmi Koyejo (Google / Illinois)
Jessica Schrouff (Google Health)
Alexander D'Amour (Google Brain)

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