The Fermi γ-ray space telescope has revolutionized our view of the
γ-ray sky and the high-energy processes in the Universe. While the
number of known γ-ray emitters has increased by orders of
magnitude since the launch of Fermi, there is an ever increasing number
of, now more than a thousand, detected point sources whose low-energy
counterpart is to this day unknown. To address this problem, we combined
optical polarization measurements from the RoboPol survey as well as
other discriminants of blazars from publicly available all-sky surveys
in machine learning (ML, random forest and logistic regression)
frameworks that could be used to identify blazars in the Fermi
unidentified fields with an accuracy of >95 per cent. Out of the
potential observational biases considered, blazar variability seems to
have the most significant effect reducing the predictive power of the
frameworks to ˜ 80-85 per cent. We apply our ML framework to six
unidentified Fermi fields observed using the RoboPol polarimeter. We
identified the same candidate source proposed by Mandarakas et al. for
3FGL J0221.2 + 2518.