Causal Inference
Causal inference aims to determine cause-and-effect relationships from data, going beyond mere correlations to understand how interventions impact outcomes. Current research heavily focuses on addressing challenges like confounding (the influence of unobserved variables), particularly in high-dimensional data and complex treatments (e.g., text, sequences of actions), employing methods such as structural causal models, Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART), and various neural network architectures including Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). These advancements are crucial for improving the reliability of causal conclusions across diverse fields, from medicine and economics to personalized interventions and policy-making.
Papers
Do large language models and humans have similar behaviors in causal inference with script knowledge?
Xudong Hong, Margarita Ryzhova, Daniel Adrian Biondi, Vera Demberg
The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Market Equilibrium: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Kaichen Zhang, Zixuan Yuan, Hui Xiong
Causal Q-Aggregation for CATE Model Selection
Hui Lan, Vasilis Syrgkanis
CATE Lasso: Conditional Average Treatment Effect Estimation with High-Dimensional Linear Regression
Masahiro Kato, Masaaki Imaizumi
Local Discovery by Partitioning: Polynomial-Time Causal Discovery Around Exposure-Outcome Pairs
Jacqueline Maasch, Weishen Pan, Shantanu Gupta, Volodymyr Kuleshov, Kyra Gan, Fei Wang