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

June 15, 2023

Ensembled Prediction Intervals for Causal Outcomes Under Hidden Confounding
Myrl G. Marmarelis, Greg Ver Steeg, Aram Galstyan, Fred Morstatter
Causal Inference Causal Effect Prediction Interval Hidden Knowledge

June 9, 2023

Leveraging text data for causal inference using electronic health records
Reagan Mozer, Aaron R. Kaufman, Leo A. Celi, Luke Miratrix
Causal Inference Electronic Health Record Text Data Clinical Data

June 8, 2023

June 7, 2023

Timing Process Interventions with Causal Inference and Reinforcement Learning
Hans Weytjens, Wouter Verbeke, Jochen De Weerdt
Reinforcement Learning Causal Inference Process Mining Process Optimization Adaptive Intervention Prescriptive Process Monitoring

June 6, 2023

Intervention Generalization: A View from Factor Graph Models
Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff, David S. Watson, Jialin Yu, Jakob Zeitler, Ricardo Silva
Synthetic Data Causal Inference Best View Factor Graph Unmeasured Confounding Distinct Functional Regime

May 28, 2023

Point Cloud Completion Guided by Prior Knowledge via Causal Inference
Songxue Gao, Chuanqi Jiao, Ruidong Chen, Weijie Wang, Weizhi Nie
Causal Inference Prior Knowledge Point Cloud Completion Shape Prior Partial Shape

May 27, 2023

Inferring Individual Direct Causal Effects Under Heterogeneous Peer Influence
Shishir Adhikari, Elena Zheleva
Causal Inference Causal Effect Peer Effect

May 26, 2023

May 25, 2023

Dynamic Inter-treatment Information Sharing for Individualized Treatment Effects Estimation
Vinod Kumar Chauhan, Jiandong Zhou, Ghadeer Ghosheh, Soheila Molaei, David A. Clifton
Causal Inference Treatment Effect Limited Data Treatment Assignment Treatment Effect Estimation

May 24, 2023

Operationalizing Counterfactual Metrics: Incentives, Ranking, and Information Asymmetry
Serena Wang, Stephen Bates, P. M. Aronow, Michael I. Jordan
Causal Inference Partial Ranking Information Asymmetry Institutional Incentive Counterfactual Metric

May 23, 2023

Covariate balancing using the integral probability metric for causal inference
Insung Kong, Yuha Park, Joonhyuk Jung, Kwonsang Lee, Yongdai Kim
Causal Inference Relevant Covariates Propensity Score ApeRIodic SEmi Parametric Optimal Weight

May 18, 2023

Estimation Beyond Data Reweighting: Kernel Method of Moments
Heiner Kremer, Yassine Nemmour, Bernhard Schölkopf, Jia-Jie Zhu
Causal Inference Estimation Task Kernel Method Temporal Moment Data Reweighting Conditional Moment Restriction

May 17, 2023

May 11, 2023

Integrating Nearest Neighbors with Neural Network Models for Treatment Effect Estimation
Niki Kiriakidou, Christos Diou
Deep Learning Causal Inference Causal Effect Neural Network Model Treatment Effect

May 9, 2023

COLA: Contextualized Commonsense Causal Reasoning from the Causal Inference Perspective
Zhaowei Wang, Quyet V. Do, Hongming Zhang, Jiayao Zhang, Weiqi Wang, Tianqing Fang, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Y. Wong, Simon See
Causal Inference Commonsense Causality

May 5, 2023

Causal Discovery with Stage Variables for Health Time Series
Bharat Srikishan, Samantha Kleinberg
Causal Inference Causal Discovery Causal Relationship Causal Relation

May 4, 2023

String Diagrams with Factorized Densities
Eli Sennesh, Jan-Willem van de Meent
Causal Inference Causal Model Probabilistic Programming Probability MAP Probabilistic Program Unnormalized Density String Diagram