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
Causal inference approach to appraise long-term effects of maintenance policy on functional performance of asphalt pavements
Lingyun You, Nanning Guo, Zhengwu Long, Fusong Wang, Chundi Si, Aboelkasim Diab
Deep Learning for Causal Inference: A Comparison of Architectures for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation
Demetrios Papakostas, Andrew Herren, P. Richard Hahn, Francisco Castillo
C-XGBoost: A tree boosting model for causal effect estimation
Niki Kiriakidou, Ioannis E. Livieris, Christos Diou
Unveiling the Impact of Macroeconomic Policies: A Double Machine Learning Approach to Analyzing Interest Rate Effects on Financial Markets
Anoop Kumar, Suresh Dodda, Navin Kamuni, Rajeev Kumar Arora