Treatment Effect
Treatment effect estimation aims to quantify the causal impact of interventions, treatments, or policies on outcomes, informing optimal decision-making across various fields. Current research emphasizes handling complex treatment scenarios (multi-valued, continuous), addressing confounding through advanced techniques like propensity score matching, deep disentanglement, and causal graph constraints, and leveraging diverse data types (text, images, time-series) within model architectures such as Bayesian Causal Forests, neural networks, and doubly robust estimators. This research is crucial for improving the precision and interpretability of causal inference, leading to more effective interventions in areas like healthcare, marketing, and policy.
Papers
Learning Representations of Instruments for Partial Identification of Treatment Effects
Jonas Schweisthal, Dennis Frauen, Maresa Schröder, Konstantin Hess, Niki Kilbertus, Stefan Feuerriegel
Causal machine learning for predicting treatment outcomes
Stefan Feuerriegel, Dennis Frauen, Valentyn Melnychuk, Jonas Schweisthal, Konstantin Hess, Alicia Curth, Stefan Bauer, Niki Kilbertus, Isaac S. Kohane, Mihaela van der Schaar