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
Proximity Matters: Local Proximity Preserved Balancing for Treatment Effect Estimation
Hao Wang, Zhichao Chen, Yuan Shen, Jiajun Fan, Zhaoran Liu, Degui Yang, Xinggao Liu, Haoxuan Li
CURLS: Causal Rule Learning for Subgroups with Significant Treatment Effect
Jiehui Zhou, Linxiao Yang, Xingyu Liu, Xinyue Gu, Liang Sun, Wei Chen
Enhancing predictive imaging biomarker discovery through treatment effect analysis
Shuhan Xiao, Lukas Klein, Jens Petersen, Philipp Vollmuth, Paul F. Jaeger, Klaus H. Maier-Hein
Meta-Learners for Partially-Identified Treatment Effects Across Multiple Environments
Jonas Schweisthal, Dennis Frauen, Mihaela van der Schaar, Stefan Feuerriegel
Disentangled Representation via Variational AutoEncoder for Continuous Treatment Effect Estimation
Ruijing Cui, Jianbin Sun, Bingyu He, Kewei Yang, Bingfeng Ge