Data-driven causal effect estimation based on graphical causal modelling: A survey

D Cheng, J Li, L Liu, J Liu, TD Le - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In many fields of scientific research and real-world applications, unbiased estimation of
causal effects from non-experimental data is crucial for understanding the mechanism …

Quantifying causality in data science with quasi-experiments

T Liu, L Ungar, K Kording - Nature computational science, 2021 - nature.com
Estimating causality from observational data is essential in many data science questions but
can be a challenging task. Here we review approaches to causality that are popular in …

Optimal rates for regularized conditional mean embedding learning

Z Li, D Meunier, M Mollenhauer… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We address the consistency of a kernel ridge regression estimate of the conditional mean
embedding (CME), which is an embedding of the conditional distribution of $ Y $ given $ X …

Federated conditional stochastic optimization

X Wu, J Sun, Z Hu, J Li, A Zhang… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Conditional stochastic optimization has found applications in a wide range of machine
learning tasks, such as invariant learning, AUPRC maximization, and meta-learning. As the …

Relaxing parametric assumptions for non-linear Mendelian randomization using a doubly-ranked stratification method

H Tian, AM Mason, C Liu, S Burgess - PLoS genetics, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Non-linear Mendelian randomization is an extension to standard Mendelian randomization
to explore the shape of the causal relationship between an exposure and outcome using an …

Proximal causal learning with kernels: Two-stage estimation and moment restriction

A Mastouri, Y Zhu, L Gultchin, A Korba… - International …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
We address the problem of causal effect estima-tion in the presence of unobserved
confounding, but where proxies for the latent confounder (s) areobserved. We propose two …

Minimax estimation of conditional moment models

N Dikkala, G Lewis, L Mackey… - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We develop an approach for estimating models described via conditional moment
restrictions, with a prototypical application being non-parametric instrumental variable …

Federated learning with domain generalization

L Zhang, X Lei, Y Shi, H Huang, C Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.10487, 2021 - arxiv.org
Federated Learning (FL) enables a group of clients to jointly train a machine learning model
with the help of a centralized server. Clients do not need to submit their local data to the …

Sharp bounds for generalized causal sensitivity analysis

D Frauen, V Melnychuk… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Causal inference from observational data is crucial for many disciplines such as medicine
and economics. However, sharp bounds for causal effects under relaxations of the …

Causal inference under unmeasured confounding with negative controls: A minimax learning approach

N Kallus, X Mao, M Uehara - arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.14029, 2021 - arxiv.org
We study the estimation of causal parameters when not all confounders are observed and
instead negative controls are available. Recent work has shown how these can enable …