Causal effect estimation: Recent progress, challenges, and opportunities

Z Chu, S Li - Machine Learning for Causal Inference, 2023 - Springer
Causal inference has numerous real-world applications in many domains, such as health
care, marketing, political science, and online advertising. Treatment effect estimation, a …

A unified survey of treatment effect heterogeneity modelling and uplift modelling

W Zhang, J Li, L Liu - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
A central question in many fields of scientific research is to determine how an outcome is
affected by an action, ie, to estimate the causal effect or treatment effect of an action. In …

Treatment effect estimation with adjustment feature selection

H Wang, K Kuang, H Chi, L Yang, M Geng… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In causal inference, it is common to select a subset of observed covariates, named the
adjustment features, to be adjusted for estimating the treatment effect. For real-world …

Learning causality with graphs

J Ma, J Li - Ai Magazine, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Recent years have witnessed a rocketing growth of machine learning methods on graph
data, especially those powered by effective neural networks. Despite their success in …

Learning disentangled representations for counterfactual regression via mutual information minimization

M Cheng, X Liao, Q Liu, B Ma, J Xu… - Proceedings of the 45th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Learning individual-level treatment effect is a fundamental problem in causal inference and
has received increasing attention in many areas, especially in the user growth area which …

Causal inference with latent variables: Recent advances and future prospectives

Y Zhu, Y He, J Ma, M Hu, S Li, J Li - Proceedings of the 30th ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Causality lays the foundation for the trajectory of our world. Causal inference (CI), which
aims to infer intrinsic causal relations among variables of interest, has emerged as a crucial …

EDVAE: Disentangled latent factors models in counterfactual reasoning for individual treatment effects estimation

Y Liu, J Wang, B Li - Information Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Estimating individual treatment effect (ITE) from observational data is a crucial but
challenging task. Disentangled representations have been used to separate proxy variables …

-Intact-VAE: Identifying and Estimating Causal Effects under Limited Overlap

P Wu, K Fukumizu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.05225, 2021 - arxiv.org
As an important problem in causal inference, we discuss the identification and estimation of
treatment effects (TEs) under limited overlap; that is, when subjects with certain features …

[HTML][HTML] Learning end-to-end patient representations through self-supervised covariate balancing for causal treatment effect estimation

G Tesei, S Giampanis, J Shi, B Norgeot - Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
A causal effect can be defined as a comparison of outcomes that result from two or more
alternative actions, with only one of the action-outcome pairs actually being observed. In …

Deep causal learning: representation, discovery and inference

Z Deng, X Zheng, H Tian, DD Zeng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.03374, 2022 - arxiv.org
Causal learning has attracted much attention in recent years because causality reveals the
essential relationship between things and indicates how the world progresses. However …