A survey on causal inference

L Yao, Z Chu, S Li, Y Li, J Gao, A Zhang - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Causal inference is a critical research topic across many domains, such as statistics,
computer science, education, public policy, and economics, for decades. Nowadays …

[HTML][HTML] Causal inference

K Kuang, L Li, Z Geng, L Xu, K Zhang, B Liao, H Huang… - Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Causal inference is a powerful modeling tool for explanatory analysis, which might enable
current machine learning to become explainable. How to marry causal inference with …

Information theoretic learning-enhanced dual-generative adversarial networks with causal representation for robust OOD generalization

X Zhou, X Zheng, T Shu, W Liang… - … on Neural Networks …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, machine/deep learning techniques are achieving remarkable success in a variety
of intelligent control and management systems, promising to change the future of artificial …

Learning from counterfactual links for link prediction

T Zhao, G Liu, D Wang, W Yu… - … Conference on Machine …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Learning to predict missing links is important for many graph-based applications. Existing
methods were designed to learn the association between observed graph structure and …

Mitigating confounding bias in recommendation via information bottleneck

D Liu, P Cheng, H Zhu, Z Dong, X He, W Pan… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
How to effectively mitigate the bias of feedback in recommender systems is an important
research topic. In this paper, we first describe the generation process of the biased and …

Learning disentangled representations for counterfactual regression

N Hassanpour, R Greiner - International Conference on Learning …, 2019 - openreview.net
We consider the challenge of estimating treatment effects from observational data; and point
out that, in general, only some factors based on the observed covariates X contribute to …

Stable prediction with model misspecification and agnostic distribution shift

K Kuang, R Xiong, P Cui, S Athey, B Li - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2020 - aaai.org
For many machine learning algorithms, two main assumptions are required to guarantee
performance. One is that the test data are drawn from the same distribution as the training …

Stable prediction across unknown environments

K Kuang, P Cui, S Athey, R Xiong, B Li - proceedings of the 24th ACM …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
In many important machine learning applications, the training distribution used to learn a
probabilistic classifier differs from the distribution on which the classifier will be used to make …

Learning decomposed representations for treatment effect estimation

A Wu, J Yuan, K Kuang, B Li, R Wu… - … on Knowledge and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In observational studies, confounder separation and balancing are the fundamental
problems of treatment effect estimation. Most of the previous methods focused on …

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 …