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48 results for treatment-covariate interactions

Estimates treatment effect using ratio of potential outcomes in MS patients.

problem Estimating treatment-covariate interactions in observational studies.
method Proposes a doubly robust estimator for the ratio of expected potential outcomes.
result Validates the proposed estimator on an independent sample.

A method removes treatment-covariate dependence for counterfactual prediction without adversarial training.

problem Counterfactual prediction under assignment bias.
method Information-theoretic approach learning a stochastic representation Z to minimize mutual information with outcomes.
result The method performs favorably in likelihood, counterfactual error, and policy evaluation compared to adversarial baselines.

CAPITAL algorithm identifies optimal patient subgroups for better treatment.

problem Identify maximum number of patients benefiting from better treatment.
method Constrained Policy Tree Search (CAPITAL) algorithm to find optimal subgroup selection rule (SSR).
result Maximizes the number of patients with enhanced treatment effects.

Study compares Cox model and RSF for predicting patient survival, finding RSF superior in certain scenarios.

problem Comparing predictive accuracy of Cox proportional hazards model and Random Survival Forest for patient-specific survival probabilities.
method Conducted a comprehensive comparison study using simulation scenarios and real-world datasets.
result RSF outperforms Cox model in nonproportional hazards settings and with treatment-covariate interactions.

Algorithm uncovers treatment effect heterogeneity in educational RD designs.

problem Discovering sources of treatment effect heterogeneity in regression discontinuity designs.
method Causal supervised machine learning algorithm to build a 'regression discontinuity tree'.
result Algorithm uncovers various sources of heterogeneity in the impact of attending a better secondary school.

Method improves treatment effect estimation in randomized experiments.

problem Estimating distributional treatment effects in randomized experiments.
method Distributional regression framework with machine learning for variance reduction.
result The proposed method reduces variance of distributional treatment effect estimators.

Adaptive designs achieve strong Neyman regret guarantees for ATE estimation.

problem Estimating unbiased average treatment effect in sequential experiments.
method Proposed adaptive designs with O~(logT)\widetilde{O}(\log T) Neyman regret under boundedness assumptions and O~(T)\widetilde{O}(\sqrt{T}) multigroup Neyman regret in covariate-based settings.
result Adaptive designs outperform non-adaptive designs in terms of Neyman regret, especially in covariate-based settings.

Proposes a method for generating prediction intervals in dose-response models using conformal prediction.

problem Uncertainty quantification in continuous treatments for personalized healthcare decisions.
method Causal dose-response problem framed as covariate shift, using weighted conformal prediction with propensity estimation and kernel functions.
result Demonstrates the significance of covariate shift assumptions for robust prediction intervals.

GANICE improves GAN-based causal inference by minimizing averaged Wasserstein risk.

problem Estimating interventional outcome distributions and quantiles in causal inference.
method GANICE uses extended Wasserstein distance and a cellwise critic to minimize averaged Wasserstein risk.
result GANICE achieves minimax optimality and consistently outperforms existing methods.

CNN improves causal inference by controlling time-structured covariates.

problem Estimating the effect of early retirement on health outcomes while controlling for time-structured covariates.
method Used CNN to fit nuisance models explaining treatment and outcome, combining them into an augmented inverse probability weighting estimator.
result Uniformly valid inference achieved through CNN, providing rates of convergence and uniformly valid inference guarantees.

The paper develops methods to estimate treatment effects in sample selection models.

problem Evaluation of treatments when outcomes are only observed for a subpopulation due to sample selection or attrition.
method Combines selection-on-observables and instrumental variable assumptions with double machine learning for treatment evaluation.
result Proposed estimators are asymptotically normal and root-n consistent.

The paper assesses the risk of negative treatment effects using bounds and inference.

problem Risk of negative treatment effects on a significant portion of the population.
method Characterizes tight bounds on the conditional value at risk (CVaR) of the individual treatment effect (ITE) distribution using covariate-conditional average treatment effect (CATE) function.
result Developed a debiasing method to estimate these bounds efficiently from data and construct confidence intervals, even in complex scenarios.

Factorization Machine (FM) is a widely used supervised learning approach by effectively modeling of feature interactions. Despite the successful application of FM and its many deep learning variants, treating every feature interaction fairly may degrade the performance. For example, the interactions of a useless featur…

2019-02-26abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method detects interactions in neural networks using topological analysis.

problem Detecting interactions between input features in neural networks.
method Topological analysis of neural network connectivity to quantify interaction strength.
result The PID algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in interaction detection tasks.

iKF method uncovers complex variable interactions for scientific discovery.

problem Limited interpretability of existing models in decision-making applications.
method Iterative Kings' Forests (iKF) method to uncover multi-order interactions.
result iKF provides strong interpretive power for explainable modeling.

Graph neural network predicts vehicle interactions and trajectories for autonomous driving.

problem Predicting future motion of vehicles in traffic scenes.
method Graph neural network that jointly predicts interaction modes and 5-second future trajectories.
result Jointly predicting trajectories and interaction modes leads to lower trajectory error.

A graph neural network detects beneficial feature interactions for recommender systems.

problem Feature interactions are crucial but not all are beneficial for recommendation accuracy.
method Graph neural network with L0 activation regularization for edge prediction.
result The model outperforms baselines and automatically identifies beneficial feature interactions.

We describe and extract time-ordered multibody interactions from complex systems.

problem Complex systems with temporal and multibody dependencies.
method Decompose multivariate Markov chains into time-ordered multibody interactions. Algorithm to extract interactions from data. Measure complexity of interaction ensembles.
result Robust and efficient algorithm to infer time-ordered multibody interactions from data.

Dropout regularizes against high-order interactions by canceling interaction rates.

problem Overfitting to high-order interactions in neural networks.
method Analyzes Dropout through the lens of interaction effects, showing how it effectively cancels out the probability of surviving interactions of different orders.
result Dropout regularizes against high-order interactions by effectively canceling out the probability of surviving interactions of different orders.

Understanding how features interact with each other is of paramount importance in many scientific discoveries and contemporary applications. Yet interaction identification becomes challenging even for a moderate number of covariates. In this paper, we suggest an efficient and flexible procedure, called the interaction …

2016-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Multitask Gaussian process (MTGP) is powerful for joint learning of multiple tasks with complicated correlation patterns. However, due to the assembling of additive independent latent functions, all current MTGPs including the salient linear model of coregionalization (LMC) and convolution frameworks cannot effectively…

2018-08-03abs ↗pdf ↗

SocialInteractionGAN generates realistic human interactions from low-dimensional data.

problem Generating realistic human interactions from limited data.
method Adversarial architecture with a recurrent encoder-decoder generator and dual-stream discriminator.
result SocialInteractionGAN produces high-quality action sequences of interacting people.

A new method detects interactions in machine learning models.

problem Interpreting non-linear and interaction effects in machine learning models.
method Regional effect plots with implicit interaction detection.
result The method quantifies and interprets feature effects reliably, less confounded by interactions.

xDeepInt learns both vector-wise and bit-wise feature interactions.

problem Learning feature interactions for CTR prediction and recommendation.
method Polynomial Interaction Network (PIN) architecture with subspace-crossing mechanism.
result xDeepInt outperforms state-of-the-art models in CTR prediction and recommendation.

This study explores how feature graphs enhance GNNs' performance in modeling interactions.

problem Improving GNNs' ability to model feature interactions effectively.
method Investigates feature graphs and their importance in GNNs, using experiments and theoretical support.
result Edges between interacting features are crucial for GNNs, while non-interaction edges can degrade performance.

Interpreting neural networks is a crucial and challenging task in machine learning. In this paper, we develop a novel framework for detecting statistical interactions captured by a feedforward multilayer neural network by directly interpreting its learned weights. Depending on the desired interactions, our method can a…

2017-05-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce interactive structure discovery, a generic framework that encompasses many interactive learning settings, including active learning, top-k item identification, interactive drug discovery, and others. We adapt a recently developed active learning algorithm of Tosh and Dasgupta (2017) for interactive structu…

2019-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper uses Gaussian mixtures to mimic interactions in large language models.

problem Simulating interactions in large language models (LLMs) is computationally expensive.
method Developed an interacting Gaussian mixture model (GMM) system to mimic LLM interactions.
result The interacting Gaussian mixture model system can generate, exchange, and update data and parameters efficiently.

Study reveals self-attention's role in learning and generalizing interactions.

problem Understanding self-attention's theoretical role in neural architectures.
method Interacting entities analysis, including multi-agent RL and genetic sequences.
result Self-attention efficiently represents, learns, and generalizes pairwise interactions.

Automated tests detect interactions in unstructured data.

problem Detecting interactions between latent variables in low-dimensional systems.
method Derive two interaction tests based on pairwise interventions and integrate them into an active learning pipeline.
result Tests can identify more known biological interactions than random search and standard active learning baselines.

Archipelago provides interpretable explanations of feature interactions in machine learning models.

problem Interpreting the impact of feature interactions on predictions in machine learning models.
method Archipelago is a novel framework for extracting and attributing feature interactions in a scalable and interpretable manner.
result Archipelago provides significantly more interpretable explanations of feature interactions than comparable methods.

We study the power of interactivity in local differential privacy. First, we focus on the difference between fully interactive and sequentially interactive protocols. Sequentially interactive protocols may query users adaptively in sequence, but they cannot return to previously queried users. The vast majority of exist…

2019-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

PIN models feature interactions using a neural network that mimics decision trees.

problem Modeling feature interactions in tabular data for predictive modeling.
method Tree-like Pairwise Interaction Network (PIN) architecture that captures pairwise feature interactions through a shared feed-forward neural network.
result PIN outperforms traditional and modern neural networks benchmarks in predictive accuracy.

The paper explains DNNs by quantifying interactions among input variables.

problem Understanding and explaining the complex behavior of deep neural networks.
method The paper defines and quantifies the significance of interactions among multiple input variables using the Shapley value.
result The proposed method effectively explains the behavior of DNNs by assigning attribution values to input variables.

MEI model improves knowledge graph completion by efficiently modeling interactions between embeddings.

problem Efficiently modeling interactions between knowledge graph embeddings to predict missing links.
method MEI divides embeddings into partitions and uses Tucker and block term formats to model interactions efficiently.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on link prediction tasks.