General Causal Imputation via Synthetic Interventions

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Hauptverfasser: Jiralerspong, Marco, Jiralerspong, Thomas, Shah, Vedant, Sridhar, Dhanya, Gidel, Gauthier
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author Jiralerspong, Marco
Jiralerspong, Thomas
Shah, Vedant
Sridhar, Dhanya
Gidel, Gauthier
author_facet Jiralerspong, Marco
Jiralerspong, Thomas
Shah, Vedant
Sridhar, Dhanya
Gidel, Gauthier
contents Given two sets of elements (such as cell types and drug compounds), researchers typically only have access to a limited subset of their interactions. The task of causal imputation involves using this subset to predict unobserved interactions. Squires et al. (2022) have proposed two estimators for this task based on the synthetic interventions (SI) estimator: SI-A (for actions) and SI-C (for contexts). We extend their work and introduce a novel causal imputation estimator, generalized synthetic interventions (GSI). We prove the identifiability of this estimator for data generated from a more complex latent factor model. On synthetic and real data we show empirically that it recovers or outperforms their estimators.
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spellingShingle General Causal Imputation via Synthetic Interventions
Jiralerspong, Marco
Jiralerspong, Thomas
Shah, Vedant
Sridhar, Dhanya
Gidel, Gauthier
Machine Learning
Given two sets of elements (such as cell types and drug compounds), researchers typically only have access to a limited subset of their interactions. The task of causal imputation involves using this subset to predict unobserved interactions. Squires et al. (2022) have proposed two estimators for this task based on the synthetic interventions (SI) estimator: SI-A (for actions) and SI-C (for contexts). We extend their work and introduce a novel causal imputation estimator, generalized synthetic interventions (GSI). We prove the identifiability of this estimator for data generated from a more complex latent factor model. On synthetic and real data we show empirically that it recovers or outperforms their estimators.
title General Causal Imputation via Synthetic Interventions
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20647