Synthetic Counterfactual Labels for Efficient Conformal Counterfactual Inference
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| author | Farzaneh, Amirmohammad Zecchin, Matteo Simeone, Osvaldo |
| author_facet | Farzaneh, Amirmohammad Zecchin, Matteo Simeone, Osvaldo |
| contents | This work addresses the problem of constructing reliable prediction intervals for individual counterfactual outcomes. Existing conformal counterfactual inference (CCI) methods provide marginal coverage guarantees but often produce overly conservative intervals, particularly under treatment imbalance when counterfactual samples are scarce. We introduce synthetic data-powered CCI (SP-CCI), a new framework that augments the calibration set with synthetic counterfactual labels generated by a pre-trained counterfactual model. To ensure validity, SP-CCI incorporates synthetic samples into a conformal calibration procedure based on risk-controlling prediction sets (RCPS) with a debiasing step informed by prediction-powered inference (PPI). We prove that SP-CCI achieves tighter prediction intervals while preserving marginal coverage, with theoretical guarantees under both exact and approximate importance weighting. Empirical results on different datasets confirm that SP-CCI consistently reduces interval width compared to standard CCI across all settings. |
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| spellingShingle | Synthetic Counterfactual Labels for Efficient Conformal Counterfactual Inference Farzaneh, Amirmohammad Zecchin, Matteo Simeone, Osvaldo Machine Learning Information Theory This work addresses the problem of constructing reliable prediction intervals for individual counterfactual outcomes. Existing conformal counterfactual inference (CCI) methods provide marginal coverage guarantees but often produce overly conservative intervals, particularly under treatment imbalance when counterfactual samples are scarce. We introduce synthetic data-powered CCI (SP-CCI), a new framework that augments the calibration set with synthetic counterfactual labels generated by a pre-trained counterfactual model. To ensure validity, SP-CCI incorporates synthetic samples into a conformal calibration procedure based on risk-controlling prediction sets (RCPS) with a debiasing step informed by prediction-powered inference (PPI). We prove that SP-CCI achieves tighter prediction intervals while preserving marginal coverage, with theoretical guarantees under both exact and approximate importance weighting. Empirical results on different datasets confirm that SP-CCI consistently reduces interval width compared to standard CCI across all settings. |
| title | Synthetic Counterfactual Labels for Efficient Conformal Counterfactual Inference |
| topic | Machine Learning Information Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04112 |