Summary of Disentangled Representation Via Variational Autoencoder For Continuous Treatment Effect Estimation, by Ruijing Cui et al.
Disentangled Representation via Variational AutoEncoder for Continuous Treatment Effect Estimation
by Ruijing Cui, Jianbin Sun, Bingyu He, Kewei Yang, Bingfeng Ge
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed DRVAE (Dose-Response curve estimator via Variational AutoEncoder) model is a novel approach to estimating treatment effects under continuous treatment settings. By disentangling covariates into instrumental, confounding, adjustment, and external noise factors, the model balances confounding factors and facilitates estimation of treatment effects. The method outperforms current state-of-the-art methods on synthetic and semi-synthetic datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us better understand how things work when we give people or things a certain amount of something. Right now, we don’t have good ways to figure this out because our methods treat everything as if it’s causing the effect. The problem is that some things might not be causing the effect at all! To fix this, the researchers created a new way to look at all these factors and sort them into different groups. This helps us get a more accurate picture of how giving people or things something affects what happens. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Variational autoencoder
