Summary of Disentangled Graph Autoencoder For Treatment Effect Estimation, by Di Fan et al.
Disentangled Graph Autoencoder for Treatment Effect Estimation
by Di Fan, Renlei Jiang, Yunhao Wen, Chuanhou Gao
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel approach to estimating treatment effects from observational data is presented in this paper, which addresses limitations of existing methods by utilizing auxiliary network information to infer latent confounders. The proposed disentangled variational graph autoencoder separates latent factors into instrumental, confounding, adjustment, and noisy factors, improving the precision of treatment effect estimation on networked observational data. By enforcing factor independence using the Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion, this method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on multiple benchmark datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper tries to solve a big problem in science where we try to figure out what would have happened if something hadn’t changed. We usually use old methods that assume we know all the things that could affect the outcome, but that’s often not true. To fix this, scientists are using networks of information to help them figure it out. But these methods can still be wrong because they don’t understand when some things affect what happens without changing the outcome. This paper introduces a new way to look at networks and use them to get better results. They test it on many real-life datasets and show that their method is better than others. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoencoder » Precision
