Summary of Higher-order Causal Message Passing For Experimentation with Complex Interference, by Mohsen Bayati et al.
Higher-Order Causal Message Passing for Experimentation with Complex Interference
by Mohsen Bayati, Yuwei Luo, William Overman, Sadegh Shirani, Ruoxuan Xiong
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Econometrics (econ.EM); 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 The proposed paper introduces a new class of estimators for accurately estimating treatment effects in settings with pervasive, unknown interference. The novel approach uses causal message-passing and leverages information from observed data to estimate the evolution of system states over time. This enables efficient estimation of total treatment effect dynamics even when interference exhibits non-monotonic behavior. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper tackles a crucial problem in scientific decision-making by developing an estimator specifically designed for social sciences and online marketplaces with unknown interactions. The method uses sample mean and variance to construct non-linear features, which are then mapped to future outcomes. Simulations across multiple domains demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach. |
