Summary of Leaning Time-varying Instruments For Identifying Causal Effects in Time-series Data, by Debo Cheng (1) et al.
Leaning Time-Varying Instruments for Identifying Causal Effects in Time-Series Data
by Debo Cheng, Ziqi Xu, Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu, Thuc duy Le, Xudong Guo, Shichao Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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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 Time-series Causal Inference model called TDCIV has been developed to estimate causal effects from complex time-series data, which is crucial in various fields such as healthcare, economics, climate science, and epidemiology. Traditional IV methods are limited in addressing the complexities of time-varying latent confounders that can introduce bias in causal effect estimation. The proposed TDCIV model leverages LSTM and VAE to learn representations of time-varying conditional instrumental variables (CIV) and its conditioning set from proxy variables without prior knowledge, enabling accurate causal effect estimation under certain assumptions. This work is the first to effectively learn time-varying CIV and its associated conditioning set without relying on domain-specific knowledge. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way to understand cause-and-effect relationships in changing data has been discovered! Imagine trying to figure out how a medicine affects people over time, but there are other factors that can confuse the results. Scientists have developed a special tool called TDCIV that helps remove these confusing factors and give us more accurate answers. This is important for many fields like healthcare, economics, and climate science. The TDCIV tool uses advanced computer models to learn about the changing factors that might affect our answers, so we can get a better understanding of what’s really happening. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Inference * Lstm * Time series
