Summary of Treatment Effect Estimation For Graph-structured Targets, by Shonosuke Harada et al.
Treatment Effect Estimation for Graph-Structured Targets
by Shonosuke Harada, Ryosuke Yoneda, Hisashi Kashima
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: 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 This paper presents Graph-target Treatment Effect Estimation (GraphTEE), a framework designed to estimate treatment effects on graph-structured targets while mitigating observational bias. Traditional methods focus on individual targets, but in many applications, understanding the treatment effect on a group of interconnected targets is crucial. GraphTEE addresses this challenge by considering confounding variable sets and introducing a new regularization framework to reduce bias. The authors provide theoretical analysis demonstrating the improved performance of GraphTEE in terms of bias mitigation. Experimental results on synthetic and semi-synthetic datasets validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine trying to understand how something affects many people or objects that are connected to each other. This is a common problem in many fields, such as medicine, social sciences, or business. Right now, most methods only look at one person or object at a time. But this paper proposes a new way to estimate the effect of something on groups of connected people or objects. The method is called Graph-target Treatment Effect Estimation (GraphTEE). It helps reduce bias by looking at all the connections between these objects and considering the things that can affect them together. The authors tested their approach with made-up data and real-world examples, showing it works well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Regularization
