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TCFimt: Temporal Counterfactual Forecasting from Individual Multiple Treatment Perspective

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08890v1
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 15:01:05 GMT
Title: TCFimt: Temporal Counterfactual Forecasting from Individual Multiple Treatment Perspective
Authors: Pengfei Xi, Guifeng Wang, Zhipeng Hu, Yu Xiong, Mingming Gong, Wei Huang, Runze Wu, Yu Ding, Tangjie Lv, Changjie Fan, Xiangnan Feng
Abstract summary: We propose a comprehensive framework of temporal counterfactual forecasting from an individual multiple treatment perspective (TCFimt) TCFimt constructs adversarial tasks in a seq2seq framework to alleviate selection and time-varying bias and designs a contrastive learning-based block to decouple a mixed treatment effect into separated main treatment effects and causal interactions. The proposed method shows satisfactory performance in predicting future outcomes with specific treatments and in choosing optimal treatment type and timing than state-of-the-art methods.
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License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Abstract: Determining causal effects of temporal multi-intervention assists decision-making. Restricted by time-varying bias, selection bias, and interactions of multiple interventions, the disentanglement and estimation of multiple treatment effects from individual temporal data is still rare. To tackle these challenges, we propose a comprehensive framework of temporal counterfactual forecasting from an individual multiple treatment perspective (TCFimt). TCFimt constructs adversarial tasks in a seq2seq framework to alleviate selection and time-varying bias and designs a contrastive learning-based block to decouple a mixed treatment effect into separated main treatment effects and causal interactions which further improves estimation accuracy. Through implementing experiments on two real-world datasets from distinct fields, the proposed method shows satisfactory performance in predicting future outcomes with specific treatments and in choosing optimal treatment type and timing than state-of-the-art methods.