Adversarial Distribution Balancing for Counterfactual Reasoning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16616v1
• Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 09:12:37 GMT
• Title: Adversarial Distribution Balancing for Counterfactual Reasoning
• Authors: Stefan Schrod, Fabian Sinz, Michael Altenbuchinger
• Abstract summary: Machine learning approaches for counterfactual reasoning have to deal with both unobserved outcomes and distributional differences due to non-random treatment administration. We propose Adversarial Distribution Balancing for Counterfactual Reasoning (ADBCR) to remove spurious causal relations. We show that ADBCR outcompetes state-of-the-art methods on three benchmark datasets.
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• Abstract: The development of causal prediction models is challenged by the fact that the outcome is only observable for the applied (factual) intervention and not for its alternatives (the so-called counterfactuals); in medicine we only know patients' survival for the administered drug and not for other therapeutic options. Machine learning approaches for counterfactual reasoning have to deal with both unobserved outcomes and distributional differences due to non-random treatment administration. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) addresses similar issues; one has to deal with unobserved outcomes -- the labels of the target domain -- and distributional differences between source and target domain. We propose Adversarial Distribution Balancing for Counterfactual Reasoning (ADBCR), which directly uses potential outcome estimates of the counterfactuals to remove spurious causal relations. We show that ADBCR outcompetes state-of-the-art methods on three benchmark datasets, and demonstrate that ADBCR's performance can be further improved if unlabeled validation data are included in the training procedure to better adapt the model to the validation domain.

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