Learning Joint Nonlinear Effects from Single-variable Interventions in the Presence of Hidden Confounders
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Abstract (arXiv)
We propose an approach to estimate the effect of multiple simultaneous interventions in the presence of hidden confounders. To overcome the problem of hidden confounding, we consider the setting where we have access to not only the observational data but also sets of single-variable interventions in which each of the treatment variables is intervened on separately. We prove identifiability under the assumption that the data is generated from a nonlinear continuous structural causal model with additive Gaussian noise. In addition, we propose a simple parameter estimation method by pooling all the data from different regimes and jointly maximizing the combined likelihood. We also conduct comprehensive experiments to verify the identifiability result as well as to compare the performance of our approach against a baseline on both synthetic and real-world data.
Key facts. Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 23 May 2020.
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- 2023Identifying Representations for Intervention Extrapolationcited by 21
- 2022Disentangling Causal Effects from Sets of Interventions in the Presence of Unobserved Confounderscited by 10
- 2023Intervention Generalization: A View from Factor Graph Modelscited by 7
- 2024Identification of Average Causal Effects in Confounded Additive Noise Modelscited by 2
- 2024Estimating Joint Interventional Distributions from Marginal Interventional Datacited by 2
- 2025Learning Joint Interventional Effects from Single-Variable Interventions in Additive Modelscited by 0
- 2025Incorporating Interventional Independence Improves Robustness against Interventional Distribution Shiftcited by 0
- 2025Incorporating Interventional Independence Improves Robustness against Interventional Distribution Shift7 Jul 2025
- 2025Learning Joint Interventional Effects from Single-Variable Interventions in Additive Models5 Jun 2025
- 2024Estimating Joint Interventional Distributions from Marginal Interventional Data3 Sep 2024
- 2024Identification of Average Causal Effects in Confounded Additive Noise Models13 Jul 2024
- 2023Identifying Representations for Intervention Extrapolation6 Oct 2023
- 2023Intervention Generalization: A View from Factor Graph Models6 Jun 2023
- 2022Disentangling Causal Effects from Sets of Interventions in the Presence of Unobserved Confounders11 Oct 2022