Causal Representation Learning with Optimal Compression under Complex Treatments
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Abstract (arXiv)
Estimating Individual Treatment Effects (ITE) in multi-treatment scenarios faces two critical challenges: the Hyperparameter Selection Dilemma for balancing weights and the Curse of Dimensionality in computational scalability. This paper derives a novel multi-treatment generalization bound and proposes a theoretical estimator for the optimal balancing weight α, eliminating expensive heuristic tuning. We investigate three balancing strategies: Pairwise, One-vs-All (OVA), and Treatment Aggregation. While OVA achieves superior precision in low-dimensional settings, our proposed Treatment Aggregation ensures both accuracy and O(1) scalability as the treatment space expands. Furthermore, we extend our framework to a generative architecture, Multi-Treatment CausalEGM, which preserves the Wasserstein geodesic structure of the treatment manifold. Experiments on semi-synthetic and image datasets demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms traditional models in estimation accuracy and efficiency, particularly in large-scale intervention scenarios.
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- 2016Learning Representations for Counterfactual Inferencecited by 327
- 2021On Inductive Biases for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimationcited by 74
- 2020Generalization Bounds and Representation Learning for Estimation of Potential Outcomes and Causal Effectscited by 72
- 2021VCNet and Functional Targeted Regularization For Learning Causal Effects of Continuous Treatmentscited by 59
- 2018Perfect Match: A Simple Method for Learning Representations For Counterfactual Inference With Neural Networkscited by 55
- 2017Estimation of causal effects with multiple treatments: a review and new ideascited by 29
- 2023Bounds on Representation-Induced Confounding Bias for Treatment Effect Estimationcited by 20
- 2024Geodesic Causal Inferencecited by 7
- 2024Generalization Bounds for Causal Regression: Insights, Guarantees and Sensitivity Analysiscited by 3
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