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Causal Representation Learning with Optimal Compression under Complex Treatments

arXiv 2603.11907 ↗First posted 12 Mar 2026cs.LG stat.MEcited by 0

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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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  1. 2016Learning Representations for Counterfactual Inferencecited by 327
  2. 2021On Inductive Biases for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimationcited by 74
  3. 2020Generalization Bounds and Representation Learning for Estimation of Potential Outcomes and Causal Effectscited by 72
  4. 2021VCNet and Functional Targeted Regularization For Learning Causal Effects of Continuous Treatmentscited by 59
  5. 2018Perfect Match: A Simple Method for Learning Representations For Counterfactual Inference With Neural Networkscited by 55
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  7. 2023Bounds on Representation-Induced Confounding Bias for Treatment Effect Estimationcited by 20
  8. 2024Geodesic Causal Inferencecited by 7
  9. 2024Generalization Bounds for Causal Regression: Insights, Guarantees and Sensitivity Analysiscited by 3

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