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On the Assumptions of Synthetic Control Methods
Claudia Shi, Dhanya Sridhar, Vishal Misra +1
Synthetic control (SC) methods have been widely applied to estimate the causal effect of large-scale interventions, e.g., the state-wide effect of a change in policy. The idea of s…
Identifiable Deep Generative Models via Sparse Decoding
Gemma E. Moran, Dhanya Sridhar, Yixin Wang +1
We develop the sparse VAE for unsupervised representation learning on high-dimensional data. The sparse VAE learns a set of latent factors (representations) which summarize the ass…
Causal Inference in Natural Language Processing: Estimation, Prediction, Interpretation and Beyond
Amir Feder, Katherine A. Keith, Emaad Manzoor +10
A fundamental goal of scientific research is to learn about causal relationships. However, despite its critical role in the life and social sciences, causality has not had the same…
Causal Effects of Linguistic Properties
Reid Pryzant, Dallas Card, Dan Jurafsky +2
We consider the problem of using observational data to estimate the causal effects of linguistic properties. For example, does writing a complaint politely lead to a faster respons…
Valid Causal Inference with (Some) Invalid Instruments
Jason Hartford, Victor Veitch, Dhanya Sridhar +1
Instrumental variable methods provide a powerful approach to estimating causal effects in the presence of unobserved confounding. But a key challenge when applying them is the reli…
Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action via Counterfactual Predictions
Yixin Wang, Dhanya Sridhar, David M. Blei
Machine learning (ML) can automate decision-making by learning to predict decisions from historical data. However, these predictors may inherit discriminatory policies from past de…
Adapting Text Embeddings for Causal Inference
Victor Veitch, Dhanya Sridhar, David M. Blei
Does adding a theorem to a paper affect its chance of acceptance? Does labeling a post with the author's gender affect the post popularity? This paper develops a method to estimate…