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Text Rationalization for Robust Causal Effect Estimation
Lijinghua Zhang, Hengrui Cai
Recent advances in natural language processing have enabled the increasing use of text data in causal inference, particularly for adjusting confounding factors in treatment effect…
Foresighted Online Policy Optimization with Interference
Liner Xiang, Jiayi Wang, Hengrui Cai
Contextual bandits, which leverage the baseline features of sequentially arriving individuals to optimize cumulative rewards while balancing exploration and exploitation, are criti…
Correct Reasoning Paths Visit Shared Decision Pivots
Dongkyu Cho, Amy B. Z. Zhang, Bilel Fehri +4
Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning exposes the intermediate thinking process of large language models (LLMs), yet verifying those traces at scale remains unsolved. In response, we in…
Time-Varying Home Field Advantage in Football: Learning from a Non-Stationary Causal Process
Minhao Qi, Hengrui Cai, Guanyu Hu +1
In sports analytics, home field advantage is a robust phenomenon where the home team wins more games than the away team. However, discovering the causal factors behind home field a…
A Review of Causal Decision Making
Lin Ge, Hengrui Cai, Runzhe Wan +2
To make effective decisions, it is important to have a thorough understanding of the causal relationships among actions, environments, and outcomes. This review aims to surface thr…