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20202026
most citedAuto IV: Counterfactual Prediction via Automatic Instrumental Variable Decomposition

35 citations · 56 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.LG2026

SkillTFM: Gated Skill Evolution for Training-Free Adaptation of Tabular Foundation Models

Yi He, Zhengkang Guan, Anpeng Wu +3

Tabular data are ubiquitous in real-world applications and are crucial for data-driven prediction and decision-making across science, industry, finance, healthcare, and public serv…

stat.ME2026

Journey to the Centre of Cluster: Harnessing Interior Nodes for A/B Testing under Network Interference

Qianyi Chen, Anpeng Wu, Bo Li +2

A/B testing on platforms often faces challenges from network interference, where a unit's outcome depends not only on its own treatment but also on the treatments of its network ne…

cs.LG2025

Should Bias be Eliminated? A General Framework to Use Bias for OOD Generalization

Yan Li, Yunlong Deng, Zijian Li +4

Most approaches to out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization learn domain-invariant representations by discarding contextual bias. In this paper, we raise a critical question: Shoul…

cs.LG2025

Causal Discovery for Irregularly Time Series with Consistency Guarantees

Weihong Li, Baohong Li, Anpeng Wu +4

This paper studies causal discovery in irregularly sampled time series-a key challenge in risk-sensitive domains like finance, healthcare, and climate science, where missing data a…

cs.LG2025

Sequential Treatment Effect Estimation with Unmeasured Confounders

Yingrong Wang, Anpeng Wu, Baohong Li +4

This paper studies the cumulative causal effects of sequential treatments in the presence of unmeasured confounders. It is a critical issue in sequential decision-making scenarios…

cs.LG2025

General Information Metrics for Improving AI Model Training Efficiency

Jianfeng Xu, Congcong Liu, Xiaoying Tan +8

To address the growing size of AI model training data and the lack of a universal data selection methodology-factors that significantly drive up training costs -- this paper presen…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

Causality for Large Language Models

Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Minqin Zhu +7

Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have driven a paradigm shift, where large language models (LLMs) with billions or trillions of parameters are trained on vast datase…

cs.LG2024

Generalized Encouragement-Based Instrumental Variables for Counterfactual Regression

Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Ruoxuan Xiong +4

In causal inference, encouragement designs (EDs) are widely used to analyze causal effects, when randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are impractical or compliance to treatment cann…

stat.ME2024★ 2 cited

Causal Inference with Complex Treatments: A Survey

Yingrong Wang, Haoxuan Li, Minqin Zhu +4

Causal inference plays an important role in explanatory analysis and decision making across various fields like statistics, marketing, health care, and education. Its main task is…

cs.LG2024

Stable Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation across Out-of-Distribution Populations

Yuling Zhang, Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang +3

Heterogeneous treatment effect (HTE) estimation is vital for understanding the change of treatment effect across individuals or subgroups. Most existing HTE estimation methods focu…

cs.LG2024

Learning Discrete Latent Variable Structures with Tensor Rank Conditions

Zhengming Chen, Ruichu Cai, Feng Xie +5

Unobserved discrete data are ubiquitous in many scientific disciplines, and how to learn the causal structure of these latent variables is crucial for uncovering data patterns. Mos…

cs.LG2024

Contrastive Balancing Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Dose-Response Curves Estimation

Minqin Zhu, Anpeng Wu, Haoxuan Li +8

Estimating the individuals' potential response to varying treatment doses is crucial for decision-making in areas such as precision medicine and management science. Most recent stu…

cs.LG2024

Pareto-Optimal Estimation and Policy Learning on Short-term and Long-term Treatment Effects

Yingrong Wang, Anpeng Wu, Haoxuan Li +5

This paper focuses on developing Pareto-optimal estimation and policy learning to identify the most effective treatment that maximizes the total reward from both short-term and lon…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Hierarchical Topological Ordering with Conditional Independence Test for Limited Time Series

Anpeng Wu, Haoxuan Li, Kun Kuang +2

Learning directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to identify causal relations underlying observational data is crucial but also poses significant challenges. Recently, topology-based method…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

Instrumental Variables in Causal Inference and Machine Learning: A Survey

Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Ruoxuan Xiong +1

Causal inference is the process of using assumptions, study designs, and estimation strategies to draw conclusions about the causal relationships between variables based on data. T…

cs.AI2022

Confounder Balancing for Instrumental Variable Regression with Latent Variable

Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Ruoxuan Xiong +2

This paper studies the confounding effects from the unmeasured confounders and the imbalance of observed confounders in IV regression and aims at unbiased causal effect estimation.…

cs.AI2022★ 1 cited

Learning Instrumental Variable from Data Fusion for Treatment Effect Estimation

Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Ruoxuan Xiong +6

The advent of the big data era brought new opportunities and challenges to draw treatment effect in data fusion, that is, a mixed dataset collected from multiple sources (each sour…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Edge-Cloud Polarization and Collaboration: A Comprehensive Survey for AI

Jiangchao Yao, Shengyu Zhang, Yang Yao +15

Influenced by the great success of deep learning via cloud computing and the rapid development of edge chips, research in artificial intelligence (AI) has shifted to both of the co…

cs.LG2021★ 35 cited

Auto IV: Counterfactual Prediction via Automatic Instrumental Variable Decomposition

Junkun Yuan, Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang +4

Instrumental variables (IVs), sources of treatment randomization that are conditionally independent of the outcome, play an important role in causal inference with unobserved confo…

stat.ME2020★ 6 cited

Learning Decomposed Representation for Counterfactual Inference

Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Junkun Yuan +5

The fundamental problem in treatment effect estimation from observational data is confounder identification and balancing. Most of the previous methods realized confounder balancin…