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Efficient Inference after Directionally Stable Adaptive Experiments
Zikai Shen, Houssam Zenati, Nathan Kallus +3
We study inference on scalar-valued pathwise differentiable targets after adaptive data collection, such as a bandit algorithm. We introduce a novel target-specific condition, dire…
On the Hardness of Conditional Independence Testing In Practice
Zheng He, Roman Pogodin, Yazhe Li +3
Tests of conditional independence (CI) underpin a number of important problems in machine learning and statistics, from causal discovery to evaluation of predictor fairness and out…
Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Regression with Observed Covariates
Zikai Shen, Zonghao Chen, Dimitri Meunier +3
We study the problem of nonparametric instrumental variable regression with observed covariates, which we refer to as NPIV-O. Compared with standard nonparametric instrumental vari…
Towards a Unified Analysis of Neural Networks in Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Regression: Optimization and Generalization
Zonghao Chen, Atsushi Nitanda, Arthur Gretton +1
We establish the first global convergence result of neural networks for two stage least squares (2SLS) approach in nonparametric instrumental variable regression (NPIV). This is ac…
Kernel Treatment Effects with Adaptively Collected Data
Houssam Zenati, Bariscan Bozkurt, Arthur Gretton
Adaptive experiments improve efficiency by adjusting treatment assignments based on past outcomes, but this adaptivity breaks the i.i.d.\ assumptions that underpin classical asympt…
Demystifying Spectral Feature Learning for Instrumental Variable Regression
Dimitri Meunier, Antoine Moulin, Jakub Wornbard +2
We address the problem of causal effect estimation in the presence of hidden confounders, using nonparametric instrumental variable (IV) regression. A leading strategy employs spec…