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Measuring Model Performance in the Presence of an Intervention
Winston Chen, Michael W. Sjoding, Jenna Wiens
AI models are often evaluated based on their ability to predict the outcome of interest. However, in many AI for social impact applications, the presence of an intervention that af…
Estimating Misreporting in the Presence of Genuine Modification: A Causal Perspective
Dylan Zapzalka, Trenton Chang, Lindsay Warrenburg +5
In settings where ML models are used to inform the allocation of resources, agents affected by the allocation decisions might have an incentive to strategically change their featur…
Conditional Front-door Adjustment for Heterogeneous Treatment Assignment Effect Estimation Under Non-adherence
Winston Chen, Trenton Chang, Jenna Wiens
Estimates of heterogeneous treatment assignment effects can inform treatment decisions. Under the presence of non-adherence (e.g., patients do not adhere to their assigned treatmen…
Who's Gaming the System? A Causally-Motivated Approach for Detecting Strategic Adaptation
Trenton Chang, Lindsay Warrenburg, Sae-Hwan Park +3
In many settings, machine learning models may be used to inform decisions that impact individuals or entities who interact with the model. Such entities, or agents, may game model…
From Biased Selective Labels to Pseudo-Labels: An Expectation-Maximization Framework for Learning from Biased Decisions
Trenton Chang, Jenna Wiens
Selective labels occur when label observations are subject to a decision-making process; e.g., diagnoses that depend on the administration of laboratory tests. We study a clinicall…