4 papers
Political Narratives in the 2024 Moldovan Presidential Election: Stance, Amplification, and Influence
Andrea Piras, Osman Rahmoun, Elena Zheleva
Social media platforms play a central role in shaping political discourse during elections, particularly in geopolitically contested regions. We study how political narratives emer…
Relational Causal Discovery with Latent Confounders
Matteo Negro, Andrea Piras, Ragib Ahsan +2
Estimating causal effects from real-world relational data can be challenging when the underlying causal model and potential confounders are unknown. While several causal discovery…
Heterogeneous Causal Discovery of Repeated Undesirable Health Outcomes
Shishir Adhikari, Guido Muscioni, Mark Shapiro +2
Understanding the factors that trigger or prevent undesirable health outcomes across patient subpopulations is essential for designing targeted interventions. While randomized cont…
Learning Exposure Mapping Functions for Inferring Heterogeneous Peer Effects
Shishir Adhikari, Sourav Medya, Elena Zheleva
In causal inference, interference refers to the phenomenon in which the actions of peers in a network can influence an individual's outcome. Peer effect refers to the difference in…