2 papers
cs.LG2025
Doctor Rashomon and the UNIVERSE of Madness: Variable Importance with Unobserved Confounding and the Rashomon Effect
Jon Donnelly, Srikar Katta, Emanuele Borgonovo +1
Variable importance (VI) methods are often used for hypothesis generation, feature selection, and scientific validation. In the standard VI pipeline, an analyst estimates VI for a…
stat.ME2025
A Design-based Solution for Causal Inference with Text: Can a Language Model Be Too Large?
Graham Tierney, Srikar Katta, Christopher Bail +2
Many social science questions ask how linguistic properties causally affect an audience's attitudes and behaviors. Because text properties are often interlinked (e.g., angry review…