no code implementations • 2 Jan 2025 • Jianfeng Xu, Congcong Liu, Xiaoying Tan, Xiaojie Zhu, Anpeng Wu, Huan Wan, Weijun Kong, Chun Li, Hu Xu, Kun Kuang, Fei Wu
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 presents the General Information Metrics Evaluation (GIME) method.
1 code implementation • 20 Oct 2024 • Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Minqin Zhu, Yingrong Wang, Yujia Zheng, Kairong Han, Baohong Li, Guangyi Chen, Fei Wu, Kun Zhang
How to embed causality into the training process of LLMs and build more general and intelligent models remains unexplored.
1 code implementation • 10 Aug 2024 • Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Ruoxuan Xiong, Xiangwei Chen, Zexu Sun, Fei Wu, Kun Zhang
In causal inference, encouragement designs (EDs) are widely used to analyze causal effects, when randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are impractical or compliance to treatment cannot be perfectly enforced.
no code implementations • 19 Jul 2024 • Yingrong Wang, Haoxuan Li, Minqin Zhu, Anpeng Wu, Ruoxuan Xiong, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang
Causal inference plays an important role in explanatory analysis and decision making across various fields like statistics, marketing, health care, and education.
1 code implementation • 3 Jul 2024 • Yuling Zhang, Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Liang Du, Zixun Sun, Zhi Wang
Heterogeneous treatment effect (HTE) estimation is vital for understanding the change of treatment effect across individuals or subgroups.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2024 • Zhengming Chen, Ruichu Cai, Feng Xie, Jie Qiao, Anpeng Wu, Zijian Li, Zhifeng Hao, Kun Zhang
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.
1 code implementation • 21 Mar 2024 • Minqin Zhu, Anpeng Wu, Haoxuan Li, Ruoxuan Xiong, Bo Li, Xiaoqing Yang, Xuan Qin, Peng Zhen, Jiecheng Guo, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang
Estimating the individuals' potential response to varying treatment doses is crucial for decision-making in areas such as precision medicine and management science.
no code implementations • 5 Mar 2024 • Yingrong Wang, Anpeng Wu, Haoxuan Li, Weiming Liu, Qiaowei Miao, Ruoxuan Xiong, Fei Wu, Kun Kuang
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 long-term effects, which might conflict with each other.
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2023 • Anpeng Wu, Haoxuan Li, Kun Kuang, Keli Zhang, Fei Wu
Learning directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to identify causal relations underlying observational data is crucial but also poses significant challenges.
1 code implementation • 12 Dec 2022 • Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Ruoxuan Xiong, Fei Wu
This paper serves as the first effort to systematically and comprehensively introduce and discuss the IV methods and their applications in both causal inference and machine learning.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2022 • Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Ruoxuan Xiong, Bo Li, Fei Wu
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.
1 code implementation • 23 Aug 2022 • Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Ruoxuan Xiong, Minqing Zhu, Yuxuan Liu, Bo Li, Furui Liu, Zhihua Wang, Fei Wu
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 source with an independent treatment assignment mechanism).
1 code implementation • 11 Nov 2021 • Jiangchao Yao, Shengyu Zhang, Yang Yao, Feng Wang, Jianxin Ma, Jianwei Zhang, Yunfei Chu, Luo Ji, Kunyang Jia, Tao Shen, Anpeng Wu, Fengda Zhang, Ziqi Tan, Kun Kuang, Chao Wu, Fei Wu, Jingren Zhou, Hongxia Yang
However, edge computing, especially edge and cloud collaborative computing, are still in its infancy to announce their success due to the resource-constrained IoT scenarios with very limited algorithms deployed.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2021 • Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Fei Wu
In this paper, we propose a Confounder Balanced IV Regression (CB-IV) algorithm to jointly remove the bias from the unmeasured confounders with IV regression and reduce the bias from the observed confounders by balancing for treatment effect estimation.
1 code implementation • 13 Jul 2021 • Junkun Yuan, Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Bo Li, Runze Wu, Fei Wu, Lanfen Lin
We also learn confounder representations by encouraging them to be relevant to both the treatment and the outcome.
1 code implementation • 12 Jun 2020 • Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Junkun Yuan, Bo Li, Runze Wu, Qiang Zhu, Yueting Zhuang, Fei Wu
The fundamental problem in treatment effect estimation from observational data is confounder identification and balancing.