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Learning Joint Nonlinear Effects from Single-variable Interventions in the Presence of Hidden Confounders

Methodology 2020-06-17 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

We propose an approach to estimate the effect of multiple simultaneous interventions in the presence of hidden confounders. To overcome the problem of hidden confounding, we consider the setting where we have access to not only the observational data but also sets of single-variable interventions in which each of the treatment variables is intervened on separately. We prove identifiability under the assumption that the data is generated from a nonlinear continuous structural causal model with additive Gaussian noise. In addition, we propose a simple parameter estimation method by pooling all the data from different regimes and jointly maximizing the combined likelihood. We also conduct comprehensive experiments to verify the identifiability result as well as to compare the performance of our approach against a baseline on both synthetic and real-world data.

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@article{arxiv.2005.11528,
  title  = {Learning Joint Nonlinear Effects from Single-variable Interventions in the Presence of Hidden Confounders},
  author = {Sorawit Saengkyongam and Ricardo Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.11528},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Accepted to The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2020

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